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Mimosa Acoustics will develop a portable binaural audiological device, based on our successful HearID system. HearID is a clinical system for otoacoustic emission and middle-ear power analysis testing; it is FDA and CE-marked. The new system will have the ability to conduct a variety of audiological tests especially for use in hearing-conservation programs, including: flexible otoacoustic emission ...

Mobile devices are increasingly utilized in criminal and terrorist activities. These devices are an important source of evidence to law enforcement officers and forensic examiners. Since inception, viaForensics has developed innovative tools and techniques for officers and examiners leveraging the latest technologies in mobile device forensics. viaForensics has previously developed forensically so ...

Operational Technologies Corporation (OpTech) has completed a successful Phase I SBIR contract in which 72 new candidate DNA aptamer sequences against Leishmania major were developed and screened by ELISA-like plate assay. Several pilot assays were developed from the highest affinity candidate aptamers using a commercially available handheld and battery-operated fluorometer. In Phase II, OpTech p ...

Throughout history, the ability of a fighting force to respond to battlefield casualties, perform triage, and evacuate their wounded to a treatment facility has been crucial to the long-term success of the force. Until now, the ability of medical personn

MedWorld will apply virtual world gaming techniques to enable military medical personnel to experience the impact of real world conditions in performance of their duties, whether they are on the battlefield or in a stateside hospital. MedWorld is struc

Accacia International LLC is a nascent biotech company, certified as a WBE/MBE, based in the heart of Texas and in the capital city of Austin. Accacia¿s scientists have provided consulting services and performed research work on SBIR projects in collaboration with other awardees, also developed products for commercial use. Accacia has also teamed up with the Ellington Labs at the University of Te ...

The goal of this research is to extend TMODS (Terrorist Modus Operandi Detection System), that has been funded by DARPA¿s EELD (Evidence Extraction and Link Discovery) and Genoa 2, and TIA programs. TMODS uses terrorist network analysis (TNA) to build the representation for abnormal social networks indicative of terrorist or illicit network-centric cells and searches for these patterns in huge po ...

The goal of this study is to attempt to place, where possible, highly efficient encryption and authentication algorithms in legacy devices already installed in the SCADA network. Where this is not possible, low cost inline security units will be proposed. On the larger scale, multi-level secure Internet protocols will be examined as a method to facilitate the sharing of control and status informat ...

Today, Supervisory Control And Data Acquisition (SCADA) is popularly deployed in automated control system of many of the Nation¿s critical infrastructures. Most of these systems were designed and built for operational efficiency. With cyber attack becoming an important factor, it is becoming essential to protect SCADA systems. Over the past couple of years industry is integrating many security fe ...

Echo Technical, with Dr. Ellington at the University of Texas at Austin, has performed initial testing of a demonstration biosensor capable of using aptamer-based receptors (Biological Reconfigurable Interface Electronics For Classification and Analysis of Selected Elements, or BRIEFCASE). After initial testing, we found that aptamer-based biological sensors as currently developed are not sufficie ...