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Real-time monitoring of wastewater quality remains an unsolved challenge in the treatment industry. The standard method of biological oxygen demand (BOD) yields slow results (five days); another standard method, chemical oxygen demand (COD), uses hazardous chemicals and does not provide direct information on potential for ecological pollution. The treatment industry has expressed need for the deve ...

In this Phase II project, Akita Innovations will improve the performance of our polymeric antifog coating with respect to antifog performance, abrasion resistance, and manufacturability. We will demonstrate a manufacturable material and process that meets all Army MIL-PRF-32432 requirements for protective eyewear, with superior antifog performance compared to existing products, and supply the Army ...

The Sky Polarization Azimuth Sensing System (SkyPASS) exploits naturally occurring sky polarization to measure absolute heading and offers significant performance enhancement over current azimuth sensing systems such as digital compasses or ring laser gyros. The SkyPASS system is a passive optical sensor that can operate at 10s of Hz, has no warm-up or calibration time, does not require leveling, ...

The goal of this program is to develop an autonomous, hover-capable, flying robot with an onboard chemical sensor chip for chemical surveillance and environmental monitoring. The key capabilities of this integrated system will be, in order of priority: 1. Real-time chemical sensing and data transfer to a base station. The final platform will detect and identify airborne chemicals using the Mole ...

Eskra Technical Products, Inc. (ETP) developed a bipolar lead acid battery concept that demonstrated 100 Wh/kg at the cell level.This proposal is directed at the development of a battery module which will meet the rugged military specification necessary for use in tanks and other heavy duty vehicles.ETP eliminated the use of lead grids and lead intercell connectors to further reduce weight and imp ...

US Army operations rely on air and missile defense (AMD) systems to provide fully integrated low altitude air defense against cruise missiles, unmanned aerial vehicles, and other low flying fixed and rotary wing targets, as well as tactical ballistic nuclear, biological and chemical warheads. Metamagnetics Inc. proposes to develop a cost-effective and compact auto-tune filter (ATF) that rapidly an ...

The Objective of this proposal is to design, develop, and demonstrate an advanced, evolutionary, open-architecture code library to enable weapons developers to easily adapt interfaces to enable legacy fire control systems to interact with novel sensors or data sources through a system-on-module (SOM). This software will also enhance effects by providing a framework to optimize data fusion to the f ...

Physical Sciences Inc. (PSI) proposes to develop an unmanned aircraft system based bioaerosol detection capability that is cued to a region of interest using non-specific, persistent and wide area thermal imagers commonly deployed for surveillance.The detection capability, referred to as Bio-MAV, will fold into a recursive Bayesian classifier (RBC) processing module currently being developed by PS ...

Torch proposes the enhancement ofa holistic, efficient, high fidelity approach for development of terrain models suitable for use in high fidelity EO/IR rendering applications and simulations. Torch will decrease development complexity and timelines through the generation of efficient characterization algorithms, artifact rectification algorithms, rapid clutter classification, and discrete element ...

In this Subsequent Phase II SBIR proposal Physical Sciences Inc. outlines the continued development of its electronic infrared (IR) flare illuminator technology that meets the Armys specifications for the M-278 IR flare while overcoming documented safety and reliability issues with the current chemical (illuminant) based IR flare. Specifically, PSI will address remaining elements of technical risk ...