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Phase I of the research program determined that a practical, cost-effective corrosion inhibitor treatment can be used to control corrosion in catapult water brakes. The optimum inhibitor treatment appears to be a combination of two non-proprietary, relatively inexpensive chemicals – sodium nitrite and disodium 2,5-dimercapto-1,3,4-thiadiazole. At adequate concentrations, the nitrite-thiadiazole ...

Several geo-social inference concerns currently limit military stability and reconstruction operations: • Contact lists are not centrally coordinated, up to date, complete, or easily searchable • Vendor history is not maintained or combined with culture and safety information • Hand-off and coordination delays cause projects to span multiple troop cycles The proposed project answers the unde ...

The proposed project will create an innovative sensor system to augment an outer ring of defense used for queuing, classifying, and tracking go-fast boats, small and commercial craft, swimmers and divers that are a threat to harbors, anchorages, and other high value assets. The Littoral, Deployable, Modular Sensor (LDMS) system will be part of the Navy’s deployable capability in locations where ...

Malaria caused by Plasmodium falciparum results in serious illness and, if untreated, often leads to death. Although a number of candidate vaccines have progressed to clinical trials the efficacy rate of those vaccines was much lower than ideal. New methods for simultaneous presentation and immune stimulation of malarial antigens are needed in order to rapidly progress promising antigens into ef ...

In this Phase II SBIR project Daniel H. Wagner Associates will develop a full-scale prototype Decentralized and Autonomous Data Fusion Service (DADFS) for heterogeneous Unmanned Vehicles (UVs) that obtains contact/track data from real-world UVs and (1) creates a Common Operational Picture (COP) on each UV node using sensor data from all communicating UV nodes and any other available relevant addit ...

NanoGripTech LLC proposes to develop repeatable skin adhesives using technology inspired by the feet of geckos and insects. These adhesives will be integrated into full facemask respirators to reduce or replace head harness straps, which are currently used to hold the facemasks in place. Expected benefits are improved fit, resistance to shifting, improved sealing, and reduced discomfort and tiss ...

In this SBIR Phase II project, first, we will develop a ready-to-use unconventional spatially coherent, wavelength selectable, high average power, broadband visible-IR source by leveraging the very promising and encouraging proof-of-concept results achieved at the Phase I stage. Such kind of source is realized by employing (1) a tunable, 3-dimensional, nanoengineered, high IR transmittance and hig ...

In this Phase II SBIR project, Advanced Cooling Technologies, Inc. (ACT) and Northrop Grumman (NGC) will develop an advanced refrigeration system capable of cooling the Airborne Laser (ABL). The ABL presents some particularly difficult thermal management issues, including precise temperature control, rapid transients and high thermal loading. In the Phase I effort, an innovative compact heat excha ...

Despite excellent recent progress in path planning, current state-of-the-art planners are still incapable of operating robustly in environments that are both cluttered and highly dynamic. The challenge is two-fold. First, predicting the trajectories of dynamic obstacles (i.e., cars, humans, aircraft) is very noisy. As a result, to achieve robust execution, perception modules need to provide a rich ...

The goal of this SBIR Phase II proposal is to develop a web-based platform that (1) hosts a collection of micro games for cybersecurity awareness and training; (2) simplifies the development of micro games by maximizing re-use of functionality; (3) helps administrators manage and deploy micro games; and (4) helps analysts assess readiness through a suite of tools for analytics. In Phase I, we expl ...