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The Phase II SBIR research proposed here extends and expands upon the results from our successful Phase I research to develop a hand-held electronic nose capable of rapid, sensitive, and accurate detection and identification of a broad range of low vapor pressure (LVP) compounds. The overall goal of this R&D effort is to optimize detection of LVP compounds by improving system signal-to-noise throu ...

Our Random Obfuscating Compiler2 (“ROC2”) automated toolset will protect DoD HPC executables running on Beowulf clusters from reverse engineering or compromise. Preliminary DoD HPC research is often conducted on university Beowulfs, which are also used by unscreened researchers and students. The US is engaged in an arms race and must protect valuable IP. A ROC2 toolset is feasible now. Phas ...

The objective of this program is to develop a portable biosensor system to facilitate the rapid evaluation of complement activation in injured personnel. Traumatic blood loss and tissue damage resulting from civilian or battlefield trauma leads to complement activation that, if left untreated, contributes to further tissue damage, shock, respiratory distress syndrome and multiorgan failure. Approp ...

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, ...

The goal of this Phase 2 project is to build a prototype system that will enable scanning of TRICARE paper medical records into electronic format. The system to be built will be highly usable; enabling healthcare providers with no access to training and manuals to be able to use this data searching and mining system efficiently and effectively in order to provide better care for our veterans. Bu ...

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 ...