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The advancements in body armor combined with better combat casualty care have greatly increased the survival rate of soldiers suffering battlefield trauma injuries. The increased survivability, however, has resulted in an increase of wounded warriors being sent home with severe injuries that ultimately reduce their quality of life post-treatment, especially those with severe damage to genitourinar ...

Current F-18 sustainment involves brush plating to repair corrosion damage both off- and on-aircraft. Current methods expose depot artisans to toxic chemicals, including Cd and hexavalent chromium, that drip, spill, and can be dragged around the plant. Dalic in France has developed a new design of non-drip brush plating equipment for general MRO aircraft repair. Corrdesa has developed computationa ...

Currently, deployed medics are required to transport, maintain and be resupplied with liquid-based medications and materials that are heavy, expensive to transport, perishable and may require refrigeration.Many medications and materials are or will be available in dehydrated formularies that require sterile water for injection (SWFI) to rehydrate for immediate use, such as freeze-dried platelets.I ...

The Marine Corps uses Portable Oxygen Generators (POGS) to produce on-demand medical-grade oxygen from air for expeditionary medical applications (patient ventilation, anesthesia, and to refill oxygen bottles). The POGS currently in use are bulky, heavy and can consume up to 1,800 W of electrical power, occasionally overloading the Forward Resuscitative Surgical Systems (FRSS) power generators.In ...

Current submarine air revitalization systems use liquid and/or solid amine-based carbon dioxide (CO2) removal technologies. These materials use amine chemistry to capture CO2 at room temperature and the material is regenerated using heat and vacuum to restore its original chemical state for use in subsequent cycles. The legacy hardware, using the liquid amines, is prone to scaling and other compli ...

TDA, working with our collaborators, proposes to develop a novel RF heating process for rewarming cryogenically preserved tissues and organs.We have demonstrated high heating rates with the nanoparticles during the Phase I project. In the Phase II project, we will improve our already high heating rate by optimizing the RF heating process, along with the type, size and morphology of the nanoparticl ...

Transferring hydrocarbon fuels and water from ship to shore is a common and vital expeditionary operation performed using long, reinforced hoses known as Amphibious Bulk Liquid Transfer System (ABLTS) hoses. ABLTS hoses float on water. By remaining exposed to the ambient environment without specific protection, the hoses can easily be damaged, whether by surface craft, sea motion, adverse weather ...

Future power systems on Navy ships require electrical power in the order of 20-80 MW, which currently cant be provided by conventional copper or aluminum power cables. Advanced Conductor Technologies LLC (ACT) has been developing high-temperature superconducting Conductor on Round Core (CORC) power transmission cables, rated at 10 kA per phase, for the Navy that form a potential solution in which ...

Hyperkalemia continues to be a concern when treating combat casualties. Current hemodialysis systems use a dialysate in a membrane contactor to replicate the function of the kidney by removing the toxins, excess fluid and the minerals. The dialysis machines used in hemodialysis centers are bulky. There are home dialysis machines that are smaller but not person portable and weighing about 70lbs.Sim ...

Heureka and Lockheed Martin propose multiple innovations to automate EIT between the AN/SQQ-89, AWS, and other C/S elements. One innovation addresses deficiencies with current automated V&V. For example, AWS testers still perform vast amounts of labor to interpret specifications and manually create test protocols. We propose to automate this laborious process. We have demonstrated how AI can conve ...