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In this program Infoscitex will develop a wearable electrotextile system that collects data from a suite of physiological and biomechanical sensors, pre-processes the signal and wirelessly transmits the data for further analysis and interpretation by a Neural Network (NN). This system will incorporate accelerometers, strategically located electromyography (EMG) sensors, and pressure pads in the so ...

The sophistication of weapons and the advances in protective armor in recent years has resulted in a change in typical injuries in combat situations. More and more soldiers sustain and survive catastrophic injuries to their extremities. Regional anesthesia is highly valuable in this context, providing effective pain management during medical evacuation, surgery and post-operative care. However, ...

Ontar proposes to design and implement a pharmacovigilance system and analytic database to rapidly and accurately evaluate the safety of marketed and to-be-developed drugs, vaccines or other treatment agents from disparate pre- and post-marketing clinical data trials and other sources. This will include development of a data mining tool to detect both known and unknown safety signals in the FDA, ...

We propose to test a new approach to cope with background noise environments during speech recognition. In the process we will give the BMIST group a data point of how well their recognition problem is handled by our speech recognizer.

Optical Alchemy has invested internal research and development resources to conceive and initially reduce to practice an approach to making moldable infrared optics based on using an engineered composite material. This material may be molded from relatively inexpensive materials with mass production processes such as injection molding and variants thereof. The technology for the optical element co ...

Engaged American troops suffering injuries to the extremities are best treated with regional anesthesia, which renders only a portion of the body, such as a limb, insensate. However, it is possible for long-lasting damage to occur when regional anesthesia is improperly applied, and a training system is needed that teaches anesthesiologist all aspects of regional anesthesia application. The syste ...

About 15% of combat injuries sustained during conventional land warfare involve thorax wounds. Many intrathoracic wounds cause pneumothorax (PTX). PTX is clinically defined as a collection of gas or air in the pleural space, the space that surrounds the lung. This loss of pleural integrity causes the lung to collapse, significantly impacting respiration. A relatively simple procedure of chest tube ...

There is a need to develop field repair methods for Future Combat Systems (FCS) composite armor to restore ballistic threat protection until depot-level repairs can be made. Building upon the composite armor field repair database generated under the Composite Armor Vehicle and Crusader programs, Triton shall develop the Field Repair of Composite Armor (FRCA). FRCA has the potential to restore a ...

A manufacturing technique is developed to strategically embed thermal pyrolytic graphite (TPG) insert into copper graphite composite. TPG will then be located in the critical thermal path of the power amplifier heat sink so that heat can be conducted from its edge into the radio chassis. The enhancement of thermal performance by TPG insertion allows applications where advanced wide band gap semi ...

The goal of this project is to test the effectiveness of a communications, command and control tool. The iRobot automatic mission planner/controller will be used to create and maintain an inventory of available assets (manned or unmanned vehicles, or individual ground personnel) and their special abilities; receive a mission goal and any attendant requirements (i.e., covertness, speed of executio ...