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Advanced thick composites are increasingly used in components for defense applications as well as commercial structures. The proposed project will lead to the development and commercialization of a validated predictive capability based on the Peridynamic (PD) theory to enhance the performance of thick composite components under complex loading conditions while exposed to harsh environments. The pr ...

The broader impact/commercial potential of this Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II project is to address the need for alternative imaging technologies for women with mammographically dense breast tissue by significantly enhancing clinical breast ultrasound images. Mammography is the gold standard for breast cancer screening; however, both dense breast tissue and cancerous lesions a ...

This SBIR Phase II project studies the problem of how to engage students in STEM (Science Technology Engineering and Mathematics) education through game-based learning in a Virtual Robotics computer game. In the game, students design, assemble and train virtual walking robots to compete against their peer robots to secure a seat on a virtual mission to Mars. The project analyses the effects of com ...

This Phase II proposal is to develop a basic mobile gateway buoy acoustic communications USV relay into a more robust versatile multifunction all weather manned aircraft operable unmanned surface vehicle (USV). This program proposes to look at transition to use from Navy Aircraft with eventual NAVAIR Flight Certification and to focus on integrating key sensor systems to enhance open ocean operatio ...

The Phase I effort demonstrated our technology called FORM, Flexible Optical Ray Metrology. Our prototype system demonstrated that this technology achieves the precision and dynamic range needed for measuring conformal windows. The Phase I metrology system can now be refined to provide metrology of collaborators conformal windows. We expect this data to enable completion of the polishing of these ...

The broader impact/commercial potential of this Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II project are both technical and economic. The developed error-correction solutions will enable flash-memory-based devices to have higher capacities, higher reliability, and faster speeds at lower power while driving down the cost. This will have a major impact on mobile computing capabilities and ente ...

A multi-scale Lagrangian-Eulerian algorithm has been developed during Phase I to determine the vorticity confinement term for rotorcraft Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) computations. Similar to the Large Eddy Simulation approach, the present algorithm simulates the large scales in the flow field and models the unresolved small scales like the tip vortices in the computations. The large scales a ...

This Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II project addresses the development of a multifunctional solid-state nanolaminate composite, which may function as a structural material while storing energy in the form of a rechargeable super-capacitor. A unique production process is used, where liquid monomer and aluminum wire are introduced into a process chamber that converts them into a m ...

This Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II project is to address the high lethality of pancreatic cancer. Screening has begun with Phase IB funding, of natural products from the Sonoran Desert that have produced other promising drug candidates, testing effects on human pancreatic cancer cells. The objective of Phase II is to develop a drug candidate that alters expression of selected ...

This Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II project will demonstrate a new III-V nitride semiconductor alloy and bipolar transistor structure with the potential to enable ultra low power device operation in applications requiring both Radio Frequency (RF) and digital electronics. The problem to be solved is that for RF power amplifier increasing power efficiency has been a major issue ...