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Thin-film, lightweight, large-area flexible inorganic solar cells have shown promise to meet the militarys remote power needs on the battlefield. However, thin film solar cells normally have inferior conversion efficiencies due to limited absorption of sunlight by the thin active layer. Various approaches have been investigated to improve conversion efficiencies of thin film solar cells. Among the ...

This effort is focused on establishing U.S. Army Corps leadership in preserving navigation access for the war-fighter through the development and implementation of an acoustic-based sensor system to detect, track, and classify endangered species. The implementation of this system will assure critical access to port facilities and navigation channels by Department of Defense (DoD) maritime vessels ...

Solid oxide fuel cells have long suffered from degradation due to impurities in the fuel and complexities associated with dissimilar materials and high operating temperatures.This degradation lowers the usable cell power output and requires ancillary equipment for fuel sulfur removal and reformation.A unique microstructure for the tubular anode will be produced using a novel freeze-casting techniq ...

Building on our prior research in group discovery and tracking, we propose to develop new algorithms for predicting future behaviors of social media groups. These algorithms will be based on emerging social interaction theories and new computational models of group dynamics at multiple levels, from individual roles and interactions to aggregate trends within and across groups. Our approach takes a ...

Spero Devices is proposing the development of an analog co-processor to accelerate computation of partial differential equations (PDEs) prevalent in scientific simulation. Examples include Navier-Stokes equations for computational fluid dynamics (CFD) an...

At the completion of the research and development effort a Li-foil multi-wire proportional counter (MWPC) neutron detector with more than 625-cm2 of active area will be included in a portable radiation detection system. The system is expected to outperform the standards set by the ANSI N42.53 standards, and gamma-ray rejection ratio (GRR) of 1.0x10-8 or better. A gamma-ray spectrometer for isotope ...

Physical Science Inc., in cooperation with Colorado State University, proposes the development of a low-cost, longwave infrared (LWIR) hyperspectral imaging (HSI) sensor employing compressive sensing (CS) based on single-pixel architecture. It will provide wide-area Early Warning for chemical vapor plumes. The application of CS to LWIR HSI will eliminate the high-cost focal plane array required by ...

White River Technologies, Inc. (WRT) presents this proposal, "Acoustically/Vibrationally Enhanced High Frequency Electromagnetic Detector for Buried Landmines".The primary goal of the proposed effort is to develop a prototype vibrationally-enhanced detection system capable of landmine and IED detection and discrimination with performance greater than conventional GPR sensors.The main sensing compo ...

The team of Boston Fusion Corp., Arizona State University, and Sophia Speira proposes Phase II of Big Open-Source Social Science, BOSSS, a technology that will provide rapid social-science based awareness of the cultural landscape in a given locality. Based on the twin pillars of mathematical social science and big data, BOSSS searches open-source documents, parses the documents using natural lang ...

To achieve the goals of this program improving spectral coverage and output power of monolithic QCL sources - we propose to develop in collaboration with MIT Lincoln Laboratory a broadly tunable high power source that is based on Eos proprietary QCL array technology. The current generation of Eos commercially available fully packaged QCLAs (The Matchbox) can be tuned over a wavelength range of u ...