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MYMIC, LLC and Eastern Virginia Medical School (EVMS) will address the need for Service member preventive medicine education with design FIT-Health, an updateable, multi-genre authoring system for micro-games for health risk awareness. These short and stimulating game-based lessons will build upon one another to leverage new and existing knowledge within a region-specific suite while giving the le ...

McQ designs and develops remote unattended sensor systems for DoD and other applications. As part of our on-going research into anti-tamper, information assurance (AT/IA) and reverse engineering techniques, we have developed a battery of processes that can help to insure that our systems are less vulnerable to attacks by an adversary. Many of these processes are extensible to the GIG-NCES at-lar ...

Current sonar systems have not taken advantage of technology advances which have made it possible for significant active sonar improvements in size, weight, power and cost. Our phase I effort identified several key technologies to increase the power density (i.e. increased performance in reduced volume / weight) and reduce the cost of key transmit components such as power supplies and amplifiers. ...

Under the Phase I project, we have developed a Polarimetric Imaging System (PIS), integrated it with the 3-D Flash Ladar (FL), and have demonstrated operation of the integrated device: a PLADAR (Polarimetric Ladar). Furthermore, we have performed a detailed study of the ability of the PLADAR system to see parts of a scene that are not visible under intensity-only imaging. We have also shown how ...

In time-critical situations, such as Air Force logistics support, ground combat operations, and others, military personnel urgently require the ability to access data which may be stored in large, remotely-hosted databases. Such large repositories, coupled with advances in Service Oriented Architectures (SOA) and other access mechanisms, provide a tremendous resource for users who are able to acc ...

TBDThere is interest in unmanned aircraft that can be deployed to a target via unconventional means and operate at high altitudes for extended periods. A key technology required for such an aircraft is a propulsion system capable of providing the required thrust while meeting stringent requirements. Due to method for deployment, the propulsion system is required to meet several additional requi ...

There is a current need for small heavy fuel engines that are light and reliable enough to be used in a variety of applications, such as UAV propulsion. The challenges for such an engine are in meeting the often stringent and competing requirements of high thermal efficiency and high power to weight ratio. Microturbines lack in thermal efficiency and small diesel engines lack in power to weight. ...

Combat aerial videos are invaluable for tactical military operations, but analyzing and retrieving videos can become a burden as the size of the archive increases. Automated techniques to represent, analyze, and query pertinent video content from vast archives are necessary. We break the problem down into three steps: video pre-processing, summarization at the coarse and finer levels, and visualiz ...

Changes in modern warfare have resulted in frequent and lengthy deployments for US military personnel. These changes necessitate the development of training alternatives to the costly and time consuming live training exercises. One alternative to live training is the use Virtual Environment (VE) based immersive training systems. Current VE based systems focus exclusively on incorporating the ps ...

A novel surface passivation technique is proposed for InAs/GaInSb-based strained layer superlattice focal plane arrays with a pitch of 15 µm or less. Buffered oxide and sulfur-based surface treatments prior to dielectric deposition are proposed as the most suitable and chemically stable surface treatments. Both processes result in the removal of elemental oxides, while the latter additionally pro ...