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DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Project Summary This Phase I SBIR project is designed to develop new zwitterionic graft methodology for orthopedic surfaces with enhanced durability. As Americans live longer and more active lives, total joint replacement is becoming more common. Current orthopedic joints have average lifespans of approximately 20 years. By that point wear on the joint causes p ...

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DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Hearing loss is a leading public health concern, with about 17% of American adults reporting some degree of impairment. Of those, fewer than 20% seek help for their condition for a variety of reasons. To address this issue, the National Institue of Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD) is seeking solutions to improve hearing healthcare access and l ...

Many hardware trojans depend on (a) the ability of an attacker to have an accurate model of the target system and of key software used on that system and (b) identification of one or more deterministic trigger conditions with low observability (i.e., conditions that evade detection by traditional scan- or ATPG-based testing methodologies but that can be exercised on demand via external stimuli). ...

It is quite common for a group of GPS users to operate in close proximity and in a denied or degraded GPS environment as typical in urban canyon and heavily forested environments. Using the traditional GPS receiver approach, individual or all users may be denied the ability to navigate in such an environment, even though each user may be intermittently receiving useful satellite signal information ...

ABSTRACT: The Air Force is seeking advanced seekers that integrate multiple modes of detection. In particular, this SBIR will pursue development of a Semi-active Laser (SAL) sensor and a passive infrared (IR) sensor into an integrated seeker for precision and agile munitions. The enhanced capability is required to address military operations in difficult environments such as urban terrain, to ma ...

The objective of the Phase II project is to prove that Creare's innovative Web-Enabled Cognitive/Neuropsychological Evaluation System for Substance Abusers improves clinical outcomes and provides the enabling infrastructure to collect data from large cohorts of subjects involved in human subject tests that required or would benefit from frequent evaluation and monitoring.

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Alcohol and drug (AOD) abuse by employees causes many costly problems for business and industry including absenteeism, injuries, health insurance claims, loss of productivity, employee morale, theft, and fatalities. The loss to companies in the United States totals 184.6 billion a year. There are 150 million Americans in the labor force, of whom 10.5 percent o ...

Current offensive solutions to neutralize chem/bio agent facilities rely on blast and/or short-burst high-temperature neutralization but have the potential to produce severe collateral damage via agent release. Our team proposes the Dispersed Energetics Coupled for Optimized Neutralization (DECON) Concept, an alternative concept to perform bulk neutralization of agents. The DECON concept can be s ...

ABSTRACT: As intelligence and sensor systems become more complex, the amount of data being transferred increases. Naturally, this calls for a higher bandwidth communication backbone in the field. This demand has spawned a requisite for an airborne antenna supporting satellite communication at V/W band. The target platform for this antenna is a large UAV, such as the Predator or Reaper. The ma ...