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The proposed miniaturized antenna takes advantage of two innovations. These include the novel antenna design concept of coupled sectorial loops and a wideband artificial magnetic conductor substrate utilizing a combination of dielectric and ferromagnetic (ferrite) materials. At its lowest frequency of operation, a coupled sectorial loop antenna (CSLA) can be designed to have maximum dimensions of ...

Polyacrylonitrile (PAN)/carbon nanotube (CNT) composite fibers will be spun to obtain precursor fiber with about 2 micrometer diameter. By optimizing stabilization and carbonization conditions, high tensile strength carbon fiber will be obtained with a diameter of about 1 micrometer. CNT incoporation can lead to the ordered graphitic structure in the vicinity of CNT, which will improve the mechani ...

Spectral Sciences Inc. proposes to develop a prototype sensor for real-time trace-level analysis of complex multicomponent gas mixtures, specifically those containing Chemical Weapon (CW) agents and interferents. The instrument is based on high power quantum cascade lasers and photocoustic spectroscopy detection. Advanced detection algorithms take advantage of wide spectral coverage to provide hi ...

MYMIC, LLC and Eastern Virginia Medical School (EVMS) will address the need for Service member preventive medicine education with design FIT-Health, an updateable, multi-genre authoring system for micro-games for health risk awareness. These short and stimulating game-based lessons will build upon one another to leverage new and existing knowledge within a region-specific suite while giving the le ...

Laser designation plays an essential role in today’s high precision combat environment. The stability of a laser designator is currently limited by the ability of the user to hold the laser on the target. Currently, the only tool to assist the soldier to minimize the beam pointing error is to use a relatively heavy tripod. Given the amount of gear ordinarily carried by today’s soldier, it woul ...

Research is proposed to investigate the feasibility of a high-isolation transmit/receive antenna system for Army land vehicles, using an innovative, circuit-domain, distributed, RF-passive cancellation system with active feedback control. Conventional time- and frequency-domain cancellation approaches have inherently-narrow cancellation bandwidths due to applying amplitude and phase adjustments or ...

We propose a novel and promising non-native speaker recognition system by using both high-level language cues and low-level acoustic accent cues. The system consists of a high-level language cue based sub-system and four accent recognition based sub-systems. Each sub-system can be used individually or together via system fusion. The novelty and uniqueness of our proposed approach are as follows: F ...

McQ designs and develops remote unattended sensor systems for DoD and other applications. As part of our on-going research into anti-tamper, information assurance (AT/IA) and reverse engineering techniques, we have developed a battery of processes that can help to insure that our systems are less vulnerable to attacks by an adversary. Many of these processes are extensible to the GIG-NCES at-lar ...

This Phase II SBIR project addresses the need to develop a treatment for toxic shock induced by staphylococcal Enterotoxin B (SEB), which may be disseminated as an aerosol in a biowarfare scenario. Specifically, we seek to develop a hyperimmune human polyclonal antibody that neutralizes the toxic activity of SEB. SEB has been weaponized and can cause incapacitation and lethality within military ...

The objective of this proposal is to produce a prototype 3D software tool for precision RF modeling/visualization of multi-path and attenuation in urban environments to optimize sensor placement. State-of-the-art 3D gaming technology and original mathematical/graphical approaches will be employed to accurately model and visualize complex RF behaviors in a highly usable graphics representation pr ...