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This project will provide state-of-the-art predictive capabilities for simulating systems central to advancing the U.S. Army’s modernization priorities related to long-range precision fires and future vertical lift platforms. The goals of the project are to: (1) Produce geometry and meshing technologies that support the modeling and discretization techniques needed to explicitly track evolving/i ...

The goal is to develop a volatile odor detector using mammalian olfactory receptors (ORs) integrated with metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS) nanoelectronic circuits. The Army has urgent need for cost-effective odor sensing for novel biological materials integrated with inorganic devices to sense chemical and biological agents. However, e-noses still do not possess the dynamic range and selectivity o ...

Pervasive networking provides ever-growing opportunities for collaboration among computer systems operating in different domains. These systems may "speak" in their own protocols and data formats; and determining whether two speak in compatible terms can be difficult. Since manual review is costly, time-consuming, and error-prone, the opportunities for cross-domain collaboration can be fully rea ...

Reliability is a crucial characteristic in safety-critical systems, yet it can only be measured late in the software development process when changes are difficult and costly. We propose a framework for estimating the risk of software that can be applied early in the software development life-cycle. This framework will use 21st century source code metrics--derived from advanced static analysis a ...

The ability to develop new generations of superior military systems and civilian products requires the use of multifunctional materials and ever smaller components for which key design parameters are associated with nano-scale constituents. The ability to understand and design these materials and components requires the application of multiscale simulation technologies that can account for interac ...

Recombinant proteins are critically important in a wide range of applications that extend from the treatment of human and animal disease, to chemical and biological defense. Production of genetically engineered vaccine antigens, therapeutic proteins (including monoclonal antibodies), industrial enzymes, biopolymers, and bioremediation agents now constitutes a multibillion dollar-per-year industry. ...