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Blood loss due to uncontrolled hemorrhage is a major contribution to at least 90% of the combat death before reaching the field hospital. The ability to control heavy bleeding in the injured soldier is critical and will vastly improve the survival outcome in the theater. Furthermore, complications from uncontrolled bleeding in the microvasculature contribute significantly to increased morbidity. ...

We propose to develop a space-ready instrument that can accurately measure the emissivities, absorptivities, and long term stabilities of several passive and active coatings or thermal structures simultaneously. This technique provides a direct measure of the heat flowing through the surface using heat flux sensors, so the performances of the thermal control materials mounted on these sensors are ...

Based on the success of developing high sensitivity laser vibrometers for landmine detections during the Phase I program, technologies are proposed for this Phase II research program to improve further the sensitivity and accuracy in locating buried landmines as well as increases in the efficiency and speed in scanning over the minefields of interest. Approaches to achieve these goals include the ...

Cermet, Inc in collaboration with Georgia Institute of Technology proposes to develop spin Light Emitting Diode (LED) in a 24 month Phase II program. The spin LED is a simple yet powerful spintronic device that produces circularly polarized light and is a potent tool to quantify the spin injection efficiency and spin polarization efficiency.

The goal of this program is to develop ZnO based light emitters fabricated on high quality ZnO bulk substrates. The work will focus on enhance doping of the active layers, target alloy concentrations and prototype emitter fabrication.

This Phase II research and development effort will build and demonstrate a prototype automated end-to-end sensor-to-weapon environment, within which user-specified rules of engagement will evolve from today’s manual targeting and weapon-target pairing processes to highly automated ‘kill chain’ operations, thereby enabling automated generation and delivery of precision targeting and ...

There is an urgent Army need for 2-D & 2½-D gunnery targets that produce high-fidelity thermal infrared images while remaining lightweight, low-cost and able to endure multiple hits without replacement. Falcon Systems Engineering Corporation has a solution in which the thermal features are an intrinsic, high-resolution, redundant, and robust part of the target. A modular, segmented target and ...

Genex Technologies, Inc. proposes in this SBIR Phase II effort to design, prototype, and test a novel low-cost, low-power, miniature, manually deployable image sensor network that we have dubbed “D-STUDS™ (Disposable Small Tactical Ubiquitous Detection Sensors™)”. D-STUDS will be able to provide both visible and near infrared (NIR) video surveillance for all day/night/weather operations. ...

The goal of this Phase II research is to synergistically combine the novel Electrical Resistance Change Method (ERCM), the guided wave inspection method, and the robust processing algorithms for nondestructive evaluation and inspection of composite structures. The ERCM has key advantages such as low cost, no strength reduction, the capability to detect and locate delaminations and cracks, no need ...

Metal Matrix Composites (MMCs) have excellent properties such as lightweight and resistance to temperature and wear. For the above advantages to materialize, the Silicon Carbide (SiC) in the MMC must be free of defects such as porosity and disbond between the aluminum and SiC layer. This is a very challenging task. In this Phase II research, Intelligent Automation, Inc. (IAI) together with its su ...