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In the US, an estimated one third of food is wasted at the household level resulting in significant environmental impact—total greenhouse gas emissions of US food waste are estimated to be 70 million MTCO2e. While food waste is generated at all stages of the food supply chain over 50% of all food waste is generated at the consumption stage, the majority of which occurs within households. Often, ...

A 40% shortfall in the global freshwater supply is expected by 2030, which makes using potable water forall household applications unsustainable. Using safe, non-potable alternative water sources for usesincluding toilet flushing, irrigation, and laundry can significantly reduce the stress on the potable watersupply.Our system supports the effort to conserve potable water by offering a product tha ...

Off target pesticide spray drift is an economically and environmentally significant problem. Off target drift can damage susceptible crops, orchards, and apiaries, induce herbicide resistant weed development, damage native pollinator habitats, create human-health related pesticide exposure hazards, and create social and legal strife as a result of adjudicating exposure incidents. SprayCast uses ma ...

Electrochemical machining has multiple benefits for manufacturing of turbomachinery including high quality surface finish, an ability to process advanced metal alloys, no imparted stress, and scalability to deliver production affordability. Unfortunately, ECM’s adoption is limited by the up-front time, cost, and risk to demonstrate an ECM solution. This problem is particularly difficult during n ...

Corvid Technologies, LLC (Corvid) and Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech) propose developing a framework on a modern software architecture utilizing high fidelity, state-of-the-art modeling tools to provide an accurate, but efficient, prediction of the ablating TPS material response in real-time. Three different TPS modeling approaches will be evaluated during Phase I in terms of accura ...

The Thermal Protection System (TPS) materials for current hypersonic vehicles have limited structural capability in all-weather environments and a low level of manufacturing sophistication. Nanoshell Matrix Composites (NMC) are a class of materials being developed at United Protective Technologies to address the most difficult challenges faced in hypersonic environments. NMC materials allow the pr ...

The limited available space on the body of a hypersonic glide vehicle as well as the extreme aerodynamic and aerothermal environment it experiences presents a significant design challenge for mounting antenna systems. The surfaces of the hypersonic vehicle are subjected to extremely high temperatures (>1000 °C) and require aerothermal protection systems on top of the lightweight, high-strength st ...

Innovaknits, LLC (IK) is a contract manufacturing company specializing in flatbed knitting. We have both product development and production services located in Conover, NC. IK will collaborate with North Carolina State University’s Wilson College of Textiles (NCSU), specifically Zeis Textile Extension (ZTE), as a subcontractor, focusing on their extensive knitting laboratory and physical textile ...

Vadum will develop an RF Measurement and Planning (RMAP) tool that combines aspects of both RF mission planning and real-time sensor-informed spectrum management to facilitate spectrum sharing in both training and deployed mission environments. In the planning phase, RMAP uses proven propagation models, computationally efficient surrogate modeling, and known or measured emitter locations to optima ...

Corvid Technologies proposes to provide Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division’s (NAWCAD) a replacement to their NAVSEP FORTRAN toolset, which will reduce programmatic risks by reducing per-analysis manpower requirements and allow for more rapid and complex autopilot integration. The proposed approach is to leverage significant pre-existing knowledge and capabilities to develop a highly para ...