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Higher inlet temperatures for turbine engines will provide significant benefits in fuel efficiency and performance for both military and commercial air vehicles. To accomplish this goal, new generation thermal barrier coatings (TBCs) with superiorreliability and durability will be needed. The currently-used zirconia-based TBCs do not adequately meet thermal conductivity requirements and they suf ...

Defense Planning Guidance (DPG), FY2000-2005 requires the United States (U.S.) Military to develop the capability to rapidly project a dominant ground force anywhere in the world within days. The Army Vision and draft Army Strategic Environments (Draft FM525-5) reinforce the DPG by requiring the right mix of mission tailored, combat-ready land forces and capabilities, including support and sustain ...

A nearly universal trend in modern technology is the continued integration of systems, and their associated devices, on decreasingly smaller scales. While this has led to personal computers that offer more functionality and faster computational speeds, ithas also spurred the development of hybrid optoelectronic systems on a chip (SOCs). Currently, such SOCs are receiving significant interest fro ...

We propose to develop, build, and validate a hybrid decision support toolkit that utilizes a combination of common sense reasoning, domain knowledge based reasoning, and soft computing techniques to support intelligent decision making. The main product ofthis project will be the Hybrid Decision Wizard (HDWizard), an agent-based decision support system that facilitates the automated generation of ...

This Phase II SBIR proposal describes an innovative towelette for the decontamination of organophosphorous nerve agents from skin, wounds, and other sensitive surfaces of exposed military personnel. The towelette consists of a cotton fabric on which isimmobilized an Organophosphate Hydrolase (OPH) that has been demonstrated to hydrolyze Sarin, Soman, Tabun, VX, and Russian-VX. In Phase I, this n ...

Powder injection molding (PIM), a relatively new material shaping process, uses the shaping advantages of plastic injection molding but expands the applications to numerous advanced engineering materials such as metals and alloys, ceramics, intermetalliccompounds, and composites. A number of these advanced materials have potential applications both in the military and commercial sector. The app ...

Current biodetection methods for bacterial and viral pathogens and toxins are generally implemented on a macroscopic scale using large and expensive analytical systems that require extensive operator involvement. The objective of this Phase II SBIRproposal is to continue to develop, test, and bring into commercial production a fully automated Micro-Electro Mechanical (MEMS) based biosensor equipp ...

The objective of this product is to increase the ability of existing Army lithium prismatic battery types to meet future equipment battery footprints and decrease the chances of future battery type proliferation in the logistics system. The proposedbattery system is a dual voltage, multiconfigurable design that can be inserted into a BA-5847A/U lithium battery configuration by using the specially ...

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In Phase II Sarcos Research Corporation will continue the development of a non-invasive pneumothorax sensor. The sensor will in addition measure both heart rate and breathing rate. The device will be hand-held, have low power consumption and RFemissions. The heart rate and breathing rate modes can be made with no physical contact with the body. In Phase II, we have developed an efficient coupl ...