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OBJECTIVE: To develop an analytic method to predict fragment characterization and the resulting airblast propagation from the detonation of a cased explosive. Current procedures are heuristic, based on empirical analysis of test data and simplified analytic expressions. While these work satisfactorily for traditional munitions that detonate in conditions similar to the testing arenas, there is co ...

OBJECTIVE: Develop a Forensic DNA Analysis Kit for Genetic Intelligence that can be used on unknown human DNA samples collected from the battlefield to provide information about the individual who deposited the sample, such as potential ethnicity, height, eye color, hair color, age, sex, and/or facial features. The kit should leverage Short Tandem Repeats (STR), Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms (S ...

Robust Chip (RCI) and Vanderbilt University (Vanderbilt) propose a joint project to create and characterize a comprehensive, accurate, single event simulation solution for ultra scaled (45nm, 32nm, and below) CMOS technologies. The project focus is on developing a production strength single event analysis solution for 45nm, 28nm and 22nm CMOS, building on the most advanced single event characteriz ...

Surface detection of specific radioisotopes of the noble gases xenon and argon are essential for detection and discrimination of underground nuclear explosions. We propose a unique combination of numerical modeling and stable isotope release experiments to enhance the predictability of subsurface transport of the noble gases of interest. Our proposed research will identify and quantify the physi ...

In the commercial world, corporate"road-warriors"connect to their home office servers using the RFC-2401 IPSec protocol client software installed on their PCs. Many mobile handsets have these IPSec clients built-in. The Suite B mode of HAIPE v4.2 has been closely aligned with commercial IPSec. We propose, therefore, using this client-server paradigm to develop a Suite B HAIPE client that will s ...

The objective of this proposal is to demonstrate a mobile application capable of determining the location of a remote target. When a photo is taken with a GPS-enabled camera, the GPS location of the actual camera is appended to the photo in a process known as Geo-Tagging. Remote Geo-Tagging (RGT) differs from this process in that RGT determines the coordinates of a target within the picture as o ...

This proposal investigates methods for graphene synthesis on Si (001) orientated substrates to enable high-volume production of graphene transistors and circuits. The proposed approach to generate a surface with the proper symmetry for graphene epitaxy is to deposit symmetry transformation layers (STL) of hexagonal-symmetry materials onto Si (001) substrates that will either facilitate the direct ...

Hydraulic actuation systems for mobile robotics are characterized by high bandwidth, high power density, robust operation, flexible power transmission but also by low efficiency, high rejected heat, and high noise levels. The undesirable characteristics of hydraulic power systems are not inherent to fluid power transmission; they are the result of the highly inefficient techniques used to control ...

This proposal is to grow complex alloys on flexible electronics (polymer) substrates that can be layered upon one-another to form agile and dexterous millirobots with excellent power to weight ratios. The process includes CAD modeling of the robots, folded panel extraction of the polymer, simulation and then fabrication in state of the art hitherto unavailable electroforming equipment. The end ...

Robots deployed by the DoD and in industry increasingly demand complex electro-mechanical systems that utilize high levels of integration within small packages. In addition, the cost of these devices needs to be an order-of-magnitude lower than current levels to effectively augment today"s warfighter on the battlefield it is surely more effective to deploy ten $10K robotic arms instead of a singl ...