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Intelligent Optical Systems (IOS) has developed and demonstrated a prototype dazzler that utilizes an array of super-bright Light Emitting Diode (LED) clusters to produce disorientation and strong flashblindness with afterimages. In this project, IOS proposes to develop a significantly improved device that can operate at distances up to 50 feet at the maximum permissible eye-safe level. Two new in ...

The Department of Homeland Security is seeking innovative approaches and key technologies for securing inter-modal cargo, and for integrity monitoring with tracking capability at the level below that of the ISO container. This technology is to include a secure tamper-evident skin and active RFID with a secure information system, and the capability of arming and monitoring the system, with local co ...

The U.S. military and civil society both face the increasing prospect that enemies will employ horrific weapons to cause mass casualties. Any effective response to large-scale medical emergencies will hinge on the decision-making and teamwork of medical and emergency professionals, which in turn is tied to the quality of the training those professionals have received. However, beyond relatively ...

We propose to deliver a system prototype based on the Adaptive Storage Network (ASN) architecture developed in Phase 1 of the SBIR, in order to demonstrate that a fully-distributed self-organizing approach can meet the needs of scalable storage repositories for the NGA and other governmental and large-enterprise infrastructures. The goal of this project is to make data simply and transparently acc ...

The phase II objective is to develop and deliver an Ultra-Compact CO2 TEA laser for integration with field test breadboard sensors. The approach is based on the Phase I effort that showed the superiority of direct over coherent detection for compact sensors in terms of size, weight, detectivity, and risk; detailed designs incorporating novel features for the Ultra-Compact and Compact lasers with p ...

An innovative, optically-interrogated test instrument, based on broadband, non-intrusive, miniaturized electro-optic (EO), magneto-optic (MO), and electro-optic voltage (EOV) sensors, will be developed for evaluating the operation of, and the electromagne

Tex Tech Industries has developed a through thickness reinforced (3-D) hybrid ballistic fabric that has recently been introduced into the ballistic armor market. Phase I testing found that for 9mm and .22 FPS projectiles, the hybrid fabric was 9 to 13% be

Highly fluorinated, nanoscaled polymers were developed in a Phase I program (Contract No. W81XWH-04-C-0132) as an oxygen-carrying treatment for hemorrhagic shock in battlefield environments. These were highly soluble in water and buffered electrolyte solution (up to roughly 50% weight/volume) and were thermally stable up to 167 °C. Mixing the polymers with dilute canine blood significantly enhanc ...

There exists an opportunity to significantly reduce the drag produced by parachute suspension lines; a drag which can account for as much as 20-40% of the system’s total drag. We will continue to explore methods for such drag reduction which are both relatively simple and inexpensive to manufacture and for which little or no special handling characteristics or unusual or custom terminations are ...

The Phase II program will complete the development and demonstration of a portable, lightweight, self-contained solar/battery power system that can be carried by individual soldiers to power their electronics gear (radio, NOD, etc). Phase I demonstrated the system feasibility by combining Front Edge Technology (FET) high-specific-energy thin-film batteries and Spectrolab high-efficiency (31%) so ...