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The overall goal of the Phase II work is to advance novel tissue-integrating lactate sensors towards human testing as rapidly as possible (proposal does not include human testing itself). A single sensor injected subcutaneously can provide months of continuous physiological monitoring data transmitted wirelessly through near-infrared light for remote monitoring. This proposal includes activities s ...

The Advanced Electronic Development Program (AEDP) will develop prototypes of photonic and digital components. Under AEDP, electronic equipment will be developed and prototyped, with components integrated for a capability demonstration. This work will be performed under the Phase II SBIR program.

Low resolution quality of operational data, size of objects of interest, view occlusions, and crowded scenes degrade the performance of state-of-art region saliency and object recognition approaches when applied to overhead sensor data. We have developed a technology to automatically detect and recognize multitude of objects of potential interest providing an object recognition decision with a hig ...

Arete Associates has developed a compact lightweight lidar system for precision bathymetry and topography suitable for operation from a small tactical unmanned aerial vehicle. The subject of this Phase 2 SBIR is to adapt this existing system to perform submarine detection, classification, and localization. System adaptations include hardware upgrades to optimize ASW performance, implementation of ...

CAMX Power is proposing to develop a real-time early warning fault indication system for Navy Li-ion batteries to significantly enhance the safety of these batteries and hence allow them to be deployed in a wide range of applications. Our Phase I effort showed that the CAMX Power Early Warning Fault Detection Technology for Li-ion batteries is well suited to redundant implementation for added secu ...

Spark proposes to develop a transformative heat-to-electricity conversion device based on thermionic energy conversion for portable power, unmanned systems and other military / commercial applications. Thermionic energy conversion has the potential to leapfrog competing solid-state conversion in efficiency and power density, but has been largely neglected for decades. The proposed research is a un ...

Filamentation of ultra-short laser pulse propagation in non-linear media offers significant potentials allowing to address numerous problems in military and commercial sectors. However, practical implementation of this requires an ability to control the USLP at its propagation through inhomogeneous media, like turbulent atmosphere. On the basis of our approach for combating turbulence effects on p ...

We propose development of an improved bottom database suitable for use in the frequency range of 1-10 kHz. Measured transmission loss (TL) and reverberation level (RL) will be jointly processed in building the database. The influence of the rough sea surface, rough seafloor, as well as subbottom heterogeneity will be accounted for during database generation. The rough sea surface will be character ...

Ayasdi, a leader in the new field of Topological Data Analysis, proposes to extend the previous effort in utilizing persistent homology in exploring data fusion. As part of this work, we propose both to deploy existing propriety Ayasdi technology and to develop new analytical approaches to interpret and provide users with a deeper understanding of disparate data sources. This work will include a ...

The primary goal of our Phase II effort will be to develop, deliver, and install one fully functional, 1.2 MW prototype capacitor charging converter to ONR, capable of continuously charging eighteen 325 kJ capacitor loads at up to ten charges per minute. In addition, aspects related to the manufacturing, costing and environmental qualification of future production converters must be understood and ...