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Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) are an important technology for many DoD and commercial high performance computing applications. A number of supercomputing, workstation, and embedded computing hardware platforms have emerged recently to supply FPGA computing power for these applications. Unfortunately, developing for these platforms is currently a long, difficult and error-prone process. Wh ...

PEC proposes to work on advanced curriculum development in order to integrate into an advanced gaming environment. To this end, PEC will adapt existing USSOCOM curriculum and provide guidance to developers in order to implement the curriculum. In addition, PEC will create avatars which can teach and demonstrate cultural gestures. These avatars will be advanced such that a user can take control of ...

Battlefield injuries are unique in terms of severity, types, and combinations. The ability to develop therapeutics designed to treat a broad spectrum of battle injuries is a unique opportunity with significant positive benefits. In particular, increased capillary permeability/leak and ischemia-reperfusion injuries play a significant role in military injuries such as battlefield trauma, hemorrhagi ...

HYPRES is pleased to propose is to develop the physically small antenna Direction Finding (DF) subsystem capable of environmental noise limited reception based on SQIF technology and implemented using HTS materials. In this phase I project, we will focus on the analysis and design of the integrated SQIF antennas and low-noise amplifiers configured for HF DF applications. We will analyze and optim ...

ClotFoam is a novel crosslinked polymer designed to stop hemorrhage without compression in severe wounds outside the operating room. ClotFoam’s ability to promote hemostasis in cases severe bleeding is based on the physical and coagulation properties of a fibrin sealant embedded in a gelatin support and enhanced by procoagulants, ions and molecules that increase the affinity to collagen. It is ...

Scaling up quantum computers is proving difficult due to the need for a scalable precision pulse generating platform. This proposal shows a scalable system architecture that packs 96 high resolution channels of multiple electronic outputs, 1 high speed analog, 1 high speed shaped radio frequency pulse, and digital serializable outputs that are each synchronized precisely in each commonly availabl ...

This Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I project will develop highly bright and stable doped nanocrystal/polymer nanocomposite thin film as light up-converting medium for infrared light visualization applications. Upconversion of higher energy light from lower energy radiation are realized through the use of trivalent lanthanide ions, actinide ions, or transition metals doped in a s ...

Recent DoD programs have furthered intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) objectives by advancing the state-of-the-art in sensor resource management and target tracking. The majority of this work, however, has focused upon the problem of tracking a handful of high value targets for lengthy periods. There is a need to develop systems that detect anomalous activities that have the po ...

With infrastructure costs escalating it is becoming essential to monitor the health of concrete structures so that timely maintenance can maximize their useful lives. This SBIR will demonstrate the feasibility of using a passive sensor, embedded within concrete, to measure mositure, temperature, pH and concentrations of chlorides. It will provide critical data for evaluating concrete performance s ...

Positioning and navigation have become a mainstay of everyday life in the U.S.; applications of interest include navigation of vehicles of all kinds, infrastructure mapping, and safety of life systems. Many of these recent applications have become possible through the GPS. With the recognized vulnerabilities of GPS, it is evident that equivalent backup systems must be developed. One possible so ...