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Critical need for a non-toxic, regenerative carbon dioxide (CO2) scrubber material with enhanced scrubbing capacities and safety for rebreather applications. The current state-of-the-art (SOA) scrubber material for rebreather is soda lime. Soda lime is highly toxic, has low CO2 capacity, and is non-regenerative requiring an entire logistics chain. Physical Sciences Inc. (PSI) is developing a novel ...

The Phase 1 project developed a new method for real-time robotic motion planning. The Phase 1 system can prevent task-performing (semi)-autonomous agents from colliding with objects in their environment (e.g., navigating a quadcopter while it inspects an object and advises a human in a repair operation).  The new Phase 2 effort will build upon these initial results by extending the developed cap ...

NDT Corp. will take the currently developed ACTT system, which can accurately assess the internal condition of concrete crossties and increase its speed.FRA 23-FR1 requests a system that at high speeds can assess both the internal and external condition of concrete crossties.Currently there are systems that can perform the external assessment at the required speeds.However, there is no system that ...

Complex military missions have failed in the past due to poor planning, wherein critical contextual elements of the mission environment, team, equipment, and/or contingencies were missed. Furthermore, important information is often lost in transition from planning to action stages in teamwork due to memory leaks and communication errors. The ultimate success of a mission relies on gathering and ca ...

This research proposes a data-driven and multi-perspective solution to reduce injuries and fatalities due to bus collisions with other vehicles. It goes beyond reviewing historical bus crash reports by collecting field LiDAR data for better understanding a variety of factors that may contribute to bus collisions and injuries/fatalities. It also recognizes that collision avoidance technologies (whi ...

First responders to hazardous material (HAZMAT) incidents face many safety risks daily, such as exposure to hazardous chemicals and toxic gases, which can be difficult to detect. Although there have been advancements in wearable sensors for hazardous gases, sensor technology for HAZMAT incident response lags behind sensor technology advancement in biomedical fields. There is a need to integrate se ...

Bifrost Biosystems – a recently formed biotech spin-out from Harvard University – here presents a platform for ultra-high throughput and ultra-high information screening of cell lineages. The basic platform involves individual lineages growing and dividing in narrow dead-end trenches that open into a feeding channel with flowing media. The media feeds the cells diffusively, and also washes awa ...

Over the past twenty years, substantial metamaterials development has taken place. However, most of these developments are best suited for air where the mechanical difference between medium and solid is large. MSI proposes to develop a subwavelength acoustic resonator for use in undersea applications.

The modern information environment (IE) is growing more complex and dynamic. Information technology advances enable adversaries to access and influence audiences globally with increasingly sophisticated tools and at an unprecedented scale. To understand the threat landscape and to respond effectively, there is a need to automatically detect, track, and differentiate the evolution of information na ...

BlueRISC’s proposed solution provides a new, fundamental approach to enabling the validation of COTS software with respect to a set of defined requirements. The solution is built on a generic program analytic framework for processing and validating against requirements. The proposed solution operates strictly at the binary-level and does so in a processor/ISA-agnostic manner. The solution automa ...