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ABSTRACT: Continuous supply of oxygen to the tissue is essential for wound healing and resistance to infection. Oxygen provides the additional energy source for the repairing process. In the early stage of wound repair, fibroblasts start to migrate, divide, and produce collagen. To promote fibroblast proliferation and collagen synthesis, oxygen must be present in sufficient quantities. Angiogenes ...

ABSTRACT: Microbial fuel cells (MFC's) use metabolic reactions inside bacteria as a source of electrons. Wastewater treatment processes with MFC's employ bacteria to generate electrical power produced as they breakdown organic materials captured from wastewater. FTL Labs Corporation (FTL) proposes a powerful new enabling technology for wastewater power generation using high-capacity flo ...

ABSTRACT: Aurora Flight Sciences, in collaboration with Worcester Polytechnic Institute, proposes the development of the Real-Time Safety-Assured Autonomous Aircraft (RTS3A) system. The system dynamically performs decision-making based on both sensed and predictive information to carry out adaptive missions and maintenance. This system leverages sensing capabilities distributed throughout subsyst ...

SI2 Technologies, Inc. (SI2) will develop a lightweight spectrum monitoring payload for the ScanEagle unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) with custom wideband antennas and a lightweight low power electronics package. SI2 will leverage recently flight tested wideband technology developed for the RQ-21a Blackjack to provide instantaneous coverage of the full band of interest with a minimal number of sub-b ...

The Sonalysts Team proposes the research, identification, and Proof-of-Concept demonstration of an architecture solution to the Fleet Numeric Meteorological and Oceanographic (METOC) Center (FNMOC) to include a software suite of tools for the Navy Advanced Climate Analysis and Forecast (ACAF) System. This approach will allow end users and FNMOC analysts to manipulate the latest climate, meteorolog ...

The US Navy faces several limitations when planning operations in regard to forecasting environmental conditions. Currently, mission analysis and planning tools rely heavily on short-term (less than a week) forecasts or long-term statistical climate products. However, newly available data in the form of weather forecast ensembles provides dynamical and statistical extended-range predictions that w ...

This SBIR Phase I Proposal addresses the need for a wide-angle beam steering array with piezoelectric single crystal Tonpilz transducers. The objective is to design, build and test a sub-array of piezoelectric single crystal Tonpilz SONAR transducers that can be steered over large angles with high directivity and low side lobe levels. These objectives will be accomplished through not only experime ...

Navy systems maintainers are being asked to maintain increasingly complex systems with fewer maintainers and, therefore, less time for each task and less mentoring from experienced maintainers. Current training practice is not sufficient for this environment because it does not focus on creating robust, adaptable skills that give the trainee background knowledge and troubleshooting experience to s ...

Navy technology is exquisitely complex, and thus difficult to diagnose and repair. Acquiring and, more importantly, retaining the technical skills for corrective maintenance of these complex systems is a significant challenge for the Navy. What is needed is an efficient technology for assessing, training, and retraining diagnosis and repair skills among technicians who maintain complex shipboard s ...

In addition to organic (i.e., military) sensors, non-organic (i.e., non-government) sensors are ubiquitous, but largely untapped. These sensors capture data that address critical information needs such as detecting emerging activities or pinpointing a targets location. What is needed is a novel sensor discovery and exploitation framework to harvest intelligence from opportunistic sensors and allow ...