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Critical need for a non-toxic, regenerative carbon dioxide (CO2) scrubber material with enhanced scrubbing capacities and safety for rebreather applications. The current state-of-the-art (SOA) scrubber material for rebreather is soda lime. Soda lime is highly toxic, has low CO2 capacity, and is non-regenerative requiring an entire logistics chain. Physical Sciences Inc. (PSI) is developing a novel ...

In recent years, the nuclear power industry has been exploring the use of conventional powder metallurgy and hot-isostatic press technologies to fabricate large, near net shape components for high pressure components and other applications pertaining to the generation of electric power. Powder metallurgy has many manufacturing consistency and reliability advantages over other large-scale manufactu ...

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The Phase 1 project developed a new method for real-time robotic motion planning. The Phase 1 system can prevent task-performing (semi)-autonomous agents from colliding with objects in their environment (e.g., navigating a quadcopter while it inspects an object and advises a human in a repair operation).  The new Phase 2 effort will build upon these initial results by extending the developed cap ...

The modern information environment (IE) is growing more complex and dynamic. Information technology advances enable adversaries to access and influence audiences globally with increasingly sophisticated tools and at an unprecedented scale. To understand the threat landscape and to respond effectively, there is a need to automatically detect, track, and differentiate the evolution of information na ...

Complex military missions have failed in the past due to poor planning, wherein critical contextual elements of the mission environment, team, equipment, and/or contingencies were missed. Furthermore, important information is often lost in transition from planning to action stages in teamwork due to memory leaks and communication errors. The ultimate success of a mission relies on gathering and ca ...

Imperia Batteries, a division of Physical Sciences Inc., proposes to develop and prototype a modular, safe, high energy density Jetboot battery system by combining next generation electrode and separator technologies. The modular design will allow for a single or dual module battery pack providing a lightweight and high capacity battery solution, respectively. Imperia’s battery improves safety b ...

In Phase II project, Bhawin LLC aims to fabricate the current concept of solid-state Li-ion battery fabricating a single continuous phase for the anode, electrolyte, and cathode, and thus, eliminating the highly resistive interfaces between the electrolyte and electrodes found in straight solid-state Li-ion batteries. Advanced Li-ion battery technology will play a critical role in the understandin ...

Current artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms are built to align with ground truth or consensus of trusted human decision-makers. This is not effective for difficult decision domains, such as patient triage, where even experts disagree on the best course of action. A key reason human experts disagree is that their individual attributes influence their decision-making. To develop human-off-the-lo ...

To engage a high value target in GPS/contested conditions over any significant distance, small Common Launch Tube (CLT) munitions must be able to navigate in the absence of GPS. This requires an alternate navigation solution that is able to constrain the drift of the micro/electro/mechanical system (MEMS) quality inertial measurement units (IMUs) in order to accurately navigate to the target area ...