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EXPLORATORY DEVELOPMENT OF AN ADVANCED, DIRECT AIR SAMPLING GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY (GC) MODULE IS PROPOSED. THE GC RIODULE CAN BE READILY COMBINED WITH EXISTING ION MOBILITY SPECTROMETRY (INS) EQUIPMENT FOR DETECTING AND MONITORING CHEMICAL WARFARE AGENTS, E.G., THE CAM (CHEMICAL AGENT MONITOR) CURRENTLY ADOPTED BY SEVERAL NATO MEMBER STATES. THE GC MODULE INCORPORATES A NOVEL, AMBIENT AIR SAMPLING DE ...

High surface area, super adsorbent activated carbon fibers are potentially an excellent adsorptive material for chemical protective uniforms. However, these fibers are not currently available from a domestic source. A Phase I program is proposed to demonstrate the feasibility of producing laboratory scale quantities of short highly activated carbon fibers based on a U.S. developed process (U.S. Pa ...

RECENT IMPROVEMENTS IN HOT ISOSTATIC PRESSING TECHNIQUES HAVE ALLOWED AN AUSTRIAN COMPANY TO SUPPLY FULL LENGTH LINERS MADE FROM NIMONIC 105 TO A SWISS GUN MANUFACTURER. THESE TECHNIQUES HAVE BEEN UTILIZED IN THE U.S. FOR LINING OF TUBES FOR THE CHEMICAL AND NUCLEAR INDUSTRIES AND FOR LINING OF VALVES FOR WEAR AND EROSION RESISTANCE. THIS TECHNOLOGY, BASE UPON COLD AND HOT ISOSTATIC PRESSING TECHN ...

The proposal offers a technology/concept to allow individual combat soldiers and components of the Electronic Battlefield System a means of identifying friendly forces.

KVH Industries proposes to design and demonstrate a low cost short range acoustic buoy release system designed to locate and retrieve underwater instruments. The proposed design effort will address the problems of search rate, identification, homing, slant range measurement, localization and buoy acknowledgement. The focus of the Phase I effort will be optimization of correct response to address a ...

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This project will devise and develop an efficient and cost-effective technique for removing lead-contaminated paint films from painted surfaces in Army buildings scheduled for demolition. High-presure water jets confined within a shield (operating head) remove the paint from the surface. The operating head is sealed against the work surface by flexible flange. Small channels in the flange allow th ...

We propose to develop an Environmental Monitoring System by integrating various technologies to create a hybrid artificial neural network system. By functionally decomposing the requirements of environmental monitoring we can apply emerging technologies to fulfill these modularized requirements. Ten (10) years of experience indicate that the technologies directly applicable to specific requirement ...

This SBIR proposal consists of three (3) related research efforts. Research effort 1 will focus on further development of the configurable running gear / shape shifting track concept as started by ASI during the Phase I award. Research effort 2 will focus on the development and completion of the hardware and electronics systems of the T4 robot as started at the Center for Self Organizing and Int ...

High energy density battery will be developed by combining metallic sodium anode with an air cathode. The proposed sodium-air battery is expected to dominate the performance of lithium-air battery. This battery technology is based on sodium conducting solid-electrolyte developed at Ceramatec Inc. The sodium conducting solid-electrolyte has conductivity in the range of 10-2 S/cm at ambient tempera ...