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Military Working Dogs (MWDs) provide a valuable asset to military troops, police, and other government agencies. In recent years, the increasing deployments of MWDs in different tactical environments make them encounter much higher risk from exposure to a range of hazardous chemicals, including chemical warfare agents (CWAs), toxic industrial chemicals (TICs), and narcotics. Since there is no prot ...

Alpha and beta particle detectors currently employed in field operations suffer from frequent damage to the aluminized mylar window on the face of the detector. To address this deficiency, Corvid Technologies, LLC proposes a new type of alpha and beta particle detector that replaces the aluminized mylar window with a permanent titanium coating, which has been shown to allow alpha and beta particle ...

The goal of this proposal is find novel combinations of approved drugs for the treatment and/or prevention of infection with filoviruses. Ebola and Marburg viruses, the only filoviruses, cause an acute hemorrhagic fever syndrome which has a high mortality rate and poses a significant bio-terrorism threat. There are currently no therapeutic agents available to treat filovirus infections and the de ...

Manning Applied Technology proposes to develop a handheld infrared spectrometer, ideally suited to detection of airborne chemical agents at and below permissible exposure limits. This approach offers unmatched sensitivity and specificity for detection of all types of chemical vapors. The instrument is modular, rugged, compact and highly sensitive. Volume pricing will be less than $1000 each. ...

The objective of this research is prove the feasibility of automatically migrating radiation effects predicted in TCAD level tools to compact modeling tools. This transition will enable compact models that possess radiation effects to be quickly generated, which can then be used in circuit design activity. This "model-in-a-day" approach is a substantial improvement over the current ad hoc approach ...

It is proposed to formulate an equation(s) to describe the (A) evaporation and (B) death rates of aerosolized bacteria in their spent culture fluid droplets. This formulation will account for effects of atmospheric temperature, relative humidity, solar radiation, droplet solute concentration, and droplet size effects perhaps including effects of solute-particle (i.e,, bacteria) concentration and p ...