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Many first responder organizations at various levels, including federal, state and local, as well as non-profit agencies each have different methods of identifying first responders on scene during an incident. The lack of an interoperable and standardized credentialing solution for first responders results in more challenges with communication and coordinated access to information on identificatio ...

Tiami LLC, a socially and economically disadvantaged small business located in a HUBZone, aims to develop a first-of-its-kind reduced-order modeling solution for data communications networks. We will develop a discrete-time linear time-invariant (LTI) state-space model for a general communications network. We will then apply projection methods such as proper orthogonal decomposition (POD) and bala ...

This project supports the ARPA-E Mission Area of “improving management, clean-up and disposal of radioactive waste and spent nuclear fuel”. A series of tests and demonstrations for deep borehole disposal canisters at the Deep Borehole Demonstration Center in Cameron, Texas - coupled with development of a US supply chain and global tech-to-market partnerships - will mature the canister to Techn ...

This combined phase SBIR I,II,IIS proposal seeks to develop and demonstrate high power lithium battery cells having up to 330 Wh-kg specific energy with capability to fast charge using a novel Liquefied Gas Electrolyte (LiGas) technology. The LiGas electrolyte uses safe and non-toxic, non-corrosive gasses which are liquefied under moderate pressures and are easily contained in standard cylindrical ...

We propose to develop and commercialize a potassium-ion battery for use in electric vehicles (EVs). The fundamental properties of potassium transport in organic electrolytes allow for fast charging from 0 to 80% capacity in less than 5 minutes. The battery will pair a stable, open-framework cathode based on a Prussian blue analog (PBA) with a conventional graphite anode for a high-performance batt ...

The TARgeting Distributed Sensors for Situational Surveillance (TARDIS3) program will study the feasibility of sensor-leakage techniques to enable explosive event detection without relying on friendly human or technological assets. Specifically, we propose placing targeted advertisements through public marketplaces that request and surreptitiously exfiltrate the sensor data needed to detect and lo ...

The goal of the proposed DTRA Phase I program is to develop a set a diagnostic tool to capture the evolution of aerosols and particulates ejected from liquid-filled containers impacted by fragments and shock waves in a detonation environment. Since these involve CWMD scenarios, the need is for optical diagnostics that are capable of providing accurate measurements at large standoff distances. Furt ...

This work aims to push the commercialization of perovskite crystals in a direction that is useful to the warfighter.  H3D will rely on Actinia, a startup company that is bringing the perovskite inventions from Northwestern to market to provide samples of perovskite.  Actinia will grow the crystals and fabricate the contacts and H3D will do final assembly and testing of the detectors.  H3D will ...

The cybersecurity tool landscape is rapidly expanding and becoming more complex. It is becoming increasingly difficult for organizations to effectively manage all of the cybersecurity tools they utilize. This is due to the growing complexity of network environments, increasingly advanced and frequent attacks, an abundance of information being ingested from cybersecurity tools, and the demand for b ...

Spectral Labs Geiger-Müller Tube Replacement (GMTR) concept will exploit small. low-cost scintillators for a gross gamma counting sensor.  Since GMTR will require less production processing steps compared to GMTs, GMTR devices will be cost competitive to equivalent sensitivity compensated GMTs in full scale production.  The small crystal sizes projected will result in partial deposition of phot ...