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PROPOSAL ABSTRACTPhase II: Redesigning Floriculture Marketplace & Inventory Management Tools for SmallProduce Farms to Increase Accessibility and Reduce CostPD/PIs: Amelia Ihlo Annika Martell Justine McFarlandBackground: Rooted Farmers has developed a dynamic online platform that provides broadregional market access across wholesale and retail channels for small- and mid-sized farms. Ourcurrent pl ...

Under the DARPA Assured MicroPatching (AMP) program, Web Sensing has already developed initial proof-of-concept hardware building blocks and automated processes that support precision CAN-bus monitoring and secure patching of ground vehicle control system binaries. Here we seek to impact maintenance crews by development of a new technology portfolio that incorporates a Vehicle Analysis Toolkit - f ...

Today’s approaches to binary patching are largely human-driven and rely on long iterations of human effort to understand functionality in a system. Devices like commercial small unmanned systems (sUAS) are complicated, and functional flows often require coordination (messages transmitted and received) between multiple processors. It is usually simple to explain a functional requirement in human ...

5G (including licensed-Cellular, CBRS, and next-generation Wi-Fi 6E/7), Next-G, high-performance networks, as enablers for next-generation Edge and Cloud computing, are anticipated to offer more efficient and superior capabilities. Considering the anticipated disruptive capabilities provided by such networks, the Department of Defense (DoD), other federal government agencies, and the private secto ...

Project Summary - Enchi SBIR Application to the USDA October 2022Title: Accelerated cellulosic ethanol production using continuous cascade fermentation andengineered thermophilic bacteria.Project Directors: Christopher D. Herring (PD) Lee R. Lynd (Co-PD).Enchi Corp. aims to develop consolidated bioprocessing (CBP) for conversion of cellulosicbiomass into fuels and chemicals at low cost and without ...

Mass spectrometers the gold standard for chemical analysis with wide ranging applications butare unfortunately limited in deployment by their high cost size weight and power. Currentportable instruments are ~$100k the size of a small suitcase and operate for only a few hours ona single charge. We have invented a patent-pending ion trap geometry with key benefits overexisting designs including the ...

In the coming decades cell-cultured meat is expected to play a significant role in the developmentof sustainable climate-friendly food systems to feed the growing population. Analysis of beefproduction finds that switching from conventional to cultured beef production could result in a 95%reduction in land use and 92% reduction in carbon footprint. However to realize these impacts newinnovations i ...

The program objective is to build test and deploy the GeoFire Real-Time Wildfire Alert System(WAS) to definitively answer where a wildfire is right now and where it is heading next. This isaccomplished by using a high-density sensor network to track the location and growth of individualwildfire cells in real time. The GeoFire WAS is designed for exceptionally reliable operation:accurate fire detec ...

In recent years the poultry industry has focused on detecting and eliminating meat quality disorderssuch as wood-breast white-striping and spaghetti-meat. The current industry method for detectionin a production environment is a manual technician-based scoring method that provides unknownaccuracy and limited speed. We propose a method to detect these meat quality disorders in chickenbreast fillets ...

US forces deployed abroad often have to use foreign-manufactured and -operated mobile infrastructure for communications, especially in the early stages of operations. The infrastructure might be in a friendly, neutral, or hostile region, yet has to be relied upon for secure communication. Non-authorized, misconfigured, or compromised systems increase the risk of malicious activities impacting th ...