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Automated fiber placement (AFP) of thermoplastic (TP) composite jackets around large caliber gun barrels and railgun cores has enabled a dramatic increase in lethality while meeting aggressive maneuver requirements. Automated Dynamics has played a central role in the development of TP AFP technology and its use for this application. There is a continuing need to improve safety, temperature capab ...

Q fever, caused by the bacterium Coxiella burnetii, presents with acute symptoms indistinguishable from many other blood infections. Chronic infection, more frequently developing in immunocompromised individuals, presents a high mortality rate (up to 60% of chronic cases) and often requires open-heart surgery to repair substantial valve damage. Q fever can be airborne or tick-borne and is a signif ...

The rapid evaluation of drinking water toxicity in the field is a necessity for the safety of our soldiers. To achieve field portability and sensitive screening for identification of toxic industrial chemicals (TICs) a handheld device that is biologically-based and easy to use with components that remain viable for 6 months would be ideal. In Phase I, Agave BioSystems proposed to develop an accura ...

To meet the need of the Army in a semi-active laser seeker with increased field of regard for and narrow instantaneous field of view, Applied Science Innovations, Inc. proposes Phase II development of the Wide-Angle Optical System for Strap-down Seeker (WAOS3 ). Semi-active strap-down seekers in tactical weapons offer improved reliability, reduced weight, and lower cost. However, combining wide fi ...

The military, government, and commercial enterprises are all vulnerable to the crime of cyber attack. Digital forensics is the science of investigating digital devices, transmissions, and storage media to acquire and analyze evidence related to an incident or crime with the goal of providing solid information to assist decision makers in an organization, military, or legal context. The disciplin ...

The objective of this SBIR is to research the latest state of the art computer graphics technology and implement realistic, high-fidelity dynamic terrain in a visual simulation environment to improve the realism of the soldier-machine/terrain interface, thereby improving the reliability of modeling and simulation and enhancing the accuracy of the model''s predictions. Diamond Visionics has achieve ...

The MycoBond™ platform is an innovative material technology that converts industrial and agricultural byproducts into a high-performance, cost-competitive biocomposite. Positioned as a direct replacement for hydrocarbon-derived synthetics, such as expanded polystyrene, MycoBond™ materials literally are grown in 5 to 7 days. The vegetative growth of a filamentous fungus, mycelium, produces ex ...

ELI has recently produced ~16% AM0 efficiency flexible solar cells. We also developed over 25% AM0 efficiency thin film solar cell technology. As future demands are made for higher efficiency, improved Watt/weight, Watt/area, Watt/cost, it is clear that the current approaches should be improved to reflect new requirements. In order to achieve over 33+ efficiency flexible solar cells to meet next g ...

System reliability is a fundamental requirement for safety-critical weapons systems. A key challenge is identifying reliability problems early so that they can be fixed quickly and cheaply. Reliability problems are often integration problems: integration often reveals that flaws that seemed minor in isolated components but lead to serious system-wide reliability problems. The combination of static ...

A number of software defenses exist that frustrate attempts to examine or tamper with a protected application. However, if an attacker arrives before these defenses are initialized, then they can observe the defenses as they are setup, gaining great insight into how the protections can be subverted. There is a sort of “who came first” game played between the protected application and the attac ...