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Small drinking water systems consistently provide safe, reliable drinking water to their customers; however challenges of such systems include; lack of financial resources, aging infrastructure, lack of scale, and technical/logistical challenges associated with regulation compliance. The deployment ofnew cost-effective monitoring technologies hold opportunities to substantially advance infrastruct ...

Polyurethanes are now made by reacting two components, one of which has toxic isocyanate groups. Isocyanates are especially hazardous to workers that spray-apply polyurethane paints. Researchers have developed less hazardous ways to make polyurethane, but they have poor performance, cure too slowly or are too expensive. In this project, TDA Research, Inc. (TDA) will develop new non-isocyanate two- ...

Leveraging our extensive experience in Hardware-in-the-loop, Signal Injection, and All Digital Simulations, the Torch Team proposes developing an innovative approach for assessing and estimating the target and background simulation scene fidelity requirements of smart munitions. The Torch Team will define metrics and an analysis processes which aim to match simulation fidelity requirements with se ...

The Future Airborne Capability Environment (FACE) family of standards has made significant strides in providing interoperability and reuse of military avionics software across a common development platform. Significant and troublesome incompatibilities can remain between implementations even with standards conformance. These incompatibilities can arise from a variety of sources and can be subtle a ...

The increased use of Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS) to meet diverse Navy mission requirements has been accompanied by mounting safety concerns. Mishap rates are orders of magnitude higher during unmanned versus manned flight. Two significant human causal factors contributing to UAS mishaps are channelized attention and fatigue. Channelized attention refers to allocating attention to a channel of in ...

The Marine Corps uses Portable Oxygen Generators (POGS) to produce on-demand medical-grade oxygen from air for expeditionary medical applications (patient ventilation, anesthesia, and to refill oxygen bottles). The POGS currently in use are bulky, heavy and can consume up to 1,800 W of electrical power, occasionally overloading the Forward Resuscitative Surgical Systems (FRSS) power generators.In ...

Phelps2020 proposes a low SWaP solution, ARRIS, to the improvement of the range and resolution of the MX-15 turret so they equal or exceed the capabilities of the MX-20 turret. We chose to keep the MX-15 turret as is and append to it a low SWaP accelerated processor that performs real-time FMV enhancement. A multi-layer software application addresses illumination, weather, and environmental limita ...

ADA Technologies, Inc. (ADA) in partnership with Laser Marks, a laser systems integrator, has designed, developed (Phase I) and will fabricate a low-cost, automated, high-speed/high-throughput Li-ion electrode cutter capable of producing high quality electrodes in an additive manufacturing environment. Utilizing the latest in laser technology and scanning systems coupled with innovative design and ...

Innovative solutions are sought to reduce cost, lead-time and improve capability of hot gasmanagement components in the post boost control system (PBCS) of the U.S. Navys Trident IID-5 Fleet Ballistic Missile (FBM). Current PBCS components are based on refractory metals ofC103, Ta10W and TZM, with oxidation protective silicide coatings. At low oxygen pressure andhigh temperatures, gaseous species ...

Technical Abstract (Limit to 200 words with no classified or proprietary information).The proposed Phase II project focuses on the development and demonstration of a re-configurable, real-time portable infrared hyperspectral imaging (HSI) system. The envisioned sensor will provide users with significantly enhanced, multi-mission oriented capabilities.The goal of the project is to enable the detect ...