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Blood loss due to uncontrolled hemorrhage is a major contribution to at least 90% of the combat death before reaching the field hospital. The ability to control heavy bleeding in the injured soldier is critical and will vastly improve the survival outcome in the theater. Furthermore, complications from uncontrolled bleeding in the microvasculature contribute significantly to increased morbidity. ...

The DoD and commercial software companies have made significant investment in software. In the DoD context, these high value applications provide significant technological advantage over our adversaries. It is of paramount importance to protect these applications from reverse engineering, theft or other malicious tampering. We propose a hybridized system called Software Protection and Obfuscation ...

Rapid noninvasive detection of blast lung injury is of great interest for forward military medical care, homeland defense, and civilian trauma. Near Infrared and Diffuse Optical Spectroscopy (NIRS, DOS) are novel techniques that can penetrate non-invasively through the thorax/lungs, detect air/blood beneath the surface, and measure the lung function. The overall objective of this project is to dev ...

The objective of the proposed program is to develop a portable, low-cost, label-free (reagentless), microarray system capable of near real-time simultaneous detection and identification of multiple analytes (bacteria, viruses, spores, toxins) with high sensitivity and low false alarm rate. Notably, the system will be capable of detection/identification of agents on the basis of protein and/or nuc ...

To ensure a safe blood supply, donors are deferred for donating if they meet certain criteria, such as symptoms of illness, recent travel to areas endemic to infectious diseases, etc. Understanding ongoing deferrals within the DoD donor pool can help the program better leverage its small donor base and respond to emerging health issues. Blood collected by the program is tested for infectious dis ...

To advance work done on heavy fuel diesel engine in Phase I to further improve performance while at the same time increasing its power 5 fold.improve performance while at the same time increasing its power 5 fold.

The CVN-21 island will not have a manned camera on the 07 Level yet must meet the requirements for launch, recovery, and special event tracking that it provides on previous CVs. We propose a system of state-of-the-art panoramic views, pan/tilt/zoom camera, and low-light fixed cameras which provide situational awareness equal or better than possible today. Tedious, repetitive tracking tasks and r ...

The objective of this program is to develop a portable biosensor system to facilitate the rapid evaluation of complement activation in injured personnel. Traumatic blood loss and tissue damage resulting from civilian or battlefield trauma leads to complement activation that, if left untreated, contributes to further tissue damage, shock, respiratory distress syndrome and multiorgan failure. Approp ...

The integration of NIRS measures with EEG could be a significant advance in rapid detection and continuous monitoring of cerebral dysfunction following traumatic brain injury. We have developed a dense array EEG system that can be applied rapidly in the field environment. We have developed a prototype NIRS brain imaging system that can be integrated with the EEG system, in both sparse and dense ar ...

The goal of the BRAMS effort is to develop a Blood Reserve Availability Assessment, Tracking, and Management System that will supplement the Joint Medical Asset Repository (JMAR) by allowing users to manually enter data via a web-based system. The BRAMS Phase I effort successfully developed a web interface for collecting blood data and exporting that blood data to JMAR in the format specified by ...