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This Sequential Phase II effort will demonstrate the micro-loop oscillating heat pipe heat spreader technology (m-Loop-OHP-HS) for solid state power amplifiers in a real-world spacecraft structure to advance its technology readiness level for near-term insertion into programs of record. Additionally, the m-Loop-OHP-HS technology will be prototyped in novel materials and form factors to create mult ...

Per- and polyflouralkyl substances, otherwise known as PFAS, are a large group of chemicals including perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA) and perfluorooctane sulfonate (PFOS). These chemicals have a large variety of uses globally. Remediation of PFAS has gained importance due to their environmental persistence and toxicity. Water treatment methods must combine multiple strategies to be effective, as PF ...

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 logisticalsystem requires natural gas gathering lines, processing facilities,product storage tanks and Jots of other equipment. What results is air pollution caused by industry losses during these operations and the use of continuous or intermitte ...

Current balance and gait assessment practices in field environments lack adequate sensitivity to measure subtle but potentially duty-limiting deficits in Service Member (SM) performance. Clinicians endeavor to provide timely, evidence-based assessment of

This Phase II Small Business Innovation Research project develops the scale of lithium-ion direct recycling technologies applied to gain efficiencies in materials management from original manufacturing to end-of-life. The scrap materials are from Defense Logistics Agency manufacturing activities. A successful effort moves direct recycle TRL from 4 to 6, increases process throughput, qualifies mate ...

To satisfy the need for a radiation-hardened, 1064-nm laser sensitive, single-photon sensitive ladar camera, with pixel counts of 128 x 128 or more, a proven single-photon linear-mode InGaAs(P)/InAlAs avalanche-photodiode (APD) detector will be integrated with low-noise ladar readout integrated circuits (ROICs), and its performance will be shown compatible with missile defense mission requirements ...

The proposed Phase I effort aims to develop a small satellite energy storage solution that enables high power density Li-ion cells to be emplaced in compact payload or bus modules without the thermal management risks imposed by status quo battery packaging technologies. The key feature proposed herein is a “passive and thermally-intelligent” but mechanically sound package structure built with ...

Traditional active 3D imaging systems, such as airborne and terrestrial lidar scanners, use a transmitter and receiver typically co-located on the same platform and connected in synchronous communications. However, recent advances in laser, detector, and airborne systems technology have opened the door to smaller, higher-performance and significantly lower-cost airborne lidar systems in which it i ...

The National Geospatial Intelligence Agency (NGA) and other Department of Defense (DoD) agencies use geospatial intelligence (GEOINT) derived from motion imagery to support U.S. national security. Full motion video (FMV) captured from airborne platforms is subject to multiple distortions and noise due to atmospheric disturbance, obscuration (dust, haze, smoke, and mist), and transmission defects s ...

NLP pipelines available today are getting robust for general language modeling purposes. But domain-specific data, abbreviations and lingos, and text about time or space still need a lot of tuning and training that are well beyond application of standard tool sets. Deep learning for recommendation engines is quite new, and all recommender systems, in particular for specially trained users, tend to ...