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"The overall goal of the proposed program is to provide military personnel with a hand-held analyzer capable of detecting chemical and biological agents, as well as toxic industrial chemicals. This will be accomplished through the use of a newnanocomposite material (metal-doped sol-gel) that enhances analyte specific Raman signals sufficiently to allow identifying and quantifying agents at releva ...

"The utilization of Modeling and Simulation (M&S) technology to support the life cycle development, fielding, training and sustainment of military systems has demonstrated tremendous benefit as M&S applications have matured. The benefits ofinteroperability between M&S applications and Command and Control (C2) systems are becoming increasingly more evident as successful implementations are develop ...

"In many applications of current and near-future interest, significant departures from Fourier's law are observed in the thermal conduction processes of engineering materials important to Army applications. Such discrepancies may result in inadequateprotection, excessive weight or premature hardware failure. To correct this, non-Fourier conduction modeling can be exploited to optimize current d ...

"This research proposal seeks to continue the refinement, development and commercialization of a lightweight medical equipment and supplies module for the treatment of trauma patients. It consists of a platform with interlocking and interchangeablefunctional modules, or their equivalent, and attaches to, or detaches from, a standard military stretcher (litter) without tools and with attendant med ...

"Recently, significant attention has been paid to the country's dilapidated infrastructure; buildings, bridges, and concrete water and sewer pipes need to be retrofitted to sustain the increasing loads. A common solution is to increase the capacity ofthese structures to carry loads by the introduction of additional tension-carrying materials such as Fiber Reinforced Plastic composites. Efficient ...

We propose to carry out an intensive program focusing on the research and development of a high performance SiC inverter for motor drive. We shall design and develop high temperature packages for SiC devices and appropriate thermal management for theinverter to allow the inverter to operate at high device junction temperatures and high PWM frequencies. A detailed survey on the available SiC power ...

In the Phase I program, SKION demonstrated the capability of Negative Sputter Ion Deposition to deposit optical thin films with state-of-the-art properties, specifically ultrasmooth surfaces, high packing density, refractive index close to bulk values, andstability to environmental exposure. In Phase II, we propose to utilize these films to fabricate high-quality, economical optical devices for hi ...

Based on the successful device feasibility demonstration in Phase I, we propose to improve the design and fabrication technology and fully develop the novel SiC devices for high temperature and high power switching applications at frequencies up to 100kHz. The novel SiC devices promise to substantially increase the power density, switching efficiency, and operation frequency. They also offer high ...

The main objective will be to optimize the non-hermetic encapsulants that were developed and tested in the Phase I program. The Phase II research will result in an increase of the thermal stability so that these encapsulants will be capable ofwithstanding temperatures at the 600F level. Formulations, components concentrations, application and curing methods will be fine tuned. Among test ...

"In Phase I we demonstrated that Microwave Sintering of Nanostructured Powders is a commercially viable near net shape process for producing fine grained sintered materials. The proposed Phase II program will advance the technology to a state of commercialreadiness. Several areas of application, many of them of particular importance to the US Army, such as penetrators, shaped charges, transparent ...