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Sierra Energy proposes to demonstrate the production of low-cost hydrogen from waste-derived syngas. Sierra is currently partnered with the DOD ESTCP Program, and the California Energy Commission (CEC) to build a pilot-scale gasification facility at the garrison at Fort Hunter Liggett (FHL) Syngas is a mixture of H2 and CO and can be used directly for the generation of electricity via a generat ...

Stratonics innovation is an in-situ thermal inspection system for additive manufacturing that monitors and identifies critical thermal indicators to significantly increase yield, reducing cost and schedule while correlating inspection data to post-process inspection, supporting certification and quality part production. In-situ inspection and analysis of key thermal metrics will reduce material wa ...

SDCs environmentally stable composite joint can be manufactured at costs on the order of steel equivalents, eliminate up to 98% of corrosion prevention costs, and provide an ROI greater than 10. SDCs ESC joint was demonstrated at TRL 4 to be structurally equivalent to comparable metal structures and to eliminate corrosive moisture ingress to critical regions of a structure. This DLA Phase I SBIR w ...

The recent advances of modern high-throughput genomic technologies have resulted in a large number of fully sequenced microbial organisms. The construction of these comprehensive metabolic models serves many purposes including encapsulating all the data and allowing for in silco experiments to be performed that can drive experimental work and aid in strain development and optimization. The creatio ...

Rapid detection and identification of chemical warfare nerve agents (CWNAs) are critical to the screening and subsequent treatment of exposed warfighters. Inhibition of cholinesterase activity is insufficient as a marker of exposure to CWNAs, in that it can give misleading results and does not distinguish CWNAs from commonly employed pesticides. This proposal presents a revolutionary field-porta ...

This proposal aims at solving for a “Computer-Assisted Strain Construction and Development Engineering (CASCADE)” (SBIR CBD06-107). Our approach is to integrate BioSpice (a DOD product) and our statistical model developed by Quantum Intelligence together with publicly available data to develop a system for discovering the predictive relations between genomic fingerprints of an organism and it ...

The objective of the program is to demonstrate novel methods for achieving significant improvement in sensitivity of the active standoff chemical sensor operating in the 3-5 m and 10 m bands. Emphasis will be placed on photon detection improvement including reduction of background radiation and preamplifier noise reduction. Detector arrays will be studied for threat mapping applications. Tra ...

Redondo Optics Inc. (ROI), a world leader in engineering and manufacturing of leading-edge nano-materials, optical sensors, fiber and integrated optics, and advanced photonics instrumentation proposes to develop and demonstrate for the first time the concept of an etch-less, deep-UV, fully continuously variable attenuated-phase-shifted mask (ConvaPSM™) technology to enable ultra-high resolution, ...