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Innoflight will develop a high performance software-defined compact radio (SCR) with Ka and X dual band downlink capability and S Band uplink capability. The Ka / X SCR will support 300 Mbps downlink and 5 Mbps uplinks rates using advanced spectrally efficient waveforms. It will offer interoperability with standard government and commercial ground stations such as the Army RGT (Remote Ground Termi ...

A rapid and accurate diagnosis of infectious diseases is essential to reducing lost duty days for U.S. Service Members and accurately tracking outbreaks. Patient samples frequently require cold storage during transport to a centralized diagnostic laboratory. During transport, antigens and antibodies may be degraded by proteases present in specimen samples and lead to a false-negative diagnosis of ...

Laser guided missiles home into their targets by the reflected light of a laser designator. The development of a laser seeker is proposed for installation aboard the missile that acquires a 3D image of the target. Its primary advantage is that it would reduce the frequency of near misses in which the missile is guided into the laser light overspill surrounding the target. The proposed 3D Laser See ...

Wound infections that result in bacteremia and even mortality are a significant problem among soldiers with soft tissue/burn injuries.Overall morbidity associated with such wounds could be reduced substantially if the infectious etiology of these infections was clarified rapidly, especially for the presence of select multidrug-resistant pathogens. Current methods for diagnosing wound infections ar ...

The modeling and simulation industry has long been plagued by errors in synthetic natural environment representations and services. Terrain correlation issues span a wide range of layers, including database generation, data content, run-time algorithms, and system functional effect. These issues are highly damaging in terms of cost and training impacts. Although multiple attempts have been made to ...

This project develops a person portable, propane-fed, solid acid electrolyte fuel cell (SAFC) generator as a lightweight power source for dismounted soldiers.The focus of the project will be the development and testing of a complete system including cell and stack scale-up and testing, and a SAFC specific water recovery subsystem. The SAFC system shall produce over 50W electrical power for 500 hou ...

Advanced Optical Systems, Inc. (AOS) has developed and demonstrated the Cable Angle Measurement System, a low-cost, accurate system for measuring a helicopter’s load position and motion at the end of an external sling. By using a camera, an LED target, and custom electronics, the AOS system measures the load’s angle with better than 0.1° accuracy across a 150° field of view and with 0.1°/s ...

Under Phase I Microcosm and ITT developed the conceptual design for NanoEyeâ„¢, a low-cost, light-weight, responsive space surveillance system based on existing hardware for essentially all components and a Microcosm structure using existing composites technology. Both a Tech Demo mission and set of operational systems providing visible resolution as good as 0.5 m (at 175 km altitude) in the n ...

Army Soldiers currently consume pre-packaged Meals Ready to Eat (MRE), which are inadequate in providing sufficient nutrition for the level of physical activity they routinely perform. These MREs have limited choices; shorter shelf life and they are not tailored to individuals' needs. BeeHex proposes to analyze soldiers' DNA and gut-health data to formulate a list of ingredients for optimal nutrit ...

This U.S. Army sponsored SBIR project addresses the development of new, in-line sensors interfaced (via wireless communication protocols) with ruggedized, PDA-sized data logging devices that are able to provide tactical water purification operators (92W) with a real-time diagnostic tool for verifying treatment process operation, removal of contaminants and performance optimization. Key results fro ...