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Hydrothermal vents emit large amounts of hot water, which has the potential to produce electric power. This type of power source can enable remote sea sensors and communication networks, recharge unmanned underwater vehicles, and facilitate a variety of other deep sea activities. Developing a power system for this application is challenging because the environment is extremely corrosive, mineral p ...

The Missile Defense Agency (MDA) is seeking post-intercept debris data from missile impacts in an exoatmospheric environment for the development and verification of analytic debris models being developed by the MDA. Control Vision, Inc. proposes a modular, stabilized, tracking and pointing system enabling close proximity, high temporal resolution data of intercepts and post-intercept debris fields ...

The importance of graph applications is growing as society becomes more interconnected. Many real world datasets are best modeled as graphs, e.g., road networks, the Internet, social networks, protein-protein interactions, utility grids, and communication. Graph analytics be used to answer many different categories of questions, including traversal, querying, and data mining. It is often desirable ...

Linearized inflow models have been used to represent dynamic wake effects with great success for aiding control law development and flight dynamics investigations of conventional single-main rotor / tail rotor rotorcraft, but are difficult to extend to alternate configurations such as coaxial rotors, tiltrotors and compound aircraft having significant interacting wake effects. By contrast, CDI’s ...

The objective of this SBIR is to integrate an electro-textile conductive network by embedding it into the parachute canopy to enable data and power transport to sensors and actuators. D’Angelo Technologies, LLC (D5T) successfully completed Phase I work and demonstrated feasibility and viability of a conductive network on parachutes. The opportunities to integrate a conductive network within a pa ...

Typical piping joint designs in the fuel systems of Navy ships are susceptible to weakening due to poor inherent weld quality and localized corrosion. The current composite patches and other processes that represent the state-of-the-art for reinforcement weakened areas are expensive; difficult and potentially hazardous to install; and not durable. Our novel solution to reinforce weld joints and ot ...

"Mentis proposes to leverage the advantages of its high-temperature, low-density quartz/polysiloxane composite materials and develop fiber architectures that reduce interlaminar shear stresses. These developments would improve aerothermal longevity and performance and also utilize automated fiber placement methods that increase the affordability of nosecone materials. Mentis proposes to design a c ...

The deep jungle canopy forms a natural radio frequency barrier blocking transmissions both into and out of the jungle canopy. In the Phase I effort, GIRD Systems developed and proved the feasibility of a novel system capable of maintaining both digital and voice communication connectivity through the jungle canopy. In Phase II, GIRD Systems proposes further enhancements to the jungle communication ...

DESCRIPTIONprovided by applicantAppointment non attendanceor"no shows"is common across health institutionshindering efficient functioning of healthcare systems and contributing to over $billion in annual costsFurtherappointment non attendance is associated with poorer health outcomesas patients forgo critical preventative care and fail to receive necessary treatmentCertain populations are more lik ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant Primary Prevention of Sexual Violence among College Students This Fast Track SBIR proposal is designed to address the urgent need for an effective primary prevention approach to the problem of sexual violence among college students It is estimated that in every college women has been sexually assaulted while in college There is a dearth of primary preven ...