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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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Cylindrical composite structures are often manufactured by winding, because of its ability to produce large parts at a low tooling cost. Fibers are wound in adjacent bands or in a repeated pattern until the surface is covered. However, winding cannot directly incorporate longitudinal (0º) fibers, except by introduction of an extra step. For geometries with surface features, this is difficult. Wit ...

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 ...

We propose developing a small pitch probe card with a pitch down to 5 µm that will have minimal thermally induced deformations over an operational temperature range of 77 to 300 Kelvin. The probe card design will contain eight probe points initially, but the number of points can be increased or decreased as needed by the customer. The pitch can also be specified anywhere from 5 µm and up. The pr ...