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The new Bottom Attach munitions for the Close Terrain-Shaping Obstacles (CTSO) program, currently under development by the Army, requires that reserve batteries operate 30 days after activation in a low power sleep mode, while providing multiple high-power pulses. This operational profile requires batteries with energy and power densities beyond the limits of the current liquid reserve batteries. ...

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 ...

The basic idea of a morphing aircraft wherein the vehicle changes its configuration to optimally perform in multiple flight segments holds the promise of achieving unprecedented levels of efficiency.  Morphing is most promising for small UAVs and taking inspiration from birds, we can exploit large shape changes, rapid inertia changes, articulation etc., to fly in congested urban and indoor spaces ...

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 ...

To achieve overmatch in C4I versus peer adversaries, Army intelligence analysts need support in detecting and classifying instances of adversary tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTP) execution across domains. Complex Event Processing (CEP) tools need improvement to meet this requirement, in order to detect entity behaviors and movements that may be observed by different sensors, or separated i ...

Digital sensor data received by infrared focal plane arrays (IRFPA) faces a readout bottleneck before exiting the cooled environment to room temperature processing. This is the very same bottleneck faced in other applications with harsh environments, such as quantum and classical supercomputing. Electrical links are lossy and bandwidth limited, and coaxial cables have a high thermal conductivity a ...

Metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) are crystalline porous materials formed by the coordination driven self-assembly of metal ions/metal clusters and organic linkers. MOFs are attractive materials due to their tunable pore, very high surface area (up to 7000 m2/g), diverse possibilities of functionalization of the framework structure and potential applications. In particular, MOFs have showed potentia ...

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 program will span the design, production, purification, and testing of a novel protein based food ingredient with >80% Essential Amino Acid content. A generally recognized as safe (GRAS) production organism will be used to enhance the safety of production and accelerate the timeline to GRAS approval of the protein feed. The resulting material will be incorporated into combat rations t ...