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The broader impact/commercial potential of this Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) Phase I project is a significant improvement in the accuracy of weather forecasts by increasing the refresh rate of sea wind measurements ten-fold. This forecast improvement will increase the economic competitiveness of the United States by improving efficiency in maritime, agriculture, and logistics industri ...

The broader impact /commercial potential of this Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) Phase I project is to derisk a new membrane manufacturing technology for biogas upgrading.Renewable natural gas (RNG) is attractive as a carbon neutral energy source as it is derived from organic wastes such as food waste, agricultural waste, and municipal biosolids. RNG is part of biogas and requires cost- ...

The broader impact/commercial potential of this Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) Phase I project seeks to make orbital maneuvers affordable for large and small CubeSat operators. The proposed technology seeks to supply the market with an affordable, “green”, reliable, and easy to integrate modular propulsion system. Minimal integration requirements will allow CubeSat operators to focu ...

Utilizing our current applications and data models supporting the MDS digital test planning and anlaysis ecosystem (currently deployed to MDA's EWS system), the nSI team will develop methods for artifact recommendations for system engineering data to aid MDS personnel in finding data relevant to their tasks. The team will extend our current data model (currently supporting the digital M&S) and tag ...

State spaces are enormous, the operation is real time, the outcomes are uncertain, the consequences of suboptimal actions are dire. The BMDS is a carefully crafted system with many moving parts. As with all complicated systems, there are many tradeoffs to make when operating them. In a world with finite resources, decisions on how to allocate interceptors during a raid could be the difference betw ...

Computational Materials Design offers a potential alternative to trial-and-error experimentation in the quest for improved materials. Under this paradigm materials design is driven by input requirements – the desired properties of the material – and result in the output of one or more potential material formulations that can provide the desired properties. The use of relationships between mate ...

A thruster jet emerging laterally from a missile surface into a hypersonic external crossflow produces a complex environment which poses a significant effect on the vehicle control. A good understanding of the phenomenon can be achieved only with highly accurate physics computations. Our innovation offers to greatly enhance prediction qualities in a high-performance framework. This effort will be ...

The broader impact of this Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) Phase I project is to improve shellfish production at scale and in an environmentally sustainable fashion, using oyster farming as a launching pad.Today, most oysters are farmed nearshore under ecological stress.This project advances the culturing of microalgae using internal waste streams and those from other food industries. Th ...

The broader impact/commercial potential of this Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) project is to minimize the number of hospital-associated infections which contribute to almost 100,000 deaths each year in the US at an annual cost exceeding $30 B. Reducing the surface-borne transmission of pathogens can limit the spread of pathogenic diseases, thus minimizing transmission from contaminated ...

This Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) Phase I project will develop a novel automated manner to drain abnormal accumulations of fluid in the abdominal body cavity. The proposed system seeks to progress visualization, sensor and algorithm technologies to semi-automate drainage procedures,standardizing delivery of care and reducing the required clinical resources (personnel and required hosp ...