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The overall goal of this SBIR is to develop, verify, validate and deliver an analysis tool enabling researchers to use pulse voltammetry methods for enhanced understanding and accelerated development of electrochemical systems. Pulse voltammetry techniques provide high detection sensitivity, discrimination against charging currents, and information sufficient for mechanism identification and extra ...

The Sky Polarization Azimuth Sensing System (SkyPASS) exploits naturally occurring sky polarization to measure absolute heading and offers significant performance enhancement over current azimuth sensing systems such as digital compasses or ring laser gyros. The SkyPASS system is a passive optical sensor that can operate at 10s of Hz, has no warm-up or calibration time, does not require leveling, ...

S-RAM Dynamics will design and build a mobile refrigeration system, using carbon dioxide (CO2) as the refrigerant, for the Army Multi-Temperature Refrigerated Container System (MTRCS). This state-of-the-art system will use the recently developed S-RAM energy recovery compressor(ERC) to deliver significant efficiency savings for Army refrigerated assets. The S-RAM CO2 ERC is scalable and can delive ...

The goal of this program is to develop an autonomous, hover-capable, flying robot with an onboard chemical sensor chip for chemical surveillance and environmental monitoring. The key capabilities of this integrated system will be, in order of priority: 1. Real-time chemical sensing and data transfer to a base station. The final platform will detect and identify airborne chemicals using the Mole ...

The development of vehicle thermal signatures for modeling and simulation efforts of missile-borne sever development has traditionally been a complex and time-consuming process.Additionally, scene-rendering technologies used in these missile-based performance assessments have traditionally treated these vehicles as rigid models, both thermally and mechanically.Torch proposes the development of a p ...

Covert and robust recognition of individuals is a goal for military check points and entry control points overseas and for law enforcement and border control domestically.Face recognition in the visible spectrum is an important biometric modality and while it has increased in maturity, there are situations in which imaging in different spectral bands are desirable.Thermal polarization has been sho ...

The Department of the Army has identified long wave infrared (LWIR) polarimetry as a means for enhanced detail of human imagery for facial recognition. In addition, polarimetry has been shown to improve image contrast, detect anthropomorphic objects in high clutter scenes, and provide 3D shape information. However, many polarimeters operate using rotating polarization filters or retarders, which r ...

The goal of this project is to design, fabricate, and demonstrate an easily reproducible and biofidelic head and neck surrogate to evaluate head protection systems from ballistic, blast, sound, and blunt exposures/threats.The CFDRC/APL team has extensive experience developing surrogate solutions to measure these types of threats and proposes creating a multi-purpose design which can be adapted to ...

CFDRC and our partners have been involved in the practical research on AGT1500 class compressor stall detection and potential stall/surge event(s) for many years.We are now prepared to provide an analysis and stall detection sensor study focused on defining an optimal method for identifying, predicting and mitigating AGT1500 compressor stall and surge events.Specific Phase I efforts include:1) Eva ...

A new generation of high power, high energy supercapacitor/Li battery hybrid consisting of load bearing cells which can be embedded into a vehicle structure is proposed. The system design is highly modular and in the early stages of development at Micron Corporation. Preliminary test results at Micron indicate that the chosen structure of the energy storage components, using construction concepts ...