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Efficient computational analysis of systems exhibiting complex plasma phenomena, including non-neutral kinetic, fluid behaviors with radiation transport are critical to many DoD missions.Examples of these systems include plasma thrusters, hypersonic vehicles, radiation effects simulations, RF sources, and compact neutron sources. Current simulation tools rely heavily on magneto-hydrodynamic (MHD) ...

Embedded networking applications ranging from industrial control systems to home automation and networking to smartphone-controllable devices represent a substantial and growing internet security risk. The open source formally verified seL4 microkernel provides a foundation for building trustworthy systems. Wearable Inc. proposes building on this a set of high-quality software components which can ...

Transparent Sky LLC (TSky), with research partner University of Florida (UF), commercialization partner Frontier Technology, Inc. (FTI) and development partner Lockheed-Martin Missiles and Fire Control, propose ENSITE, to provide a new framework for HPC at the edge that is particularly suited for ISR environments. Recent HPC advances have moved toward small, low-power embedded devices that can ra ...

During Phase I, Management Sciences, Inc. (MSI) proved feasibility of adapting their current technology into a product capable of improving performance resulting in increased efficiency and extended life cycles of heat pumps. The resultant product is a tool named the Heat Pump Sentient (HP-Sentient). The HP-Sentient will improve performance and reduce maintenance costs through aggressive goal-seek ...

With this project, Skinfrared LLC in conjunction with Duke University, aims to develop a reconfigurable hyperspectral imaging system. Hyperspectral imaging systems (HSI) are important for determining the chemical composition of heterogeneous substances of a given scene. They have many applications in both military and civilian ranging from gas and terrain identification to food inspection. Current ...

Solid-state refrigerators, which are compact and produce no vibrations, are ideal for many electronics and sensor applications. Currently, the dominant solid-state cooling technology is thermoelectric cooling, which uses the electrical Peltier effect. Despite decades of effort, the lowest achievable temperature for multi-stage thermoelectric coolers (TECs) is around 170 K. ThermoDynamic Films, LLC ...

The primary goal of this proposed effort is to develop mid-wavelength infrared (MWIR) colloidal quantum dot (CQD)-based focal plane arrays (FPAs) to significantly reduce the cost of MWIR photon imagers. The current lack of such low-cost systems leaves unmet many civil and military needs, such as the broad deployment of tactical photon-detecting imagers, non-destructive testing cameras, and next ge ...

We propose the development of a near infrared/short wavelength infrared (NIR/SWIR) sensor based on molecular beam epitaxy (MBE) mercury cadmium telluride (HgCdTe) designed for room-temperature operation in the 0.4 to 1.3 micron spectral range for the next generation of night vision goggles (NVGs), weapon sights, and handheld or airborne systems. The sensor will compete as a low cost and high perfo ...

Regenerative medicine is an emerging, interdisciplinary field that will result in new engineered medical products. The introduction of a high-resolution, non-destructive imaging technique that is capable of penetrating deeply into the highly-scattering scaffold medium has the means to accelerate the development and commercial utilization of these novel materials. Multi-photon microscopy (MPM) is b ...

The remarkable sensitivity, compactness, low cost, low power-consumption, scalability, and versatility of microcantilever sensors make this technology possibly the best solution for container screening. In Phase I, Nevada Nanotech Systems (NNTS) successfully demonstrated all components of a prototype sensor system for measuring the concentrations of unlawful or hazardous materials in shipping con ...