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IEM has developed a unique, patented torque measurement system. Early development and testing of this TMS has shown encouraging results suggesting this system may offer great benefits rotorcraft operation and maintenance. The focus of this Phase II effort is on improvements to the electronic hardware and software to provide improved accuracy under conditions expected during actual operation.

Materials and Technologies Corp. (MATECH) carried successfully its novel Disposable Aircrew Bladder Relief Device from conception to a functional prototype during Phase I of this program. The device has been tested in a limited fashion and found to perform admirably. Before the MATECH device there was no fully satisfactory approach for aircrew to relieve their bladder during flight, especially for ...

There is a need and opportunity to improve the lives of the many tens of thousands of young cancer survivors annually, who face lifelong hormone imbalance and infertility due to cancer treatments that damage their reproductive organs. Ovary banking and autotransplantation has been proposed as a method to avoid irreversible damage, yet no clinical method exists to keep whole ovaries viable until re ...

The lack of adequate fatigue life verification for rotorcraft airframe structures leads to costly in service repairs being required in order to maintain structural integrity. The current established methodology does not test the airframe to the synergistically harmful combination of high cycle fatigue (HCF) vibratory load cycles superimposed on low cycle fatigue (LCF) caused by “g” maneuvers a ...

The goal of the Phase II work is to develop a prototype COTS/Semi-COTS detector optimized for use with the Varex K15A Linatron X-ray source. In the conducted Phase I work, three candidate detector configurations were identified, with the second detector configuration as likely the most optimal, and the first detector configuration as the second choice. During the first part of the Phase II work, a ...

Developing knowledge-driven nanoelectronics for military applications requires understanding the fundamental physics that governs the behavior of the underlying material. Strongly correlated materials have very desirable properties such as interfacial superconductivity, ferroelectricity, ferromagnetism, and huge magnetoresistance, which make them an ideal set of candidates to integrate with semico ...

ABSTRACT A High School Program for Preventing Prescription Drug Abuse This Fast-Track SBIR proposal is designed to address the critical need for an effective primary prevention approach for prescription drug abuse (PDA), an urgent public health crisis in the United States. Deaths from prescription drug overdoses have more than tripled in the past 15 years, and the abuse of prescription opioids has ...

Each year, millions of Americans are diagnosed with skin cancer. The treatment with the highest cure rate and best functional and cosmetic outcomes is Mohs Surgery. Mohs depends on standard histopathology, which is slow, tedious and costly and is a 2-dimensional diagnosis, which may miss 3Dimensional information. This process is usually analog, with humans evaluating the processed tissue to determ ...

PROJECT DESCRIPTION: This SBIR Phase II project proposes to further develop recombinant human milk fat globule epidermal growth factor-factor 8 (rhMFG-E8) as a novel and effective adjuvant therapy for hemorrhagic shock, which kills 60,000 Americans every year. Hemorrhagic shock results in cell death, and dying cells release damage-associated molecular patterns (DAMPs). DAMPs promote inflammation, ...

The Secure Decisions team will conduct research to: 1) determine how human dimensions of software engineering (SE) processes influence software security and quality; and 2) develop mechanisms for measuring these relationships in both open source and closed (private) development environments. The human dimensions of interest are: characteristics and behaviors of developers and development teams; en ...