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This proposal seeks to develop a 3D printing process to print a 3D package around a bare semiconductor die where the package is tailored to fit the application. When semiconductors are fabricated, they are typically sent to a foreign country for packaging. Within the foreign country, it is possible the part is counterfeited. 3D printing of a component package around a bare die should allow for the ...

The Missile Defense Agency (MDA) faces the challenge of countering increasingly advanced missile threats. Hypervelocity projectiles (HVPs) offer the potential for highly effective and low-cost point defense against advanced missile threats. Efficient algorithms for HVP fly-out trajectory generation are needed, to provide real-time guidance from launch to intercept. These algorithms must react quic ...

Infrared (IR) windows operating in the environment experienced by endo-atmospheric interceptors are limited in performance by the high heat fluxes, temperatures, and pressures characteristic of these environments. Window temperature can exceed 900 C from exposure to the high heat fluxes and temperatures associated with hypersonic flight. Existing materials are limited by poor mechanical and optica ...

To provide better healthcare to PTSD patients, there is a strong need to develop a powerful PTSD CDSS based on evidence-based treatment strategies, acting as an anytime virtual assistant for PTSD professionals, Primary Care Physicians (PCP) and residents. To address this critical need, Intelligent Automation, Inc., proposes to develop an innovative Virtual PTSD Clinical Assistant with Cloud Comput ...

Civilian and military organizations throughout the world perform surveillance to combat vector-borne disease. Of particular concern to the U.S. military are mosquito genera Anopheles, Aedes and Culex, which are important vectors for malaria, dengue and West Nile virus respectively, and sand fly genera Phlebotomus and Lutzomyia, both vectors for leishmaniasis. The trap most commonly used for by U.S ...

Current therapies to prevent scar formation and contracture of burns are minimally effective. QuickMed Technologies (QMT) proposes to develop an advanced therapy to enhance healing and prevent contraction of burn scars by combining the advanced prototype BURN-PLUS dressing with Endoform dermal template. BURN-PLUS is an occlusive island dressing with an adhesive apron bonded onto a super absorben ...

Good hearing is critical to understanding verbal communications, and to auditory situational awareness in military training and on the battlefield. Also, hearing protection is critical to the health and safety of those exposed to hazardous noise. In veteran"s compensation cases, Tinnitus and Hearing loss are the two most common disabilities awarded by the VA. Exposure to high noise levels, both ...

Non-compressible Torso Hemorrhage (NCTH) is the leading cause of preventable battlefield death for many decades.In recent years, there has been a resurgence of interest in intravascular occlusive technologies as a solution for this persistent cause of death in both civilian and military sectors.The Resuscitative Endovascular Balloon Occlusion of the Aorta (REBOA) device is the current state of the ...

This proposal is in response to the Defense Health Agency 2017 Phase I SBIR topic 17B-005.The approach is the use of a membrane oxygen pump using newly developed nano-thickness membranes with all the layers less than 1 micron total.Nanometer thickness membranes enable more oxygen output per surface area at temperatures of 300-600 C than current state-of-the -art 600-800 C membranes that are 50-300 ...

Service members exposed to blasts have frequent complaints of dizziness Appropriate treatment is critical for many reasons: Service members with complaints of dizziness and imbalance are often unable to perform their duties.This results in slower reaction times, decreased productivity (in the form of lost duty days) and negatively impacts force readiness.An integral part of vestibular rehabilitati ...