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With the rise of the Pacific Rim economies, as well as the shifting global military tactics and strategies, it has become clear that Long Range Precision Fires munitions for extended range artillery is of relevance to the United States Armed Forces. In response to the DoD Army SBIR Phase topic A20-017, “Harvesting Thermal Energy for Novel Power Sources in Long Range Precision Fired Artillery”, ...

In Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF) 61% of soldiers injured in explosion blast events experienced Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI). The current incomplete understanding of TBI mechanisms limits the development of protection and therapeutic measures. Animal testing, in vitro study, and analysis of clinical data, while useful and necessary, are slow, expensive, and often inconclusive. Anatomy and physiolog ...

Recent statistics from Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF) show that 61% of soldiers injured in explosion blast events endure Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI). The current understanding of TBI mechanisms is incomplete and is limiting the development of protection and therapeutic measures. Animal testing, in vitro study, and analysis of clinical data are useful and necessary but these are slow, expensive, a ...

In Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF) 61% of soldiers injured in explosion blast events experienced Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI). The current incomplete understanding of TBI mechanisms limits the development of protection and therapeutic measures. Animal testing, in vitro study, and analysis of clinical data, while useful and necessary, are slow, expensive, and often inconclusive. Anatomy and physiolog ...

The Ablation process is a liquid to solid phase conversion process that has cooling rates exceeding 400F per second coupled with steep thermal gradients approaching 900F over a .500" span. Preliminary work casting Aluminum Metal Matrix Composites (359, 30% SiCp) using this technology demonstrated better SiC particle distribution than shown in other casting processes. Preliminary data suggest high ...

Obscurant technologies continue to be of high value to today’s Warfighter, what has evolved from smoke released from a canister are now high precision manufactured structures designed for individual targeted use cases. While the technology to model, design, and manufacture these items has increased, testing methodologies and apparatus have largely been restricted to large scale events. What is n ...

The research described in this proposal is intended to provide a basis for the development of advanced software technologies for accurately and quickly gridding CAD models for computational applications. The specific purpose of this work is to: (1) import and automatically repair CAD models; (2) develop means to automatically remove internal or external features; (3) automatically identify feature ...

In this SBIR project, a preliminary design of a highly accurate, highly repeatable impulse thruster will be completed. ASI, together with ATK, proposes to complete the preliminary design in parallel with the development of a comprehensive thruster model in a Monte Carlo environment that will account for every contributor to repeatability in the final product. Using modern uncertainty analysis te ...

The unique opportunity to solve stereoscopic sensing from a moving single sensor is provided by a combination of recent advances in image processing devices and image stabilization techniques developed by Equinox. These advances will be combined to provide a compact, low-power, low cost device that will support a user interactive interface for setting of the magnitude of the time-slip inter-ocular ...

While the traditional approach to collecting video data for stereoscopic display is to use two cameras, it suffers from several drawbacks including excess cost and size, added complexity, and the necessity of careful calibration. Within Phase I, we investigated techniques for collecting stereoscopic data from a single camera, which eliminated the problems associated with the dual-camera configura ...