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Haptic feedback provides an alternative or additional path to convey geospatially referenced information from tablets and other portable devices. This benefits persons with disabilities and also enhances servicemen responsiveness in high work-load situations.Lynntech proposes to develop geospatial haptic feedback on COTS tablets or smart-phones using a new technology that provide a very natural fe ...

The superior strength-to-weight ratio of composites has prompted expanded usage in tactical missiles. However, increasing mission demands are driving the need for higher performance from lower cost composite materials. Matrix resins used for production of tactical missile composites evolved from strategic missile applications, where cost and production rates are less critical. In response to this ...

Lynntech proposes to use classical phage genetics to construct bacteriophages that are inherently stable over extended periods of time and are capable of interacting with biological threat agents. We will genetically modify bacteriophages to display peptide ligands that specifically bind the biological threat agent, B. anthracis. These phages will be dried and stored under a number of environmenta ...

To reduce size, weight, power and cost (SWaP-c) military platforms have been evolving towards a more integrated design approach that efficiently utilizes all available space.To accommodate limited space constraints many commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) systems will need to be replaced by custom designed and fabricated components.For the case of radiofrequency (RF) electronic systems this will requi ...

Army howitzer gun tubes made from high strength gun steel, which is affordable and strong but susceptible to corrosion.They are also susceptible to stress corrosion cracking because they are autofrettaged.Field usage causes pitting and cracking in bore evacuator holes.The Army needs an affordable method of detecting, typing (Pit Crack Cracked pit) and sizing corrosion damage in bore evacuator hole ...

A bore evacuator is generally used in gun barrel of armored fighting vehicles to help prevent poisonous propellant gases from venting back into the fighting compartment. It consists of a ring of holes drilled into the barrel, surrounded by a cylindrical pressure reservoir. Under typical operating conditions, pitting corrosions and stress corrosion cracks can form in the inner walls of those drille ...

In this program we will develop a means to fabricate single crystal diamond wafers using a newly-designed toroidal plasma reactor that offers the possibility of scaling dimensions to larger areas than achievable today. The goal of our Phase I program is to demonstrate growth of 1 cm2 area of single-crystal material in the base program and 2 cm2 in the Phase I Option, with a path in a Phase II prog ...

Maintaining accurate position location information (PLI) during operational missions is a critical requirement for the dismounted soldier.This requirement is unmet in heavily forested and jungle environments where GPS reception is unavailable due to dense canopy cover.In such environments, soldiers must determine their location by using visual landmarks, or by seeking open clearings where GPS rece ...

AMI Research and Development, LLC (AMI), and our small business commercialization partner Mercury Systems, Inc.,propose a novel Passive Electronically Scanned Array (PESA) antenna to bridge the gap between high cost-high performance and low cost-medium performance antenna systems to meet the need forhigh volume phased array antennas for X-Band Satcom-On-The-Move (SOTM) Blue Force Tracking (BFT) ap ...

In this Small Business Innovation Research Phase I effort, MicroSol Technologies Inc. and University of Texas at Dallas (UTD) will collaborate to develop a high-k material for application in IR image sensor readout integrated circuits. High-k Al2O3/TiOx nanolaminates will be in-situ deposited by atomic layer deposition (ALD).Material properties will be optimized to achieve a high dielectric consta ...