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his project involves the commercialization of the breast phantom designed by NIST and University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) for quantitative magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). The breast phantom consists of two independent phantoms, one focused on diffusion MRI measurements and the other focused on accurate measurements of fat and fibroglandular tissue properties. The proposed phantom is o ...

Passive microwave sensors aboard satellites provide valuable information regarding weather conditions by measuring atmospheric attenuation over a broad range of frequencies from 0-200 GHz. Additional ground-based sensors are desirable to provide complementary upward looking measurements that can be used to refine existing attenuation models. Operating over such a large bandwidth, however, places ...

Liquid fuel based Divert Attitude and Control Systems (DACS) or LDACS propulsion offers superior performance for future flight systems compared to solids (SDACS) or compressed gas systems. The need for improved system performance while meeting strict safety and insensitive munitions (IM) standards represents a unique opportunity for Ogden Engineering & Associates, LLC to showcase the team"s novel ...

With discrete event or time stepped techniques, modeling and simulation (M & S) systems inefficiently utilize their expensive hardware platforms by idly waiting for results from slower model elements. Optimistic execution allows faster elements to"work ahead"but makes implementations much more complex, e.g., support for hypothetical timelines and speculative results that may need to be undone or r ...

The Sentar veriScan tool is a software assurance product for analyzing and assessing both source and binary software files for the presence of program vulnerabilities, coding weaknesses, and malicious intent. VeriScan automates the execution of a critical mass of analysis programs for verifying large scale, implicitly trusted software systems; performs risk assessments; reports on those risks in ...

The focus of Phase I of this project was to develop a materials based sensor to provide a novel approach to x-ray detection which is low power, cost effective, and highly integratable. Phase II of this project will further develop the design of the sensor and set the stage for a production level prototype. Phase II includes the investigation of the sensor"s capabilities and the optimization of sy ...

Applied DNA Sciences (APDN) has developed a reliable DNA-optical adduct that is impervious to copying and is required by the Defense Logistic Agency (DLA) for the marking of FSC 5962 electronic components. Commercial inks supplemented with optical markers and proprietary APDN DNA, trademarked SigNature DNA, ink provide authentication marks that are of a higher standard relative to other taggant t ...

PeopleTec, Inc., a Woman-Owned Small Business (WOSB), teamed with SECOTEC and ITT Exelis, developed an innovative and economical solution for evaluating high explosive detonation response to impact through a Phase I SBIR. The Phase II program goals are to fabricate and demonstrate an end-to-end checkout of an innovative, low-cost test instrument enabling the assessment of a wide variety of high e ...

Primary missile structures, ancillary mechanical and electrical sub-components of missile propulsion systems must be thermally isolated from hot propulsion gases. Silica-cloth phenolic and carbon-cloth phenolic are the go-to legacy insulator materials of choice. However, these materials have limited temperature use; mechanical degradation with decomposition of the matrix; and high thermal condu ...

Leveraging the results of our Phase I work, Torch proposes developing an innovative instrumentation system integrated with automated data processing and data fusion algorithms to capture full-hemisphere, open-air, fragment mass, geometry and velocity information from arena and sled warhead characterization tests.Data from multiple visible and infrared high-speed cameras will be correlated and fuse ...