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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Treatment for acute nerve agent poisoning would greatly benefit from the additional use of a scopolamine hydrobromide injectable. However, addition of a single-dose scopolamine injectable to the warfighter kit represents a substantial logistical burden in the field. A multi-dose vial formulation of scopolamine that is effectively antimicrobial and stable in the field would alleviate logistical bur ...

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 ...

Accurate and timely detection and classification of chemical and/or biological threat agents (CBA) used by an adversary in a battlefield environment is a crucial task for reconnaissance and force protection systems. A key technology component in CBA plume sensing systems is the light detection and ranging (LIDAR) system. In Phase I a preliminary AI algorithm based on the autoencoding technique was ...

FTL Labs Corporation, together with collaborators at the National Institute of Standards and Technology and University of Massachusetts professor Dr. Evangelos Kalogerakis, proposes a powerful new system for automatic 3D building model synthesis. FTL's “FRAMER” (Fast Reconstruction of Architectural Models from Existing Resources) system is designed to be flexible, fast, and accurate. It combin ...

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 ...

To engage a high value target in GPS/contested conditions over any significant distance, small Common Launch Tube (CLT) munitions must be able to navigate in the absence of GPS. This requires an alternate navigation solution that is able to constrain the drift of the micro/electro/mechanical system (MEMS) quality inertial measurement units (IMUs) in order to accurately navigate to the target area ...

Hands/Off Tactical Mobile Intelligent Communications (HOT MIC) is an edge/deployed AI solution for voice command and control (VC2) of sUAS and other potential unmanned systems. Today’s SOCOM operator needs to easily enlist new capabilities to the fight such as small Unmanned Air Systems (sUAS) while reducing task saturation and keeping focus down range. An intuitive, robust, hands/free voice use ...