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Development of a Small Liquid Nitrogen Generator

We propose development of a high performance, portable atomic clock using cold atom technology. The clock will have short term stability of better than 10^-12 at one second and of 5x10^-15 at timescales of one day. The size, weight, and power (SWaP) of the clock will be

We consider large, heterogenous data streams comprised of multiple components that may lack underlying models. The problem is to reliably and automatically decompose these high-dimensional objects into a 'background' of simple patterns and a smaller number of idiosyncratic 'foreground' events that represent deviations from the background trends in the presence of unknown amoun ...

This SBIR project is designed to meet the demand for more accessible EEG devices by providing anyone - neuroscientists, entrepreneurs, hackers, students and the general public - the first complete system, that enables reliable acquisition and advanced pro

Looking Glass is an immersive, story-driven game experience that enables computer science education for students K-12. It presents learning in a game-based series of challenging levels that permit a high degree of player choice in tailoring educational pr

The objective of the proposed work is to determine whether Dioxide Materials' miniature C02 sensors have the potential to be adapted for autonomous measurement of ocean carbon. The existing sensors have many advantages for measurements of ocean carbon. They are much smaller and less costly than the existing sensors, work with much smaller gas samples, and use much less power. The sensors were d ...

To capture critical weather and SST data in the Tropical Cyclone Boundary Layer (TCBL), Piasecki Aircraft proposes to evaluate existing meteorological sensor packages, integrate new off-the-shelf MEMS sensors, and design an air-launched UAS to improve the resolution of observations captured in the TCBL. Capturing latent and sensible heat fluxes can be achieved reliably with a powered UAS (compare ...

Toyon proposes development of a system which performs automated analysis of images for fish population monitoring and fishing regulation enforcement applications. The proposed system is capable of processing images collected from aircraft, including unmanned aerial vehicles, as well as images collected using boat-mounted or handheld cameras used to observe fish catches landed on the decks of vess ...

The goal of this project is to develop, implement, and experimentally validate a new Differential Global Navigation Satellite System (DGNSS) capable of providing sub-centimeter positioning accuracy for quasi-static scientific, mapping, and survey applications. The main feature of the proposed DGNSS solution is that it leverages GNSS reference data from existing NOAA's Continuously Operational Ref ...

Photon Spot will demonstrate the feasibility of simultaneously achieving near unity system detection efficiency, sub-Hz system dark count rate, >1 GHz count rates, and an ultra-small form factor in a superconducting nanowire single-photon detector system. We will fabricate detectors with high detection efficiencies in Phase I and implement novel methods to improve the count rate and form factor be ...