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Abstract Chemical exposure poses a threat to the safety and health of each of us, especially those who work in certain industries, such as petroleum extraction and refinery facilities, mining industry, and fertilizer factories. Various sensing technologies have been developed over the past decades to address the need, but a low cost and accurate personal exposure device that can track multiple che ...

The Navy wants the capability of firing over twenty missiles with Mark 72 boosters compared to about a dozen today, which will require a different ablative material than what is currently used. A solution to this problem is needed to get ahead of the curve for the future fleet operations. There is an opportunity to develop new ablative materials for the Mark 41 Vertical Launch System (VLS) with th ...

Animal-borne electronic instruments (tags) are critical tools for monitoring the behavior and ecology of cetaceans, providing data needed for managing their populations and mitigating the threats they face. Although remote-deployment of tags onto cetaceans that cannot be captured has provided valuable data, attachment durations have been frustratingly short and variable. Our Phase II goal is to de ...

The purpose of the proposed project is to produce a commercial abrasive blasting nozzle which is more efficient and quieter than a typical commercially-available nozzle. The nozzle will decrease labor hours needed for blasting processes in shipbuilding, decrease workers compensation claims due to hearing loss, and relieve environmental noise restrictions on blasting at shipyards. All of this will ...

The proposed effort aims to develop technologies to improve the acoustics performance of abrasive blasting nozzles for paint and surface coatings removal. The objective is to investigate the noise generation mechanisms of abrasive blasting operations and develop a quiet, effective and efficient nozzle. This development is to optimize the acoustics and productivity performance of blasting nozzles a ...

The demand for 3D LADAR imaging is growing both in the DoD and commercial sectors. However, exploitation processes and tools have lagged advances in LADAR technologies. In a prior Phase II SBIR effort, 361 Interactive leveraged a Cognitive Systems Engineering approach to develop a LADAR analysis tool that was implemented as a Quick Terrain Modeler plug-in. The tool consisted of automated feature e ...

Project Summary/AbstractNeurological and psychiatric disorders, including drug abuse and addiction, exert a devastating personal and economic toll on patients, families, caregivers, and society. This is in part due to our failure in developing effective medications, which in turn is due to the use of drug discovery platforms that are often not relevant to target diseases. The recent development of ...

Abstract Biophysical properties can be computer-modeled using quantum mechanics (QM). While vastly more computationally costly than molecular mechanics (MM), QM methods are essential for bond-breaking and/or high accuracy. Indeed, QM methods have advanced with exciting, (and ongoing) improvements in the accuracy of density functional theory (DFT). These DFT improvements could open new applications ...

To automatically compute accurate three-dimensional (3D) models from sequences of two-dimensional (2D) handheld images or video, Stellar Science proposes to develop, demonstrate, and evaluate the MOCHI (Models Computed from Handheld Imagery) system. While MOCHI will leverage open source and prior structure from motion (SFM) components developed for the Navy and Air Force to estimate an initial mod ...

Army defense technologies for high speed threat intercept increasingly rely on vehicle maneuverability through both aerodynamic and thrust augmentation. Similarly, threats have relied on equally maneuvering defenses to avoid intercept. Thus, it is in the interest of any defense system to target the threat at any point in the battlespace where it is most vulnerable, potentially resulting in interce ...