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The AEDC Aero Propulsion Test Unit (APTU) facility completed successful operation at Mach 6 and Mach 7 direct connect tunnel conditions utilizing a prototype Mach 5 free-jet configured Combustion Air Heater (CAH) injection system developed by CFD Research Corporation. These results and upgrades proposed here were presented at the 2018 Hypersonic Technology & Systems Conference. This effort will fu ...

Project Summary This project describes the formation, launch and operation of the DRIVEN Accelerator Hub, with the express goal of reducing morbidity and mortality by increasing the number of medical entrepreneurs and their level of competency. The Hub is focused on the Northeast and, in collaboration with similar Hubs, will contribute nationwide. It will, in a facile, complete, and accessible way ...

To meet DARPA’s specified needs, X-Bow (pronounced “Crossbow”) will infuse advanced manufacturing (AM) methods to produce its small launch vehicle. The vehicle will be capable of rapid and affordable on-demand launch of small payloads. There are ample commercially available opportunities to infuse automated and AM techniques into tanks, nozzles, and other mechanical components. However, ther ...

ImmuNext has defined an anti-MCT1 monoclonal antibody (mAb) that will be developed for the treatment of human autoimmune disease. The membrane monocarboxylate nutrient transporter SLC16A1 (MCT1) is a multi-pass transmembrane protein responsible for the facilitated transport of critical metabolites, including products of glycolysis: lactate, pyruvate and ketones. Our strong preliminary data support ...

Diode-Pumped Alkali Lasers (DPALs) have great potential for high-energy lasers. Proper design of these systems is challenging because many interrelated processes impact their performance, and critical kinetic rate coefficients are not well known. In response, our team is developing a comprehensive physics-based analysis/design tool, and experimentally determining key kinetic rate coefficients. The ...

Abstract Optical Cherenkov video imaging of body anatomy and dose delivery can be used now to map out radiotherapy beam incidence upon the patient tissue, directly visualizing the radiation dose deposition on the patient in real time. This could serve as a non-contact workflow tool for verification for daily fractionated radiation therapy, allowing capture of all treatments, all the time. DoseOpti ...

The current state of the art thermal battery technologies will not be able to meet future requirements that call for higher power and capacity with a smaller footprint. The principal avenue for increasing the capacity of thermal battery is to identify and develop new electrode materials that provide higher specific capacity and power performance. The overall objective of the proposed effort is to ...

PROJECT SUMMARY/ABSTRACT:CairnSurgical, Inc., a Dartmouth spin-off company, will standardize supine breast MRI to streamline pro- duction of the Breast Cancer Locator (BCL) as a cancer localization device for use in breast conserving surgery (BCS) to (i) eliminate wire localization – a moderately effective, somewhat costly and certainly inconvenient procedure for patients and surgeons – and co ...

Improved head and hearing protection is required for aircraft maintainers working on a carrier flight deck during launch and recovery operations. Legacy Flight Deck Cranials are inadequate in many aspects including hearing protection and impact protection. In previous work, Creare has developed a Flight Deck Cranial (FDC) that offers unparalleled hearing protection and industrial standard head pro ...

This document presents Optical Sciences Corporation's SBIR technology transition proposal to develop an advanced Dynamic Optical Coupler (DOC) for Wide Field-of-View (WFOV) and wide field-of-regard space sensor testing and to integrate the DOC into a government owned space simulation chamber. The DOC will be capable of positioning the projected scenes from a narrow FOV IR Scene Projector (IRSP) an ...