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In response to the defined need for improve conditions for warfighters to avoid problematic fungal skin infections, Luna Innovations is proposing the development of the Agastache antifungal textile treatment: a novel method to specifically target and kill pathogenic fungi. Agastache is envisioned as a platform textile treatment, capable of being permanently applied to any common textile, and will ...

Lead acid batteries, currently used in 95% of military ground vehicles, represent in excess of $100M per year in maintenance costs. Furthermore, the failure modes of these batteries are such that they provide no indication of impending failure. The batteries simply do not function, leaving the warfighter exposed and unequipped with no prior warning. The ability to diagnose state of battery heal ...

To meet the demands of the A17-027 SBIR solicitation, the MaXentric / UCSD / HRL team proposes the BEEMT (Back-off Efficiency Enhanced Transmitter), which uses high power and high frequency HRL 40 nm GaN technology for Army mm-wave handheld application. During Phase I work, the team will study most appropriate power amplifier configuration to achieve 10 GHz bandwidth, over 1 W output power, and o ...

Environmental barrier coatings (EBCs) are coating systems that are applied to the surface of Si-based ceramics resulting in protection against moisture-assisted oxidation-induced ceramic recession. These coatings require many attributes to be successful including: good stability in the presence of water vapor; a mechanism for limiting the transport of oxygen and water vapor to the ceramic substrat ...

The major objective is to design and develop advanced lightweight and stronger sabot materials with adequate elongation to failure and cost effective manufacturing for medium and small caliber sabot component applications based on ARMYs SBIR requirements using advanced lightweight alloy composites using various controlled compositions using Aluminum Alloys 5000 series, 7000 series, and Aluminum/Ma ...

Conducting operations in a Megacity will require new tactics involving cooperation with the local population. This necessitates gaining an understanding of the socio-cultural features of an area. The proposed TSUNAMI system will provide commanders with geographically referenced socio-cultural feature layers for publication on a Common Operational Picture display. These features will be derived fro ...

DECEITS provide multi level security and information flow control with cell level encryption for existing relational databases. At the tactical edge, access to advanced cloud based services such Apache Accumulo may not possible. DECEITS allows these types of services to deployed in any point of the network, but also to be integrated in already applications and services.

Aircraft Missile Warning Systems are used to detect threats, to alert aircrews, & provide Situational Awareness within sufficient time to perform countermeasures and maneuvers preventing the aircraft from being hit or possibly destroyed. The relatively coarse spectral resolution of legacy MWS sensors & the computational overhead associated with threat declaration & angle of arrival, limits the abi ...

The high cost of polyaramid fibers used in the Flame Retardant Army Combat Uniform (FR-ACU) has driven the development of flame retardant treatments for nylon-cotton (NYCO) blends used in the less expensive Army Combat Uniform (ACU). The most cost effective of these treatments are based on halogenated chemicals, which have been shown to evolve toxic gases when combusted. Though effective on cotton ...

In this project, a proposed feasibility study that examines the trade-space of securing Open flow software defined network (SDN), cooperative heterogeneous network operation, and cognitive radio processing. New protocols for physical layer security to the "network edge" and "wireless" tunneling for existing commercial networks and smart devices. The use case for the study includes massive connecti ...