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In Phase I, Nomadics demonstrated that a novel chemical weapon indicating chromophore (CWIC) developed by Professor Tim Swager at MIT will allow equipment to be quickly and easily examined to show any areas of contamination, making targeted decontamination manageable. When exposed to CW agent simulants, CWICs react to become fluorescent under UV stimulation. In the first phase, we implemented a s ...

This Phase II project aims to prototype a novel technology that can advance the state-of-the-art in high performance space computing.nbsp; The base computer technology, called ldquo;RadPCrdquo;, brings together a suite of fault recovery mechanisms that enable Commercial-off-the-Shelf (COTS) Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) to operate reliably in the presence of space radiation that causes si ...

In this Phase II SBIR, XploSafe will build on its Phase I work to advance the development and evaluation of sorbents identified during the Phase I. Phase I results demonstrated the feasibility of sorbent candidates as viable replacement for the current carbon dioxide and humidity control solution. The developed materials exhibit significant advantages including higher CO2 capacity and easier regen ...

Studies in ground-based analogs of Isolated and Confined Environments (ICE) have identified sensory monotony and social isolation as threats to crew psychological well-being. Further, the lack of real-time communications in future missions will impact crew interactions with their support systems, i.e. family, friends, and colleagues, are critical. ANSIBLE (A Network of Social Interactions for Bi ...

NASA has identified a clear and pressing need for education of both local decision makers and the local flying and nonflying public to enable AAM operations to commence in a timely manner. The goal of this research effort is to develop a robust and cost-conscious capability to support local organizations and local decision makers with materials that support community education, engagement, and out ...

In this Phase II SBIR proposal, XploSafe will build on its Phase I work investigating the use of nanoporous silica as a sorbent for NASArsquo;s Trace Contamination Control System within the Exploration Portable Life Support System (xPLSS).nbsp; Phase I results demonstrated the feasibility of using nanoporous silica as a vacuum regenerable sorbent for integration into NASArsquo;s xPLSS.nbsp; It was ...

The Stakeholder Access to Embedded System Models (SAESM) project will leverage Consultative Committee for Space Data Systems (CCSDS) Spacecraft Onboard Interface Services standard Electronic Data Sheet (SEDS) as a bridge to a vendor neutral model-based systems engineering (MBSE) analysis environment. SAESM supports generation of SEDS from existing models, e.g., models written in System Modeling La ...

FRIGATE (Failure Recovery Instruction Generation using Automata derived from Traditional Engineering models) is a Fault Management Design Tool that validates, updates, and generates failure recovery plans and translates them back into the source model format for verification.nbsp; FRIGATE uses a formal methods analysis approach that aids engineers in discovering failure recovery plans that may be ...

The overall goal of this NASA STTR mult-phase effort is to develop a compact fully integrated tunable narrowband bi-photon source operating in the visible/IR spectral region for calibration and characterization of high-performance transition-edge sensors (TES) arrays under development at NASA Goddard as well as other research facilities throughout U.S.nbsp; The key innovation in this effort is com ...

The overall goal of this NASA effort is to develop and deliver efficient, single-pass quantum optical waveguide sources generating high purity hyper-entangled photon pairs for use in high-rate long-distance links. The new devices will produce hyper-entangled photon pairs with high efficiency, pure spectral properties, and low attenuation, providing the key technology required for deployment of gr ...