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In response to the DHS SBIR Topic DHS211-005, entitled Amphibious XTV for Ice Rescue, Triton Systems, Inc., will develop an amphibious Xtreme Terrain Vehicle (XTV) to facilitate United States Coast Guard (USCG) ice rescue missions quickly and safely. This project leverages Tritons experience developing augmented vehicles for the military, including work in autonomous navigation systems and extensi ...

Physical Sciences Inc. in collaboration with Boston University, will develop a compact and fieldable diagnostic sensor for the rapid multiplexed detection and identification of biological threats. The proposed platform is versatile and can simultaneously detect bacterial, viral and toxin threats in diverse environmental samples. The technology will provide highly sensitive and specific detection i ...

Triton Systems, Inc. will identify, design, and develop three noninvasive diagnostic tools to screen breath for the presence of communicable respiratory viral infections. The proposed screening technologies will be based on low-cost, high-throughput sensing modalities capable of detecting unique signatures of viral pathogens. After conducting a thorough and technical review of available targets, i ...

Transparent ceramic based armor provides a lightweight and field-durable solution for vehicle armor. Widespread adoption in vehicles is constrained partly because of limitations in affordably and reliably polishing curved transparent ceramic windows. This SBIR program will demonstrate innovative high throughput polishing technology that enables affordable curved transparent ceramic armor.The Phase ...

Next Generation 911 technology makes it possible for 911 callers to send multimedia to the Emergency Communications Center (ECC) as part of a 911 "call." While this has the potential to augment the current voice-only model to add useful, actionable data that can result in a more effective and efficient emergency response, it also has the potential to complicate and overburden 911 Telecommunicators ...

Triton Systems, Inc. will design, fabricate, and test a novel sensor platform for the continuous, autonomous, in situ analysis of relevant explosive compounds in passenger luggage. The technology will be based on a novel graphene based field effect transistor device (GFET) to selectively capture and detect compounds commonly found in commercial, military, and homemade explosives (HME). The sensor ...

Physical Sciences Inc. (PSI) will develop a deep-learning based classification algorithm for detection and classification of trace explosives, opioids and narcotics on surfaces for optical spectroscopic systems. The sensor-customizable algorithm will be trained using a module consisting of a standard desktop CPU and GPU for accelerated training times. The algorithm will be deployable on a smaller, ...

Electron accelerators that produce high duty cycle electron beams with beam energies up to 9 MeV are essential for use in practical Nuclear Resonance Fluorescence and EZ-3DTM imaging technologies. While isotopic identification of shielded materials is now possible via these technologies, it is still necessary to achieve accelerator portability, compactness and reasonable cost of ownership to make ...

Proliferation of the weapons of mass destruction such as nuclear weapons is a serious threat in the world today. Preventing the spread of nuclear weapons has reached a state of heightened urgency in recent years, especially since the events on September 11, 2001 and its aftermath. One way to passively determine the presence of nuclear weapons is to detect and identify characteristic signatures of ...

Non contact trace explosives detection has not been comparable to results obtained from wipe sampling. Many issues, including finding a method to release particles from a surface, efficient particle and vapor transport, and limited particle and vapor trap collection efficiency have all limited the process. Other related issues have included cost of ownership, ease of contamination removal, and com ...