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Every soldier, Marine, airman, and sailor will be exposed to hazardous noise at some point in his or her career. One major consequence of noise exposure is tinnitus. Tinnitus can impede communication, reduce environmental and social awareness, and degrade combat performance and mission effectiveness. Tinnitus can also harm a service member’s quality of life and future employability with severe f ...

US military personnel are subject to injuries caused by traumatic insults, such as explosions, gunshot wounds, and vehicle accidents. These types of injuries increase the chances of developing infections while waiting for transfer and after admission to medical care facilities. Treating infections due to combat-related wounds requires a high level of medical resources and is less successful compar ...

The promise of personalized medicine can be realized in part via point-of-care 3D drug printing, but only if there are reliable quality measures available. Children and seniors may need custom or easy-to-swallow doses, a need now addressed only in a limited way by ad-hoc in-pharmacy compounding. Compliance-targeted enhancements such as flavor and shape choices are particularly important for childr ...

Prescribed burns are a critical aspect of land management, but they require vegetation data that is hard to obtain at high resolution and on the timescale required. Our autonomous UAV collects critical fire modeling variables through subcanopy flight, enabling rapid surveys for faster and safer burn planning. In Phase I, we proved the feasibility of mapping live fuel moisture content (LFMC) with s ...

Future, multi-domain operational environments will require tools and systems that decrease the skill and experience level required to correctly perform critical patient care procedures, including airway management. Building upon extensive experience with device development for the combat medic, InnoVital Systems proposes to develop the Next-Generation Nasopharyngeal Airway (NPA), a universal devic ...

nbsp;We are developing unique Silicon Carbide (SiC) solar blind UV detectors with broad potential impacts in Planetary and Earth Sciences and Heliophysics. We propose to fabricate unique, passive and active, SiC UV linear sensor arrays. We will ultimately scale up our technology to fabricate 128x2 SiC active arrays with lt;40um pixel pitch, with a 3T amplifier readout circuit integrated directly i ...

Our innovation, Focused LIBS for Elements in Water IDentification (FLEW.ID), is a compact, cost-effective, and sensitive instrument for monitoring the elemental composition of aqueous solutions in plant growth systems on-board the International Space Station (ISS). FLEW.ID utilizes a miniaturized, low-pulse energy laser for performing laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy (LIBS) measurements that, ...

nbsp;The development of miniaturized spectrometers has revolutionized a wide range of industries. However, traditional off-the-shelf spectrometer designs suffer from essential deficiencies that are limiting their usage in important fields such as medical diagnostics or environmental monitoring. We propose adopting a set of new technologies and machine learning processes in designing and developing ...

We set out in the Phase I program to design a handheld, non-contact laser ultrasound (ncLUS) imager for aiding combat medics’ fast triaging on injured Warfighters in the battlefield. The ncLUS imager is to enable rapid assessments on conditions of internal hemorrhage and presence of foreign objects like shrapnel fragments through ultrasound imaging, all in non-contact manner and with the desired ...

Tao Treasures LLC, dba Nanobiofab (NBF), hereafter referred to as Nanobiofab, is developing a revolutionary RAPID-iNose solution to address the urgent need for an intelligent wound dressing system that integrates bacterial infection detection with NPWT. The RAPID-iNose employs low-cost, highly sensitive, accurate, miniaturizable, AI-powered gas sensors for rapid, continuous, and real-time monitori ...