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There is a current operational need to support combat medics in austere environments. Special forces often conduct operations that involve prolonged mission times or far-forward deployments. Casualties accrued during a mission are therefore afforded limited vitals monitoring and treatment options until evacuation. In response, the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) has launched a software platfo ...

ONE OF THE MOST OUTSTANDING FABRICS FOR THE PROTECTION OF PERSONNEL WITH RESPECT TO EXPOSURE TO DIRECT FLAME AND YET HAS THE FEEL OF A SOFT TEXTILE IS COMPOSED OF OXIDIZED POLYACRYLONITRILE FIBER (OPF). HOWEVER OPF FABRICS HAVE LACKED SUFFICIENT ABRASION RESISTANCE FOR USE IN PROTECTIVE CLOTHING. THE NAVY CLOTHING AND TEXTILE RESEARCH CENTER (Z. KUPFERMAN AND M. ROY) HAS DEMONSTRATED THE OPF FABRI ...

Under this topic we seek to develop methods for micro-air vehicles (MAV) to determine their position in global coordinates when Global Positioning System (GPS) is unavailable in environments such as when operating inside structures. One specific application is to assist in reconnaissance to aid in fire control and damage assessment. Other applications include infrastructure inspection for both the ...

Although global pose is essential for success in certain vehicle missions and tasks, when GPS is denied there is no single technology (source) that can robustly estimate global pose without suffering from one or more failure modes. We propose to design an architecture that provides robustness by integrating automated celestial navigation, registering on-board sensor data to a map (map registration ...

ABSTRACT: High-performance computing (HPC) programmers and domain experts, such as those in the Air Force's research divisions, develop solvers for a wide variety of application areas such as modeling next generation aircraft and weapons designs and advanced image processing analysis. When developing software for HPC systems, the programmer should not spend the majority of their time optimiz ...

Army defense technologies for high speed threat intercept increasingly rely on vehicle maneuverability through both aerodynamic and thrust augmentation. Similarly, threats have relied on equally maneuvering defenses to avoid intercept. Thus, it is in the interest of any defense system to target the threat at any point in the battlespace where it is most vulnerable, potentially resulting in interce ...

Emergency personnel deal with a range of acute problems resulting from battlefield gunshot and improvised explosive device trauma to accidents, terroristic acts, and a variety of other incidents. Front line medical personnel often encounter these problems away from communications and medical infrastructure and under situations where they must travel ‘light’ to get to casualties. MedNet exploi ...

TRS Technologies, Inc. and Nothrop Grumman Undersea Systems (NGUS) propose to develop and test a single crystal sonar array that adds transmit capability to the currently proposed receive array for the Virginia-class submarine. The goal of this program will be to adapt the added capability to the current form factor, thereby getting maximum return for minimal modifications and interface changes. B ...

In this SBIR program, AlphaSense, Inc. teamed with the Center for Non-destructive Evaluations at Iowa State University to develop a compact, low cost handheld sensor for non-destructive material case depth verification. In phase I, we have proven the feasibility of using an alternating current potential drop (ACPD) sensor for non-destructive measurements of case depth. Phase II will be focusing on ...

A compact, rugged, mobile, integrated automated-identification-technology warehouse system will be designed, built and demonstrated for use in military environments. The system will be scalable and able to provide management and visibility in local, regional and global environments. The system will employ a variety of technologies including active and passive RFID tags; agile scanners able to r ...