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There is a need for non-invasive sensing of electrocardiograms and other vital signs to acquire information from high risk cardiac patients or other long term monitored subjects, continuously and without artifacts. The development of a new type ECG electrode sensor will assure patient compliance and allow this technology to be used long term while lowering medical costs. This proposal is to deve ...

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 ...

The purpose of this SBIR is to develop a carbon nanotube metal matrix composite that can used in the manufacturing of small caliber sabots for use with long rod penetrators. In phase one, Additive Manufacturing has been used to make carbon nanotube aluminum metal matrix composites that met threshold requirements and have achieved 95.8% of the objective modulus and 97.5% of the objective strength o ...

Military personnel are vulnerable to many biological agents, such as bacteria, bacterial toxins and viruses, in the field. These agents must be detected rapidly to allow prompt treatment of infected personnel. These agents may be detected using either immunological (antibody-antigen) or genomic (DNA) diagnostics. Such techniques as ELISA, latex bead agglutination kits or radio-labeled probes req ...

A system is proposed which can provide coarse/passive and fine/active imaging in a staring mode at 95 GHz (W-Band) for the purpose of defeating multipath effects in ground-to-ground fire-control systems. The system makes use of efficient focal-plane scanning and modern digital baseband processing, having the potential for a wide range of target recognition, tracking, guidance, and other intelligen ...

This proposal is to demonstrate the feasibility of a continuous process of producing rugged, low moisture content, high bandwidth, gradient index plastic optical fiber. This type of fiber is expected to have great utility in high speed local area networks. Existing Japanese production methods result in bandwidths which are three to ten times less than theoretically possible, and the bandwidth of ...

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 ...

A laser induced breakdown spectrometer (LIBS) system will be designed, calibrated, and delivered under the phase I research. This detector will be optimized for lead detection in building paints and firing range soils. The phase I system will use a commercial, portable Nd:YAG laser for plasma formation. A subsequent commercial system will be developed for phase II and will include multielemental ...

Performance of robotic systems would be enhanced through artificial intelligent fusion of the automatic target recognition (ATR) results (and associated underlying features ) of either a single platform or multiple platforms viewing the target/object from different position, i.e., multi-look fusion. Such fusion would be particularly relevant for partially obscured and/or background blended target ...

Current medical response training for non-medical Soldiers is provided during introductory Combat Lifesaver (CLS) training courses.Due to the inhibitive cost of medical mannequins, in many cases, the practical training provided to CLS trainees is limited to low fidelity mannequins, leading trainees to be ill-prepared to provide care on a high-stress battlefield setting. To meet the need of providi ...