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A probabilistic programming/modeling language will be developed and maintained as an open source project. A broad based open source community will be cultivated to support, extend, and manage the core language. A compilation system that has knowledge of certain machine learning algorithms will be developed as a compilation back end system.

A broadly applicable antivenom treatment is critical to protecting warfighters from animal envenoming in austere environments. The objective of this research project is to apply a cell membrane cloaked nanoparticle platform to neutralize the hemolytic component found in many animal venoms. In the Phase I technical report, we demonstrate that biomimetic nanoparticles consisting of polymeric cores e ...

MagiQ is has been developing interference mitigation technology that is allowing for a breakthrough in receiver sensitivity of electronic warfare systems. Wideband receivers are saturated when modest interference power is in the receive path. Our technology has the capability of attenuating the interference while maintaining a low system noise figure. The technology applies to a wide range of mili ...

In this Phase II program Polestar Technologies Inc. will fabricate a prototype system based on the principles demonstrated in Phase I and demonstrate its capability for specific and sensitive detection of both the 9-aminoacid and the 12-aminoacid forms of Oxytocin. During Year 1 of our Phase II program, a first generation prototype will be fabricated and optimized for all the three steps involved. ...

To address the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency?s (DARPA?s) need for compact optical isolators, Physical Optics Corporation (POC) proposes to develop a new Faraday Rotator with Magnetic Superlattice (FARMS). The proposed novel optical isolator design is based on enhanced magneto-optic (MO) effects in magnetic photonic crystals. The innovation in the technology is its capacity to engineer ...

Gener8, AOSense, and Southern Methodist University team together to propose a novel new architecture for a low-phase noise, single-frequency electronically tunable laser array at 780 and 852 nm that meets all the demanding requirements for low SWaP+C requirements in the CAMS solicitation. A rugged packaging solution is proposed to package the laser head in a volume of 3.0 cubic cm.

This proposal will develop an implant capable of recording and wirelessly transmitting electrophysiological signals from a wide variety of anatomical locations for the purposes of prosthesis control. Such an implant does not exist and will be of great benefit to the prosthesis community. Additionally, an implant with these capabilities will have a significant number of other clinical applications ...

The development of high energy density at high temperature capacitors will provide a key enabling technology for applications of power conditioning, power inverters/converters, and pulsed power system at an elevated working temperature. Currently available power capacitors, however, suffers from low energy density at room temperature and even lower density at higher temperature, limiting their ap ...

The increased burden and elevated performance requirements on Department of Defense (DoD) electrical systems for power conditioning and pulsed-power applications demands next-generation passive electrical components, particularly capacitors. Current capacitors operate at lower temperatures and are bulky because of their low energy density. Ceramic dielectric capacitors offer high-temperature per ...

This DAPPA SBIR proposal will develop a new class of voltage-sensing probes, type-II semiconductor nanorods with asymmetric band structure, to assay the bioelectrical states of human cells.Our previous study has demonstrated that nanorods can self-insert into the cell membrane and optically and non-invasively record action potentials (AP) at the single particle level. These nanoparticles, operatin ...