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The challenge of improving maternal healthcare outcomes in Kenya requires an approach that comprehensively acquires and represents knowledge related to the public healthcare landscape, placing observed data and outcomes in context to determine why women are not receiving the care that is available to them. Without the ability to structure and connect various data, capabilities are limited in their ...

The PS-MBA Phase 2 program objective is to convert to practice the micro bubble acoustic array technology for underwater acoustic surveillance. Upon successful completion of the project, all of the technical risk for the basic sensing system will be retired, and upon completion of the option effort a prototype sensor will have been developed and tested in an acoustic test facility. It is anticipat ...

A fundamental challenge in multi-domain ISR is associating observations across domains. Despite recent advances in network-based association, the amount of human analytical effort currently required to associate information between virtual domains (e.g. the same event being described in different publicly available sources of information) with sensor information from the physical domain (e.g. EO/I ...

SI2 Technologies, Inc. (SI2) proposes to design and develop conformal end-fire seeker antenna systems to enable guided medium caliber projectiles. We will leverage our validated Phase I antenna and surface treatment designs to refine and optimize a form-factor antenna system and manufacturing plan for targeted munitions platforms. The proposed antenna is conformal, extremely low profile and afford ...

For the U.S. power grid to fail catastrophically, one or more utility-level or regional control systems must no longer be capable of balancing supply of power with nodal demand. Historically, these control systems have usually proven highly resilient, capable of accommodating large-scale generation outages (e.g., due to sudden disruptions to fuel supply), and substantial near-simultaneous transmis ...

Recent trends in geopolitical factors have made the Gray Zone approach to militarized diplomacy increasingly attractive. Unfortunately, the diversity and complexity of Gray Zone environments make analyzing potential strategies a challenging exercise, req...

CAMX Power is developing a family of batteries with voltage in the 0.3 V to 0.7 V range to meet the DoD’s critical need for high efficiency, long life power sources for unattended sensors and sensor radio networks. These low voltage power sources will...

A critical operational problem facing warfighters today is the easy availability to enemies of jamming transmitters that disrupt GPS and radio communications. This is especially important in typical Squad engagements where the enemy has local knowledge that we lack, causing reliance on GPS to have disproportionate impact on operations. Locating and targeting these transmitters is challenging becau ...

Asthma, hypertension and diabetes impact one half of the world's civilian and military population resulting in premature death for many people. The sympathetic and parasympathetic visceral nerves which enervate the dysfunctional end organ may represent a neural stimulation target to reduce the impact of disease. However, the development of visceral nerve therapies has been inhibited for many years ...

There is a strong need to transition additive manufacturing processes from rapid prototyping to full-scale manufacturing. However, current additive processes still lack robustness and scalability. This is because they operate in an open loop manner: exis...