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This Phase I SBIR project will evaluate the feasibility of utilizing low cost and high accuracy local position sensors and transmitters to autonomously estimate Mid-chord offset in rails. The two innovative parts of the proposed system are (1) a set of miniature and highly accurate local position sensors and transmitters for estimating the absolute positions of the mid point and end points of a 62 ...

The US Army and Marines rely significantly on fossil-fuel based tactical power generation to provide electrical energy to deployed troops in small camps and forward operation bases. These generators are sized to support the expected maximum power but are often operated far below rated power due to the dynamic nature of electrical loads. On average, the generators are loaded less than 50% of the ...

The objective of this Phase I proposal is to conduct and complete initial formulation and feasibility studies on a novel crosslinked hyaluronic acid polymer for use in treating traumatic war-related ocular surface injuries. While this proprietary polymer by itself has been shown to enhance healing of the ocular surface based on its intrinsic anti-adhesive and anti-inflammatory properties, it is al ...

A reliable 20-year shelf life power source is needed to activate advanced smaller munitions. Most of the current batteries and other power sources do not have such a long shelf life and reliability. The only battery chemistry proven for such a long life and reliability has been used only for very low power applications due to limited ionic conductivity of the electrolyte. Materials & Systems Re ...

The majority of the US petrochemicals industry is dependent upon petroleum crude or natural gas as raw materials. The excessive dependence on foreign energy resources poses a threat to the energy security of the nation. Materials produced from fossil sources also have a negative impact on the environment. Nylon (Nylon 6 and Nylon 6,6) is a major product of the petrochemical industry. The total Nyl ...

Rapid prediction of convection heat transfer requires the solution to a problem that is too complicated to model analytically and too time consuming to model using traditional computational fluid dynamics (CFD) capabilities. These limitations have a significant affect on vehicle survivability assessments, which require accurate convective thermal modeling in order to reach goals associated to ther ...

Historically, radar hardware is designed for a particular application with particular analog hardware components. This greatly limits the flexibility of existing radar systems. Modern digital technology can be used to greatly increase radar hardware flexibility and capability. IMSAR has already designed, developed, and deployed a flexible digital radar, the NanoSAR C, that operates at >1 GHz RF ...

This work will address the problem of deviations of unmanned vehicle convoy followers by developing a method to estimate the parameters of the disturbances that cause lateral deviations from the desired vehicle trajectory. These parameters will be estimated each time a vehicle passes over a section of terrain. These spatially dependent estimates of the disturbance parameters will then be passed to ...

This proposal describes an innovation for making bulk nanocrystalline tungsten alloys that will be sufficiently ductile and meet mechanical properties targets set by the army. Tungsten (W) and its alloys are primary candidate materials for next generation munitions and warheads owing to its high density, high modulus, and other favorable properties such as benign environmental impact. The actual u ...

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