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"R3 Logic, Incorporated proposes to develop a high-resolution, 12M-pixel 1000 frame / s imager to meet the Army's digital imaging needs for weapons test and evaluation. Through this program, R3 Logic will not only build and demonstrate a high-resolutionimager, but will formulate a new methodology for commercially viable fabrication of large-format focal plane arrays. Large focal plane digital imag ...

There is a large effort in both the military and civilian medical communities to change from paper medical records to Electronic Medical Records (EMR). Currently, only about 3% of civilian physicians are using an EMR system. The DoD's medical facilitiesmust operate over a much larger spectrum of scenarios than those of its civilian counterparts. These encompass all the civilian cases, such as prim ...

"Cadmium zinc telluride is the room temperature detector of choice for non-destructive imaging applications. Monolithic CZT arrays with high count-rate capability (>1e+6 cps/pixel) are required for ultra-fast hyperspectral x-ray imaging. Presently, theyield of CZT detector arrays that can perform hyperspectral imaging (in milliseconds) is low. Most monolithic arrays suffer from "polarization" w ...

"Storage blood bags become vulnerable when defrosted. The U.S. Army has reported many instances of significant loss of blood products from storage bag breakage. Freeze-dried blood products provide an alternative to cryopreservation. The lyophilization ofplatelets and red blood cells on the laboratory level has recently been demonstrated. Industrial scale preservation of the products, preferabl ...

"The growing digitization of the battlefield gives the intelligence analyst a unique opportunity to access large amounts of information collected over time across a variety of sensors to achieve an unparalleled level of situation awareness. However, beforeusing this array of dynamically changing information, the data must be correlated and fused, and, most of all, managed in a truth maintenance sy ...

"We propose a Phase II program to develop and demonstrate an Information Operations Decision Aiding (IODA) prototype, for PSYOP/IO analysts operating in data-sparse SASO environments. IODA accomplishes this by leveraging cultural knowledge when little isknown about the individual decision maker. The approach: 1) identifies any known target information, with a focus on group affiliations; 2) fills ...

"The Army's statutory mandate to assess survivability in new or modified combat platforms requires rapidly and accurately recording simultaneous concentrations of some seventeen combustion or pyrolysis-related chemical compounds inside the platform's crewcompartment. Because data must be collected during live exercises while the platform both delivers and receives fire, the instrument making the ...

"We propose to develop a Scene Estimation & Situational Awareness Mapping Engine (SESAME) enabling mobile robots to autonomously build multi-resolution volumetric models of semi-structured scenes, such as parking lots and city streets. Our model generationalgorithm is suited for both single-camera and stereo setups, enabling 3-D sensing of the environment all around the robot using only a few low- ...

"The overall goal of the proposed program is to provide military personnel with a hand-held analyzer capable of detecting chemical and biological agents, as well as toxic industrial chemicals. This will be accomplished through the use of a newnanocomposite material (metal-doped sol-gel) that enhances analyte specific Raman signals sufficiently to allow identifying and quantifying agents at releva ...

"Carbon nanotubes have enormous potential for applications in composites, batteries, and nanostructured devices. However, these applications will not become feasible until the material is produced in kilogram per day quantities. Compounding the problem isthe material's high cost, presently $500/g. Apart from the simple supply and demand economics, the cost is driven by three factors: expensive ...