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Boston Fusion Corp. and Arizona State University will research and develop REsilience & Stability in DENse Terrains (RESIDENT), a multi-modal, multi-model, multi-scale framework for assessing indicators of stability and resilience in dense urban environments. Our team consists of subject matter experts in the Social and Computer Sciences providing the bedrock on which to build accurate mathematica ...

Physical Sciences Inc. proposes the enhancement of the ChemSIGMA early warning system, which provides a wide-area distributed detection network designed to persistently monitor for airborne chemical warfare agents and toxic industrial compounds. ChemSIGMA is a physically accurate probabilistic framework for intelligent data fusion of responses from chemical point sensors in a distributed network. ...

Development planning is necessary for the US Air Force (USAF) to effectively analyze gaps in its planned missions and capabilities, guide investment in new aircraft and technologies, and plan for future workforce skills and development. A key development planning task is analyzing the impacts of alternative designs on the concept of operations (CONOPs), the lifecycle costs of system of systems (So ...

Physical Sciences Inc. (PSI) will construct and deliver a full-scale prototype “on-demandâ€Â high power battery that delivers the targeted specific energy (>100 Wh/kg) at the targeted specific power (>2000 W/kg) while meeting all mass and form factor requirements.. This battery will be constructed by combining PSI’s non-flammable electrolyte and high active (HA) coating technolo ...

AFLCMC/WISM has a national defense-related mission need in the area of A/MC-130J Common Lifting Device. Specifically, SOF aircraft often require unique technologies in order to successfully perform their flight operations in challenging environments. Technology being sought is a lightweight, compact, deployable external lifting device to remove and install line replaceable units weighing approxima ...

Triton Systems, Inc, in collaboration with its academic partners, propose to demonstrate a low-cost diagnostic device for therapeutic drug monitoring (TDM) of tacrolimus. The Phase II effort builds upon the success of the Phase I program, where Triton de

We have developed a novel low-cost, multi-functional blood coagulation sensor that can measure a patient’s coagulation status within less than 10 minutes using a 25mL drop of blood. This device addresses the critical unmet need to identify and manage patients with an elevated risk of life-threatening bleeding or thrombosis, the major causes of in-hospital preventable death. In addition, our inno ...

The goal of this program is low-cost production of large-volume radiation detector scintillators with enhanced-medium energy resolution of 2-3%, at costs approaching those of medium energy resolution detectors such as CsI. To achieve this goal, a two pronged approach will be pursued. First, we will employ materials engineering tools to improve the performance of an existing scintillator. Second, a ...

The ability to discriminate between threatening and benign sources depends on the sensitivity, accuracy, and identification speed of the detection equipment. High energy resolution of the radionuclide sensor is necessary to decrease the likelihood of false identification. However, few scintillators achieve better than 3% energy resolution at 662 keV, and none exceed 2.5%. The goal of this effort i ...

The goal of this program is to develop the mixed elpasolite scintillators in order to achieve an energy resolution of  (≤ 2.5% (approaching 2%) at 662 keV for crystal sizes of up to 2 inch by 2 inch.  In this project we will investigate compositional changes in selected mixed-elpasolite(s) in order to achieve very high energy resolution.  By incorporating 6Li, neutron detection will also be t ...