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Animal-borne electronic instruments (tags) are critical tools for monitoring the behavior and ecology of cetaceans, providing data needed for managing their populations and mitigating the threats they face. Although remote-deployment of tags onto cetaceans that cannot be captured has provided valuable data, attachment durations have been frustratingly short and variable. Our Phase II goal is to de ...

Creare is developing a miniature power system for NOA weather monitoring stations in remote locations. This system can provide electric power continuously from naturally occurring temperature differences that exist between ambient air and water in environments such as the Arctic Ocean and the Great Lakes. Generating power directly from these temperature difference uses the atmosphere and ocean/lat ...

InfoBeyond Technology advocates the development of a user-friendly, efficient, reliable, and generic Access Control Policy modeling, verification, and Testing (ACPT) Tool. InfoBeyond Technology’s ACPT enhances NIST’s ACPT design and adds several advanced features for achieving high security confidence AC levels such that it can be commercialized. It provides user-friendly GUI templates for use ...

PHASE I WILL EVALUATE THE FEASIBILITY INCLUDING COST/BENEFITS OF RETRO-FITTING SHIPBOARD MAIN PROPULSION DIESEL ENGINES WITH ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY COMPONENTS TO INCREASE PERFORMANCE AND RELIABILITY, AND TO SAVE ON MAINTENANCE, REPAIRS, AND FUEL COST. THESE COMPONENTS WILL BE IN THE AREAS OF CURRENT ENGINEERING DEVELOPMENT BY SEAWORTHY AND ARE ADVANCED TURBOCHARGERS, CERAMIC COATING OFENGINE PARTS, A ...

Industrial facilities, manufacturing plants, and electric power plants that burn fossil fuels exhaust the combustion products to atmosphere through their smokestacks. Stack pollutant emissions are quantified using manual testing methods developed in the 1960s, which are prone to error if non-axial flow exists in a stack.Recently, NIST has been working on an improved technique of performing 3D flow ...

In this Phase I SBIR proposal, SandBox Semiconductor™ proposes to develop an Advanced Manufacturing and Material Measurements software tool called Weave ™ for accelerating and automating SEM image analysis for the semiconductor industry. During the development of a new manufacturing process line for a semiconductor device, tens of thousands of scanning electron microscopy (SEM) images are take ...

This project will demonstrate a cost-effective high-speed millimeter wave camera that can image and resolve moving objects from 3 m to 30 m away to enable curb-to-gate screening for airports. Millimeter wave light is often used for security screening because it is safe to use on people and can penetrate packaging, bags, and clothing to identify both metallic and non-metallic objects. The technolog ...

THE SCANNING TUNNELING MICROSCOPE IS AN EVOLVING INSTRUMENT FOR MICROTOPOGRAPHIC MAPPING AND CHEMICAL ANALYSIS OF REFINED SURFACES WITH RESOLUTION ON THE ATOMIC SCALE. THE GOAL OF THIS CONTRACT IS TO PROVIDE A NEW AND INNOVATIVE DESIGN FOR THE STM, EXTENDING ITS FLEXIBILITY AND ACCURACY. MORE SPECIFICALLY, THE DESIGN GOALS ARE: 1) TO PROVIDE A COMPACT INSTRUMENT SUITABLE FOR VACUUM FLANGE MOUNTING ...

We propose to develop a portable, rugged, handheld multi-gas sensor that is well within the solicitation requirements. We will leverage a mature class of mass sensors that include capacitive micromachined ultrasonic transducers (CMUTs). These sensors boast extraordinary sensitivity to changes in mass (e.g. 50 femtograms) and are used today in several applications including high resolution ultrason ...

This SBIR Phase I project proposes to develop an easy to use, inexpensive, and portable bacterial concentrator to enable more sensitive cholera pathogen (Vibrio cholerae) detection. Cholera affects communities across 41 countries, including Mozambique in 2019 after Cyclone Idai and Yemen in 2017. Current methods used to detect the cholera pathogen in water involves a 3 to 5-day procedure due to th ...