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"The Decade Quad/Half plasma radiation source (PRS) will provide environments to test the radiation hardness of critical military systems. Optimizing the Decade PRS will require a set of x-ray diagnostics that measure not only the net x-ray yield but alsothe temperature and density of the plasma that produces the x-rays. High quality spectral data are needed to derive the temperature and density. ...

"The objective of this proposal is to demonstrate the feasibility and military utility of employing an innovative incendiary, based on state-of-the-art solid rocket propellant technology to defeat chemical and biological agents. This is accomplished byhighly effective convective heating of the interior of the facility to temperatures in excess of 2,000 degrees Fahrenheit for the extended period o ...

"As the military assumes more missions involving operations other than war (including humanitarian operations and support to domestic authorities), more of our military leaders will need to become proficient in coalition and collaborative leadershipenvironments. Success in such operations, including multinational and multi-agency operations, increasingly depends not only on teamwork within the lea ...

"The team of Artis, LLC, Noesis, Inc. and Brandeis University will address four objectives in Phase I. First, we will develop a system, the Virtual Motion Induction System (VMIS), that couples the sensed motion in the environment to a simulatedenvironment. The purpose of VMIS is to reduce the onset and severity of motion side effects. Second, we will test VMIS on multiple laboratory motion plat ...

"Repetitive Pulsed Power technology using Repetitive Plasma Opening Switches(RPOS), as developed at the Kurchatov Institute, Russia, can be used forradiation sterilization applications in situations where standard techniquescannot be used. A relatively compact, inexpensive RPOS generator could betransported (by truck, for example) to a site where sterilization by electron-beam or x-ray irradiation ...

"PROPOSAL COVER SHEETWe will develop non-invasive, non-serum based methodology for measuring exposureof humans to chemical warfare-related agents; determine optimal sample collection and preparation,analytical procedures and assays for sample matrices for detecting CW-exposure in humans. We will optimize procedures forcollecting and preparing sample matrices obtained non-invasively from humans fo ...

"We developed a super-sensitive technique called Multi-Photon Detection (MPD). MPD has been used to improve the sensitivity of protein detection, including immunodiagnostics and proteomics. The development of MPD enabled methods for detecting a subattomole/ml amounts of proteins has been documented. The detection of the differentially displayed proteins, i.e. elucidation of promising set of the ...

"Current commercial market offers many products that may form the basis from which to proceed, these devices were not designed with the original intent to perform in the austere environment of combat by minimally trained personnel where evacuation andaccess to higher echelons of medical care are likely to be significantly delayed. The overarching challenge will be to design robust light-weight an ...

"The proposed program will prototype an approach to monitoring Military Health System Data Repository (MDR) and other data, thereby enabling the early detection of potential BW/BT attacks. The proposed project will develop and integrate diverse biologicalmodeling and data mining information systems technologies through the development of an Automated Anomaly Detection Processor. The envisioned net ...

"Element One Energy has developed a novel solution to optimize the benefits and solve the challenges of direct methanol fuel cells. It is proven that a direct methanol fuel cell can be given a potential and used as an electrochemical methanol reformer(EMR). With a direct methanol fuel cell, modified slightly to be a producer of hydrogen, rather than to generate current, cross-over is no longer a ...