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From 2012-2015 the world’s first printed amperometric gas sensors were developed at KWJ Engineering Inc. as the subject of an NSF SBIR. The patented technology was used to found SPEC-sensor LLC and obtain commercial funds. More than one million sensors have been sold using SPEC’s patented designs, which led to the recent acquisition by Interlink Electronics, Inc. The next challenge is to grow ...

Over a decade ago, scientists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) invented a cold cathode electron field emitter with the potential to disrupt the state of the art for imaging and communications systems. NIST showed that these devices, comprising nanoporous silicon carbide structures of various hierarchical shapes, can emit electrons from their surfaces purely by applicati ...

An area significantly lacking in first responder situational awareness is accurate responder location within various types of building structures above ground and underground such as tunnels and basements where GPS coverage is unavailable. GPS alternatives that rely on pre-deployed infrastructure such as indoor WiFi or mobile wireless networks or require the deployment of uncrewed aerial vehicles ...

The ability of USAF/USSF  systems to successfully execute current and future missions is predicated on timely and exquisite situational awareness of the aerospace platform itself and its interactions with the environment. This foundational situational awa

Freedom Flight Works’ (FFW) Powered Parafoil Munitions Delivery System (PP-MDS) builds on the foundation of the Joint Precision Aerial Delivery System (JPADS) family of air-dropped, guided parachutes built for cargo delivery.  FFW is adding integrated pro

The Department of the Air Force (DAF) requires production-scale digital engineering software tools that enable the generation of synthetic data sets to training computer vision models in distributed interactive simulation environments, in order to provide

Firestorm is proposing a research and development effort to operationalize "xCell" – a mobile munitions manufacturing capability for loitering Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS), enabled by 3D printing and additive manufacturing. The goal of the project is to

Crowdbotics will further develop the DDR automated scoring mechanism that improves pilot proficiency and reduces post-flight reviews by at least 25 percent while offering strengths and weaknesses to reduce pilot deficiencies by at least 10 percent, and mo

The application of advances in Machine Learning and in particular Deep Learning (DL) to complex RF applications provides a great opportunity to advance DoD system capabilities. However, the black box nature of DL models requires additional advances in Exp

This demand for AI solutions is hardly a defense-only concern.  In fact, 80% of the commercial costs associated with AI/ML development are spent on humans labeling millions of individual data points just to get AI solutions up to speed.  Out of the overwh