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Blood loss due to uncontrolled hemorrhage is a major contribution to at least 90% of the combat death before reaching the field hospital. The ability to control heavy bleeding in the injured soldier is critical and will vastly improve the survival outcome in the theater. Furthermore, complications from uncontrolled bleeding in the microvasculature contribute significantly to increased morbidity. ...

Cultured cell-based biosensors offer insight into the physiological action of the agent of interest, which is an advantage over other types of sensors. The development of cell-based biosensors that are field-portable would increase their utility in toxicology and environmental monitoring. One of the most significant issues hampering the development of field portable cell-based biosensors is the ...

Based on the success of developing high sensitivity laser vibrometers for landmine detections during the Phase I program, technologies are proposed for this Phase II research program to improve further the sensitivity and accuracy in locating buried landmines as well as increases in the efficiency and speed in scanning over the minefields of interest. Approaches to achieve these goals include the ...

Echo Technical and the Ellington Lab at the University of Texas at Austin previously developed a demonstration biosensor capable of using aptamer-based receptors (Biological Reconfigurable Interface Electronics For Classification and Analysis of Selected Elements, or BRIEFCASE). They proposed in Phase I to adapt a recently developed technology, proximity ligation assays, to a field-deployable dev ...

There is an urgent Army need for 2-D & 2½-D gunnery targets that produce high-fidelity thermal infrared images while remaining lightweight, low-cost and able to endure multiple hits without replacement. Falcon Systems Engineering Corporation has a solution in which the thermal features are an intrinsic, high-resolution, redundant, and robust part of the target. A modular, segmented target and ...

Genex Technologies, Inc. proposes in this SBIR Phase II effort to design, prototype, and test a novel low-cost, low-power, miniature, manually deployable image sensor network that we have dubbed “D-STUDS™ (Disposable Small Tactical Ubiquitous Detection Sensors™)”. D-STUDS will be able to provide both visible and near infrared (NIR) video surveillance for all day/night/weather operations. ...

Metal Matrix Composites (MMCs) have excellent properties such as lightweight and resistance to temperature and wear. For the above advantages to materialize, the Silicon Carbide (SiC) in the MMC must be free of defects such as porosity and disbond between the aluminum and SiC layer. This is a very challenging task. In this Phase II research, Intelligent Automation, Inc. (IAI) together with its su ...

In this proposal, Intelligent Automation, Inc. (IAI) and its consultant, Dr. Wenke Lee, propose to prototyping and commercialize the intrusion detection algorithms for mobile ad hoc networks developed in Phase I. First, we will further improve the intrusion detection and identification algorithms and study intrusion response strategies to mitigate the damage inflicted by intrusions or anomalies. S ...

In the phase 1 effort, IAI and its subcontractor, Prof. Jose B. Cruz of the Ohio State University (OSU), have proposed to systemically explore differential pursuit-evasion games with multiple pursuers and evaders. Our Phase I results have shown the theoretical possibility of rigorous formulation, analysis and solutions for stochastic differential Pursuit-evasion games involving multiple pursuers a ...

The goal of the BRAMS effort is to develop a Blood Reserve Availability Assessment, Tracking, and Management System that will supplement the Joint Medical Asset Repository (JMAR) by allowing users to manually enter data via a web-based system. The BRAMS Phase I effort successfully developed a web interface for collecting blood data and exporting that blood data to JMAR in the format specified by ...