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MORSE Corp proposes phase II of the Parachute Olefin-polysulfone Obfuscating Film (POOF) airdrop concept. POOF nominally consists of a canopy constructed of transparent olefin polysulfone films that depolymerize into a benign gas when raised above a tunable transition temperature. The film’s depolymerization will be triggered by Joule heating, with a secondary transience mechanism utilizing phot ...

Additive Manufacturing is a disruptive technology that has the ability to change how components are made, used and repaired. The past 10 years have seen a rapid increase in the availability of low-cost 3D printers. The sophistication, quality, and ease of use for these tools has been increasing rapidly while the cost is decreasing. There exists an emerging opportunity to combine printed electronic ...

Back-up power equipment, such as engine-driven generator systems, undergo performance degradation over time that can prevent them from functioning properly in critical situations. Ensuring the reliability of back-up power systems during power outages allows for the continuation of normal operations, and can also mitigate potential threats to national security. Improved diagnostic and prognostic ap ...

Covert and robust recognition of individuals is a goal for military check points, entry control points overseas, law enforcement, and border control domestically. Face recognition in the visible spectrum is an important biometric modality. While it has increased in maturity, there are situations in which imaging in different spectral bands are desirable. Infrared systems rely on inherent thermal e ...

SI2 Technologies, Inc. (SI2) proposes to accelerate development of printed (i.e. additively manufactured), passive, planar, multifunctional Ku-band arrays for Army radar and other Army applications.These arrays have specific application to the Armys Modular Missile Technologies (MMT) program and fielded missiles, such as Hydra, Talon, Stinger, and DAGR.Specifically, SI2 will advance the prototypin ...

The advantages of the proposed device are that it is safe, compact, highly effective, and easy for a field medic to operate. The principal innovations of the device include: (1) the UV device is portable, (2) miniaturized, (3) shielded to allow safe use along with conventional hemodialysis catheters, (4) delivers efficacious disinfection results along the ex vivo catheter lumen that are not techni ...

Yankee Scientific completed a successful Phase I program that developed Thermal Management Technologies (TMTs) for improving how heat flows through a thermoelectric generator (TEG).In the Phase II program described in this proposal Yankee will utilize the improved TMTs to design and build man-portable TEGs products with 35 W and 70 W class outputs that will provide battery charging capabilities to ...

The innovation is fusion of data from optical and magnetic methods using novel model-based tools. The focus is high resolution defect imaging in the presence of corrosion/pitting for gun barrel evacuator holes and bores. Phase I demonstrated feasibility on simulated pits with notches and gun barrels with rifling. Phase II will mature data fusion algorithms, taking advantage of high resolution opti ...

Electro-thermal-ignition (ETI) technology increases accuracy and muzzle energy of present and future tank, artillery, and close-in weapon system guns by improving the predictability and repeatability of the ignition, and rate of expansion, of propellants inside the barrel. A compact, barrel-mounted pulsed power system poses survivability challenges for subassembly components. Electrical components ...

Physical Sciences Inc. (PSI) will develop a liquid penetrant system based on colloidal quantum dots (QDs) and a high resolution dual-channel fiberscope to enable nondestructive examination of micron sized cracks in the bore evacuator holes of gun tubes. The ligand-free QDs will eliminate hydrocarbon contaminants found in conventional penetrants and mitigate hydrogen embrittlement of steel componen ...