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Chemical and biological (CB) warfare agents are a serious threat to our soldiers and national security. Different warfare agents and microbes may be delivered using solids (powders, particulates, ice crystals), hydrosols (air borne liquid droplets), or aerosols (air-born particulates). Solids, hydrosols, or aerosols can penetrate, accumulate, and transport through both porous and non-porous surfac ...

Vitrification, cryopreserved storage in a “glassy” rather than crystalline phase, is an important enabling approach for tissue banking and regenerative medicine, offering the ability to store and transport cells, tissues and organs for a variety of biomedical uses without the risks of damaging ice formation. Unfortunately, practical application of vitrification has been limited to reproductive ...

ABSTRACT: It is our intent to demonstrate the effectiveness of a single pass, multiple stage, fuel purification system for JP-8 recovery and reclamation. The system shall be self contained and self sustainable for rapid deployment in response to a release of JP-8 to a containment system, and shall be designed to address fuel contamination by particulate matter, water and firefighting agents, provi ...

ABSTRACT: A new class of hydraulic cement and concrete materials will be developed with desired fresh mix rheology and set time to expedite placement of concrete pavements using common practices, and with favorable hydration kinetics to enable opening of pavement to heavy traffic within one hour after placement. The new materials also provide desired economics, sustainability, heat of hydration, f ...

ABSTRACT: In response to Air Force SBIR topic # AF161-102, Signature Research, Inc. proposes to develop a low-risk technically sound approach to providing a High Fidelity Algorithm to Model the Statistical Variations of Ground Target Signatures. The specific goals of our Phase I proposal include three major efforts. First, we will characterize the multi-spectral signature variability observed in e ...

ABSTRACT: Metallic high pressure compressor (HPC) blades are a critical component in all jet engines and can incur erosional and impact damage during normal operations. During an engine maintenance, repair, and overhaul (MRO) cycle, these blades are routinely removed from the engine, cleaned, inspected, and either repaired or replaced based on the type of damage and the repair capability available ...

ABSTRACT: The Rotosonde, A low SWAP coaxial UAS system, is proposed to fill the existing need in meteorological data collection in the lower 15,000 of the atmosphere.Current profiling systems are bulky, slow, and not re-usable.The proposed system is highly portable, fast, and recoverable/re-usable while providing a means to gather measurements of pressure, temperature, humidity, wind speed, and wi ...

waveguides, the integration density will increase by five times compared to 2D photonic crystal waveguide based approach, and a time delay > 1

We propose a second Phase II project to perform key evaluation and application development tasks needed to transition terahertz in-process specialty coating cure monitoring systems to F-35 manufacturing.In the first Phase II effort, two Class I Div. 1 ...

As a result of establishing the feasibility of making real-time, radio-frequency, transient electric- and magnetic-field measurements with probes and interconnections that do not interfere with the near-field patterns of antennas, a cost-effective sensor array will be produced, demonstrated, and delivered. The proposed three-stage program will first address the enhancement of the frequency respons ...