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Early detection of corrosion and its severity can help control corrosion initiated failures in wheeled vehicles and aviation assets. Although preventive maintenance and periodic inspections are required to minimize cost of corrosion these routine inspections are limited to external areas and can be subjective. Based on Phase I results, we will develop a prototype corrosion sensor system that is lo ...

The objective of the proposed project is to determine the feasibility and efficacy of using a two-legged, two-armed robot for inspection and EOD tasks. The project builds upon an agile two-legged platform currently under development for DARPA. The Tactical All-Terrain Biped (T/ATB) is intended to walk over arbitrary terrain using a real-time stereo vision system. The first prototype, a legs-onl ...

We propose to continue the development and characterization of a polymeric nanoencapsulation technology that can increase the lifetime of a protein therapeutic agent within a biological system. The materials have been demonstrated to exhibit no cytotoxicity and to efficiently deliver antibody against Protective Antigen of bacillus anthracis.

We propose that a comparative colorimetric assay be developed that will use a ticket of the same dimensions as the current ANP immunoassay tickets. This will allow the AChE test to be conducted using a similar workflow as the lateral flow immunoassay-based HHAs and be similarly read on the ANP reader to yield an unambiguous result independent of user judgment.

Low-light-level photodetector arrays are proposed for detecting the weak optical emission spectra from the trace atoms in the laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy (LIBS). The proposed semiconductor image intensifier and low-light-level camera utilize the miniaturized and monolithically integrated version of a proven solid-state detector technology, and is expected to be able to detect femto-watts ...

Accurate performance prediction is essential to the development of Army rotorcraft as well as the support of flight operations. While current numerical analysis tools can, in principle, model complete rotorcraft, in practice these implementations are severely hampered by accuracy limitations broadly attributed to modeling assumptions (e.g., vortex core models in Lagrangian methods) or numerical d ...

Qualifying UAVs for operation in known icing conditions presents a problem whose solution critically depends upon the ability to conduct flight tests in controlled icing environments. Unfortunately, instrumentation, control, and operational procedures have yet to be developed to support this testing behind manned aircraft, such as the U.S. Army CH-47 Helicopter Icing Spray System (HISS), that can ...

This study develops a detailed architecture of the umbrella System of Systems (SoS) tool. The tool preserves cross layer signaling and layer state machine transition regardless of whether the layer is abstracted or detailed. The proposed study will perform tasks including: o Investigating the interaction between the specialized tools and the umbrella tool o Evaluating cross layer signaling that ne ...

Datatek Applications, Inc. proposes to execute a Phase II SBIR effort to build upon our successful Phase I SBIR program on this same topic. This SBIR Phase II program will leverage the results of the Phase I study and proof-of-concept to produce a working prototype that facilitates the mobile operation of legacy Internet Protocol Version 4 (IPv4) tactical devices in the emerging IP Version 6 (IPv ...

Dindl Firearms Manufacturing, Inc. proposes the use of an expanding 40mm high explosive warhead to produce the desired blast characteristics at the target. A low risk design is envisioned where the explosive payload weight is similar to the existing M100 GREM. The blast characteristics will be accomplished by expanding and reshaping the explosive payload at the target. Modeling and simulation, ...