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The TAF Mobile Office Module provides 4G LTE connectivity and office services needed by DLAs mobile workforce. The TAF Mobile Office Module is light enough to be lifted by one person and installs in the vehicle in under one minute. It allows DLA Disposition Services mobile workers to continue the use of GSA fleet vehicles by simply buckling in the TAF Mobile Office Module. This provides DLA the fu ...

The primary goal of a terrorist-organized data leak is to share private data with the rest of the world. Once acquired, U.S. Government personnel information can provide actionable information to use against the U.S. in the form of direct strike, blackmail, fraud, or impersonation. For special operators at numerous government organizations, this leakage or discovery of personal information can hav ...

There is ample evidence and channels for US military operational information to be released via social media and the interment; possibly compromising OPSEC. Tools to accurately identify what publicly available information is out there are lacking and even if these data were readily available, the volume is quite significant and tools to integrate and analyze are likewise lacking. Moving from overs ...

Uncertainty quantification (UQ) can be performed with existing MDA M&S tools if efficient algorithms are developed and deployed. OptTek proposes to explore innovative methods and algorithms to 1) quantify output variation from all input uncertainties providing distributional information and extreme value identification, 2) isolate output variation from individual input uncertainties and from input ...

There is an urgent need to improve protection of our soldiers without losing mobility and maneuverability. As personal protection equipment becomes more sophisticated and multifunctional for protection against ballistics, shrapnel, and stabbing, it has also become heavier and more cumbersome. This additional mass can inhibit troop movement and potentially compromise the mission and even survivabil ...

A new dual pump hydraulic supply designed to enable energetically autonomous exoskeleton robots will be developed, tested and demonstrated. This new hydraulic supply will be integrated with a high performance hydraulically actuated full body exoskeleton robot and used to test and demonstrate the overall performances of such systems. New control policies that include: (i) an assist mode, where the ...

The S-351 mini-sub is a prototype of the Dry Combat Submersible (DCS). This prototype was established as a means of risk reduction prior to a full commitment to the DCS program. Both of these platforms have an operational need to transit with minimum operator fatigue safely to a pre-defined point and covertly deploy and retrieve SEALS. To meet these operational needs, these platforms require upgra ...

This project will deliver, in Phase 1, aptamers build from an artificially expanded genetic information system (AEGIS) that bind to at least four of five antimicrobial targets: amphotericin, voriconazole, colistin, gentamicin, and meropenem. These aptamers will be shown in a prototype to bind these targets at relevant concentrations over a relevant dynamic range in 50 L blood samples. In Phase 2, ...

Septic shock is a significant worldwide health problem that affects millions, but is complicated to treat since many of the signs and symptoms are non-specific and common to other non-infectious sources of systemic shock. Patient care would be improved by a rapid test to monitor key biomarkers and determine whether antibiotic use is appropriate. We propose to deliver a quantitative, multiplexed ...

Text is a treasure trove of data for social, behavioral and economic researchers, for which the rapidly developing field of automated text analysis has produced numerous methods. However, the machine classifiers on which many of these methods depend degrade as data becomes noisier. Ad hoc approaches to reducing noisesuch as using analyst-generated keywords to collect documentscan introduce bias. D ...