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Recent trends in law enforcement clearly illustrate the effectiveness of the taser to debilitate even the toughest targets, without causing permanent injury or lingering aftereffects. Current electric stun technology is either hand-held or short-range and tethered to the launch platform. The law enforcement agencies would greatly benefit from a longer range (6 to 40 meters), non-tethered electric ...

COMMERCIAL AND GOVERNMENT SPACE TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMS DEPEND ON GROUND SUPPORT FOR NAVIGATION. THE GROUND SOLUTION CAN BE COSTLY AND MAY PROVIDE LESS ACCURACY THAN NEEDED. A GPS-BASED REAL-TIME AUTONOMOUS SPACECRAFT NAVIGATION SYSTEM IS PROPOSED. AN ALGORITHM WILL BE DEVELOPED WHICH COMBINES GPS-DERIVED POINT POSITION ESTIMATES WITH A PROPAGATED A PRIORI POSITION ESTIMATE. THE POINT POSITIONS ARE ...

Colloidal suspensions of quantum dots (QD) offer a novel, inexpensive means of biological-warfare-agent (BWA) detection using compact lightweight systems that may be deployed in a variety of ways, including handheld biosensors. We propose here to design, fabricate and test portable, lightweight, user-friendly, low-logistical-load biosensors capable of automated and rapid BWA detection with high se ...

Seahawk Biosystems is developing a handheld version of the company's Talon Biosensor. The Talon Biosensor is based on the technology developed at the Naval Research Laboratory for multiplexed detection of proteins, bacteria, and viruses, including nucleic acids and toxins. The Talon Biosensor uses magnetic microbeads to label biomolecules captured onto a receptor-patterned microchip that contains ...

The rapid detection and identification of biological pathogens (biothreat agents, infectious diseases) is of paramount importance for our nation?s defense and well being. The vast majority of biological pathogen analysis utilizes immunological binding affinity to pathogen targets as the means for generating a detection signal. Each method possesses an inherent sensitivity that is limited in part b ...

In this SBIR Phase I project, we will demonstrate the feasibility of an innovative electrostatic projectile technology that will enable development of non-lethal untethered electro-muscular disruptor devices. These low cost projectiles will be potentially used with a grenade launcher or a shotgun, commonly used by law enforcement personnel. During the Phase I, a prototype setup will be built to ev ...

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DURING PHASE I, WE WILL DEVELOP AN ALGORITHM TO CALCULATE THE FORCES GENERATED DUE TO THE IMPACT OF AIRCRAFT STRUCTURES WITH SOIL. THIS ALGORITHM WILL BE INTEGRATED WITH THE CURRENT KRASH PROGRAM AS AN EXTERNAL FORCE ACTING ON THE VARIOUS MASS ELEMENTS THAT ARE DEFINED IN KRASH. THE FAILURE OF SOIL DUE TO THE IMPACT OF THE AIRCRAFT AND DRAGGING OF THE AIRCRAFT ALONG THE SURFACE WILL BE MODELLED TA ...

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