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The goal of the BRAMS effort is to develop a Blood Reserve Availability Assessment, Tracking, and Management System that will supplement the Joint Medical Asset Repository (JMAR) by allowing users to manually enter data via a web-based system. The BRAMS Phase I effort successfully developed a web interface for collecting blood data and exporting that blood data to JMAR in the format specified by ...

Coherent Logix, Incorporated proposes to develop a Simultaneous Real-Time Processing Surveillance Receiver (SRPSR) capable of measuring intended and unintended spectral emissions of electronic equipment in a very dense, noisy signal environment. This computation intensive SRPSR system will be based on Coherent Logix’s reprogrammable, dynamically reconfigurable, real-time adaptable, patent pendi ...

Cultured cell-based biosensors offer insight into the physiological action of the agent of interest, which is an advantage over other types of sensors. The development of cell-based biosensors that are field-portable would increase their utility in toxicology and environmental monitoring. One of the most significant issues hampering the development of field portable cell-based biosensors is the ...

During Phase I, the Blackhawk hanger bearing and oil cooler fan bearing applications were studied in detail, including analysis of vibration and temperature data from used oil cooler bench tests (conducted by Sikorsky) and used hanger bearing bench tests (conducted by Sentient). This data, along with an analysis of operational and environmental conditions, has allowed us to identify the probable r ...

We propose to develop multiresolution representations and algorithms for synthetic terrain environments. They will be used for representing large terrain models as well dynamic and atmospheric simulations. Our ultimate goal is to increase the validity of the simulation by incorporating the multiple models at varying resolutions. We will use the OneSAF simulation Product Line Architecture Framework ...

In order to obtain and maintain battle space dominance through rapid force insertion it is necessary to have the ability to construct and maintain theatre landing zones, runways etc., that may be undersized, under strength or severely deteriorated. Modern construction and engineering techniques does not have the capabilities to rapidly upgrade or construct contingency sites to support future forc ...

As a water soluble powder with 19.6 wt% hydrogen, borazane (ammonia-borane, NH3BH2) is an excellent source of hydrogen for fuel cells. In Phase I of this project we demonstrated that a fuel cell can directly consume NH3BH3 from an aqueous solution and produce 160 mW/cm² with 80% of the fuel utilized electrochemically while operating at current densities suitable for portable devices. Using a hi ...

Echo Technical and the Ellington Lab at the University of Texas at Austin previously developed a demonstration biosensor capable of using aptamer-based receptors (Biological Reconfigurable Interface Electronics For Classification and Analysis of Selected Elements, or BRIEFCASE). They proposed in Phase I to adapt a recently developed technology, proximity ligation assays, to a field-deployable dev ...

Rapid detection and unambiguous identification of chemical warfare agents is vital for efficient use of military and civil defense resources. While a variety of detection technologies are currently available, field-deployable systems such as the M21 passive IR standoff detector and the CAM/ICAM ion mobility detector are prone to false alarms due to the presence of interfering species. Combining ...

Many believe the greatest threat to our troops and homeland security are attacks using biological weapons. Recent developments of biological warfare agents parallel advances in microbiology, viruses and bacteria can be rendered more lethal through genetic engineering, and many toxins can be mass-produced. However, detecting biological agents is difficult and time consuming because there are thousa ...