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There is an urgent need to improve protection of our soldiers without losing mobility and maneuverability. As personal protection equipment becomes more sophisticated and multifunctional for protection against ballistics, shrapnel, and stabbing, it has also become heavier and more cumbersome. This additional mass can inhibit troop movement and potentially compromise the mission and even survivabil ...

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 ...

The proposed study will evaluate the feasibility of producing a low acoustic emission propulsion unit for fixed wing UAV applications, utilizing optimized propeller designs matched to a low cylinder count small reciprocating engine. Acoustic performance will be enhanced by operating the propeller at reduced speed with high advance while improving the operating point of the coupled engine and furt ...

Prioria is proposing a family of aircraft configurations to address USSOCOM's requirements. Achieving the significant endurance, range, winds, and payload requirements simultaneously requires a highly-optimized aircraft. The configurations range in endurance, robustness, and capability. Configuration 1 is a sturdy fixed-wing aircraft that achieves moderate endurance but can tolerate rough handl ...

The development of laser weapons has a profound impact on military missions throughout the services. An ideal laser system must be capable of delivering hundreds of kilowatts of average power to a target at multi-kilometer ranges through adverse atmospheric conditions. The highest power within diffraction limited divergence was demonstrated with solid state and fiber lasers. However, development o ...

Supercapacitors have emerged as energy storage devices exhibiting higher energy densities than traditional capacitors, as well as higher power densities than batteries or fuel cells. Current supercapacitor technology is limited by the operational temperature range of the electrolyte. This proposal will investigate deep eutectic solvents (DESs) as a novel class of electrolytes to enable high-perfor ...

A cryogenic optical link is proposed for development that uses a VCSEL-based micro transmitter placed inside the cryostat, and transmitting through a dewar window to a detector-based micro receiver placed outside the dewar. Interconnection to focal plane readout circuit is proposed using an application specific integrated circuit to receive the read out data and electrically drive the VCSEL to tra ...

Lead acid batteries are the old commercially available rechargeable battery technology. They find application in a range of vehicle starting applications as well as a wide array of deep cycle uses such as grid storage, backup power and deep cycle power on a range of commercial, utility, first responder, and military vehicles. Despite being around for over 100 years, there remains no good way of de ...

Florida Turbine Technologies (FTT) is seeking technology combinations that improve the performance, agility, reliability, maintainability, sustainability, and affordability of small Vertical Take-off and Landing (VTOL) aircraft / UAVs. FTT proposes the development of advanced adaptive turbine engine cycle concepts, based upon the existing FTT320 core engine architecture, which utilize a variable f ...