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Traditional landmine detection techniques are both dangerous and time consuming. Landmines can be square, round, cylindrical, or bar shaped. The casing can be metal, plastic, or wood. These characteristics make landmine detection challenging. In Phase I, we have developed new methods that improve the performance of both surface and buried mine detection. Extensive tests using actual MWIR images ha ...

Traditional landmine detection techniques are both dangerous and time consuming. Landmines can be square, round, cylindrical, or bar shaped. The casing can be metal, plastic, or wood. These characteristics make landmine detection challenging. In Phase I, we have developed new methods that improve the performance of both surface and buried mine detection. Extensive tests using actual MWIR images ha ...

MEMS gyroscopes are impractical for long-term navigation in part because of their bias instability. MSSA has introduced a means to separate the signal from the noise that will enable stable operation of MEMS gyroscopes and enable inertial navigation over periods of time necessary for the execution of precision airdrop applications and thereby provide for operation without GPS. The gyroscope is a ...

Triton Systems, Inc. proposes to engineer, prototype, and test the lightweight and low-cost Triton Composite Airdrop Platform (TCAP) to support the US Army’s future Joint Precision Airdrop System (JPADS) and other military cargo and airdrop missions. The TCAP will enhance Army Future Force and Future Combat Systems (FF/FCS) mission performance by increasing net payload weight and decreasing init ...

We propose to iteratively develop and evaluate audio cueing methods and integrate them into current Soldier systems using our testbed for Developing Audio alerts and Verbal cues for Improving Soldier Situational Awareness (DAVIS). The following four components characterize our effort: First, we will adapt and extend the audio cueing methods developed under Phase I to broadly enhance Soldier situa ...

We propose to develop a multi-resolution software tool for thermal design and management of heat generated in vehicles by multiple electronics packages in close proximity. The software will interface with industry-standard thermal-signature code, MuSES (in collaboration with ThermoAnalytics) for efficient multi-functional capability. An innovative selective focusing feature will allow representati ...

Noise-induced hearing loss (NIHL) is a tremendous burden to the military. The sense of hearing is not only considered the most important survival sense for both the soldier, the monetary cost of NIHL amounts to approximately $1 billion per year in disability payments. We propose a hybrid computer model integrating an anatomicaly acurate three-dimensional computational fluid dynamics model of the m ...

Bodkin Design & Engineering, LLC (BD&E) will develop a prototype uncooled LWIR optical system that reduces both weight and cost as compared to existing systems. A significant aspect of this project will be to integrate the prototype hardware configurations with an existing man-portable target acquisition system.

TIAX,LLC proposes to develop a non-aqueous electrolyte formulation that will enable Lithium-ion batteries to deliver high power and achieve long operational life across an extended temperature range from -40 ºC to 70 ºC, and will also provide enhanced safety for these batteries. This will be accomplished by formulating a novel combination of salt and solvents chosen so as to achieve specific be ...

In this project, Energid Technologies and Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH) will develop a telerobotic High Frequency Ultrasound (HIFU) system. HIFU is a non-invasive technique for applying therapy within a patient's body without affecting the interveni