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Imperia Batteries, a division of Physical Sciences Inc., proposes to develop and prototype a modular, safe, high energy density Jetboot battery system by combining next generation electrode and separator technologies. The modular design will allow for a single or dual module battery pack providing a lightweight and high capacity battery solution, respectively. Imperia’s battery improves safety b ...

Critical need for a non-toxic, regenerative carbon dioxide (CO2) scrubber material with enhanced scrubbing capacities and safety for rebreather applications. The current state-of-the-art (SOA) scrubber material for rebreather is soda lime. Soda lime is highly toxic, has low CO2 capacity, and is non-regenerative requiring an entire logistics chain. Physical Sciences Inc. (PSI) is developing a novel ...

Hands/Off Tactical Mobile Intelligent Communications (HOT MIC) is an edge/deployed AI solution for voice command and control (VC2) of sUAS and other potential unmanned systems. Today’s SOCOM operator needs to easily enlist new capabilities to the fight such as small Unmanned Air Systems (sUAS) while reducing task saturation and keeping focus down range. An intuitive, robust, hands/free voice use ...

SI2 Technologies, Inc. (SI2) proposes to develop 3D-printed for spacecraft microelectronics. Leveraging SI2’s extensive additive manufacturing experience, SI2’s low-SWaP, low-cost shielding will be designed to protect both unmounted and board-mounted microelectronics. This approach will accommodate multiple types and sizes of semiconductor packages, including 484 ball Fine Pitch Ball Grid Arra ...

To engage a high value target in GPS/contested conditions over any significant distance, small Common Launch Tube (CLT) munitions must be able to navigate in the absence of GPS. This requires an alternate navigation solution that is able to constrain the drift of the micro/electro/mechanical system (MEMS) quality inertial measurement units (IMUs) in order to accurately navigate to the target area ...

Ocean ecosystems are critical to the regulation of Earth’s climate and biodiversity, while also hosting a range of direct and indirect benefits to people, from being a food source to recreation. Coastal ocean systems are dynamic regions especially rich in diverse biological and geochemical interactions. However, major gaps exist in our knowledge of the primary biogeochemical processes and the fa ...

There is a dire need for technology to rapidly and accurately detect and quantify Escherichia coli serotypes 0157:H7 and K12 and Vibrio parahaemolyticus and total fecal coliforms. In Phase I we developed a novel approach to Surface Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy (SERS) for detecting human pathogens in cultured bacteria, mixtures of organisms and in oyster tissue. Our approach uses a higher energy las ...

SI2 Technologies, Inc. (SI2) proposes building and testing a software configurable, wideband, open standard architecture, antenna distribution system that will allow USSOCOM to connect a series of RF receiver/transmitters that can be electronically assigned to any antenna connected to the system. SI2’s design will allow an operator to reconfigure an RF device then remotely connect the device to ...

Enemies use radar system to identify and target Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs). To prevent detection, the UAV should be able to reduce its RF signature by reducing its Radar Cross Section (RCS). Traditional Radar Absorbing Materials (RAM) are used to absorb radar's Electromagnetic energy to reduce an aircraft's RCS but this material can be thick, heavy, and have high material and maintenance cost ...

MORSE proposes Human-machine Ensembling for Track Entropy Exploitation, HEFTEE, a revolutionary, scalable, state-of-the-art machine learning-based system to automatically identify and combine the appropriate mix of sensors for an objective area. HEFTEE delivers de-duplicated, accurate, continuous tracks for unique entities, producing a clean and confident view of mission areas for SOCOM analysts. ...