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The goal of the U.S. Army, Air Force, Navy, Marines, commercial aviation and industrial power plants to develop gas turbines capable of reliable operation at turbine inlet temperatures up to 3100oF. Consequently, there is a driving need to extend the capability of SiC CMCs and/or related Ceramic CMCs and associated thermal—environmental barrier coatings (T-EBCs) to resist degradation in harsh mo ...

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 ...

The broader impact/commercial potential of this Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) Phase II project is to develop a novel technology for the early detection of complications and effective management of kidney disease at home. More than 37 million patients in the US have chronic kidney disease, which is associated with increased mortality and morbidity, including a greater risk of cardiovasc ...

The broader impact of this Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II project is to enable the provision of high quality vector surveillance data to public health institutions domestically and internationally. Vectors, or organisms that transmit diseases to other organisms, like mosquitoes and ticks, have a significant impact on human health and agriculture, with associated mortality and m ...

The broader impact/commercial potential of this Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II project is to develop the first small RNA-based immunization approach for several deadly plant diseases including Xylella fastidiosa (Xf) in grapevines. Xf diseases include (1) Olive Quick Decline Syndrome, which is currently threatening the entire Southern European olive industry and killing trees t ...

Current efforts to provide advanced maintenance capabilities can be burdened by legacy documentation and a lack of visibility into the fine-grained status of jobs in progress on the flight line. The Cognitive Observant Assistant for Coaching and Helping (COACH) addresses both of these problems concurrently with an intelligent virtual assistant that goes significantly beyond the state of the art by ...

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 ...

Secure systems rely on physical implementation of hardware and software systems, where various information leakage can be observed through various side channels and extracted with advance side channel analysis (SCA) algorithms. Recent advancement in computing, sensors, and SCA techniques have exposed new and more dangerous vulnerabilities. Hence a comprehensive SCA evaluation framework that can gr ...

There are two main focus areas in this proposal. The first is to transition a number of successful DARPA projects into the Open Group Sensor (Open System Architecture) SOSA™ Consortium. The second is to develop a system that can evaluate current and future key management architectures.

This proposal responds to the direct to the Snap-On Phase 2 SBIR by extending our novel non-parametric Bayesian framework---OTACON: (O)pen world intelligence (T)hrough (A)ugmentation and (Co)mposition of (N)on-parametrics---for novelty detection in open worlds.  We build on our advances in composition and inference of non-parametric Bayesian models, and insights from the mathematics of Optimal Tr ...