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Terrorists can employ small water craft, boats, submersibles and swimmers to detonate explosives along side ships, or attach devices to the hull above or below the waterline. Ship defense against “asymmetrical threat” targets such as multiple small boats in the complex littoral environment are made difficult by the limited capability of shipboard sensors to detect these targets among waves, a ...

A definitive experimental study of photoemissive materials and cathode design and fabrication for RF electron injectors is proposed that will result in a recommended cathode approach for next step Navy FEL devices at the end of the program. The University of Maryland (UMD) and Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL) are collaborating with Advanced Energy Systems (AES) on this project. As an FFRDC, ...

Embedded systems are commonly deployed in applications where reliability is critical to operations. More recently the interest in sensor networks has added a requirement for remote access, often over openly accessible or penetrable networks. This creates a need for a defensible embedded platform whose robustness is preserved in the face of external influences ranging from nuisance disruption to ac ...

AMBP Tech in collaboration with the ESI of SUNY UB has demonstrated the improvement of surface flashover on dielectrics by a factor of 2x utilizing laser processing techniques. Based on our extensive experimentation and characterization in Phase I we have developed a working hypothesis that unites the debating theories of surface flashover propagation and a path to increasing the surface flashove ...

This project will focus on fabricating and optimizing a photodetector that utilizes the emerging technology of internal discrete amplification to create photon-counting sensitivity detectors with very high gain, ultra low noise, high quantum efficiency and GHz bandwidth for optical communications in the spectral range of 1.06 ?m to 1.6 ?m. Extensive modeling during Phase I of this project has pe ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Pulmonary Fibrosis is a diffuse interstitial lung disease characterized by chronic inflammation and progressive fibrosis of unknown etiology. Pulmonary fibrosis affects five million people worldwide and in the United States there are over 200,000 patients with pulmonary fibrosis. Of these more than 40,000 expire annually. Typically, patients are in their fortie ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Left untreated, myocardial ischemia can lead to cardiomyocyte death and pump failure. In fact, myocardial infarction is a significant cause of morbidity and mortality in the U.S. Recent evidence suggests that scatter factor / hepatocyte growth factor, exerts direct protective effects on cardiac myocytes and can potentially be used for salvage of the ischemic my ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Renal transplantation is the most effective and cost-efficient treatment for patients in end-stage kidney failure. However ischemia-reperfusion injury, associated with the retrieval, storage and transplantation of kidneys is a major immune-independent factor adversely affecting early graft function and graft viability. Marginal donors kidneys, are even more sus ...

As the important role of NASA "missions to earth" has been clearly demonstrated in recent years, the need for radar antenna systems that have large fields of coverage has gained increased emphasis. In order to achieve the desired performance from space, the antenna systems must have surface areas that are hundreds of square meters in size. However, to make it affordable to deploy such large-area a ...

The Principle of Least Privilege says that programs should operate with sufficient privilege to get the job done, but no more, in order to minimize the harm that can be done in case of error. The Empirical Privilege Profiler system (EPP) will collect data about privileges actually exercised by running programs and use that data to create a composite abstract privilege profile for the program. Pr ...