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ADA Technologies, Inc. (ADA) and Dr. Massoud Pedram at the University of Southern California (USC) have successfully completed a Phase I STTR effort for the development of a lithium ion (Li-ion)/ supercapacitor hybrid electrical energy storage system (HEESS) to afford pulse power characteristics (projected ~10 kW/kg) in a high energy system (100-150 Wh/kg). The system is enabled via a constant cur ...

SUMMARY Arboviruses present a constant threat to human and animal health worldwide. They are transmitted by hematophagous arthropods, primarily mosquitoes. One of them, Aedes aegypti, is the primary vector of several widely spread arboviruses such as Zika, dengue and West Nile viruses, and for most of them, human-licensed vaccines do not exist or are suboptimal. These pathogens are transmitted int ...

While studies support the efficacy of comprehensive, school-wide interventions in reducing bullying, these types of programs can require significant time and financial resources for implementation, resulting in barriers to providing school-based bullying prevention, especially in low-income and rural communities. Additionally, although training bystanders to act as “defenders” on behalf of tar ...

In Phase I, a research team of CFD Research and University of Alabama at Huntsville demonstrated both numerically and experimentally that tailoring of the supersonic flow field in a Mach 1.5 nozzle could be achieved by the insertion of three different cla

Airmen face exposure to a variety of potentially hazardous environments including exposure to hazardous chemicals such as jet fuel, energetic materials, paints, and other toxicants. Further, the conditions that will be experienced by members of the U.S. Space Force such as radiation, microgravity, etc. can have significant physiological impact on warfighter performance. Of the many dangers Airmen ...

Virtual EM Inc. is teaming with Case Western Reserve University (CWRU) to combine their experience and expertise in wireless system development and biological signal analysis, conditioning, and interpretations. The proposed system will use innovative electric-field sensors and signal processing algorithms to provide meaningful non-contact monitoring data indicative of both cardiopulmonary and cogn ...

 Currently, the Silicon Carbide based power electronic market is at an inflexion point from which it is expected to grow at a faster rate – increasing from ~28% CAGR to ~40% CAGR and to do so on increasingly larger wafers – presently moving from 150mm to

Mainstream demonstrated the feasibility of a novel Hydrothermal-based Blackwater Treatment System (H-BTS) that can produce energy and low-tier water from blackwater or other wet wastes. A 1,500 gal/day demonstration unit will be designed, built, and operated during the Phase II project. The system will be able to blackwater with a minimum Total Suspended Solid (TSS), Biochemical Oxygen Demand (BOD ...

TransWave Photonics, LLC proposes to develop high-power mid-wave infrared (MWIR) beam combining photonic integrated circuits (PICs) by monolithically integrating MWIR gain chips and passive photonic elements using an InP-based material platform that can be grown without wafer bonding. Our PIC device consists of a MWIR quantum cascade laser gain section, a power amplifier array, a waveguide array, ...

In support of the Army Research Office (ARO) dismounted soldier protections mission, Integrated Solutions for Systems (IS4S) and Auburn University (AU) have developed a soldier carriable Counter Small Unmanned Aerial System (C-sUAS) payload that utilizes High Power Microwave (HPM) technologies to defeat commercial UAS systems in flight. This payload generates a Megawatt class repetitive HPM pulse ...