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The broader impact of this Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II project includes enhancing US economic competitiveness, improving the health and welfare of the American public, and developing the US technical workforce. The success of this project will have a direct impact on the manufacturers, integrators, and operators of battery-powered assets. Empowering battery engineering teams ...

The broader impact/commercial potential of this Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I project is to develop a core enabling technology for lunar in situ resource utilization: the ability to sort “Moon dirt” (lunar regolith) by particle size. Size sorting is an important capability for nearly all in situ resource utilization activities that use lunar regolith as a feedstock material ...

The broader impact/commercial potential of this Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II project is to create a rocket engine manufacturing business that would supply off-the-shelf, inexpensive, and reusable engines for current and future civilian and military rocket builders that want to launch small payloads to space.There are currently only two established companies that offer large e ...

The broader impact/commercial potential of this Phase I Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) project is to develop a small plasma confinement device called an orbitron, which could have applications to allow low cost, highly mobile fusion sources. Markets with the largest opportunity to benefit from small, carbon-free, micro-fusion reactors are the “hard-to-decarbonize” industries like lo ...

The broader impact/commercial potential of this Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I project is a novel chatbot that provides support to endometriosis patients. Endometriosis is a debilitating chronic pain disorder that impacts approximately one in ten women in the United States -resulting in significant loss of productivity, low quality of life, and greater than $80 billion annual ec ...

The broader impact/commercial potential of this Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I project is to produce better alternatives to cancer treatment.The new solution will take advantage of the body’s natural anticancer defense system, an immune cell called a natural killer cell or NK cell. NK cells are able to recognize almost any cancerous cell in the body and can target both solid t ...

The broader impact/commercial potential of this Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II project will enable research and development on simulated moon surface materials that resemble the icy regolith on the Moon and other worlds by a large number of organizations that currently do not have access to such materials.Making realistic icy regolith simulants is beyond the reach of most organ ...

Farming of marine bivalves provides high-quality protein and has a positive impact on the coastal environment. The U.S. is a top producer of the Manila clam (Japanese carpet shell, Ruditapes philippinarum) with reported sales of $31 M in 2019. Production of clams, however, has depended almost entirely on seed from wild stocks and natural recruitment, leaving the industry vulnerable to ocean change ...

The broader impact/commercial potential of this Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II project comes from extracting meaningful, useful, specific information from “dark data.” Dark data are the countless documents companies produce and receive, which contain unused information – usually because they are in formats that computers do not understand. Many of these documents do not e ...

Real-time monitoring of traffic conditions is crucial for improving traffic safety and efficiency, and there is an urgent need for the development of in situ traffic sensing & computing technologies leveraging the recent advancements in edge computing. This project will develop an edge computing and sensor fusion system for comprehensive traffic and road conditions data collection and efficient tr ...