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U.S. Coast Guard personnel monitoring radio transmissions of vessels at sea must be able to identify distress calls despite interference, degraded conditions, and the stressed speech of those in emergency situations. However, not all distress calls are genuine. Hoax calls can be intended as malicious pranks, due to intoxication, or to distract Coast Guard assets from other tasks such as drug inter ...

Using modern additive manufacturing technology, GTL proposes to develop a geometry based thermal management system to enable the development of a Morphing Rocket Throat. With this capability, rocket motors will be able to achieve the same type of throttling provided by pintle nozzles, but without the complexity and mass of a pintle. In the Phase I effort, GTL and UTK will develop a conceptual desi ...

eSpin Technologies will complete the scale up of a production-scale machine to produce novel, high performance battery separator material for Li primary batteries. The production scale process will be developed to produce novel separator and variants which have the potential for a significantly higher volumetric efficiency for electrolyte storage capacity and kinetics to distribute electrolyte flo ...

"SkyNano, Endeavor Composites, and The University of Tennessee Knoxville propose to develop a composite panel that contains CO2-derived carbon nanotubes (CNTs), recycled carbon fiber waste, and bio-derived natural fibers that exhibits excellent mechanical and functional properties, while maintaining a carbon-negative footprint on a cradle-to-gate and cradle-to-grave basis. By the end of the Phase ...

"SkyNano, Endeavor Composites, and The University of Tennessee Knoxville propose to develop a composite panel that contains CO2-derived carbon nanotubes (CNTs), recycled carbon fiber waste, and bio-derived natural fibers that exhibits excellent mechanical and functional properties, while maintaining a carbon-negative footprint on a cradle-to-gate and cradle-to-grave basis. By the end of the Phase ...

The electronics onboard a missile-defense interceptor must operate in a harsh environment and reach high temperatures due to aero-heating, self-heating, and/or proximity to a propulsion system. These high temperatures degrade electrical performance and weaken the ability to withstand mechanical and chemical stresses. Conventional silicon-based electronics fail above a certain temperature whereby r ...

The DoD has identified a need to develop radiation hardened electronic components capable of surviving and operating through exposure to radiation environments encountered in space. To protect these electronic components, systems typically employ a combination of methods for radiation protection. International FemtoScience (FemtoSci) proposes a practical solution to produce Inherently Radiation Ha ...

"SkyNano, Endeavor Composites, and The University of Tennessee Knoxville propose to develop a composite panel that contains CO2-derived carbon nanotubes (CNTs), recycled carbon fiber waste, and bio-derived natural fibers that exhibits excellent mechanical and functional properties, while maintaining a carbon-negative footprint on a cradle-to-gate and cradle-to-grave basis. By the end of the Phase ...

An opportunity exists to design and fabricate microelectronic components that are inherently radiation hardened and require no radiation protection methods. International FemtoScience (FemtoSci) proposes a practical solution to produce Inherently Radiation Hardened Microelectronic Components by employing diamond emitter vacuum device technology. These components have demonstrated that diamond emis ...

This project has a very focused goal of developing direct contact ultrasonic dryer modules that can be retrofitted in a roll to roll manufacturing drying process. The proposed technology can create new paradigms shift in industrial drying technology which directly addresses one of the key ARPA-E mission areas in “advancing non-evaporative dehydration and drying technologies.” Invented in 2015 ...