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Nano Terra, Inc. and the Harvard Stem Cell Institute propose to develop a novel nerve grafting system that will support intrinsic neuronal repair (injuries 3 cm). The creation of an implantable device or devices utilizing a novel scaffold provides an opportunity to utilize a biocompatible material that can easily be manufactured to desired structural and mechanical specifications, i.e., fiber diam ...

Triton Systems, teamed with a major US manufacturer of optical glass and night vision components, will further develop an innovative manufacturing process for anti-reflection coatings on the front lens surface of soldier optics of all kinds. The new process will significantly improve the glint reduction atlarge angles of incidence compared to current methods. The new anti-reflectance technology wi ...

A separator involving composite materials is provided that meets the lithium ion battery requirements for separators with high temperature stability at 220C and above and with mechanical strength and flexibility.An inherently low cost manufacturing process of coating the composite separator on a reuseable release substrate followed by delamination is shown on full scale production equipment to mak ...

Significant controversy exists among the scientific community and industry specialists as to whether mouth guards help mitigate concussive forces in impact events. To this end, a standardized methodology for testing mouth guard material solutions will be developed and presented to the Government. In Phase I, the benefit of employing a material solution between the upper and lower dentition in a sp ...

This effort is focused on establishing U.S. Army Corps leadership in preserving navigation access for the war fighter through the development and implementation of an acoustic-based sensor system to detect, track, and classify large aquatic animals. The proposed high frequency imaging active sonar system is configurable to detect, track, classify, and alert to the presence of threatened and endang ...

In Phase I Busek evaluated a wireless power transfer (WPT) system to efficiently charge soldier mounted battery powered devices. Our WPT system is based on novel RF power amplifier topology which autonomously tunes its frequency to match the resonant frequency of a coupled load. The system operated very efficiently, reaching measured power transfer efficiency of 90%. Phase I also demonstrated the ...

SI2 Technologies, Inc. (SI2) proposes to design and develop a reduced profile conformal UHF SATCOM antenna for high speed rotorcraft. SI2 will leverage experience with advanced materials and novel antenna miniaturization techniques to design, fabricate and test an integrated conformal UHF antenna with custom feed network. The antenna will be designed for integration onto a representative helicopte ...

Intelligence analysts have access to a massive stream of open-source text data, such as news and social media, to obtain essential information about the socio-cultural environment. The uncertainty of these data requires analysts to think critically when interpreting their meaning. However, analysts have few tools that organize those data, support critical thinking, and help them to develop analysi ...

Here we present a plan to develop and prototype a JP-8 battle-fuel conditioner (BFC) based on the objective of taking advantage of the high performance and low costs of commercial gas appliances in military kitchens and for which a working proof of feasibility was completed in Phase I. As envisioned, the BFC would be installed as an add-on it to existing gas appliances to allow them to operate on ...

In Phase II of this SBIR program, Photonic Systems, Inc. (PSI) proposes to further develop its High-power Interference Canceller (HPIC), which functionally is inserted into the receive chain of a SIGINT or other receiver between the antenna and the front end. The PSI approach is based on cancelling, instead of timing, filtering or attenuation, to reduce the deleterious effects of interfering sig ...