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Purpose: This project team will fully develop and test Fate and Fortune, an online class-wide intervention where grade 8 students learn algebra within a story-based game. Research demonstrates that students who do not succeed in algebra are more likely to eventually drop out of high school. When students begin Algebra I, a lack of conceptually meaning and understanding can be further reinforced by ...

Army mobile missile launchers are vulnerable to bullet and fragment impacts as current missile canisters are made of lightweight metals or composites that offer little ballistic protection. American Technical Coatings, Inc. (DBA ATC Materials, Inc.) of Westlake, OH is a leader in insensitive munitions armor technologies and has previously commercialized and fielded systems for IM protection. ATC†...

CRG proposes to leverage its partnerships, advanced aerospace system design capabilities, and unique manufacturing technologies to design, build and demonstrate a flying missile rail along with the high-rate production technologies required to meet DARPAs objectives of 500 units per month, within one month.CRG will focus on high-rate manufacturing technologies currently in use within the automotiv ...

Optical cryocoolers, which are compact and produce no vibrations, are ideal for many electronics and sensor applications. In particular, some advanced metrology systems require cooling to around 124 K, the temperature at which the coefficient of thermal expansion for crystalline silicon goes through a null point. Currently, the dominant solid-state cooling technology is thermoelectric cooling, whi ...

METSS proposes to design a novel polymer system based on polypropylene with covalently attached antioxidants to mitigate issues with chemical permeation and water quality with current waterpipe materials. Polypropylene was selected as it has inherently good physical properties and low permeability that will limit chemical migration from the outside, addressing one critical factor impacting water q ...

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 ...

METSS will demonstrate the feasibility of utilizing two separate technologies, chlorine dioxide (ClO2) and Hot Air Decontamination (HAD; high temperature/low humidity) as on-site decontamination processes for treating_x000D_ Category A virus contaminated items including porous materials (e.g., upholstery, bedding, fabric, carpet, unpainted wood); sensitive equipment; and potentially reusable mater ...

Goodman Technologies (GT) and University of Hawaii (a Department of Defense University Affiliated Research Center and Minority Serving Institution) in partnership with Robocasting Enterprises (Small Business spin-off from Sandia National Laboratories technology transfer program), will meet all Army objectives (and more) by 3D printing B4C, B6O, B4C-SiC hybrid and other ceramic nanocomposite armor ...

This project will address the need for reliable and robust wearable ultrasound system for both imaging and modulation in challenging environments such as ambulances, emergency rooms, battlefields, and industrial facilities by using the concept of autonomy. Specifically, we will develop autonomous wearable systems that integrate ultrasound imaging and modulation subsystems within a single cognitive ...

Hypersonic weapons and vehicle systems require high temperature structures to resist aerothermal loads.Load bearing thermal protection systems can reduce size and weight by 50% or more over traditional parasitic thermal protection systems, such as the tiles used on the space shuttle.This SBIR program will complete the design, scale-up, and validation of multifunctional metallic TPS systems fabrica ...