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Ultra-Scan proposes to develop a soldier-borne bioassurance system that facilitates identity and liveness sensing through ultra low cost instrumentation. The new technology will result in a disposable, physically small, low power, high accuracy bioassurance patch capable of deployment for the Army’s Future Force Warrior. It will enable persistent authentication of the soldier’s identity to t ...

Existing near-field calibration methods for cylindrical MF and HF bow arrays are not easily applied to combatant ships with complex hull forms. The objective of this proposed project is to develop and deliver a cost effective in-situ system for providing sonar transducer acoustic calibration and quality monitoring. The output is a sonar element calibration or verification that will be fed into an ...

Efficient and cost-effective technologies are required to support radar ground clutter characterizations for weapon system simulations. Current methods for clutter measurement are often limited in diversity of look angle, frequency band, and spatial location. In order to address such limitations, SimTech proposes to develop laboratory techniques with scale model technologies to generate represen ...

We propose to construct and test a prototype system capable of non-invasively probing the characteristics of material properties using acoustical waves through thermal conversion of a remote laser pulse. The advantages of proposed system as an inspection and identification technique are: 1) Non-contact: Sensor does not require contact with container 2) Stand-off: Sensor could be located many meter ...

Impact Technologies LLC proposes to develop and demonstrate a system for mission readiness assessment using component and subsystem health indices in an open systems architecture (OSA). The proposed work will utilize mission requirements, component health states, and available models to develop a plug-and-play software module that can be used to assess system mission readiness in real-time. The de ...

The purpose of this project is to provide a technology that enables the use of constellations of satellite based, coherent, RF sparse arrays. Such sparse arrays would have higher resolution than conventional approaches and would provide superior remote sensing capabilities at a fraction of today’s cost. The key enabling mechanisms are 1) the ability to accurately measure the distance between i ...

We propose to develop a forward-deployable, three-dimensional visualization capability suitable for incorporation into web-based, next-generation consequence assessment models, such as the Joint Effects Model (JEM) and the Integrated Weapons of Mass Destruction Toolset (IWMDT). The thin-interface, web-based, image-server visualization model will enable more informed decisions by the consequence as ...

Low cost, tactical missiles such as the U.S. Army's PAM (Precision Attack Missile) will provide our nation with the capability of defeating threats to our deployed troops. However, improvements are desired in an effort to meet future missile requirements. One particular enhancement is the employment of dissolvable jet control vanes. Some offensive weapons, such as the PAM, typically are vertica ...

Embedded systems are commonly deployed in applications where reliability is critical to operations. More recently the interest in sensor networks has added a requirement for remote access, often over openly accessible or penetrable networks. This creates a need for a defensible embedded platform whose robustness is preserved in the face of external influences ranging from nuisance disruption to ac ...

Applied Science Innovations (ASI) proposes development of the Conformal Aspheric Dome Inspection System (CADIS) – a new tool for metrology of aspheric domes and associated corrector optics, and other optics “aberrated by design”. Existing interferometers test spherical domes but fall short of measuring aggressive concave shapes typical of conformal missile domes. The patent pending CADIS, ...