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This effort involves the unique layered, or material gradient, approach to the development of an all-composite cryogenic fuel tank suitable for the containment of liquid oxygen. New epoxy and urethane resins systems are developed for performing well in a high strain and cryogenic environment. The new matrix resins are combined with filament wound carbon fiber layers, woven fabrics, woven preforms ...

The objective of this effort is the design of a new TWT transmitter power supply incorporating a modern, elegant and innovative high efficiency/performance High Voltage Power Supply (HVPS) architecture and design. The baseline architecture and circuit de...

Exploitation of new chip-scale optical frequency comb sources demands improvements in MWIR/LWIR detector performance, including: High speed (5 GHz); high sensitivity (NEP < 1pW/Hz1/2); broad spectral response (Octave); and thermo-electric cooler (TEC) operating temperature. No existing detector meets these demanding performance parameters. Phase I successfully designed and demonstrated an octave s ...

Complete human anatomy avatars have a broad future role in advanced training environments, providing, for example, medically correct immersive experiences, performance-related physiological modeling studies, and in simulations for the purpose of designing protective armor. USARIEM have created individualized avatars as 3-D tetrahedral Finite Element (FE) meshes with full labeled anatomy, fitted to ...

Major advances in prosthetic devices and aggressive rehabilitation over recent years have enabled many warfighters experiencing amputation to regain functional mobility, and often return to full active duty. A critical step to ensuring that these prosthetic devices function seamlessly with the patient is the initial alignment process. This alignment process is often iterative and time consuming, a ...

The confluence of genetics, mobile computing, wearable sensors and computational physiology has started the revolution in personalized medicine with huge civilian and military prospects to promote health and reduce costs. The goal of this project is to develop and demonstrate a Warfighter Health Avatar (WHA): a framework and physiology based modeling tools of a warfighter body to enable assessment ...

Iron deficiency is one of the most common nutritional deficiencies in the United States. Left untreated, iron stores continue to deplete, resulting in iron deficiency anemia (IDA). Women undergoing basic military training are particularly susceptible to reduced and depleted iron stores. To-date, there are no point-of-care (POC) instruments for comprehensive, accurate determination of iron status. ...

Measuring and characterizing the post-intercept state of a missile intercept event is critical for determination of interceptor lethality and kill assessments (KA). A number of sensors (including radar and spectral and imaging sensors) have been used to characterize these events. FreEnt proposes an innovative approach to KA based on mathematical formalisms successfully employed in atomic and molec ...

We will research effective monitoring techniques and begin development of a network appliance that implements cyber monitoring and data collection, while protecting this service using Single Packet Authorization. This fusion of monitoring and proactive protection will provide effective protection for and monitoring of the systems in question. Approved for Public Release | 16-MDA-8917 (15 Novembe ...

The strategic planning and creation of test scenarios for the Missile Defense Agency (MDA) All Digital System Level Simulations and Hardware-in-the-Loop (HWIL) test events is a lengthy and arduous endeavor. In some respects the difficulties and time required are understandable. There are a large number of stakeholders with a wide variety of perspectives, objectives and priorities. However, while a ...