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Extant virtually reality surgical simulators are predominantly focused on simulating minimally invasive surgeries where the surgeon"s interaction is with long tools through fixed access ports. Infoscitex is building on the considerable body of work generated in developing the tissue properties and image generation engines for these simulators, along with more recent work in haptic and tactile fee ...

An automated, closed loop individualized system for administration of analgesic and anesthetic medication to patients is proposed in order to ensure vigilant, optimized care, especially in special circumstances when a large number of trauma patients must be treated simultaneously by a limited number of medical personnel. The result is improved pain management, safety, outcome, and reduced complica ...

Proper management of military personnel that have suffered burn injuries is very important for improved treatment outcomes. Essential management aspects of injured military personnel include: efficient triage, initial management and resuscitation in the combat zone, and subsequent evacuation to higher echelons of medical care where increasing medical capabilities are offered. Thus rapid and object ...

This proposal addresses the MDA"s need to develop a manufacturing process for application of anti-tamper coatings to protect critical program information and technology. The proposed anti-tamper coating and processing techniques will protect military electronics against reverse-engineering while being gentle enough to be applied to sensitive electronics. During the Phase I, Triton has demonstrat ...

Two approaches to high performance base plates for advanced thermal management applications are proposed. Inexpensive high performance Al/Gr composites have been developed with a quasi-isotropic thermal conductivity (TC) of 600 to 750 W/mK and corresponding thermal expansion (CTE) of 7 to 3 ppm/K. CTE matching base plates for advanced multi-channel phased array radar systems enable hard (solder) ...

The protection of CPI from unwanted transfer is necessary to ensure a tactical advantage over our adversaries. Various powered sensor response techniques have been developed for AT systems. These systems require a means to be constantly powered for long periods of time. A downed or stored weapon system may need protection for many years removed from a primary power source. Energy storage technol ...

Physical Sciences Inc. (PSI) proposes to utilize ground-based experimental simulation facilities to obtain critical velocity dependent cross section data necessary to extend and validate MDA/DESHs high altitude plume signature model: SOCRATES-P. This work will enhance the capability of SOCRATES-P to accurately account for plume phenomenology with optical signatures outside the traditional 2.5V5.0 ...

Triton Systems, Inc. will scale up and commercialize an innovative nanostructured anode material for use in advanced high-energy-capacity space-rated lithium-ion batteries. The new anode material has the possibility of increasing the capacity of lithium-ion batteries by a factor of 10. The deposition processes used to manufacture the anode are non-vacuum-based and large area, lowering the cost i ...

This program will develop a turnkey system capable of rapidly producing high-resolution maps of transmittance, energy gap, composition, lattice constant, second-phases and residual strain fields in a variety of substrates critical to Ballistic Missile Defense. The characterization tool developed under this program will address the needs of the fabricators of infrared detectors and focal plane arra ...

Recent advances in fiber lasers have shown their potential for power scaling to directed ener-gy levels. One of the most promising approaches is the coherent combination of multiple Yb:fiber lasers. Many of the high-power, cladding-pumped, large-mode-area (LMA) fiber sys-tems demonstrated in the laboratory have employed free-space optics to couple the diode laser pump power into the pump claddin ...