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Outdoor acoustics simulation plays a vital role in several military and commercial applications, such as minimizing the noise profile of reconnaissance vehicles to avoid counter-detection, optimizing sensors and systems for tactical advantage, pinpointing the origin of gunshots using their acoustic signatures, noise modeling, urban planning, games and VR training. State-of-the-art outdoor acoustic ...

The detection and tracking of dismounts and the identification of threatening dismounts are critical challenges for ensuring mission success and troop safety when conducting tactical vehicle operations in hostile environments. Vehicle operators must focus on multiple tasks simultaneously: navigation, collision avoidance, location of possible IED threats, and identification of dismount threats. ...

The Army uses Unattended Ground Sensors (UGS) for the location and tracking of enemy soldiers and vehicles. The sensors can often determine range and relative bearing to the signal source, but without knowing its own orientation, these data cannot be converted to the geo location and ground track of the source. There is therefore a need for a sensor to determine the UGS azimuth, roll, and pitch ...

Improvements in body armor, availability of equipment, and decreased patient transport times have dramatically improved Soldiers survival of combat injuries. Data suggests that future conflicts will require more aggressive wound management at the point of injury to deal with more complex wounds, particularly with respect to infection control. There is a significant need to develop and translate ...

Increased mission endurance is a critical requirement for many unmanned air vehicles, leading to a need for new propulsion technology. This project aims to enable increased mission endurance by developing advanced recuperators that will reduce fuel consumption and significantly expand the mission envelopes for turboshaft-powered UAVs. Creare"s innovative recuperator design enables highly efficie ...

The objective of proposed work is to demonstrate the feasibility of obtaining AlGaN films of any composition with dislocation densities below 1x106 cm-2 on native nitride substrates either by sustaining a pseudomorphic state or by reducing the number of threading dislocations by specific stress relieving schemes at the interfaces or within the thickness of the stress management layers.

Added capabilities for U.S. military ground, air, and sea vehicles have increased electrical power demands and the potential for extremely large fault currents. Fast and reliable means to limit fault currents and isolate faulted sections are required to meet these emerging power needs. We propose to develop an extremely fast, Silicon Carbide (SiC) based Solid State Circuit Breaker (SSCB) which i ...

The targeting accuracy of mortar rounds is critically dependent on obtaining accurate gun barrel azimuth and elevation data to feed to the fire control system. Current barrel attitude determination is not sufficiently accurate and requires manual readouts. Creare proposes to build a sensor for the determination of azimuth and elevation using novel MEMS rate gyros and inclinometers. These highly ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The overall goal of this study is to develop a tissue-engineered total joint replacement from an engineered biomaterial scaffold combined with adult bone marrow-derived mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) for regeneration ofthe entire femoral surface of the hip joint. We have developed a novel three-dimensionally (3D) woven scaffold that mimics the biomechanical prop ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant Retinal prosthetic devices currently under development are designed to bypass the non functioning portion of the visual pathway photoreceptor layer in individuals suffering from diseases including retinitis pigmentosa RP and age related macular degeneration AMD Current devices enable patients to only see object positions and read large letters and furth ...