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History Maker VR is a playful virtual reality (VR) content-creation tool that allows students to embody historical characters in immersive settings, record performances featuring those characters, and share their performance files to demonstrate material mastery. History Maker VR is designed to scaffold creative storytelling, and to encourage embodied learning and for students to take pride in con ...

The team will develop a prototype of an augmented reality product for high school biology topics focusing on cellular and molecular functions. Students will be able to manipulate models and view cell processes in an engaging and informative series of hands-on group-learning lesson modules. At the end of Phase I, in a pilot study with 10 high school biology teachers and 100 high school students, th ...

Grand Unified Modeling of Behavioral Operators (GUMBO) will combine several different Architecture Analysis and Design Language (AADL)-based behavior modeling approaches into a single Unified Behavior Representation (UBR), coupled with fast, lightweight analysis and highly automated, usable verification for detailed designs. Component vendors will supply behavioral and interface specifications usi ...

The objective of this proposal is to demonstrate the feasibility of producing a lightweight, flexible multifunctional energy harvester that can capture light, vibration, heat and electromagnetic energy simultaneously. This flexible energy harvester is transformable to different surface shapes and has high potential application in UAVs that are in critical need of secondary power sources to extend ...

The innovation offered in this proposal is a science-based methodology to reduce composite fabrication time while retaining (or increasing) specific mechanical properties by tailoring resin chemistry and fiber sizing. The key to the methodology is to fully understand the fiber-resin interactions, fiber surface science, and cure kinetics to provide a more optimal resin formulation that balances cur ...

We propose to design, develop and demonstrate a comprehensive system to prove the utility of “just in time” delivery of whole blood via unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV). In Phase I, we will conduct a study that addresses the need for a stealthy UAS that can take-off, navigate, avoid threats, and land autonomously with a round trip distance of 600-1000 miles in environments where air superiority ...

Modern force protection systems lack the ability to identify persons of interest through automated video and imagery analytics. In many force protection scenarios, especially at long distances and even with high quality sensors and optics, the number of pixels on a face are limited and thus is necessary to develop a purpose built low resolution face recognition model. Under this proposal, Minimum ...

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 ...

When upgrading or redesigning a complex system, it is crucial to under- stand the impact of design changes on the system’s resulting costs, especially costs related to re-certification. System-level requirements cut across several components and subsystems, includ- ing size, weight, and power budgets; bandwidth and processor utilization; timing constraints; safety requirements; and security cont ...

Rapid and reliable deployment of medical countermeasures following likely exposure to a chemical, biological, radiological, or nuclear (CBRN) agent is critical for maintaining the working efficiency and health of the exposed soldier. In this application, we propose a simple, efficient, and easy-to-activate sub-dermal biomaterial-based drug delivery system whose lack of moving parts will serve to s ...