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Our research is focused on EPA SBIR Topic 1A: Decentralized wastewater treatment (septic system) technologies for intentional non-potable reuse. LeapFrog research aims to provide innovative decentralized water treatment for non-potable reuse and capture onsite for single-family residence scale. Across the country, growing demand for high-quality water is met with long term challenges due to drough ...

Our product will incentivize source separation of construction and demolition waste by capturing true weights of recoverable products and adjusting disposal pricing based upon percentage of recyclability. This holistic inventory aggregation and management system will allow material recovery facilities (MRFs) to accurately evaluate inbound waste by weight and track recovered materials inventories. ...

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 ...

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 ...

Additive manufacturing (AM) processes such as laser powder bed fusion (LPBF) have received a great deal of attention due to their unique capability in producing parts with complex geometries. However, a major challenge limiting the application of LPBF today is the high variability in the quality of finished components. To address this challenge, HIDENN-AI, LLC and Northwestern University (NU) prop ...

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 ...

A new optics technology platform will be developed that reduces the cost of dual-band short-wave infrared (SWIR) and mid-wave infrared (MWIR) optics for high-performance wide field of view (WFOV) imaging. The use of infrared optics has been increasingly adopted by the military, but the cost of wideband infrared optical systems remains a challenge. This study proposes to increase the available DOF ...

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 ...