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Combustion Research and Flow Technology, Inc. (CRAFT Tech) and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) have teamed up to provide DTRA with an innovative approach to develop new combined effects explosives (CEX) formulations. CEX represent a class of recently-developed aluminized explosives seeking to provide the performance of both (i) high-energy explosives and (ii) high-blast explo ...

NanoGripTech LLC proposes to develop repeatable skin adhesives using technology inspired by the feet of geckos and insects. These adhesives will be integrated into full facemask respirators to reduce or replace head harness straps, which are currently used to hold the facemasks in place. Expected benefits are improved fit, resistance to shifting, improved sealing, and reduced discomfort and tiss ...

Being proposed is a way to integrate the inputs from multiple sensors and different types of sensors to produce a map of the chemical threat. This technique weights every input based on type of sensor, minimum detectable level, health and status of each instrument, and time and position errors. The Sensor Netting Algorithm (SNA) will be based on tomography with weighting factors. The output wil ...

This proposal describes how a very low cost hyperspectral imager can be built. The key to the low cost is the use of a commercially available thermal camera based on an uncooled microbolometer as the detecting element. An interferometer is placed in front of the camera to produce the spectrum. Each frame of the camera captures one point of the interferogram, producing a hyperspectral image at 8 ...

A NOVEL SET OF HIGHLY EXOTHERMIC AND ESSENTIALLY GASLESS (CONDENSED PHASE) REACTIONS WILL BE INVESTIGATED IN ORDER TO SELECT THE COMPOSITION WHICH PROVIDES THE MOST APPROPRIATE METHOD OF SIMULATING RADIANT FLUXES EQUIVALENT TO THOSE ENCOUNTERED IN NUCLEAR AIR BLASE ENVIRONMENTS. THE PROPOSED CONCEPT IS CAPABLE OF GENERATING PEAK TEMPERATURES IN EXCESS OF 3200 DEG K AND RADIATION FLUXES UP TO 200 C ...

THE NEED TO REDUCE WEIGHT IN REENTRY VEHICLE (RV) DESIGNS HAS BECOME A CRITICAL ISSUE WITHIN THE RV DESIGN COMMUNITY. AS SUCH, RV DESIGNERS ARE LOOKING TO THE USE OF HIGH STRENGTH TO WEIGHT RATIO MATERIALS SUCH AS THAT OFFERED BY GRAPHITE EPOXY AS A REPLACEMENT FOR THOSE STRUCTURAL MATERIALS CURRENTLY IN PLACE. THIS PHASE I PROGRAM SHALL INVESTIGATE THE IMPACT OF TYPICAL RV NUCLEAR HARDNESS REQUIR ...

Under a Phase II program, DRS Scientific will build, test, and deliver a new type of Acousto-Optic Tuned Filter (AOTF) hyperspectral imager that is compact, rugged, and inexpensive, has no moving parts, and is fast and sensitive. It will cover 8-12 micron wavelength range with 10 wavenumber spectral resolution or finer, and will have micro-Flick sensitivity with a cooled camera, and