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As outsourced microelectronic manufacturing grows, the safety and security of U.S. consumers becomes increasingly threatened by potential counterfeit electronics. Current counterfeit inspection techniques are labor intensive, time consuming, and impractical to use by field agents located on remote sites, away from major facilities, and with limited expertise. The proposed work, Fast and Accurate D ...

Additional passenger fatalities and injuries can occur in rollover-type derailment accidents due to failures of glazing retention mechanisms on passenger railcars. In recent accidents, a key failure mode is shearing off the external rubber gasket that secures the glazing panes as the side of the railcar drags along the ground. Once the gasket fails, the glazing pane is pushed inside, leaving an op ...

Cyberattacks are a growing concern in every market with network-connected devices. Attacks such as ransomware, malware, spyware, spoofing, botnets, and more, can result in intellectual property theft, system downtime, reputation damage, and unfortunately loss of life. Most cyberattack detection techniques are limited in scalability and detection efficacy as the cyberattack landscape is constantly ...

To date, no realizable method of predicting the occurrence or magnitude of a Solar Energetic Particle (SEP) event has been developed. There are multiple models currently available in the Community Coordinated Modeling Center (CCMC) through Goddard Space Flight Center that attempt to provide timely and accurate event propagation (e.g.MAG4, Enlil, and SEPMOD). None of these have yet achieved the goa ...

Nanohmics, Inc. proposes to continue its successful development of highly sensitive antibody and/or DNA aptamer-quantum dot (Qdot)-based lateral flow (LF) test strips for on-site detection of at least 6 high consequence biotoxins including abrin, botulinum, ricin, saxitoxin, SEB and tetrodotoxin in environmental surface and soil swabs as well as food and water samples from sites of suspected bio-t ...

Pork accounts for more than one-third of meat consumed globally. The United States is the second largest producer of pork in the world. Keeping transboundary pathogens out of the country is in our national economic interests. To that end, Lynntech is developing a port- and pen-side diagnostic for field detection of transboundary pathogens. In this Phase II proposal we will develop an assay to dete ...

The long endurance “StratoSonde” lighter-than-air, uncrewed system combines a low-cost, 5day endurance StratoSonde supports up to 10 micro-dropsondes, which when released from the HAB, descend safely through the entire atmospheric column under a ribbon drogue while reporting observations directly back to the HAB. This project will assess the feasibility of integrating a disposable miniature ae ...

AirMettle Inc. is transforming big data analytics for NOAA and the broader scientific community with a real-time smart data lake solution. Our innovative method utilizes massively parallel in-storage data processing within a versatile software defined storage framework, deployable on-premises or as a cloudbased service. Building upon our successful NOAA SBIR Phase I project, we strive to improve t ...

Maintaining healthy populations of salmon and trout (salmonids) has significant biological, cultural, and economic benefits. Significant data gaps exist for sources of mortality in juvenile and adult salmonids in small streams. These gaps can create discrepancies between main stem escapement counts and estimates of population health. Field Data Services, LLC is developing novel camera trap technol ...

Counterfeit microelectronics are a growing concern in the global electronics market. Most counterfeit inspection techniques are based on electrical testing, which is labor-intensive, time consuming, and requires a subject matter expert to develop the test and analyze the results. Another method is physical inspection and the use of advanced imaging instruments, e.g., X-ray, IR imaging microscopes, ...