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SunDanzers High efficiency Refrigeration Unit (HERU) technology is a variable speed, two stage refrigeration platform, initially developed under Army SBIR topic A04-210, and continuing with Army Rapid Innovation Funding. HERU currently uses the military standard hydrofluorocarbon R-134a, vehicle type refrigerant. R-134a leaking into the atmosphere has 1400 times the greenhouse gas effect compared ...

NIST's seeks a high resolution DIC technology for qualification of complex AM parts. To meet this critical need, X-wave Innovations Inc. proposes to develop a 3-Dimentional Digital Image Correlation (3-D DIC) based NDT system. The proposed effort builds upon the success of XII in developing a variety of NDT technologies (including DIC system) for advanced materials evaluation. The success of the p ...

The Hybrid Quadrotor concept, developed by Latitude Engineering, combines the high power density of electric motors and propellers with the high energy density of a piston engine and liquid fuel. Together, each technology enables maximum performance in HQ's two regimes of flight: the electric system is responsible for lift while hovering (high power, short endurance), and the gas engine gives long ...

Technology Assessment & Transfer, Inc. and collaborators propose the development of a frequency tunable, high dynamic range heterodyne terahertz imager (HTI) with wavelength scale spatial resolution operating at 30 frames per second. The proposed system will leverage the heterodyne imaging techniques already developed by one of the collaborators to achieve frequency tuning and high dynamic range i ...

Scanning microwave microscopy (SMM), capable of quantitatively measuring local electromagnetic properties at submicron length scales, has been widely used in semiconductor industry, materials science, physics, biology and other fields of science and technology. In particular, it offers the unique capability of penetrating into the sample-under-test in a non-invasive and non-contacting manner. Howe ...

This work seeks to demonstrate the wide spread applicability of Geometric Multi-Resolution Analysis (GMRA) to uncover low dimensional structure in large volume and high dimensional data sets. The objective is to show that the GMRA approach applies naturally to a variety of data types and to demonstrate its practical implementation in a scalable data intensive computing environment. The GMRA appr ...

The goal of the proposed work is to create a suite of sensor processing algorithms and techniques that will result in the dismount localization system initializing and maintaining a good result while riding in a vehicle. The result of such a goal is that a user will be able to seamlessly exit the vehicle and perform their mission, all while still maintaining a high accuracy localization solution. ...

For operational robots to be truly effective in the battlefield, they would need to be integrated with intelligent decision-making capabilities. In particular, the following capabilities would help them to deal with the challenging real-world problems of off-road navigation, namely, traversability assessment (Capability 1), optimal trajectory computation (Capability 2), and optimal maneuver select ...

Layer-by-layer additive manufacturing (AM) has been flourishing. The next generation AM will be hybrid which includes 3D AM printer, CNC mill, micro-milling capability, CAD/CAM, pick-and-place tool and many interchangeable print engines. In other words, this next generation of printers will be a completely computer integrated system. For the last four years, we have been integrating an industr ...

The meteoric rise of personally identifying information (PII) created and shared online is unprecedented. The sheer volume of open source intelligence available on sites such Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, message forums, Instagram makes the task of collecting and organizing OSINT increasingly laborious for analysts. Novel technologies are largely responsible for creating these challenges, but they ...