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The military is interested in new high density handheld radio batteries to meet evolving radio systems that require additional power. In particular, it is desired to produce a battery that has a capacity greater than 500 W-hr/kg delivering 12 volts and 16 amp-hours in a package weighing less than 0.84 pounds. This battery shall also maintain greater than 70% of its nominal capacity after 300 full ...

To increase the energy capacity, reduce the weight, improve the cyclic lifetime, and shorten the recharging time for batteries for use in future handheld radio applications, we need advanced energy storage technologies that perform better than current Li-ion batteries. TDA proposes to develop batteries based on Lithium-ion/Sulfur (Li-S) battery chemistry. To increase the energy density, rate capab ...

Octant’s social media network mapping and content modeling approaches will be leveraged to create high-resolution models of information environments spanning key neighboring countries, issues, and state media sources likely to be targeted by information and influence operations. These models will enable the ability to rapidly understand the narratives being spread through the network and how the ...

Accrete proposes developing a social media exploitation platform to achieve a revolutionary information advantage for the command. It will: map social media networks, measure engagement and quantify influence, track narratives and trace mis-/disinformation to its source. The adapted version will automatically translate content across data sources from 100+ languages to eliminate language barriers ...

The military is interested in new CO2 scrubber materials for diving closed-circuit rebreathers. In particular, it is desired to replace the existing cartridges of soda lime with a new material enabling it to be regenerated for subsequent diving operations without having to repack the unit. Toward this need, Skyhaven proposes to incorporate a new class of adsorbent materials along with a thermally ...

Organophosphorus nerve agent attacks are an unfortunate reality of modern warfare. Currently, the standard of care is to use up to three sequential doses of the Antidote Treatment Nerve Agent Autoinjector (ATNAA, which contains atropine sulfate, and 2-pyridine aldoxime chloride (2-PAM)) and an anticonvulsant. For severe cases, this is followed by continued dosing of atropine to block muscarinic ef ...

Serial sectioning of microelectronics, as needed for performing destructive, high-resolution reverse engineering and   failure analysis, faces several challenges, due to the ever-growing miniaturization of features of interest. Some of these challenges are as follows: (1) Current methods of delayering require access to multiple pieces of mechanical equipment such as semi-automated polishing mach ...

     This project aims to develop high-temperature (> 300°C) operational dielectrics for SiC CMOS integrated circuits (ICs) technologies in a production-grade fabrication facility in the U.S. All outcomes of this project will directly benefit future implementations of various kinds of high-temperature electronics for defense applications.Increasingly, the development of SiC CMOS-based ICs tha ...

Situational awareness and understanding the battlespace is a fundamental enabler across all tactical systems. To this end, ANDRO Computational Solutions, LLC will design, develop and prototype first of its kind small form-fit, multi-task Machine Learning (ML) based fingerprinting device – DeepeRFind: Sensitivity Enhancing Radio Frequency Fingerprinting Technique using Deep Learning – which per ...

The intent of this project is to complete a feasibility study to identify an end-to-end system that can unify data from different sources and generate actionable information for decision making, including geospacial visualization. The objective is to identify the relationships between various types and formats of data and to make correlations accross different domains and platforms.