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This SBIR Phase I Project will productize a quantitative data processing technology in dynamic positron emission tomography (PET). Dynamic PET's distinction from its static counterpart is in the fact that it collects time-dependent tracer concentration data. It is a highly sensitive and accurate way of functional and molecular imaging of protein targets such as biomarkers of Alzheimer's disease, P ...

Zenith Aerospace is developing a Persistent Intelligence Surveillance and Reconnaissance (P-ISR) solution via its unique solar powered High Altitude Long Endurance (HALE) Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV). Running exclusively on solar power, the aerial vehicle is designed to fly at 60,000 feet AGL for 6 months without the need to land. The current solution is developed for monitoring illicit activitie ...

The broader impact/commercial potential of this Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) project is to create sustainable and biodegradable polyurethane products made from algae oils. Algae-based polymer precursors will be developed and used to produce finished polyurethane product with the desired physical characteristics. Development of polyurethane shoe soles will be targeted, including polyur ...

There has been little attention to the mission-critical defense applications of high-performance, high-reliability photonic integrated circuits (PICs) – an enabling disruptive technology that is making significant commercial progress. The PIC platform promises integration of many optical components in a small footprint system-in-a-package (SiP) – analogous to semiconductor Integrated ...

Augmented reality head mounted displays (HMDs) can provide meaningful increases in situational awareness, which can have a significant impact on safety and effectiveness for USAF personnel. Existing military HMDs/HUDs are extremely expensive and mostly are deployed in tactical aircraft. Commercial Augmented Reality (AR) displays are neither robust enough for aircraft use nor are they designed to b ...

DoD needs smarter technical security policy implementation, esp. for access control. However, technical security policies are increasingly unmanageable (esp. access control) because there are too many rules & configurations, too many changes to manage manually, across too many security features, devices, applications, layers etc. ObjectSecurity OpenPMF is a security policy automation “umbrel ...

This Phase I project investigates and develops technologies, algorithms, and software applications that allow for more robust intelligence analysis and mining for greater situational awareness. Analysis, Discovery, and Mining of Unstructured and Multilingual Information and Intelligence (ADAM) will allow for the efficient processing and mining of two of the greatest challenges facing intelligence ...

MATECH’s SiNC-1400X structural ceramic fiber product is composed of silicon nitride carbide. It is a high temperature capable ceramic fiber designed for ceramic matric composites (CMCs) with use temperatures of up to 1300C. Unlike conventional silicon carbide (SiC) ceramic fibers and SiC-matrix CMCs, SiNC-1400X fibers (and SiNC/SiNC CMCs) have unusually low and tailorable dielectric propert ...

A program to investigate the use of Surface Optics’ commercial real-time, full motion video spectral imagers (FMV-SI) for defense applications is proposed. The FMV-SI camera is a three dimensional (spatial-spatial-spectral), compact, solid state, video rate imaging system with no moving parts. The camera uses an innovative division of wavefront approach to capture spectral and/or polarimetr ...

Higher acquisition costs (i.e. cost escalations) and delayed deliveries in new aircraft procurements, e.g. F-35, have had serious downstream consequences for AF needs/priorities. DoD can afford to buy fewer aircraft which directly impacts adequate fleet readiness. Labor content in manufacturing the pervasive (over 60 miles in typical B-737) infrastructure of wire harnesses is reportedly the larges ...