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Actoprobe LLC proposes development of a novel class of Atomic Force Microscopy (AFM) active optical probes with dramatically increased sensitivity and spatial resolution for Near-Field Optical Nanospectroscopy and Nanoscopy. The innovation is accomplished by integrating a diode laser source and a photodetector into a silicon AFM probe in such a way that both the AFM tip and detector are inside the ...

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 ...

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 ...

Oceanit proposes a Phase I project to conduct a feasibility study for the 12x12 antenna distribution system that can be remotely controlled to enable multiple radios to access multiple antennas.

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 ...

While a number of different technologies for 3D printing metal parts exist, all of them rely on forming parts sequentially out of individual metal powder particles. They are thus prone to producing parts that initially contain microscale gaps, bubbles and other weaknesses. In order to correct for this and produce reliable, production-quality parts, the printed components must be subjected to sinte ...

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 ...

Oceanit proposes to develop novel nutraceutical and/or pharmaceuticals to enhance important USSOCOM Multi-Purpose Canine (MPC) performance attributes that optimize their performance, improve recovery time when wounded and increase their survivability.

The research involves implementation of a comparison algorithm for firearm forensics. The Congruent Matching Cells (CMC) algorithm and its associated CMF, CMPS, and CMX methods have been developed by NIST yet do not appear in any commercially available software. As requested in the call for proposals, we will implement the algorithms in the C++ programming language, we will validate their performa ...