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With this Phase I funding, the project team will develop and test a prototype of D-TECH, a system to determine students' level of academic engagement while completing computer-based learning activities and assessments. The prototype will integrate within existing third party computer-based programs (e.g., online courseware, educational games, simulations, intelligent tutors) and will consist of a ...

_x000D_Currently available biomass heating/cooking stoves in Asia and in the USA do not efficiently cook food or heat houses while consuming too much fuel and emitting pollution, resulting in respiratory illnesses and premature death. ASAT specializes in the development and manufacturing of clean burning biomass stoves. In SBIR Phase I, ASAT developed a low emission, fuel efficient Integrated Heat ...

Accurate surveys of both position and azimuth are critical components of the artillery mission. These requirements must be met in all operational environments, including situations where GPS signals are degraded or denied. Currently, these requirements have been met using the Improved Position and Azimuth Determining System (IPADS). Unfortunately, the IPADS is based on older navigation sensor tech ...

Improvements in fuel efficiency for the developing ACV 1.1 vehicle are sought. While relatively efficient, even the best vehicle turbodiesel engines have efficiencies of only 30-44% depending on operating condition. Since the engine inefficiency is the largest energy loss, we will focus on scavenging waste energy from power plant of the vehicle. Mainstream will also combine vehicle energy regenera ...

Team CESI recently demonstrated the design and implementation of a laser-less system through accurate engagements at realistic ranges (out to 375 meters) using a cloud-based server architecture and a minimalist Marine-worn subsystem. We propose to continue to mature this proof-of-principle technology. To compensate for poor location and orientation sensor accuracy Team CESIs implementation of OBSA ...

With the increasing complexity of RF apertures and signature requirements on modern air platforms, in-field verification is a critical need for the US Armed Forces. In particular, the unique operating environment of Navy ships increases the need, technical difficulty, and logistical hurdles of performing such verifications at sea. IERUS Technologies proposes to develop a unique, reconfigurable RF ...

The current state-of-the-art for an underwater unexploded ordnance (UUXO) detector is a single analyte sensor for detection of TNT, which only partially addresses the Navys requirement to detect the full range of explosive threats. Because of the low solubility of explosive compounds in water, the concentration of explosives near UUXO is likely to be extremely low. Furthermore, once the explosive ...

Informatics-based material development is becoming increasingly important as the physics-based multi-scale methods are not sufficiently matured to correlate complex structure-property-processing relationships for materials with 12-15 components. However, informatics-based methods require large quantity of good quality material data that are typically downloaded manually from the material database ...

The proposed objective of this proposal is to develop and demonstrate a robust, high-throughput laser bonding technique universally applicable to wafer-level joining of silicon with various other materials including silicon, polymers, glasses, ceramics and metals. This unique approach utilizes optical transparency of Si to mid-infrared laser light. Using our patented experimental technique and uni ...

IERUS Technologies proposes to leverage our existing re-entry vehicle antenna technology to develop a high performance, dual-band GPS antenna for the Navy ENTB vehicle and, in the future, the JTA and CPGS programs. IERUS's existing design was developed with re-entry vehicles in mind and covers the full GNSS band, which satisfies the bandwidth requirements for the C/A and P(Y) codes at L1 and L2. O ...