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Luna Innovations, teamed with North Carolina State University’s (NCSU) Non-Wovens Institute (NWI), will meet the Army’s need to develop a novel wash durable, flame resistant, non-woven textile. This practical system will provide military uniforms with excellent flame resistant (FR) protection at a lower manufacturing cost without compromising performance such as durability, repellency, and vec ...

Megacities are rapidly becoming the epicenter of human activity. Their combination of dense terrains and highly interconnected systems requires a different skillset compared to those required for more conventional US military operations. Given the scale and complexity of megacities, real-world training is impractical and beyond the capabilities of the tools currently supporting Live Virtual Constr ...

Tactical Combat Casualty Care (TCCC) is essential for the Department of Defense during force-on-force engagements, but training is currently lacking. While traditional classroom instruction and high-fidelity simulation center training are important, they fail to provide practice in a larger exercise under field conditions in which the realities of combat impact medical treatment. Furthermore, thou ...

Tactical Combat Casualty Care (TC3) is the difference between life and death following injury on the battlefield. First responders, combat medics, and casualty evacuation medics perform vital TC3 roles, but are often overburdened by multiple casualties and overwhelmed by an excess of sensor data that can be difficult to interpret in stressful and chaotic environments. Additionally, injuries can be ...

BlueRISC proposes a fundamental software assurance model upon which an automated tool will be built for inferring as to exploitability as well as malicious nature of the software under investigation. The proposed model enables a passive characterization of software that is able to drive an active testing framework. This reduces false positive and false negative of vulnerable codes as well as packe ...

There have been many recent developments in the direct energy weapon space throughout the armed services, including the demonstration of the Navy’s Laser Weapons System (LaWS), the Army’s High Energy Laser Mobile Test Truck (HELMTT) and Mobile Expeditionary High Energy Laser (MEHEL) amongst others. Many of these systems (ex. LaWS) are based on a number of smaller fiber lasers spatially combine ...

Developing a safe and effective malaria vaccine remains the hope for reducing the spread and resurgence of the disease. In recent years, vaccine research has broadened with subunit protein, and DNA vaccines due to their inherent safety, simpler storage and easier production at the expense of attenuated and inactivated organism based approaches. RTS, S/AS01, the most advanced subunit vaccine, has u ...

TECHNICAL ABSTRACT: Recent advances in gas chromatographic (GC) and mass spectrometric (MS) techniques for atmospheric measurements have led to highly complex data sets that have overwhelmed the capabilities of current data analysis software. We propose a new method for the automated reduction of chromatographic data using peak-fitting algorithms. By relying upon constrained peak-fit parameterizat ...

TECHNICAL ABSTRACT: In this Phase II effort, PEMDAS Technologies and Innovations (PEMDAS), in collaboration with subcontractor Aerovel, Inc., proposes to fully develop a prototype Low-Altitude Maritime SurveySampling (LAMSS) System using the technologies identified and knowledge gained during our Phase I effort. The proposed innovation will deliver the necessary capabilities for electro-optical an ...

TECHNICAL ABSTRACT: We propose to continue the development of a generalized 3DVAR data assimilation module, in an open-source and non-proprietary programming language, which is compatible with FVCOM and incorporated into the Lake Erie Operational Forecast System (LEOFS). We will leverage our experience and expertise in using 3DVAR for a ROMS-based real-time forecast system for the California coast ...