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The objective of the project outlined in this proposal is to determine the feasibility of a communications tool that could prioritize and optimize information exchange. Information exchange requires communication across multiple internal and external network systems utilizing a submarine’s limited external communications capability, multiple internal networked subsystems and multiple classifica ...

The proposing team has developed an innovative antenna technology called the “Confetti” antenna that is particularly suited to this application, offering potentially revolutionary performance in antenna efficiency, bandwidth, and compactness. We propose to design and optimize a compact “Confetti” antenna for high-power, directive applications. This antenna will have a volume of only 500 ...

Due to the limitations and power requirements of modern computational hardware and sensors, the central goals of smallness and high-level autonomy (usually associated with higher algorithmic complexity and computational cost) are directly at odds with each other. Current small UAVs often shed weight through the use of limited sensors and rudimentary algorithms, while very high-level autonomy usua ...

Aerotonomy, Incorporated and the Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI), will develop enabling technologies for an aircraft that is capable of Extreme Short Takeoff and Landing (ESTOL), while retaining efficient transonic cruise performance, by applying a comprehensive, systems-based design and analysis approach to innovative combinations of active flow control methodologies. The development of t ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This is an SBIR Phase II proposal directed at the continued development of a diagnostic for the early detection of age-related macular degeneration (AMD). It relies on a functional test of dark adaptation kinetics (the transition from being light-adapted to being dark-adapted) that has been shown in previous work to detect the onset of AMD at least four years b ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This STTR Phase I proposal is directed at the development of a topical treatment for mild psoriasis. It is based on the recent discovery of a cell signaling module important for the regulation of keratinocyte proliferation and differentiation. This signaling module is centered on the enzyme phospholipase D2 (PLD2). PLD2 normally hydrolyzes cell membrane phospho ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): We propose to investigate, design and manufacture a sophisticated, pre-production protein crystal detection microscope, the Crystal Finder(tm) microscope workstation, incorporating extinction polarization and quantitative birefringence imaging for digitally enhanced display of crystal bulk contrast (referred to herein as Detect-X(tm) technology). Many protein c ...

Applied Systems Intelligence proposes to design an intelligent control architecture based on our associate system technology to provide a UAV-equipped medic team the ability to autonomously coordinate activities in a combat environment. In Phase I, ASI will document the specific demands on this type of system, design an architecture that includes associate system software for integrated combat int ...

This proposal describes the work performed by the DIME Effects Modeling (DEM) team, composed of Applied Systems Intelligence, Inc. (ASI) and the Center for Advanced Defense Studies (CADS). CADS brings leading technology research and cognitive modeling experience to the partnership while ASI contributes a proven cognitive engine and commercialization channels through their existing contracts. Tog ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Laboratory animals are often subjected to various painful surgical procedures as well as non-surgical procedures. It is the ethical obligation of all research personnel involved with the care and use of laboratory animals to reduce or preferably eliminate pain and distress by using analgesics, provided these analgesics do not interfere with the research objecti ...