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DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Influenza is characterized by recurrent annual epidemics and periodic major worldwide pandemics. Because of the high disease-related morbidity and mortality, direct and indirect socio-economic impacts of influenza are enormous. In the last 100 years, there have been 3 major influenza pandemics. It has been about thirty years since the last pandemic. A new pand ...

Microcosm, Inc. is proposing to complete the buildup of the suborbital rocket (SR-M) vehicle and launch this vehicle within twelve months of the authority to proceed. The suborbital rocket SR-M can carry up to a 2,400 pound payload. The SR-M offers considerable flexibility and performance while achieving low mission cost. Variations of the vehicle can be created to form the core of various mission ...

The Missile Defense Agency’s (MDA’s) THAAD system is capable of detecting and intercepting ballistic missile threats. Hypergolic fuels are used in these missiles for inducing spontaneous ignition. These fuels are toxic, and require monitoring of leakage. InnoSense LLC (ISL) has developed a prototype sensor following Lockheed Martin (LM) specifications. ISL sensors are designed to serve as a dr ...

Efficient structures requiring low-volume and low-mass have an important role in future military and commercial missions especially in theatre of space. These structures can increase the peformance of applications requiring large apertures such as space-based intelligence, surveillance, and reconnasissance systems. These structures can also be efficient as inflatable, deployable target simulator ...

The aerospace industry commonly uses cad-plated components in aircraft structures, engines, propellers and landing gear systems in both high and low strength steels. Components manufactured from these alloys require sacrificial protective coatings due to their corrosive environments. Cadmium has traditionally been the coating of choice for threaded components and fasteners due to its many desirabl ...

Hardware- and software-in-the-loop models offer an efficient and scalable approach for analysis of distributed C4ISR applications executing on heterogeneous networks. A virtual laboratory that integrates a physical test-bed with a much larger simulated network, can incorporate realistic physical effects while simultaneously scaling the analysis to much larger networks than are physically accessi ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Vical Inc. of San Diego, Ca. is the largest GMP manufacturer of plasmid DNA for vaccine clinical trials in the world. We have manufactured GMP plasmid DNA vaccines that are being used or entering clinical trials for HIV (in the US and China), malaria (up to 9 plasmids), Ebola, WNV, and SARS. Vical has undertaken an internal Product Development Program that focu ...

HyPerComp, a premiere developer of innovative and highly scalable computational environments for time-domain electromagnetics, proposes to develop, demonstrate and deliver the next generation TEMPUS (Time-Domain EM Parallel Unstructured Simulator)environment to perform cost-effective and routine X-band to 20 GHz computations for full-scale targets with general materials to provide highly accurate ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The goal of this study is to identify the genetic determinants of late-onset Alzheimer's disease (AD). The proposed study uses Perlegen Sciences' high-density oligonucleotide array-based genotyping platform to genotype over 1.5 million single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) across the genome in the context of a whole-genome association study of late-onset AD. ...

The goal of this project is to demonstrate a highly flexible space based CubeSat communications payload interoperating with are variety of ground systems.The primary objective is to demonstrate the versatility of space based software defined radio (SDR) technology with ground based software defined radio technology.The Vulcan Wireless has proposed a versatile CubeSat communications payload that ca ...