Award Data

In a business where collaboration and rapport is critical, having Hokkien speakers may make or break a relationship with a partner nation. The military has linguists and contract translators, in addition to organic foreign language speakers; however, resources are extremely limited, so it is critical to invest in technologies that can enhance, enable, and complement existing resources. To address ...

Spectric Labs and Motorola Solutions (MSI) present, ATHERIS, a novel low probability of intercept/low probability of detection (LPI/LPD) waveform to facilitate high data-rate terrestrial and SATCOM communications on a low Size, Weight, and Power (SWaP) system. Our solution utilizes the proven COTTONMOUTH radio platform (TRL-7) from MSI to host the secure LPI/LPD capability. The COTTONMOUTH radio i ...

Warfighters need batteries capable of operating power hungry devices for longer missions while reducing the weight they must carry. USSOCOM’s 16Ah / 500 Wh/kg goal in a PRC-148 sized pack is ambitious — approximately double the existing options on the market. Thankfully, there are several cell technologies that exist at the lab/prototype level, and a handful that will be mature enough in the s ...

Modern lithium ion batteries are known for their poor safety performance, with many reports of battery failure and fire having been reported. One of the major causes of battery fire is from the use of flammable solvents, such as organic carbonates, as the electrolyte. These hazards have long limited the usage of batteries in dangerous conditions, such as on the battlefield. To combat this issue, t ...

According to a survey completed by NCAT in 2019, as part of the NCHRP 20‐07 project, 36 DOTs (out of 43 responded) consider fatigue cracking as the most common failure mode that the agency wants to address. However, in the same survey, 34 of the DOTs also indicated that fatigue cracking test is not required in their mix design specifications. This is primarily because a simple, practical, and ro ...

US Special Operations Command (SOCOM) is increasingly reliant on technology to underpin critical operations integral to our national security and to compete against great powers on the technological field of battle. As adversaries, including peer competitors, invest and operationalize technology to degrade Special Operations Force’s (SOF) mission performance, USSOCOM must make corresponding inve ...

To access and exploit mission data to enhance operations and deliver information and decision superiority, USSOCOM requires a highly scalable data management system that is available and effective in all operational domains, contested and austere environments, and all at levels of Special Operations Forces (SOF) operations. Data lakes and other data management systems that rely on standardizing, n ...

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 ...

Modern lithium ion batteries are known for their poor safety performance, with many reports of battery failure and fire having been reported. One of the major causes of battery fire is from the use of flammable solvents, such as organic carbonates, as the electrolyte. These hazards have long limited the usage of batteries in dangerous conditions, such as on the battlefield. To combat this issue, f ...

This SBIR effort proposes using live and continuous monitoring of metal tanks, pressure vessels, and pipelines using carbon nanomaterial-based sensing skins to detect excessive physical strains, cracks, and to inspect impact damage. The proposed research and development work leverages 15+ years of fundamental research. The key objective is to advance the TRL level and the scalability of carbon nan ...