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Formaldehyde is a reactive and flammable aldehyde which is well known as one of the harmful volatile organic compounds. A_x000D_ combination of respiratory disease, allergic dermatitis and other ailments so called Sick Building Syndrome (SBS) is associated with chronic exposure to formaldehyde. Therefore, monitoring for formaldehyde is important in residential buildings. In this Phase I_x000D_ dev ...

Methane is the second most prevalent greenhouse gas emitted after carbon dioxide, however, on a pound-to-pound comparison methane has a 25 times greater impact on climate change than carbon dioxide over a 100-year period. Accordingly, the 2014 Climate Action Plan signed by President Obama has directed agencies including the USDA, DOE, and EPA to reduce methane emissions. A significant effort in th ...

Capacitive deionization (CDI) is a robust, energy efficient, and cost effective technology for water desalination. In collaboration with Dr. Satish Kumar and Dr. Costas Tsouris at Georgia Tech, we are developing nanostructured carbon material for effective and economical water and wastewater desalination. Our new approach for CDI is enabled by (1) synthesis of nanostructured high surface area acti ...

Marine Corps Commanders are responsible for consuming, understanding, and acting upon vast amounts of operational data. However, current Command and Control (C2) systems overwhelm Commanders by presenting this data in too much detail, and they lack intuitive interfaces for exploring and querying the data. The resulting cognitive overload and inefficiency increases the risk that Commanders will ove ...

We suggest developing a miniaturized survey system which can meet the current IPADS requirements with significant reductions in size/weight. The current weight/volume is 135 lb./6300 inch-cube. The core is Navigational Module (INS) that weighs >50 lb. and volume of 1200 inch-cube, based on Ring Laser Gyro technology. The main goal of the study is a replacement of the above sensor cluster with a ne ...

Triton Systems and its team members propose to develop an innovative, energy efficient, small human transportable field refrigeration unit for field medical operations. The unit will be used to keep temperature sensitive human blood products, vaccines, and reagents within an optimum temperature range to ensure long term viability.

Under this SBIR, Diversified Technologies, Inc. (DTI) will build on its proven EMRG Compact Power Converter design (N113-181), incorporating advanced power devices to take advantage of their improved wide bandgap performance, and allowing continuous duty-cycle operation. Front-end conditioning and switching arrangements will be developed to accommodate various input voltages including 650-1100 VDC ...

In this Phase I project, we will define and develop a concept for a multi-analyte sensor system to detect explosive threat compounds of interest at operationally relevant concentrations in seawater. Explosives trace detection and classification will be performed by Emitechs novel technology, which involves smart nanocomposites and multi-parametric electro-optical sensing. We will conduct a fea ...

The Navy uses intelligent tutoring systems (ITSs) coupled with training simulations to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of training for a wide variety of operational tasks. These training simulations require significant cost and effort to develop. Unfortunately, the lack of evidence-based design guidelines for critical decisions such as fidelity leads to simulations that are developed in a ...

A critical capability of simulation-based training environments is the degree to which they present a faithful representation of reality. However, there is a scarcity of scientifically-sound tools and methodologies to assess when increased fidelity will lead to better mission effective performance, and thus substantiate associated high costs that often accompany the development of certain simulato ...