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Aging aircraft wiring has been identified as an area of critical national concern, due to safety problems, maintenance expense, and lost mission capable time. The objective of this proposal is to create and deploy a wire fault location system for aging aircraft utilizing spread spectrum sensing methods. This project will develop a Wiring In Line Maintenance Aid (WILMA) that can be used for in lin ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Coronary heart disease (CHD) and stroke remain 1 of the major causes of morbidity and mortality in the US, and platelets play a major role in CHD/stroke. Thus, the use of antiplatelet drugs is helpful in the prevention or treatment of such vascular disorders. Despite routine use of antiplatelet agents in a large number of patients, the efficacy of antiplatelet ...

This proposal outlines a program to continue the work begun in the Phase I effort. In the Phase I effort, a material search was conducted and the best available materials were selected for use. Load path and structural analyses were conducted and the lightest weight seat concept was developed. The differences required to enable the seat to be retrofit into the several different Navy helicopters ...

The Navy and other government-sponsored agencies use the P-3 aircraft. Due to the diverse missions and limited number of P-3 aircraft, the most economical and expeditious way to enhance operations and assure crew safety would be to incorporate low-cost expendable tactical unmanned air vehicles (UAV's). If UAVs were incorporated into each P-3, a load-out of sonobuoy launched UAV's with interchange ...

Our Phase II effort creates a set of commercially viable tools that represent significant advancement in the state of art for software maintenance engineering, management and estimation. Software maintenance and estimation is a huge problem for all of the software industry, especially those parts involved in the maintenance of high risk, complicated, systems – like cruise missiles, airplanes, ...

The objective of the proposed development effort is to utilize a sensor which detects IEDs and detonation devices. The sensor detector is mounted on a small unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) such that detection can be performed from a autonomous airborne platform ahead of a convoy or patrol, thereby reducing the risk of loss of life. A positive identification was achieved from a UAV approximately 75 ...

Providing effective Prognostics/Health Maintenance (PHM) capabilities is a key objective for the JSF. A key part of PHM includes electronic prognostics, where an impending failure in an electronic module can be predicted before it occurs and thus is very useful for such critical systems. Power converters are ubiquitous, but often are prone to unexpected failures in military systems. Using a com ...

Power supply systems are – compared to other electronic systems – highly susceptible to failure due to the high voltage and current conditions they routinely operate in. JSF operational reliability could be greatly enhanced by ensuring power supply performance in fielded systems. A power supply system is made up of various devices, all of which are interconnected with solder welds. During Phas ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Iron overload syndromes (attributable to transfusions / dietary uptake) are a significant cause of the morbidity and mortality associated with hemochromatosis, thalasemia, and sickle cell anemia. In the developed world, 2/3 of absorbed iron is derived from heme (organic iron) rather than inorganic iron. While the mechanism by which inorganic iron is absorbed i ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Phase I Arete Associates and Infrared Imaging Systems Inc. propose an innovative technology development that will safely and efficiently improve vascular access for cannulation by providing real-time high resolution enhanced imagery of the vascular structure in the region of interest. The proposed device overcomes deficiencies in current practice, and of ...