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A major obstacle for BMD systems to the introduction of new structures and designs using high-performance composites is the time and cost of the tooling required both to prototype and test new components and to transfer accepted designs to manufacturing.The development of reformable, reusable tooling based on 2Phase Technologies' patented state-change materials will reduce the time, cost and effor ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): EIderly falls constitute one of the most costly health problems in the U.S., both in terms of expense to the healthcare system and in individual suffering. Fully one-third of people over age 65 fall each year, many incurring significant injuries that strongly impact their long-term health prospects and productivity. Although many factors contribute to the prop ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): EIderly falls constitute one of the most costly health problems in the U.S., both in terms of expense to the healthcare system and in individual suffering. Fully one-third of people over age 65 fall each year, many incurring significant injuries that strongly impact their long-term health prospects and productivity. Although many factors contribute to the prop ...

Phased-array radar employing wideband digital beamforming (DBF) offers the potential for detecting and tracking incoming cruise missiles while defeating electronic countermeasures such as chaff, jamming and anti-reflective coatings. A wide instantaneousradar bandwidth is essential for defeating these threats, resulting in improved range resolution and target signature. Digital beamforming may be u ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): A computer controlled switching stimulator/amplifier is proposed which is capable of delivering electrical stimuli between pairs of intracranial electrodes, while simultaneously monitoring the EEG potentials on all implanted electrodes immediately before and after stimulus application In phase 1, a key feasibility issue will be to study the electro-chemical ef ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Bacterial contamination of blood products is currently a major problem in transfusion medicine and a leading cause of transfusion-related deaths. Platelets are particularly susceptible to contamination because they are stored at room temperature. BCR Diagnostics, Inc. (BCR) has developed a novel biosensor platform for detecting low levels of bacteria in r ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The ability to evaluate the performance of seat cushions is critical to the development of wheelchair seating and standards, and to the selection of cushions by consumers and therapists. To assess the ability of a wheelchair cushion to distribute pressure, the Skeletal Embedded Loading Indentor (SKELI) was designed to simulate both the soft tissue and bony skel ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): A feasibility study for the development of a friction drive inclined platform lift will be conducted. The proposed approach will utilize a twenty-year old design that was never sold commercially due to cost ineffectiveness, and nonconformance to safety regulations. This project's main technical innovation will be to replace the major cost component of the twen ...

In response to STTR Topic MDA03T-006, KVH Industries proposes to combine the advantages of short-term precision of an inertial measurement unit (IMU) and the long-term stability of the Global Positioning System (GPS). The resulting integrated GPS/IMUsystem would offer significant performance (e.g., reduced accuracy degradation) and cost benefits. By tightly coupling the GPS pseudorange and inertia ...

Program Objectives:Laser Fare has two objectives for the proposed Phase II SBIR program. The first involves gathering sufficient statistically significant data, based upon diagnostic examination of a laser trepanned test plate from each of the following sub-contractors:LASAG, Spectra-Physics, Trumpf, Lumonics, and Convergent. Each test plate will include 12,288 laser trepanned holes through an I ...