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Electronic Support (ES) systems are among the fundamental instruments used for threat detection onboard Navy surface, sub-surface, and air platforms. They are tasked to sense the RF environment, to sort out all emitters, measure key associated parameters, and contribute to a comprehensive situational awareness with respect to all activity occurring in the RF spectrum. As threat systems evolve, num ...

Lithium-Ion batteries have been a main source of energy for many aerospace applications over the past decade. Future space missions are facing a number of challenging requirements, including significant increase in specific energy, approaching 500 Wh/kg, and energy density of 700 Wh/l at cell level. Compared to state-of-the-art technology today, a reduction in mass and volume are necessary, along ...

A STUDY IS PROPOSED WHICH WILL DETERMINE THE FEASIBILITY OF DEVELOPING A COMPUTER BASED MODEL FOR ADMINISTERING ASSESSMENT AND THERAPY TO MENTALLY RETARDED/DEVELOPMENTALLY DISABLED INFANTS AND CHILDREN. THE PRINCIPAL AIM OF PHASE I IS TO SURVEY CURRENT TECHNOLOGIES AS THEY RELATE TO THERAPY AND PROVIDE A BASIS FOR A PHASE II RESEARCH PLAN. HARDWARE AND SOFTWARE BASED SIMULATION OF A MODEL WILL BE ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Loss of hearing affects the quality of life for individuals. The number of Americans with hearing loss is increasing as baby boomers age and younger citizens damage their hearing with personal audio devices. By 2025, approximately 40 million Americans are projected to be hearing impaired, an increase of 23% from current numbers. Hearing loss may be treated, but ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Calista Therapeutics has invented Calcaftor, a first-in-class peptide drug that can treat all Cystic Fibrosis (CF) patients. Calcaftor is validated in the gold standard pre-clinical model of CF using F508 -CFTR lung tissue harvested from CF transplant patients. Results from this model demonstrated a gt25 hour duration of action that enables once daily inhaled n ...

Missile threats faced by our country are constantly increasing in lethality. The weapon used to counter such missiles is the kinetic interceptor. To work effectively, the reentry vehicle (RV) location must be precisely known. Confusing objects within the reentry complex make the key discrimination process very difficult. Coherent distributed aperture (CDA) radar represents an important advance in ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Chronic superficial wounds are difficult to treat and often never completely heal. Diabetic foot complications account for the majority of lower limb amputations in the world, and 25% of all diabetic hospital admissionsin the US. The standard of care for these wounds has been unchanged for decades, and remains reduced weight bearing, debridement, antibiotics, a ...

Yardney will design and develop a lightweight, safe, reliable, and cost-effective aircraft battery with improved thermal design and the use of active cooling techniques. As a novel part of the battery design, Yardney will investigate and implement high performance electrodes using three dimensional (3D) micro-porous current collectors, safer thin metal case cell design, a micro-channel heat pipe t ...

ORPCproposes a project that will alter fossil fuel use and energy economics in remote off-grid river communities. The project will allow conversion of hydrokinetic river energy, a vast renewable resource that is underutilized, into an economical, reliable source of clean electricity for river communities. ORPC will accomplish this by optimizing the prototype RivGen & reg; Power System design for t ...

Clostridium difficile infection (CDI) results in excess of 14,000 deaths and over $1 billion in excess healthcare costs annually. Early and reliable diagnosis is key for both improving treatment outcomes, and instituting precautions to prevent transmission. Antibiotic therapy can actually increase the odds of coming down with a hospital-acquired infection, especially when the cause is a bacterium ...