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PROJECTSUMMARY Title: AdvancedGrid-InteractiveLoadEfficiency(AGILE) PD: BarhamTanyaA Institution:CommunityEnergyLabsINC Policiesnationwidearetargetingrapidadoptionofgrid-integratedbuildingstrategiestime-varying electricitypricesbuildingelectrificationandresiliency.Butadvocatesworrythattop-down innovationleavessmallerandmorevulnerablecommunitiesbehind. Thisprojectbringsaffordable gridconnectivityto ...

PROJECT SUMMARYProject SummaryProposed study is in response to the USDA NIFA SBIR Phase II Topic Area 8.8 "Biofuels andBiobased Products." Formology specializes in the innovation manufacture commercializationand sale of specialty wood and natural fiber panels for architecture and design/build markets; andwould like to meet the demands of the architecture and design (A&D) industries forenvironmenta ...

Quality control tools for compound semiconductor operations are desired to provide cost and time savings. 8D Photonics (www.8Dphotonics.com) has been providing the infrared community with the capability to perform cryogenic wafer mapping of minority carrier lifetime and photoluminescence spectra since its inception in 2016. The 8D IR Pioneer wafer mapping system has already demonstrated cooling an ...

LATERAL.systems: Edge Based Indoor Farming Monitoring PlatformUSDA NIFA Phase II Proposal Project SummaryFood and the future of food production needs help. The mission of LATERAL.systems LLC(LATERAL) is to enable next generation farming by accelerating the intersection of promisingmodern technologies to advance sustainable and ethical production of food. A promisinginnovation for meeting increasin ...

Proposal seeks to build and test a Persistent wide field-of-view (FOV) infrared (IR) camera array for detecting and tracking dim objects. The optical design is based on the successful Tau PANDORA (visible) array systems, now in use for tracking low earth orbit (LEO) and geostationary earth orbit (GEO) satellites. In Phase I, propose to collect daytime shortwave IR (SWIR) imagery on satellites with ...

MZA is proposing to build on the Phase I work that leveraged both finite element modeling (FEM) and additive manufacturing (AM) to simultaneously reduce the size, weight and power (SWaP) and improve the jitter performance of optical mounts in directed energy (DE) systems. For Phase II, the design refinement strategy will be adapted to both mounts and structural assemblies in a quarter scale beam d ...

Project Summary (PS)/Abstract.Prior to the arrival of the COVID-19 pandemicconsolidation of food production and distribution has had significant negative economic andhealth-related impacts on rural America. As farms have consolidated and turned to technology toreplace human labor rural job opportunities have diminished. As smaller farms are taken over bylarge corporations with national/internation ...

Three Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) solutions for space-based applications were demonstrated feasible during the previous phase. IDEAS-TEK proposed to manufacture and test for space two of the solutions based on two different chipsets. The third solution will be demonstrated through a testing vehicle consisting of silicon prototype of a Radiation Hardened by Design (RHBD) ASIC Compute Unit (CU). ...

Forests across the Western U.S. are at a tipping point - overgrowth, a warming climate, drought, and insect infestations have ravaged tens of millions of acres of land, increasing the risk of wildfire and threatening water resources, air quality, communities, homes, and habitat. Forest restoration (the strategic removal of brush and shrubs and the selective thinning of trees to return forests to a ...

Airborne Wind Energy (AWE) is still a relatively new field but is growing quickly. There are approximately 13 other AWE companies worldwide that appear to have the technical competence and realistic understanding of business such that we view them as realistic competitors. As we have detailed above, eWind differentiates itself from them by focusing on following current FAA (or European) flight rul ...