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In this SBIR program, Mantel Technologies will develop an innovative, light weight, rapidly deployable canine shelter for use in response to chemical warfare agent threats. The shelter will be capable of filtering particulates and absorbing a wide range of chemical warfare agents and will meet canine behavioral, anatomical and physiological needs including shelter temperature regulation and airflo ...

In an effort to maintain the advantage of today’s SOF operators, a new weapon mounted laser pointer and illuminator system is proposed. To increase survivability and lethality of the operator, the system will minimize size and weight while improving performance, reliability and operability. The development of a new laser based variable divergence illuminator will provide ideal beam clarity over ...

Recurring environmental extremes and disease events threaten large plantings of high-value perennial crops. Due to environmental and economic drivers, the demand for highest-quality, disease-free, true-to-type planting material in large volumes for vegetatively propagated high-value perennial crops is predicted to increase substantially in the next decades. This demand can be rapidly fulfilled thr ...

A cyber-physical trust anchor is an essential component of a secure additive manufacturing supply chain. Customer discussions show a strong need for low-cost trust anchors as well as high-security, more costly trust anchors. The concept underlying our trust anchor enables implementations that can be described as good, better, best. The two physical-digital components are first embedded digital cod ...

The goal of this proposal is it to use computational protein design to develop a set of stable, non-immunogenic enzymes for G-agent and V-agent neurotoxin deactivation based on an engineered human PON1 scaffold suitable for mass production. Chemical warfare nerve agents (CWNAs) have existed for over a century and remain a serious threat to the safety of mankind. Therapeutic enzyme treatments offer ...

In an effort to maintain the advantage of today’s SOF operators, a new weapon mounted laser pointer and illuminator system with laser range finding capability out to 900 meters is proposed. To increase survivability and lethality of the operator, the system will minimize size and weight while improving performance, reliability and operability. The development of a new laser based variable diverg ...

Radio Frequency (RF) Fingerprinting is an important capability for the warfighter to identify threats and protect against malicious attacks on the RF spectrum. Most RF Fingerprinting techniques work by identifying small variations in a transmitted signal that are introduced by hardware components (capacitors, inductors, etc) of the transmitter within the non-linear regions of operation. Neural Net ...

Military working dogs (MWD) are combat multipliers that provide essential detection and force protection capabilities to Special Operations Forces and units within each of the armed service branches serving globally every day. Every deployment includes planning requirements for medical support under austere conditions with limited or delayed evacuation assets. Although blood products are useful fo ...

Kägwerks recognizes the Cost, Size, Weight, and Power (C-SWaP) challenges of SOCOM’s existing FCD-W solution as well as the complexity and limitations of the current capability to transition toward a “Secure/Smart Wireless Hub” (SWH). The transition is necessary to enhance the Special Operation Forces (SOF) Standard Operator and Joint Terminal Air Controller (JTAC) mission effectiveness acr ...

New Generation Access Control (NGAC)—because of its “neutrality by design”—represents the most effective and scalable approach for deploying “smart” access control and consent solutions in large dynamic scenarios. NGAC however presents with its own problems: (1) it has miniscule recognition and uptake in the workplace, (2) it is unusable by non-technical policy officers and (3) its doc ...