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Our research is focused on EPA SBIR Topic 1A: Decentralized wastewater treatment (septic system) technologies for intentional non-potable reuse. LeapFrog research aims to provide innovative decentralized water treatment for non-potable reuse and capture onsite for single-family residence scale. Across the country, growing demand for high-quality water is met with long term challenges due to drough ...

Our product will incentivize source separation of construction and demolition waste by capturing true weights of recoverable products and adjusting disposal pricing based upon percentage of recyclability. This holistic inventory aggregation and management system will allow material recovery facilities (MRFs) to accurately evaluate inbound waste by weight and track recovered materials inventories. ...

Single-event burnout (SEB) and gate rupturenbsp;occur when high-energy ions strike SiC MOSFET devices in the OFF state. Heavy ion radiation caused irreversible damage (possibly owing to SEGR) at biases below 10% and catastrophic failure at biases below 40% of their nominal blocking voltage in commercial SiC power devices. Commercial SiC MOSFETs degrade fornbsp;latent gate leakage even at 50V drain ...

With the Artemis program, NASA currently plans to land the first woman and next man on the moon by 2025, using innovative technologies to explore more of the lunar surface than ever before. The need for oxygen extraction from lunar regolith has been identified by the STMD (Space Technology Mission Directorate). Successful oxygen extraction from the abundant regolith resources would enable extended ...

We intend on developing a hybrid microchip version of the MEDLI SSE that will meet the requirement of MIL-PRF-38534.NASA wishes to equip all future planetary missions with a MEDLI like EDL system. Many planetary missions do not have the funding or project timeline to fly an EDL sensor suite similar to the MEDLI and MEDLI2. We will develop a low cost Data Acquisition System that can survive the rig ...

Machine Learning (ML) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) have matured to the point where they are being used throughout many modern applications. nbsp;Explainable AI (XAI) ndash; AI in which humans can understand the decisions or predictions made by the AI system ndash; is becoming critical for many applications, including Air Traffic Management (ATM). In contrast, ML-enabled and AI-enabled systems ...

This effort combines speech analytics, Speed to Text (STT) translation software, and intent inference algorithms in order to assess aviation system safety.nbsp; Each of these components has a different perspective on spotting potential off-nominal and anomalous conditions, for instance, in the way people speak under stress and high workload, the mis-communications and mishearing of key words in a ...

Whether in industry, at home, or in the lab, most fluids handing operations and equipment would fail immediately when directly employed in the microgravity environments of orbiting or coast spacecraft. This is due to the innate assumption of gravity in nearly everything we do, make, and think. Thus, special engineering considerations must be made to account for the large length scale inertial-visc ...

A novel screen-accelerator grid pair is offered for ion thrusters for electric space propulsion. They will be flat and highly tensioned and fastened to ceramic frames. The frames provide extreme rigidity. The tensioning of the masks virtually eliminates relative movement of grid apertures, even at high vibration levels and large temperature excursions. This technology was proven in the manufacture ...

The solicitation request is for a structural and mechanical innovation, with a deliverable of an elevated Lunar Surface Solar Array design capable of delivering 50kW of power.We propose modifying and integrating Folditurersquo;s proprietary Pyramid Hinge Array design, with novel linear extension mechanisms, as a solution for a large scale re-deployable Lunar Surface Solar Array Structure - Sunflak ...