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In Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF) 61% of soldiers injured in explosion blast events experienced Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI). The current incomplete understanding of TBI mechanisms limits the development of protection and therapeutic measures. Animal testing, in vitro study, and analysis of clinical data, while useful and necessary, are slow, expensive, and often inconclusive. Anatomy and physiolog ...

In Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF) 61% of soldiers injured in explosion blast events experienced Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI). The current incomplete understanding of TBI mechanisms limits the development of protection and therapeutic measures. Animal testing, in vitro study, and analysis of clinical data, while useful and necessary, are slow, expensive, and often inconclusive. Anatomy and physiolog ...

Ensuring User Interface consistency is extremely difficult---manual review and developer coordination is required to achieve uniform interaction metaphors across operating systems, web browsers, applications, and disparate devices. This is complicated by the capabilities of various UI toolkits and specific devices, as well as the development choices of the application programmers. We propose a ...

In this program Powdermet will combine controlled particle packing theory, particle interface control through particle coating and improve particle aeration by combining energetic gas formers within the obscurant compact. The end result of the program will be a device that outperforms current burster canisters with existing available obscurant materials and also can be applied to newly developed ...

The Active Protection System for a ground vehicle should provide protection from the full spectrum of threats. Based on our experience in developing optical fuzes, we present our notional concept for a highly accurate active optical fuze that not only requires minimal volume and weight but the additional submunition length required is very small or possible even reduced in some cases where an RF f ...

ADA Technologies, Inc. proposes to transition our previously developed BB-2590 Hybrid Electrical Energy Storage System (HEESS) architecture into a Conformable Wearable Battery format, or CWB-HEESS (Figure 1). We seek to satisfy a meaningful, Army Program Executive Office (PEO) Soldier need for a rechargeable, safe and high energy CWB. We anticipate the CWB-HEESS will have broad U.S. Dept. of Defen ...

As adversarial threats are developing longer range capability, HEL systems must counter these developments by achieving lethal effects at longer ranges. Adaptive Optics (AO) is a key technology that enables longer range engagements by compensating the effects of atmospheric turbulence. Guidestar Optical Systems, Inc. (Guidestar) has developed two innovative concepts for AO system architectures tha ...

The purpose of this SBIR is to develop a carbon nanotube metal matrix composite that can used in the manufacturing of small caliber sabots for use with long rod penetrators. In phase one, Additive Manufacturing has been used to make carbon nanotube aluminum metal matrix composites that met threshold requirements and have achieved 95.8% of the objective modulus and 97.5% of the objective strength o ...

Sciperio with team members Georgia Institute of Technology and Centecorp have teamed up to develop an Additive Manufacturing Composite using nano and micro fillers. The team will develop multi-scale models that are supported by experimental characterization for advanced 3D Printable materials. Inelastic response of high strength hierarchical structures composed of engineered materials and specif ...

An innovative modeling utility is proposed for designing rotor blades for Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS) with reduced acoustic signatures. Emphasis will be placed on modeling the performance and noise characteristics of small propellers and rotors operating at low tip speeds and low Reynolds numbers; typical of the platforms that fall under the Group 1 UAS category defined by the US Department of D ...