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In this Phase II SBIR Army Program, Physical Sciences Inc. will design, build, and test a novel high-gain, quasi-volumetric, directive antenna array comprising advanced single radiating elements that were demonstrated in Phase I. These single quasi-volumetric elements provide more directive pattern, greater bandwidth, and higher gain than conventional dipole antennas in less than half the linear ...

The Joint Services is seeking a miniaturized, low cost sensor for detection and identification of CWAs and TICs. To meet this requirement Block MEMS has very successfully completed a Phase I effort to develop a widely tunable MEMS enhanced Quantum Cascade Laser (QCL) spectrometer called LaserChemTM. LaserChemTM will have sensitivity in the parts per trillion, be under 1800 cm3 in size, have very l ...

Triton Systems, Inc. proposes to optimize further the insecticide system developed in Phase I. In Phase I, we showed that our insecticide system performed better than a commercial residual spray after heat or UV exposure. Our insecticide system will remain effective for an extended period time after application, even under harsh environmental conditions, to control mosquitoes and sand flies. In ad ...

A wealth of studies involving the effects of army materiel on ground soldier task performance exist, but the flow of data from these studies into ground soldier simulations is slow. Modeling these effects in a ground soldier simulation is important, because it takes into account factors that directly impact the ground soldier. Through continuing research, the Task-related Effects of Encumbrance ...

Triton Systems, Inc. proposes to design, fabricate and test to ISO specification a low-cost, “Smart” Intermodal Module (SIM) container system that will be capable of being tracked, traced, inventory capable, and chemical-biological (Chem-Bio) attack hardened and meet the Department of Defense critical logistical requirement by providing In-Transit Visibility in operational theaters. The unique ...

Advances in interoperability promise to take patient safety to a new level via the application of process control engineering. While the path to a fully engineered process is difficult, benefits accrue each step toward it. This project will advance us along this path by demonstrating a prototype "Context-Aware Notification System." By bringing together comprehensively 1) physiologic data, 2) pat ...

The U.S. Army's Joint Air to Ground Missile (JAGM) and the Air Force Small Diameter Bomb (SDB) are two potential candidates for insertion of multi-mode seeker missiles technology. Surmet has recently demonstrated proof-of-principle multilayer missile domes for these seekers. But technical challenges remain in scaling the processes to manufacturing level. The amount of touch labor, reproducibility ...

During Phase II period, Hstar plan to prototype an advanced mobile robotic nurse assistant (RoNA) system for augmenting nurses’ health care capabilities in a hospital environment with physical assistance. This RoNA system will: a) navigate intelligently in hospital environments with a mobile holonomic drive, b) support an intuitive interface guided by human-robot interaction and work safely and ...

In the battle to “win the hearts and minds” of civilians close to conflict, the U.S. armed services have had difficulty operating and interacting with cultures different from our own. This seems largely due to a lack of cultural intelligence. Specifically, the difficulty lies in understanding how culture applies to a given situation and how Soldiers’ actions will be construed within that c ...

The objective of the Phase II Program is the successful development and demonstration of an airborne Sensor that simultaneously generates passive millimeter wave images of the terrain in all four Stokes Parameters. The Imaging Sensor will be the Baseline Configuration designed in Phase I. The performance capabilities of the Imager will be demonstrated in an airborne helicopter test. The flight tes ...