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Daxor proposes an automated, ruggedized, portable system for calculating blood, red cell, and plasma volumes, based on a comprehensive adaptation and reengineering of the current gold standard for volume measurement, the Daxor BVA-100. Significant improvements in portability (size, weight, and battery operation), logistics, speed, and ease of use are achieved. Whole blood is sampled directly from ...

Army missions require robust, error-free transmission of video data without network errors. In compressed data, such as with H.264 or H.265 compressors, small bit errors can obliterate large portions of the de-compressed image, or render it un-compressible at all, depending upon where in the compressed data the errors occur. Dropped packets may obliterate frames containing significant mission-crit ...

Idaho Scientific presents a Risc-V based secure processor architecture that provides unique security properties complimentary to the seL4 microkernel. The work conducted under this Phase I SBIR effort will further the discipline of computer security by mitigating memory corruption vulnerabilities, enforcing strong processes separation, covering seL4's formal verification assumptions, and provide a ...

The repair and rebuilding of injection molded parts is an important activity at army depots. The unit cost to make small batch parts is quite expensive due to the high cost and long lead time for injection molds for tooling. Fused Filament Fabrication AM offers a viable alternative to reduce tooling costs and lead time, however most AM thermoplastics do not meet the stringent requirements of high- ...

Opioids are a class of potent analgesics used for both pain relief and their euphoric effects. The range of effective doses stretches across multiple orders of magnitude, down to micrograms per individual for a lethal dose. With such low doses causing significant intoxication, it is crucial to identify novel markers and means to monitor for opioid exposure both on the battlefield (opioid chemical ...

The nature of complex combat operations must now include adversaries that have peer-level capabilities, such as the ability to locate friendly troops by their transmissions and jam their radios so they can’t call for help, setting them up for attack. However, critical to all combat scenarios, regardless of adversary capability levels, is the need to command, control, communicate and exchange inf ...

As autonomous vehicles become more prevalent in day-to-day military and industry operations, the technology surrounding functionally-safe autonomous subsystems must become increasingly reliable. A vehicle’s kinetic energy must be safely dissipated during a stop. Steering and braking must be done intelligently to maintain vehicle control and mitigate vehicle wear and tear. There are many factors ...

The objective of this proposal is to enable high-sensitivity, passive imaging system of natural mm-wave emissions, which can be used as standalone or fused with other imaging modality such as conventional IR imagery in degraded environments. This is achieved through a unique antenna integrated electro-optic (EO) modulator, where received mm-wave signals modulate an optical carrier. The optical car ...

To date, Simultaneous Transmit and Receive (STAR) solutions have primarily relied on a circulator in the RF frontend, paired with digital signal processing (DSP) to suppress the approximately known transmitted signal. These techniques have demonstrated only limited isolation and bandwidth and struggle to remove non-linear harmonics and transmit noise. Moreover, the limited isolation of circulators ...

According to Jane’s, “High Frequency (HF) communication systems are witnessing a resurgence as forward deployed and small unit teams seek to overcome emerging challenges associated with operating in Command and Control Denied or Degraded Environments (C2D2Es)”. According to senior service personnel from across the NATO special operations community, HF communications are being considered by m ...