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ABSTRACT:Knobley Technical Associates Phase Il Advanced Solid Rocket Motor Technologies for Tactical Missiles program includes design, analysis, development and testing efforts to define and mitigate technical and operational challengesto be investigated and resolved for successful maturation ofthe performance enhancing burn-rate augment highly loaded propellant grain technology for next generatio ...

A MAJOR CONCERN IN ENVIRONMENTAL AND OCCUPATIONAL AIR POLLUTION IS THE HAZARD POSED BY SUSPECTED CARCINOGENS. WHEREAS MOST PREVIOUS RESEARCH HAS FOCUSED ON CONCENTRATIONS OR BIOASSAYS OF SPECIFIC CHEMICAL AGENTS, THE PROPOSED DEVELOPMENT OF THE ""C-PROBE'' DIRECT PASSIVE MONITOR OFFERS A GREATLY SIMPLIFIED MEANS TO DETECT THE BIOLOGICAL ACTIVITY OF UNSPECIFIED AGENTS WHICH MAY REFLECT THEIR CARCIN ...

DEVELOPMENT OF AN AMPLIFYING CHEMICAL AGENT DETECTOR, INCORPORATING A MODULAR APPROACH TO SENSING OF NERVE AGENTS AND OTHER CHEMICALS OF MILITARY INTEREST, IS PROPOSED. THE THREE MODULES: (1) A DYNAMIC TRIGGER WHICH RESPONDS TO THE CHEMICAL AGENT OF INTEREST; (2) A BIOAMPLIFIER WHICH CONTAINS THE CENTRAL SWITCH AND WHICH PROVIDES AN INITIAL AMPLIFICATION STAGE; AND (3) AN ELECTROCHEMICAL TRANSDUCE ...

The Autonomous Environmental Routing Onboard (AERO) system is an innovative software-hardware solution that performs onboard processing of environmental information from multiple sources to execute autonomous route adjustments for Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UASs). This processing and resulting autonomy minimizes negative environmental impacts while leveraging advantageous conditions for executing ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant Alginate is a commercially viable anionic biopolymer consisting of two monomeric subunits D mannuronate and a L guluronate Alginate is used in a variety of applications including textile manufacturing waste water remediation food production and a variety of medical applications such as wound care and drug delivery Currently commercial alginate is harve ...

This proposal is aiming to cover the capability gap in the following two main areas. These are (1) the sensitive site exploitation (i.e. screening of biometrics and identity intelligence at the point of capture) and (2) the exploitation of existing traditional and non-traditional sensors, namely using close, i.e. up to 30 feet, long, i.e. 30-1000 feet, and extreme range, i.e. 1000 feet plus, day a ...

Touchstone proposes to build on past thermal protection system (TPS) efforts and develop an innovative lightweight and low-cost system that provides protection from lightning strikes as well as from heat and atmospheric debris. This will be accomplished by utilizing a lightweight carbon foam (CFOAM) as the foundational material and varying the properties of the foam through choice of precursor an ...

Soil moisture is an important parameter for AF weather measurements and forecasting. It impacts Army operations (off-road mobility, land operations) and Intelligence Community’s knowledge (agriculture: social unrest). AF has classified soil moisture measurements and data as a DoD space-based environmental monitoring gap. If unmitigated, the lack of soil moisture data will diminish our asymm ...

The proposed Soil Moisture Advancements from Research to Transition (SMART) solution will adapt IBM’s Physical Analytics Integrated Repository and Services (PAIRS) Geoscope and the Watson Agriculture Package commercial technologies and use them as the basis for a novel Machine-learning (ML) system. SMART will establish a containerized service to build and deliver machine-learned soil moistu ...

The proposed work will be directed towards developing aluminum-based crystalline and glassy/amorphous coating using thermal spray techniques (plasma and cold spray) for the corrosion protection of high-strength aluminum alloys (2024 and 7075). The coating material should be anodic to the base material for protection against galvanic corrosion. Glassy metal coatings generally exhibit superior corro ...