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Refrigerants are known to have harmful impacts on the environment. It is essential that those that are particularly harmful with a high global warming potential (GWP) are recovered correctly for proper recycling or disposal. Unfortunately, all too often, refrigerant is not properly recovered either due to system failure, technician error, or unincentivized industry practice. With implementation of ...

This proposal outlines a general approach and potential investigation path focused on development of a high-grade stibnite concentrate suitable for further testing and evaluation for use in military grade primers utilizing materials sourced from the Stibnite Gold Project (SGP) site located in Valley County, Idaho. Previous SGP beneficiation (crushing, grinding, flotation, cleaning) test work was d ...

The synthesis of antimony trisulfide (Sb2S3, the mineral stibnite) materials with well-controlled size, crystallinity and chemical purity is important in manufacturing for numerous electronics, munitions, solar, and chip-doping applications. Crystal growth methods have evolved considerably over the past few decades, primarily as an outgrowth from the electronics, solar energy and chip manufacturin ...

This SBIR Phase I project will develop a platform and protocol to rapidly identify and prepare materials and methods for the suppression of a viral pandemic after the virus has been identified and sequenced. The project will focus on the currently ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, but the platform can apply to future viral pandemics. With this platform, pandemics can be suppressed with at least two of th ...

WW Technology Group’s (WWTG) proposed effort combines big data analytics (BDA) with modeling and analysis to provide a sustainable economic assessment of the effects of pandemics on the Defense Industrial Base (DIB) and DoD supply chain. The BDA approach will form an ontological data model, which is the foundation for the supply chain model.  Further, it will provide traceability of all analyse ...

Many DLA supported programs such as the Aircraft Launch and Recovery Equipment (ALRE) program, encounter supply limitations and bottlenecks due to lack of manufacturing or vendor capabilities. Coherent Technical Solutions Inc. (CTSi) is well prepared to support DLA as a Small Business Manufacturer (SBM) and will provide a complete Source Approval Request (SAR) package and manufacturing development ...

Robotic Research, LLC plans to use the Stock Handling Autonomous Robotic Kit (SHARK), a robust kit with a state-of-the-art indoor-outdoor navigation, world modeling, and obstacle detection and install it on a material handling tow vehicle. The system will using GPS, LIDAR, radar, cameras, and other sensors suites paired with our experience developing systems that need to operate in complex climate ...

Additive Manufacturing (AM) is a modern and increasingly popular manufacturing process for metallic components, but suffers from well known problems of inconsistent quality of the finished product. Process monitoring and feedback control are therefore crucial research areas with a goal of solving this problem. To address this concern, X-wave Innovations, Inc. (XII) and the University of Dayton Res ...

The Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) is seeking to automate parts of their procurement, logistics, and distribution processes by applying Augmented Reality (AR) solutions to increase efficiency and reduce costs. Vecna Robotics' world-leading automation consulting team is well-positioned to leverage a deep and broad understanding of advanced technology and its application to warehouse operations. Vec ...

DLA Disposition Services is responsible for the disposal of excess DOD personal property, foreign excess personal property, scrap, hazardous waste, and property requiring demilitarization. DLA Disposition Services also offers reutilization and public sales to military, federal, state and local agencies, non-profit agencies, and US taxpayers through a marketplace. In the current process, the user d ...