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This Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II project aims to develop and validate a novel chloroplast transformation vector for protein expression in chloroplasts. The research project will broaden scientific understanding of the parameters of chloroplast transformation by addressing stoichiometric expression of multiple transgenes for effective engineering of pathways such as carotenog ...

Plant chloroplasts are capable of producing significant quantities of high quality bioengineered proteins with biomedical applications. Improving the commercial supply of diagnostic antigens and vaccines through use of our pliable expression platform will provide an important technological advance compared with the current mammalian and microbial cell culture platforms. Our innovative approach c ...

The Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II project will develop a novel high-resolution instrument capable of penetrating and imaging live cells down to the 50 nm resolution level. This can provide further insights into the molecular makeup of cells and may open new avenues toward the understanding of cellular processes and their modification at a physically visible level as a result o ...

This Phase II proposal presents the design and development approach for a distributed Doppler-radar network system for sense-through-the-wall intelligence collection. Phase I research successfully demonstrated the proof of concept and yielded a viable path of development that will culminate in the delivery of a working prototype system that is covert, robust, and capable of detecting multiple sta ...

In response to Army topic A052-080-1968, Oceanit Laboratories has proposed the Hostile Fire Detection System (HFDS), which will detect attacks from close range weapons and locate enemy combatants. HFDS is based on Oceanit’s patented MOST focal plane. It utilizes a time-intensity identification technique that rapidly detects weapons fire and rejects false signals such as sun glint. HFDS is config ...

The current project will develop and demonstrate a prototype compact, power-efficient all-fiber lidar unit for wind profiling on board UAV's and other aircraft. The system leverages Oceanit's current fiber-laser based lidar development efforts. A unique design provides a rugged system with no moving parts and little maintenance requirements. Efforts in the current project will include prototype s ...

Technical Research Associates, Inc. proposes to develop Visualization Software for Multi- and Hyperspectral Imagery Exploitation. This Hyperspectral Visualization Environment (HVE) software will provide insight into hyperspectral and multi-spectral sensor data with maximum efficiency, by functioning at multiple levels allowing analyses ranging from broad review of large quantities of data to very ...

Gravity-induced loss of consciousness (GLOC) and almost loss of consciousness (ALOC) continue to be significant problems in high-speed flight, often causing loss of aircraft and aircrew personnel. Archinoetics, LLC (Archinoetics) and Athena ISG/GTXtreme, Inc. (Athena) completed separate SBIR Phase I efforts for this topic area. Athena focused on EEG sensing and Archinoetics on NIRS. Phase I resu ...

The movement of the U.S. military towards coalition and multinational operations has highlighted a need for information and systems interoperability. Information and decision superiority on the battlefield is increasingly recognized as a main factor in the difference between success and failure. This Phase II effort will develop a JTLM to C2IEDM interface to facilitate the flow of targeting inform ...