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New regulations and advisory levels for perfluoroalkyl substances have resulted in increased drinking water treatment costs or abandonment of drinking water sources. Treatment technologies are needed that can achieve low parts-per-trillion levels. Presently, there are insufficient treatment technologies that can destructively remove perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA) and/or perfluorooctane sulfonic aci ...

To reach the end user, oil and gas production at the wellhead must be transmitted through the country and distributed to a wide range of customers. This logistical system requires natural gas gathering lines, processing facilities, product storage tanks and lots of other equipment. What results is air pollution caused by industry losses during these operations and the use of continuous or intermit ...

The primary goal of this Phase II effort is to design, fabricate, and evaluate a compact, lightweight, demonstration LWIR hyperspectral imaging sensors enabled by an innovative design form and dispersing element technology that is suitable for use on uninhabited aerial vehicles (UAVs). An alignment and test procedure will be developed for the assembly and integration of the spectrometer and imagin ...

Based upon the successful completion of the Phase I program, the Phase II program aims to continue to development of the voltage tunable inductors (VTIs). The program will improve the Phase I textured magnetics approach and develop models that accurately describe the relationship between the material properties, tunability, and geometry. From these results, optimized VTIs will be manufactured and ...

GPS Disciplined Oscillator (GPSDO) systems traditionally combine the 1PPS output from a GPS receiver and highly stable clock like a Chip Scale Atomic Clock (CSAC) to steer the local clock frequency to match the frequency and phase of the GPS-generated 1PPS. However, the GPS receiver does not take advantage of the stable Chip Scale Atomic Clock for improved GPS receiver resilience, improved positio ...

To reduce size, weight, power and cost (SWaP-c), military platforms have been evolving towards more integrated platforms that utilize all available space. For radiating systems, this will require exploring innovative design methods, materials and manufacturing approaches to realize cost-effective, customizable and conformal antennas. An attractive solution to this challenge is offered by additive ...

MaxPower believes that the introduction and successful development of a lithium metal anode based liquid ammonia battery system would be able to meet the power requirements for medium caliber fuze applications, especially the IRAP grenade application. The merging of established magnesium liquid ammonia and other lithium metal reserve battery technologies will provide the fundamental basis for the ...

This project aims to develop a low-cost millimeter-wave (mmW) imaging system for ground vehicles, to operate in combination with a long-wave infrared (LWIR) camera. Such a system will mitigate the challenges of driving in degraded visual environments (DVE) including night time, fog, dust, or smoke by providing real-time image of the vehicle surrounding independent from the presence of naturally oc ...

The proposed effort provides several concepts for improving the use of Red Phosphorus (RP) by retarding flame size and temperature as well as reducing incendiary properties of RP pots/devices and phosphine generation in storage without reducing obscuration efficiency. The proposed concepts include burning RP under fuel rich conditions which will include a) high ratios of RP/oxidizer, b) coating RP ...

Digital Solid State Propulsion Inc. is proposing the development of a reusable electric blank system that leverages over 10 years of success in formulating, engineering, and manufacturing Electric Solid Propellants for the space, defense, and entertainment industries. DSSP already has a pyrotechnic solution to battlefield effects simulating small arms fire based on eSquib technology, however, for ...