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The offeror proposes a unique anti-tampering and anti-counterfeiting system employing novel material that undergoes highly noticeable variation when responding to a violated or opened seal. Packaged within the same genre of existing security tags and labels, this method and underlying application does not introduce any additional costs of complexity to either the identification or process over any ...

The United States Department of Defense (DoD) has many types of weapons systems that must be continuously maintained. Many of the components required to maintain these weapon systems are single sourced, or are available from a limited number of sources, and are therefore are quite often relatively expensive to procure. In recent years the DoD budget has been reduced making it more difficult to p ...

Onboard railroad passenger information system (OPIS) is an electronic system that provides audio and/or visual information for passengers on a train. However, information received by passengers is not guaranteed since the information and service provided by the OPISs are diverse and without a common standard. Therefore, we propose a Smart Onboard Passenger Information and Entertainment, TrainAid, ...

Water expansion during freeze-thaw cycles can cause deterioration in concrete, leading to scaling, cracking, and crumbling over a period of years. Resistance to this damage is achieved with a system of voids formed by adding surfactants to the fresh concrete to stabilize air bubbles naturally entrained during mixing. The volume fraction, size, and spacing of these voids are critical. It is importa ...

Broken rails are a common cause of mainline derailments and a particular concern given the increasing use of our rail system for passenger traffic and petroleum products. The progressive nature of the defects provides an opportunity for early detection of cracks before they become significant enough to cause a derailment. Unfortunately, current inspection technology does not allow these inspection ...

Stratonics, Inc. proposes to tightly integrate their modular thermal monitoring and control system across multiple additive manufacturing processes to create robust platforms, capable of consistent part quality and process repeatability. Software/hardware interface modules will be developed in a production ready solution with true temperature monitoring and active thermal controls to record key th ...

Building upon the successes and lessons learned in the Phase I effort the Mentis Sciences Inc., Exothermics Inc., and Ragan Technologies Inc. team will adapt and scale the ceramic green tape materials and compression molding processes developed to relevant components demanded by industry. The team will demonstrate the capability of this process to produce low cost high temperature net shape cerami ...

Use of motorcycles helmets significantly reduces the risk of fatality or serious brain injury to riders in the event of a crash, but riders often do not wear helmets in warm weather because of thermal discomfort. We propose to develop an innovative ventilation and cooling system that will maintain a cool, dry environment inside the helmet while also meeting applicable safety standards. The key the ...

This proposal seeks to demonstrate the feasibility of using impulse radar techniques to detect and identify explosive detonators. It relies on the fact that a radar impulse will excite natural electromagnetic resonances which characterize the size, shape, and material composition of an object. These resonances are present in the scattered transient return from the object and can be extracted by ...

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