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Adaptive Medical Agents (AMAs, pronounced "amaze") provide robust, timely, decision support for emergency care providers in the field. These agents constantly monitor the physiological status of an at-risk population, anticipate requests for analyses and offer both probabilistic assessments and potential courses of treatment. Using a distributed, decentralized architecture, AMAs will exploit br ...

The company's reformable, reusable tooling tooling will be provided within a complete composites manufacturing cell that can substantially reduce the time, cost and effort associated with conventional or alternative tooling while providing the flexibility for repair, design and prototyping, and short-run or low rate manufacture. This Phase II project addresses the use of reformable tooling toolin ...

Despite medical advances, infectious diarrheas continue to afflict most military personnel deployed overseas, particularly to battlefield settings, and reduce force size and efficiency. Because many pathogens causing diarrhea are resistant to antibiotics, there is a need for alternative therapeutics that will reduce the incidence and severity of diarrhea. Phase 1 work by RKB Technologies will te ...

We propose to study the feasibility of demonstrating a capability-based operating system running a home control application on an embedded processing platform. Capability-based systems have documented advantages in security and reliability, but no commercial system is available for an embedded processor. Some embedded processors raise issues such as cache coherency that present challenges for a ca ...

ABSTRACT: Several new high-power, long range radar systems are under development for near-term upgrades or fielding by MDA, Navy, and Marine Corps, which will use High Voltage GaAs or new WBG Semiconductors (SiC, GaN) in the transmitter/receiver. These systems will require compact, efficient, temperature tolerant power supplies and converters typically requiring a 600 V class of power devices. ...

The successful Phase I effort to incorporate POSS into BMI resin resulted in substantial Tg and HDT improvements while reducing the cure temperature. The proposed Phase II effort will optimize the formulaiton while characterizing the full scope and range of enhancement in filament wound composite structures.

We propose to continue the development of rapid, handheld multiplexed assays for the detection of biological warfare agents and an associated handheld automatic reader. We will rigorously evaluate the 5-target assay developed in Phase I, and develop an 8-target multiplex during this Phase II project. The handheld automatic reader will undergo further modification and improvements to provide for ...

We propose to develop a multiplexed immunoassay for the detection of 2 - 4 medically relevant biomarkers of traumatic brain injury for use by front-line medical personnel and their civilian equivalents. The assay will provide results in less than 30 minutes, and provide information as to the actual level (concentration) of the biomarkers in the patient. The sample size for operating the assay is ...

The overall objective of this Phase II project is to optimize the fabrication procedure associated with the chemical lithography proposed in Phase I to fabricate nanophotonic structures and devices at a fraction of the cost of existing technologies. We plan to use our optimized chemical lithography procedure to fabricate an ultra-high resolution patterns and devices including nano-probe for near f ...

Hybrid Plastics proposes to develop a low cost, and versatile method for shielding commercial, military, and stacked microelectronics against the deleterious effects of space radiation. The technical approach utilizes metallized nanoscopic polyhedral oligomeric silsesquioxanes as conformal coatings or potting agents. Such coatings would permit spacecraft designers to use commercial ICs in applicat ...