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The objectives of this proposal are to develop an animal surrogate finite element (FE) model and environment that can be used as a tool to investigate injury mechanisms and mitigation of traumatic brain injury (TBI) due to blast overpressure. A rat head model with a high degree of anatomical detail will be refined for used within an FE blast environment. To avoid the use of unnecessarily costly ...

Band XI International, with a very strong background in delivering OSGi Service Oriented Bundle Architecture solutions for embedded military applications will extend those efforts to distribute services across multiple platforms that are connected through mobile ad hoc networks. Beginning with the baseline service oriented applications previously developed for CBRNE sensor synthesis and condition ...

This project will demonstrate the feasibility of using an array of wireless, passive, microwave acoustic sensors and accompanying interrogator system to monitor temperature and pressure in harsh environments encountered within a turboshaft rotorcraft engine. The proposed sensor technology is based on langasite piezoelectric crystals and stable nanostructured thin film electrodes, and will enable ...

EMAG Technologies’ Phase I SBIR proposal addresses the United States Army’s need for a mobile tracking system capable of providing real-time Time Space Position Information (TSPI) for small missiles, rockets, aircraft, and unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVS) for use on test ranges across the country. Our proposed system overcomes the limitations faced by current radar systems used to track low-fl ...

Mobile military operations often require the use of generators for power. The loss of power due to a generator failure can compromise survivability. A military vehicle offers an option to quickly restore power, but misuse by demanding too much power by can destroy the vehicle’s power system, possibly worsening an already bad situation. Use of several military vehicles together would spread th ...

A major problem faced by our warfighters utilizing a Micro Air Vehicle is its limited capability to sense combatants under non-optimal environmental conditions. The other issue is that once a combatant is identified the warfighter must personally engage the combatant exposing the warfighter to enemy fighter. The main obstacle of providing a full sensor payload package on a MAV is that the entir ...

The Army uses JP-8 fuel for both its tactical and non-tactical, diesel powered vehicles. Some of the commercial engines used by the Army employ high pressure, common rail fuel injection systems to lower exhaust emissions, especially particulates. Modern common rail injection systems produce pressures of 1500 to 2200 bar. These systems are designed to run on ultra-low sulfur diesel fuel that contai ...

Based on a piston-assisted shock tube, this proposed program is aimed to establish a controllable (for safety) and repeatable (for standard testing) laboratory based blast testing facility and to formulate standard blast testing procedures for lightweight armor materials. The ultimate goals of this program are (1) to establish a laboratory based blast testing technique and standard testing procedu ...

Teleoperating a ground robot is very difficult. Humans leverage substantial proprioceptive cues to estimate safe travel speeds and compensate for motion jitter in their visual cortex. To address this problem, MIC proposes develop a semi-autonomy system able to lead or follow the operator. The system will support long-distance scene understanding use a single color camera, beyond the range of tra ...

Fixed and rotary winged aircraft require directed infrared counter-measures (DIRCM) systems to self-protect against heat seeking missiles, and the multi-spectral light source used in DIRCM is a key enabling technology and differentiator. A super-continuum (SC) laser is an attractive candidate for the DIRCM light source, but to be efficacious the SC must be capable of being modulated with jamming ...