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Despite over 100 years of research, decompression sickness (DCS) remains the mission-limiting factor in the design and execution of combat diving operations.Divers may spend over an hour decompressing after spending as little as ten minutes at the target depth.While decompressing, divers are limited in vertical mobility, making then susceptible to detection and threatening their survivability.This ...

The Laser Power Beaming Enhancement (LPBE) will develop a new system for providing stand-off, wireless power transmission to remote UAV's and other moving platforms. A power generation facility directs a beam from a coherently combined fiber-laser array ...

Hypersonic weapons and vehicle systems require high temperature structures to resist aerothermal loads.Load bearing thermal protection systems can reduce size and weight by 50% or more over traditional parasitic thermal protection systems, such as the tiles used on the space shuttle.This SBIR program will complete the design, scale-up, and validation of multifunctional metallic TPS systems fabrica ...

Insuring the safety and control of littoral waters is problematic because of the difficulties of surveillance. The preferred methods of surveillance in the ocean are acoustic. In littoral waters, acoustic methods fail because noise from the surf and reflections from the shallow bottom convolute acoustic signatures beyond our capacity to discern them. Water absorbs light, reducing the effectiven ...

In phase I, Dot Metrics Technologies demonstrated the feasibility of a new method of introducing deep-green luminescent nanostructure into semiconductor materials for light-emitting device applications. The materials were used to fabricate and characterize preliminary optoelectronic device test structures. In phase II, Dot Metrics Technologies proposes to leverage these new materials and methods i ...

Power generation, power distribution and electric propulsion on ships and aerospace vehicles could be made smaller, lighter, more efficient, more versatile, and lower maintenance by operating these systems—partly or entirely—at cryogenic temperatures. Our goal is to demonstrate the advantages of cryogenic operation in regard to electronic components, specifically semiconductor devices (power d ...

THIS PROJECT IS INTENDED TO IDENTIFY MEANS OF EVALUATING ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE SYSTEMS BY CONTRASTING THEIR ACTUAL LEVEL OF PERFORMANCE TO THE LEVEL THAT WOULD HAVE BEEN EXPECTED FOR THEM. IN SOME WAYS, THE CONCEPT IS RELATED TO THE INTELLIGENCE QUOTIENT, WHICH IS A RATIO OF MENTAL AGE TO CHRONOLOGICAL AGE, A COMPARISON OF THE PERFORMANCE NORMS TO THE INDIVIDUAL PERFORMANCE LEVEL. FOLLOWING THIS ...

Cell function and survival are dictated by the transduction of the appropriate signaling pathways within the cell. These signaling pathways regulate nearly every aspect of cellular function from growth and proliferation, to progammed cell death, and sensing the surrounding environment. Until recently, investigation of cellular pathways has relied on destructive or after-the-fact techniques, incl ...