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This Small Business Technology Transfer Phase II effort aims to develop a fully integrated, modular human surrogate, a software suite, and wireless data transmission.  The main goals of the Phase II project will be to increase the biofidelity, modularity, and manufacturability of the low-cost, sensor-integrated surrogate developed in Phase I.  In Phase II, the prototype that was developed in Pha ...

Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA) is actively involved in the safe transportation of energy and hazardous material that are vital to daily lives. This also includes underground natural gas storage (UNGS) maintenance and safe operation which are critical to nation's energy infrastructure. Enhancing leak detection and identifying smart ways to prevent potential well blow ...

Satellite platforms play a critical role in the modern defense and intelligence infrastructure, providing timely, detailed, and readily available imagery to support U.S. national security. An ever present and fundamental requirement for this type of data is automated target detection and recognition, helping to quickly locate and correctly identify targets from vast quantities of image data. Despi ...

BLUESHIFT, or “Bi-directional Laser Ultrasound Enhanced System using Holographic Imaging For Treatment,” is a handheld non-contact laser ultrasound imaging device for military field triage identification of anomalies in tissue, such as shrapnel and hemorrhages. The size of a cell phone, BLUESHIFT incorporates innovative techniques to measure the skin vibrations from returning ultrasound pulses ...

Frostbite affects workers of all disciplines from recreational hikers, mountain climbers, snow cleanup crews, construction workers, electrical, oil, gas, and crew workers, police officers and firefighters, baggage handlers, and soldiers. While frostbite can occur at the nose, ears, cheeks, chin, and groin, the areas of greatest concern are the hands and feet due to peripheral vasoconstriction and ...

Satellite platforms play a critical role in the modern defense and intelligence infrastructure, providing timely, detailed, and readily available imagery to support U.S. national security. A fundamental requirement for this type of data is automated target detection and recognition, helping analysts to quickly locate and correctly identify targets of interest from vast quantities of image data. De ...

The goal of the proposed Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) Sequential Phase II project is to further develop a wearable, three-dimensional (3-D) underwater explosion (UNDEX) blast exposure monitoring system.  To date, there are no wearable blast sensors available to correlate UNDEX blast exposure data to diver injuries.  The uniqueness of the proposed 3-D OmniBlast Water (OBW) sensor is ...

Across the nation, school buses drive our kids to and from school, in rural, suburban, and large cities – all having the same problem: safely transporting school children. This proposal calls out (1) there is no school bus V2X solution that exists in any meaningful scalable way today (2) there is no readily available solution to solve for school children being struck during evening hours when vi ...

To develop a support tool for detecting retina damage, first a clinical decision support algorithm for rapid analysis of fundus images of the retina before and after laser injury was developed. The retinal images then went through a rigorous image enhancement phase, image data augmentation, and pixel normalization. Following the enhancement and augmentation processes, algorithms were developed to ...

Founded in 2004, the mission of Wi-Tronix is to improve railway safety, operational efficiency, and service reliability, in real-time. We are the preferred connected solutions provider to over one-third of all locomotives in North America. Wi-Tronix is proposing to leverage our expertise in developing and making commercially available AI based technologies for autonomous highway-rail grade crossin ...