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Electronics technology is continually progressing towards smaller size and gun-launched compatibility, paving the way for more advanced, inexpensive, and long-range electronic warfare capability on munition systems. To enable this capability, the electronics must be paired with an equally miniaturized and shock hardened antenna. Additionally, the antenna must maintain operational performance throu ...

MATSYS proposes to develop high density and high strength structural reactive materials (SRMs) to provide increased lethality and impose superiority on contested and expanded battlefield. The objective of this project is to develop a novel iron (Fe)-based SRM with suitably high density, strength, and energy release to enhance warhead performance upon detonation or high-velocity impact for long ran ...

Dengue virus (DENV) is the most prevalent mosquito-borne viral pathogen in the world with nearly 400 million infections occurring annually. The infection risk for deployed troops has increased with the global incidence of dengue, leading to a loss in mission capabilities as soldiers are hospitalized, treated, and evacuated. DengVaxia, a recombinant live-attenuated tetravalent vaccine, is licensed ...

NOVI proposes to develop a prototype system capable of automating NDT of munitions using deep learning techniques. The system will be designed to process a stack of radiography scans for a 6.5” diameter, 36” tall munition with 0.002” – 0.020” defects in under one minute, and largely utilize Government-provided images (appropriately annotated) to create the necessary training data set. Sp ...

Sniper teams use new portable ballistic computers to provide feedback to improve their shooting accuracy. The bullet’s muzzle velocity speed is a critical input to the ballistic computer, currently taken as a constant, but is affected by barrel wear, temperatures, muzzle attachment, and other factors. Technologies already on the market to sense muzzle velocity are not appropriate to be taken on ...

In response to SBIR 19.2, A19-137, “Army xTechnology Search Dual-Use Technologies applicable to Army modernization priority areas”, and to specifically protect against an adversary’s ability to exploit our information, Cogitari proposes a radio frequency over fiberoptic (RFoF) distributed antenna system (DAS) with broadband RF threat detection capabilities. Initially developed by a US govern ...

Inertial Labs proposes the research and development of WOM-BAT, Weapon Orientation Module – Ballistic Accuracy Advanced Technology, as a universal solution to high-accuracy determination of weapon orientation across all classes of indirect fire weapons. Leveraging Inertial Lab’s OptoWOM (optically-enhanced weapon orientation module) and Mortar Systems Test Rig (MSTR, 81mm mortar) as a springbo ...

Multiple recent epidemiology studies have documented elevated risks of several cancers in firefighters. It has been uncovered that there is a dose response relationship between fire-runs and leukemia mortality and fire-hours and lung cancer mortality and incidence. Chemical exposures encountered during firefighting are thought to contribute to the elevated risk of these cancers. These unacceptably ...

Global Technology Connection, Inc. (GTC) in collaboration with their academic (Rutgers University) and industrial partners proposes to develop and show methodology for a “Novel High-Volume Fraction and Aligned Short Fiber Composite Fabrication Process”. During Phase I, we will: 1) use a unique process developed by Rutgers to circumvent the challenges of uniformly dispersing and aligning Carbon ...

High-average current and high-brightness electron beams are needed in advance applications such as ultra-high power Free-Electron Lasers (FELs) and electron accelerators. The technologically important material properties of diamond are of significant interest for development of electron emission, detector, and wide-bandgap semiconductor applications, including radiation-hard devices. A diamond amp ...