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Long-duration wide-area surveillance missions increasingly are space-based. MEO orbits offer space-based radar systems more time on station, but require very large array apertures on the order of 100m in diameter. Achieving larger apertures with smaller, lighter launch packages and stable on-orbit pointing is a challenge that E-Textiles promises to meet. Textile processes can be used to achieve a ...

Lightweight survival rafts and LPUs are proposed for development and proving that will reduce weight the weight of rafts byor more, and reduce the bulk of rafts and LPUs by 1/3 or more, while meeting or exceeding all current performance requirements.

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant Hospital acquired microbial infections are the fourth largest killer in America taking lives and adding $ B to hospital costs The emergence of drug resistant microbes has further amplified public health concern Fungi are prolific producers of anti microbial secondary metabolites SM and since the turn of the century have provided of bioactive m ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Process automation has become an essential element of all modern crystallography facilities. Robotic equipment allows crystals of biological macromolecules to be produced in greater numbers and rapidly mounted thus resu lting in more efficient utilization of valuable X-ray resources. The need to maximize the productivity of these resources becomes more acute wi ...

Missiles, use electro-explosive devices (EEDs) to perform mulitple functions during operation. This effort seeks ways to improve on the EED"s reliability and lower the failure or inadvertent activation rate of these devices. During Phase I, SEA CORP investigated replacing EEDs with commercial off the shelf (COTS) automotive airbag inflators to perform the required pneumatic functions of variou ...

In this Phase I study, we will demonstrate high power, continuous wave (CW) single spatial mode laser action at the 1 um wavelength. There are two innovative aspects in our proposal: the incorporation of commercially available very high power, not necessarily single mode, semiconductor laser diodes as pump sources; and, a novel single mode fiber, doped with the appropriate rare earth ions. The pum ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant Alternative nanomaterial and gene transfer solutions are needed to access the potential held in intracellular imaging biopharmaceuticals gene therapy and stem cell research Delivery of small and macromolecules including nucleic acids drug molecules imaging agents peptides antibodies and enzymes into cells is criti ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant The objective of this application is to introduce a novel simplified low cost technology to address the broad need of detecting RNA pathogens directly in crude samples such as blood Traditional RT PCR requires purifying the RNA which increases the cost time and risk of cross contamination We intend to reduce or eliminate the purification step by producin ...

Phase II involves the refinement and testing of Phase I attachment anchor prototypes, including vibrational and thermal cycling. Phase II Option involves the investigation, design, prototyping and testing of lightweight insulation composites, including anti-ballistic capabiliities. Phase II and Phase II Option also involve development of advanced manufacturing systems to prepare for efficient (e ...

A true single longitudinal mode distributed feedback (DFB) fiber laser will be developed. The first and only, a preliminary demonstration of this laser has just been published, but it is not truly single frequency. We shall develop and commercialize the world's first DFB fiber laser with Bragg gratings written directly onto the core of the fiber. We shall implement an innovative external technique ...