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Standard in vitro lab tests can help elucidate a patient’s health and diagnose several possible medical conditions to be monitored. Cost, patient and lab time, and patient discomfort, mean that these tests are done infrequently, and are limited to suspected morbidities. The invasive nature of most tests (requiring blood draws, urine samples, etc.) limits what is measured, and how often. In the ...

The proposed project seeks to increase the reliability of cold spray additive manufacturing (AM). Cold spray technology has been developed into a large format (1 m x 1 m in x-y) commercial AM system (called WarpSPEE3D) by the Australian company SPEE3D. The Australian Army is currently testing the enclosed, modular AM system in the Australian “bush” as a field-ready AM system. Supply chain and ...

Satellite Imagery in Geospatial Intelligence (GEOINT), in conjunction with imagery intelligence (IMINT), geospatial information, and other means of gaining intelligence, has greatly improved the potential of the warfighter and decision makers enabling them to gain a more comprehensive perspective, an in-depth understanding, and a cross-functional awareness of the operational environment. The Artif ...

As the use of machine learning (ML) models proliferates in commercial and defense applications, the United States Army (Army) faces significant challenges in evaluating the effectiveness, robustness, and safety of these ML models in armament systems. For the Combat Capabilities Development Command (CCDC) Armaments Center, the decision to enable automated choices in these systems, which encompass l ...

Inspection is central to maintaining the quality of products both during manufacturing and in storage. Non-destructive inspection of the internals of a product often requires imaging of the product by particles with low interaction cross section, such as X-rays. In Computed Tomography (CT), the 3D image is reconstructed using measurements of transmission using a large number of angles (projections ...

Ever-increasing demands for power and energy have tethered military field personnel to long logistic tails that limit the ability to maneuver and make resupply convoys prime targets for attack.  The deployment of new power sources with greater efficiencies, increased energy densities, and reduced thermal and acoustic signatures will facilitate improvements to communications, weapons, and support ...

Triton Systems, Inc. along with our academic partner have reviewed the commercial and academic literature on chalcogenide glasses that have high transparency in the near infrared.  Based on this, as a team we have identified potential ChG compositional ranges that could meet the Navy's stringent requirements.  We will use prediction analysis based on prior work from our partner to predict likely ...

As the Army pivots to larger combat operations, the increased scale and complexity of multi-domain operations (MDO) has heightened the difficulty of synchronizing collection and operations across domains. Commanders conducting planning are limited by “human bandwidth,” which can degrade the quality of plans and desynchronize operations. Unfortunately, the policies learned from many current AI ...

A compact and portable SOFC, 1-3 kW, is an excellent choice to convert a hydrocarbon fuel source to electricity due to its high efficiency. Currently, SOFCs are optimized to run a single fuel source, and a fuel flexible reforming technique that can integrate with SOFC is needed to have the potential to utilize all different energy assets, including propane, methane, and biogas. Catalytic partial o ...

Tungsten (W) has been considered for warhead applications as it has a high density, potentially resulting increased lethality from small, low drag, high kinetic energy fragments at increased or predictable standoff distances.  Injection molding (IM) is considered to be the low-cost fabrication high production volume approach for production providing features that promote fragmentation without m ...