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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 ...

The OneTESS program is the U.S. Army next generation system for conducting live training exercises of simulated force-on-force/target engagements. The existing weapon orientation system for the OneTESS program uses magnetometers to obtain the weapon heading information. Unfortunately, the magnetometer measurements are highly susceptible to many random error sources such as sun spot activity, powe ...

Determining the scattering properties of small boats on a rough sea surface is a problem of high importance to the Navy. Due to the conducting nature of the surrounding water, the scattering signature of the boat cannot be determined just from a geometrical model in vacuum, but requires the simulation of its environment as well. The resulting simulations require large amounts of memory and computi ...

The proposed research project will develop an innovative approach to develop and demonstrate the technology required to produce a highly accurate, repeatable, and reliable thruster for divert and attitude control applications that also meets Insensitive Munitions requirements. In order to reduce risk, the design draws on proven component technologies. The prototype thruster will have a nominal thr ...

Modern atomic magnetometer technology is poised to deliver total magnetic field measurements in a sensor that is dramatically less expensive, smaller, and lower-power relative to currently-available sensor systems. Using a combination of technologies that have emerged recently, we propose to develop a scalar atomic magnetometer with sensitivity of 1 pT/Hz^1/2 featuring suppressed heading error and ...

The atomic co-magnetometer gyroscope uses polarized nuclear spin to provide the highest demonstrated rotation sensitivity in a package significantly smaller than the best commercial fiber optic gyroscopes. The Twinleaf gyroscope moves beyond existing designs by using of neon-21 in place of helium-3, enabling both higher sensitivity and commercial viability. In a Phase II development effort, Twinle ...

The conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq have produced missions that have demonstrated the importance of unmanned ground and aerial assets in aiding the warfighter. In particular, the use of UAS in providing ISR data has grown significantly over the last 6 years. The ever increasing use of UAS assets coupled with improved quality and resolution of the ISR information being delivered has created a spe ...

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 ...

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