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Artificial intelligence-assisted detection and imaging technology can gather data on underwater, surface, and aerial threats to gain situational awareness over opposing forces, and aids in navigating dangerous marine and terrestrial environments. Successful and efficient use of intel is crucial for strategic information warfare, but many current technologies require active monitoring to identify t ...

In Phase II project, Bhawin LLC aims to fabricate the current concept of solid-state Li-ion battery fabricating a single continuous phase for the anode, electrolyte, and cathode, and thus, eliminating the highly resistive interfaces between the electrolyte and electrodes found in straight solid-state Li-ion batteries. Advanced Li-ion battery technology will play a critical role in the understandin ...

Special Operations Forces (SOF) Operators face high cognitive loads while performing various mission threads, including making complicated decisions and maintaining situation awareness in a dynamic battlespace. This can involve managing equipment (sensors and effectors), maintaining awareness of the environment, developing courses of action (COAs) that comply with rules of engagement (ROEs), and e ...

PHMSA reports a total of 5,745 pipeline incidents with 282 deaths and 1,193 injuries in the 20-year period from 2000 through 2019. Moreover, these incidents cost $10,419,311,449 in damages. Most oil and gas (O&G) transmission pipes are repaired externally by excavating around a damaged or leak site, preparing the pipe surface, and mechanically installing a repair product such as a clamp or wrap on ...

ESSPI will continue development of a Battery Logistics Integrated Safety System (BLISS). BLISS is a unique solution to lithium-ion battery transport and storage safety challenges such as fire and explosion. BLISS dramatically improves safety during battery logistics, aligns with current logistics processes (non-disruptive), and provides a cost-effective battery packaging system that meets current ...

RF Viper is a novel next generation system to stop wrong-way drivers (WWD) on ramps. It is the “vehicle-to- infrastructure” missing component of the current Alert & Warning systems installed in many states. Like a true viper that uses its fangs to inject venom and incapacitate its prey, the RF Viper emits energy that interrupts vehicle engine electronics, stops the engine, incapacitating the v ...

Drone–based assessment of rail grade crossings offers a great potential for rapid assessment of hang-up condition, visual sight line analysis, and crossing infrastructure. Through the Phase I SBIR, a proof-of-concept system was demonstrated at highway-rail crossings near Chelsea, MI with partner review. The collected imagery was processed through 3D photogrammetric software to produce high resol ...

A prototyping effort is being proposed to develop methods and tools for utilizing structures of opportunity as efficient radiations in the HF, VHF and UHF bands.

VAWD Applied Science and Technology is pleased to offer the following proposal in response to Phase II - SOCOM173-004 - "Handheld or Body-worn Hidden Chamber Detection". The Handheld Hidden Chamber Detection Radar will operate like a flash light and automatically detect, locate, and classify hidden compartments. The Radar will operate from inside a building for room to room operations discriminati ...

With the introduction of Level 2 (L2) vehicle automation technologies, a core challenge facing drivers is to remain engaged in the driving task and aware of the vehicle environment despite not playing an immediate role in the low-level driving control loop. To overcome this challenge, SoarTech developed DAISY, an innovative vehicle sub-system that maintains internal and external situation awarenes ...