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This effort is to develop a fast responding, light weight, direct injection system to operate within the fuels ignition delay time for UAS/UGS application. These systems must be applicable to engines that are 200 HP or less, either reciprocating or rotary. A technical challenge associated with the conversion of gasoline engines to heavy fuel (JP-8) is the avoidance of knock. An approach used to ...

In this Phase I SBIR proposal, SandBox Semiconductor™ proposes to develop an Advanced Manufacturing and Material Measurements software tool called Weave ™ for accelerating and automating SEM image analysis for the semiconductor industry. During the development of a new manufacturing process line for a semiconductor device, tens of thousands of scanning electron microscopy (SEM) images are take ...

Currently, live training is limited in realism because of costs (e.g., roleplayer manpower, upkeep of MOUTs), safety (e.g., restricted use of battlefield effects), logistics (e.g., unavailability of combined arms assets), and/or local laws (e.g., restricted airspace for aircraft). This project combines low-cost COTS augmented reality (AR) technologies together to overcome these challenges, to vast ...

Our FUSION Augmented Reality User Interfaces (FAR-UI) for Tactical Drones provides intuitive controls and enhanced situational awareness for warfighters controlling semi-autonomous ground and air tactical vehicles.FAR-UI fulfills all the required military standards by modular integration with the GOTS Warrior Machine Interface common robotic controller software (demonstrated and scientifically tes ...

SenseAR is an augmented reality enabled drone operation and training solution. Sense AR has three main components 1) an AR visual feedback overlay of georeferenced sensory data and flight or ground operation data that is supplemented with audible feedback 2) an AR supported command and control user experience that incorporates gesture and voice recognition and 3) an AR embedded training mode that ...

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) estimates that one out of every four Americans lives within three miles of a hazardous waste site. Recent developments in advanced treatment materials has led to improvements driving increased use of In Situ Chemical Reduction (ISCR) at Superfund sites in the US and other contaminated zones around the world. Nanoscale Zero Valent Iron (NZVI) holds great po ...

For this Phase 1 SBIR, we propose to create a model of cyber physical security called CP-SMARTS: Cyber Physical Security for Mission-Aware ARmy Tactical Systems.CP-SMARTS will model not only the services required of Cyber Physical Systems (such as computation, communications, control, etc.) but also Mission Assurance requirements (definitions of Mission Essential Function and corresponding vulnera ...

Extend and transition ADIEN semantic technology capabilities into Defense Technical Information Center (DTIC) information retrieval capabilities to support the development of semantic search capabilities and further enhance underlying technology components.A robust and modular set of web services will be researched and developed that can seamlessly integrate with DTICs document repositories.These ...

Few-shot Object detection via Reinforcement Control of Image Simulation (FORCIS) will combine deep reinforcement learning with additional training data augmentations and strategies to develop robust few shot detectors leveraging available simulations.

Omega Optics will develop a fiber-coupled platform in strained silicon-on-sapphire (SoS) for tunable difference frequency generation in midwave infrared (MIR) with tunable continuous wave sources in the near-infrared (NIR). Stress exerted by silicon nitride on underlying silicon induces second-order nonlinear susceptibility. NIR light is coupled into silicon and MWIR light is coupled out of silico ...