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The objective of the effort is to develop and demonstrate a persistent surveillance and early threat detection and warning system for hostile perimeters around sensitive or high value establishments. The persistent surveillance capability is in the form of a small unmanned air vehicle (UAV) which patrols a predetermined perimeter around the facility. Classification of the threat will be made by ...

The detection of objects underwater remains a difficult task. For many applications particularly marine defense operations, it is desirable to be able to identify the position of objects such as mines (buried and below the surface of the water) as well as to being able to discriminate between a rock and a mine. For many homeland security operations it is desirable to be able to monitor the movemen ...

This program aims to develop a novel composite PEM for multifunctional power generating structures. The innovation in the present effort is to take advantage of our capability and make use of the superior mechanical properties of the nanomaterial-based reinforcements including large aspect ratios, high tensile strength, and low density, which may result in significant increase in the tensile modu ...

Controlling stray light in ballistic missile defense (BMD) sensors is essential to target detection, discrimination and acquisition. The most effective way to control stray light is to move or block the offending stray light source, in the hostile environment of missile defense this is not an option. The enemy dictates the stray light environment. Defense sensors must contend with the sun, the ...

The economical fabrication of hemispherical missile domes is a key driver for the Joint Common Missile program. An essential, and unsolved, part of the fabrication process is the fast and accurate measurement of the transmitted-wavefront error of the hemispherical dome over its full aperture. In the proposal we describe the development of a prototype interferometer for solving this measurement p ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The broad, long term objective of this application is to overcome optical design, ergonomic and cosmetic obstacles standing in the way of innovative ophthalmic lens designs for low vision enhancement, particularly field expansion for Homonymous Hemianopsia. Phase I resulted in the manufacture of the EP-Horizontal expanding the visual field of hemianopes by 20 d ...

There is currently a need for long duration high altitude platforms for various surveillance applications. High Altitude Airships (HAA) can fill this need for a persistent, long-term surveillance capability but currently available materials are not strong and light enough for a practical HAA. The deployment of High Altitude Airships require the development of new materials with very high strength ...

Wind power has the potential of supplying a significant percentage of the United States electrical demand at low cost. However, costs of transportation, erection, and repair must be reduced before these systems are competitive with current technology. The large size of multi megawatt turbine components makes transportation from manufacturing facilities to wind sites problematic. Once on site, t ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Current technology for HLA typing does not have rapid field response capability because it too expensive and is too complicated to be implemented in the context of a population-scale emergency. The ultimate goal of this proposal is to develop a simple, accurate, low cost method to perform complex HLA typing through development of an "HLA Chip" which will enable ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): In GW Medical Technologies' Phase I effort, the company demonstrated the LymProTM (lymphocyte proliferation) Test's feasibility as a blood test for Alzheimer's disease. However, much work still needs to be done to fully prove the LymPro's capabilities and define its limitation before the Test can be useful in a clinical environment. In this proposed effort, GW ...