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Our overall objective is to develop (design, fabricate, demonstrate) a Bio-inspired Advanced Microfluidic Power System (BioAMPS) to extract energy from biofuels. We successfully met all Phase I goals and demonstrated a novel, proprietary enzymatic cathode and a microbial anode. We enhanced electron transfer efficiencies via specially engineered electrodes and achieved an order of magnitude increa ...

Rapid noninvasive detection of blast lung injury is of great interest for forward military medical care, homeland defense, and civilian trauma. Near Infrared and Diffuse Optical Spectroscopy (NIRS, DOS) are novel techniques that can penetrate non-invasively through the thorax/lungs, detect air/blood beneath the surface, and measure the lung function. The overall objective of this project is to dev ...

Development of actuators is the key to effective AFC! This has been stated in numerous papers and the subject of several programs. This program will produce an environmentally hardened Oscillatory Jet (OJ) Active Flow Control (AFC)system including compact lightweight integrated power electronics, powerful voice-coil actuators, flow separation sensing, and closed loop control. An existing 1/10th ...

With the current tight monetary constraints placed on the US military there is a continuous need to reduce the cost of ownership of the Army ground vehicles. The consideration of uncertainty and design optimization is critical for designing high-performance, reliable, cost-effective Army combat vehicles. The proposed work develops an adequate computational tool for accurately performing military v ...

Based on the problem formulation for pursuit-evasion differential game with the payoff of the optimal capture time and innovative multi-pursuers multi-evaders differential game techniques developed in Phase I, Impact Technologies, in collaboration with the Georgia Institute of technology, propose to develop the design tool prototype for stochastic pursuit-evasion differential games with multi-pur ...

An innovative program to develop high efficiency (>40%) MMIC power amplifiers at both Ka-Band and Q-Band for Phased Array applications.The power output for the Ka-Band is 2watts while the power output for the Q-Band amplifier is 1.5watts. A primary objective of the program is to produce these amplifiers at a very low cost in production that will make phased array systems more affordable. A key com ...

The use of 100 % F2 puts stringent requirements on the gas handling system, requiring passivation. The damage due to this surface passivation layer caused by the impinging particles causes the system failure. This Phase II proposal offers a highly integrated solution to this problem. It builds, on a highly successful Phase I, which demonstrated impermeable, F2 resistant, functionally grated (FGM) ...

Field tests in a variety of scenarios indicate significant advantages to using polarization for enhancing target detection in cluttered backgrounds or backgrounds with countermeasures. Polarization provides additional information in these difficult detection scenarios and has strong potential to address a variety of Army and MDA needs. For midcourse scenarios, debris and decoy clouds, low thermal ...

Polarization imaging holds promise for providing significant improvements in contrast in a number of target detection and discrimination applications. In several recent development efforts, it has been demonstrated that manmade objects have a significantly stronger polarization signal than natural backgrounds resulting in good contrast that complements the conventionally imaged infrared signature ...

The Army has a strong need for very high-energy density (> 1000 WH/kg), light weight power sources for communications and other advanced electronic devices. The possible solution is replacing the battery with hydrogen based proton exchange membrane (PEM) fuel cell. However, hydrogen storage and handling is a problem. Direct oxidation fuel cell (DOFC) with a PEM is quite attractive alternative. How ...