Award Data

N/A

1The Navy desires to demonstrate an optical processing system capable of target aim point selection in an infrared image, in real time. Advanced Optical Systems, Inc. (AOS) has demonstrated with optical processing: aim point selection in visible imagery, in clutter; target recognition in infrared imagery; and small feature recognition internal to a target, in simulated IR imagery. We propose to co ...

THE OBJECTIVE OF THIS SBIR EFFORT IS TO DEVELOPE AN IR SCRENE PROJECTOR BASED UPON IR LASER DIODES WHICH CAN BE USED IN HWIL SIMULATIONS TO TEST MISSILE SYSTEMS. THE GOAL OF THE PHASE I EFFORT IS TO DEVELOPE A SINGLE CHANNEL LASER DIODE IR PROJECTION SYSTEM TO DEMONSTRATE THE PERFORMANCE CAPABILITIES OF THE TUNABLE DIODE LASERS. THIS DOCUMENT PRESENTS AEGIS RESEARCH'S PROPOSAL FOR THE PHASE I EFFO ...

THE ABILITY TO LIFT HEAT FROM A SELECTED PORTION OF THE SPACECRAFT IS REQUIRED IN A NUMBER OF THERMAL MANAGEMENT TASKS FOR SPACED BASED SENSOR AND WEAPON SYSTEMS. THE PROPOSED EFFORT WILL DEVELOP THE THEORETICAL AND ANALYTICAL FRAMEWORK TO ASSESS THE UTILITY AND FEASIBILITY OF A HOT PISTON PULSE TUBE VUILLEUMIER REFRIGERATOR. THE EFFORT WILL IDENTIFY A BASELINE APPLICATION FOR THE PROPOSED CONCEPT ...

N/A

IN GENERAL, PROTEINS FOLD WITH HYDROPHOBIC RESIDUES BURIED, AWAY FROM WATER. REVERSIBLE PROTEIN FOLDING DUE TO HYDROPHOBIC INTERACTIONS RESULTS FROM INVERSE TEMPERATURE TRANSITIONS WHERE FOLDING OCCURS ON RAISING THE TEMPERATURE. SINCE WARM-BLOODED ANIMALS PROVIDE AN INFINITE HEAT RESERVOIR, THE TRANSITION TEMPERATURE, TT, NOT THE ENDOTHERMIC HEAT, DETERMINES THE FOLDED STATE AT PHYSIOLOGICAL TEMP ...

Of the several protein elastomers - elastin, resilin, abduction, titin and twitchin- the elastomer with the greatest demonstrated durability is elastin. It is perhaps no coincidence that elasting is also most hydrophobic, as durability and hydrophobicity may be coupled. Also, greater hydrophobicity makes elastin-based elastomers of greater potential utilization alone and particularly in combinatio ...

The objective of this proposal is the development of degradable, transducible, biocompatible, elastomeric matrices to function as drug delivery systems. Despite continuing interest in the development of polymers, both synthetic and natural, (over a 25-year period), there is yet a need for suitable materials for drug delivery. Such materials would have significant and broad clinical applications in ...

The objective is to modify a currently available, synthetic polypeptide polymer to prevent the adhesions and fibrovascular scarring which can follow strabismus and retinal detachment surgery. Such scarring often produces significant restriction to eye movement and malposition of the eyes. The polypeptide, which has already been shown to prevent scar formation in a rabbit experimental model, is now ...

The turbojet engine starter system utilizes the pressure of the solid propellant boost motor to pressurize a fluid contained in a bladder tank. The increase in fluid pressure ruptures a diaphragm containment seal allowing the fluid to flow through a boost motor/heat exchanger where the high pressure fluid is heated to high temperature. The heated fluid is used to spin-up rotors and to ignite the b ...