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TIAX will build, characterize and abuse test lithium-ion cells employing LiCoPO4 cathodes and control metal-oxide based cathodes (such as LiCoO2 ) opposite graphite anodes. In Phase I, TIAX will perform overcharge and external short circuit tests to the specification of the UL1642 standard and will also perform nail penetration tests on both types of cells. In the option program TIAX will perfor ...

TIAX will build, characterize and abuse test high energy 18650-size lithium-ion cells employing Fe-substituted LiCoPO4 high voltage cathode material developed by the Army Research Laboratory and compare their performance to control LiCoO2-based lithium-ion cells. TIAX will perform overcharge, external short circuit, uniform heating and crush tests to the specification of the UL1642 standard and wi ...

Conducting timely high-quality intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) in Multi-Domain Operations (MDO) requires providing Army support staff with situation awareness data and new processing and visualization tools that enable improved planning, synchronizing, and conducting of multi-intelligence, multi-platform collection. To better anticipate and address the new coordination challen ...

Today’s warfighter is very often called upon to operate in extremely cold environments, both in operational and training settings. These environments can range from operating or training in geographical or seasonally cold areas to performing a high altitude, high opening (HAHO) or high altitude, low opening (HALO) parachute jump in extremely cold ambient temperatures or to flying rotary wing air ...

In this Phase II SBIR proposal Physical Sciences Inc. (PSI) outlines the development of a third generation (Gen-3) prototype of its electronic infrared (IR) flare illuminator technology that meets the Armys specifications for the M-278 IR flare while ove

Laboratory investigations have suggested that acoustically or vibrationally inducing motion in buried targets can aid in improving target detectability through a characteristic response related to differential target motion. This gain is realized by adding an additional degree of freedom, modulation due to motion in the GPR return signal, to use as a discriminating feature. The AKELA team is propo ...

White River Technologies, Inc. (WRT) and University of Vermont (UVM) present this proposal, "Acoustically/Vibrationally Enhanced High Frequency Electromagnetic Detector for Buried Landmines". Among the primary gaps in our current landmine detection technology base is the ability to detect a wide range of buried explosive hazards including emerging low-metal mines and improvised explosive devices ...

Tanner Research will leverage our ongoing microelectronics experiences with surface effects Physics to implement innovative lens compatible fluidic transport techniques. This active method will use a well characterized technique to move liquid droplets off the lens ideally before noticeable fogging even begins. Other goals in the Phase I will be to achieve the following metrics in preventing any ...

Army helicopter pilots are routinely exposed to intense noise levels during daily operations. The Army has been searching for aviator helmets with improved acoustic performance but has not found them in existing designs. Triton Systems proposes to develop and test the most promising combination of passive and active noise reduction technology that can be retrofit into the HGU-56P aviator helmet at ...

From the 19th century until today, we have seen an almost tenfold increase in the ocular injury rate on the battlefield. Compounding this problem is that there are very few eye doctors deployed in field hospitals. With ocular injuries accounting for up to 32% of injuries in disaster scenarios, limited access to eye doctors is not just a military problem. A portable eye examination system is needed ...