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Integral bladed rotors (IBR) manufacturing is an essential part of gas turbine fabrication for modern fighter aircraft. Stringent dimensional tolerance and surface finish requirements necessitate precision manufacturing and consequently, resulting in increased cost. Our Phase II proposal will demonstrate innovative high speed machining (HSM) technologies the Air Force needs for affordable fabrica ...

The main objective of this Phase II proposal is to optimize a silk-derived protein therapeutic fraction (SDP-TF) for use in an ophthalmic formulation to enhance corneal wound healing post traumatic injury by simultaneously inhibiting inflammation and stimulating epithelium regeneration, which are two key factors in optimizing full visual recovery. To accomplish this, this proposal sets out to comp ...

S-FAN initiative provides the Navy with data routing, switching, optimization, security, and monitoring in a low-SWaP, single-box package that is compatible with existing aircraft data links and targeted for insertion into Navy aircraft. The goal of the Phase II SBIR effort is to develop S-FAN as a ruggedized single-box appliance that can be tested on the Navy's E-2D Advanced Hawkeye and carrier-b ...

Materials behavior is often dominated by highly localized phenomena, and the ability to probe those properties for engineering devices is critical. Often these devices are operating in environments with large differences in temperature and pressure: from the high vacuum and cold of space to the high temperature and high pressure inside a deep water oil well. Here, a transducer capable of measuring ...

Health Delivery Organizations (HDOs), including the Military Health System, are increasingly using networked medical devices to benefit from improved information accuracy, lowered costs, and improved patient outcomes. These benefits, however, are threatened by the security risks posed by the interactions between the networked devices, and their connection to IT systems which are at risk of cyber a ...

NAPP is a 3rd person 3D role-playing adventure gaming app built for Android and iOS platforms. NAPP integrates real-world data from current health management systems and offers interactive feedback about own behaviors as part of an engaging game storyline. The game integrates evidence-based psychological theories of behavioral change and provides individually tailored feedback. Sleep hygiene knowl ...

Building upon the successful results of its Spatio-Temporal Analysis in GIS Environments (STAGE) Phase II SBIR effort, which produced a Technology Readiness Level (TRL) 6 prototype of the STAGE software tool, Architecture Technology Corporation (ATCorp) ...

An anti-submarine warfare concept is proposed in which a low-cost and easily-deployable temporary submarine detection zone is created in littoral waters. The concept uses solid-state magnetic field sensors to detect the passage of submarines, and acoustic transmitters to relay the data to a small number of in-water receiver units. The data is then communicated from these units to a manned off-sit ...

75333S Nanoindentation is the primary technique for assessing the nanomechanical behavior of small volumes of materials. With this technique, the force required to produce a given displacement into a sample by a sharp diamond tip is measured, and the hardness of the material being tested is determined analyzing the force-displacement curve. However, the microstructural origins of the measured me ...

The overall goal of our Phase II project is to demonstrate innovative, scalable high-performance machining (HPM) processes the Navy needs for thin-web, large-pocket Ti-6Al-4V firewalls and bulkheads. The anticipated benefits of the program are the ability to fabricate unitized structures resulting in reduced labor costs, part count and improved quality while achieving desired weight requirements a ...