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A CONTROLLED RELEASE ANTIBIOTIC WOUND DRESSING IS TO BE DEVELOPED FOR ADMINISTRATION OF BACITRACIN AND POLYMIX B. THE DRESSING IS TO BE EASILY APPLIED AND CONFORMABLE TO WOUND SURFACES. BOTH ANTIBIOTICS ARE TO BE MAINTAINED AT EFFECTIVE LEVELS WITHIN WOULDS FOR THREE DAYS, PREVENTING INFECTION FOR THIS PERIOD OF TIME. THE DRESSING IS TO BE INCORPORATED INTO POROPLASTIC CELLULOSE TRIACETATE MEMBRAN ...

Physical Sciences Inc. (PSI) proposes to show the feasibility of using a novel, spectrally-selective IR imager for the passive standoff detection of chemical agents and hazardous chemicals. The concept is based on the insertion of a tunable etalon into the field-of-view of an IR imaging system. The approach takes advantage of recent advances in the development of staring IR focal plane arrays, w ...

The proposed effort is directed at achieving Automatic Target Cueing (ATC) performance at levels which are essential for near term system deployment. The performance required for deployment is beyond the capability of current systems. The design emphasis is to have robust performance under a full range of operating conditions, and to use techniques which lead to efficient real time implementatio ...

CYTEL proposes to develop a novel system for robust, high performance identification of ground vehicles from acoustic emissions. Hallmarks of this approach include the identification of an optimal wavelet decomposition for use in extracting robust multidimensional features from the acoustic emission. These wavelet-based features will be processed by additional feature post processing algorithms ...

FUTURE THREAT INFRARED MISSILE SEEKERS WILL POSSESS THE CAPABILITY TO EFFECTIVELY DISCRIMINATE AGAINST IR DECOY FLARES. NEW DECOY FUELS MUST BE IDENTIFIED WHICH PROVIDE A GOOD SPECTRAL MATCH BETWEEN DECOYS AND HELICOPTERS, AND WHICH HAVE IMPROVED TOTAL RADIANT INTENSITY AND BURNING CHARACTERISTICS. IN ADDITION, ALTERNATIVE DECOY CONCEPTS TO THE FREE-GRAIN FLARE MUST BE EVALUATED. IN THIS PROPOSAL, ...

Toxic heavy metals, such as Pb, Cd and Cr, have been identified in the soil on Army firing ranges and around industrial sites which can contaminate the ground water and present a inhalation and digestion hazard. New technologies are needed for cost effective environmental restoration of these sites. The proposed research addresses these challenges by developing a new class of water soluble poly ...

Acoustic sensors are the technology of choice for Unattended Ground Sensors and Smart Munitions, like WAM. A key function of these sensors is to classify and identify target vehicles. Existing algorithms need to be improved to permit operation in low signal to noise conditions, against convoys and other multi-target scenarios and over a wider range of operating conditions. In addition, these sys ...

Assessing mechanical properties of the snow pack is essential to provide ground truth for remote sensing and to predict the propensity of snow to slide and its ability to support platforms. Currently, the most common method to do this assessment is to dig a number of large holes in the field. CAPACITEC thus proposes to develop a field penetration probe for measuring profiles of snow density, wet ...

Mine detection technology has not kept pace with the the advances in mine technology and the widespread proliferation of mine usage. The mine/minefield detection problem is complicated by numerous variables which. influence the process. Thus, solutions to problems such as the robust mine detection sensors and algorithms requires a fundamental understanding of information fusion as applied to aut ...