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Through this STTR contract, we propose to evaluate the efficacy of our vaccine, FlowVax Marburg, in nonhuman primates (NHPs). This will be achieved through four Tasks. In Task 1, we will manufacture the vaccine in a quantity sufficient for the animal studies. In Task 2, we will perform MHC genotyping on a representative population of NHPs and, based on results, select a set of MHC-matched NHPs for ...

There are currently no vaccines or therapeutics available for Marburg Virus Disease (MVD). Given the specter of weaponization and the terrible morbidity and high mortality rate of MVD, this represents a critical threat to the operational readiness of the Warfighter. While traditional vaccines have contributed greatly to public health, they have some limitations especially in the context of operati ...

Software and hardware flaws can be exploited to make programs perform unintended computations or leak sensitive data. We propose to counter these threats by isolating libraries and other program units inside a single process. The developer will insert source-level annotations that i) map code and data units to compartments and ii) capture how each compartment is intended to interact with others, i ...

DoD has a critical need for protecting sensitive data to make sure that only the intended, trusted programs or parts of programs can access the data. This protection must be also effective when data is loaded into memory while being processed by software. Lately, the side-channel attacks which are based on information gained from the implementation of a computer system rather than exploiting algor ...

As unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) become more prevalent there is an increasing desire to automate UAS navigation and control. To enable future UASs to perform a wider variety of missions, they must be able to complete autonomous relative navigation to accomplish missions. Current technologies rely heavily on GPS measurements, which are undesirable since GPS signals may be unavailable in many DoD ...

Netrias, the Texas A&M Health Science Center (TAMHSC) and the Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station (TEES), and expert consultants will expand and extend the capabilities of PathEngine, an advanced computational platform that ingests and integrates a corpus of bacterial phenotype measurements suitable for the training of a pathogenicity machine learning algorithm. We will enhance the data integ ...

Clearly demonstrate that a sub-sea methane harvesting power station can be developed, deployed, and operated to produce power at the 1kW level. Show that no major hurdles remain to produce a fully functional prototype system. Such a system will harvest methane from a productive methane ocean seep and operate autonomously for several years.

Rapidly expanding Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellite constellations force traditional ground-based tracking methods to adapt as the current ground sensor networks can no longer provide a data rich tracking environment. Accurate tracking information is continually consumed by the Government and private sector to varying degrees of accuracy throughout satellites’ mission lifecycles to provide and uti ...

Opterus Research and Development, Inc. (Opterus) and Colorado State University (CSU) have combined the best features of high strain composites (HSC), continuum robots, and tendon actuated robots to develop a new concept called Continuum Actuated Redundant Tendon (CART) Robot to enable self-reconfigurable modular robots that can perform various tasks (e.g., walking, crawling, wheeling, and grasping ...

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is seeking to utilize small reconfigurable robotic system to operate independently in unknown highly complex environments. We propose a modular reconfigurable robot, which presents several locomotion modality to handle different type of off-road environments. We proposed several configurations for the robot, which are well-suited to the type of ...