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The primary challenges for creating renewable fuels are the ability to process inexpensive non-food feedstocks into biofuels that meet all quality specification, perform indistinguishably from petroleum-based fuels and are compatible with current infrastructure.Our Phase I project demonstrated the feasibility of producing biofuels from waste greases using a novel hydrothermal, continuous-flow cata ...

In topic 11.b, Dispatchable Geothermal Operations, DOE seeks to enable more widespread deployment of geothermal as a dispatchable energy source.TerraCOH’s CO2 Plume Geothermal (CPG™) and Earth Battery™ technologies are ideally suited to meet DOE’s needs.Conventional geothermal power technology has generally been limited to use as a baseload power source, but with increasing penetration of ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Nanoparticles represent an attractive alternative in coating processes due to their functional versatility, including surface, optical, conductive and catalytic properties. However, current processes of coating textile products with nanoparticles results in rapid loss of the nanoparticles during laundering or use, leading to a significant decrease in product durability and functionality and increa ...

SIFT, JHU medicine and University of Central Florida are proposing to develop VANESSA (Virtual Analysis Networks and Explanations for Social Sensing Analysis) - a social sensing platform providing team diagnostics of interacting teams and recommendations for enhanced team functioning of human and human-cyber teams. The overall goal of VANESSA is to develop an adaptive technology platform with a fo ...

Current messaging infrastructures, which are based on centralized architectures, are expensive, inefficient and vulnerable to cyber-attack. The overhead costs of building and maintaining these systems are huge. Decentralized ledger architecture based on blockchain technology presents a new platform for developing secure and efficient messaging software. The Army has identified the need for a scala ...

Applications running on powerful clusters represent invaluable assets for use cases such as decision support and clinical information. However, in emergency situations such as after a natural disaster or in the battlefield access to such powerful systems might be limited or nonexistent. In such scenarios, users have to rely on the limited resources they have on-site which are typically mobile devi ...

Noise in the source data limits effectiveness and utility of models, algorithms and tools used by the Army for Condition Based Maintenance (CBM+) of its aviation fleet. This impedes the sustainment and availability of its aviation fleet. The Data Refinery for Aviation Sustainment (DRAS) applies methods and techniques from statistics, data science, machine learning and data management to refine the ...