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Additive manufacturing is steadily advancing towards fulfilling its promise of customized and on-demand production of functional parts. However, performance of as-manufactured parts can differ significantly from the as-designed parts because the as-manufactured geometry differs from the as-designed geometry and the asmanufactured material properties are not known. Attempts to predict performance o ...

Current balance and gait assessment practices in field environments lack adequate sensitivity to measure subtle but potentially duty-limiting deficits in Service Member (SM) performance. Clinicians endeavor to provide timely, evidence-based assessment of

Cybersecurity remains a top priority for the Military Health System (MHS). In SBIR Phase II research and development (R&D), Management Sciences, Inc. (MSI) has developed and demonstrated a cyber-secure prototype Multi-Level Security (MLS) software upgrade

Essential to supporting the requirements from the U.S. Air Force and U.S. Navy nuclear communities, the Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) Nuclear Enterprise Support Office (NESO) provides essential support to aging nuclear systems that are expected to remain in service for the next 20 to 25 years. Challenged by part obsolescence, company mergers and sales, loss of technical data, and aging technologi ...

This Phase II Small Business Innovation Research project develops the scale of lithium-ion direct recycling technologies applied to gain efficiencies in materials management from original manufacturing to end-of-life. The scrap materials are from Defense Logistics Agency manufacturing activities. A successful effort moves direct recycle TRL from 4 to 6, increases process throughput, qualifies mate ...

DHP is seeking new image compression technologies that will retain diagnostic quality and reduce the burden of digital medical image transmission on the militarys tactical networks.ATA is proposing to tailor the latest state-of-the-art commercial image compression algorithm, the Main Still Picture Profile of the High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) standard, for medical imagery.HEVC has been shown ...

A robust system level design process will be used to identify the design of transparent tapered resistive (TTR) elements, including the materials, fabrication processes, and lifecycle costs. The transparent tapered resistive film will be designed to provides a tapered resistive layer across the film while remaining transparent in the visual and near-infrared optical bands for use in radio-frequenc ...

Vibrant Corporation and Sandia National Laboratories (SNL) propose to apply Process Compensated Resonance Testing (PCRT) to the DLA's need for an NDI method to detect counterfeit, nonconforming and improperly processed materiel. PCRT collects and analyzes the resonance frequencies of a component to detect structural defects, characterize material, analyze population variation, monitor manufacturin ...

Single chirality of single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs) is critical for their superb mechanical, thermal, optical and electronic properties. All known methods for producing nanotubes give mixtures of tubes with different chiralities. Physical separation of SWCNT by chirality is thus an enabling step for many potential applications and fundamental studies. The existing anion exchange resins are ...

The applicant will develop a wave energy harvesting system for NOAA buoys. It will ve entirely self-contained (no protruding elements), modular, scalable, and easily deployed. The system employs a unique, inertial mechanism that responds to acceleration forces created by waves. This mechanism will be combined with (1) a proprietary generator that is sensitive to very low levels of torque and ha ...