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The impact of accelerating human industrial activities on the environment and climate are becoming increasingly clear. Petroleum-derived colorants used in consumer goods are of particular concern due to their toxicity profile, persistence, and tendency to leach into the environment. As more companies make the switch to bio-based/biodegradable plastics, greater access to bio-based dyes will be need ...

Through this DLA STTR program, NanoSonic and Penn State will work with a major US manufacturer of missile systems and hypersonic vehicles. Together we will demonstrate automated filament winding and resin transfer molding manufacturing processes to produce high temperature thermal protection system (TPS) materials and evaluate material properties to develop production statistics and quality contro ...

It is well known that gas-turbine powered aircraft operating in brown-out conditions can ingest a significant amount of particles leading to reduced engine performance, a reduction in time between maintenance and increased safety concerns. As such, it is critical to be able to accurately model the impact of ingested particles in engines for both maintenance purposes and in the design of new, more ...

Marine fouling has always been a significant problem to manage. All the solutions have associated costs and additional maintenance. If the fouling is left untreated, fuel costs increase, and maneuverability is reduced. Eventually the ship must be docked and cleaned leading to availability and cleaning costs. Alternatively, the hull and other components below the water line can be coated or imbued ...

Effective tools for evaluating the proficiency of warfighters at employing complex systems in an operational setting are essential to ensure operational capability within the Navy and other branches of the DoD. Generating exams with answer keys is a time-consuming process, made more difficult by the complexity of both the systems and the operational employment of those systems.  The burden is fur ...

To maintain undersea dominance in an environment of near peer adversaries the Navy must deploy new capabilities rapidly. In response, development contractors are adopting a DevSecOps culture with agile processes to meet the demand for new technology deployment. To keep pace, the training community needs innovative technology to rapidly update training knowledge bases and automatically generate exa ...

Shared Spectrum Company (SSC) and George Mason University (GMU) propose to design Basis Expansion with Transformer and Two-map Spectrum Inference (BETTSI). BETTSI is a distributed, coherent sensing solution to generate a spectrum map of available channels in sparse or dense spectral environments for channel allocation in a decentralized multi-hop network. Sensing-based spectrum allocation is a dif ...

There are a remarkable number of untapped persistent ocean observing assets deployed across the world’s oceans that could be used to measure and characterize the acoustic environment on a near-real-time basis. The opportunity exists to use these networks of floats, buoys, and gliders as host platforms for persistent acoustic monitoring to provide not only critical sound environment data for sona ...

The goal of the proposed effort is to develop a new acoustic sensor that utilizes directional ambient sound to extract features about the underwater environment. The sensor package will be able to be integrated into a variety of host platforms, deployed for months to years with a power budget of approximately 1 W, and automatically process and extract relevant features in the soundscape for near-r ...

Lithium-ion battery systems are proliferating across military and commercial markets. Due to their high energy and compelling power densities, lithium based batteries are an ideal match for long and demanding missions and are being integrated into more critical systems every day. ​​​​​​​As more and more batteries are introduced to mission and safety critical systems it has become all ...