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ABSTRACT: Caldera Pharmaceuticals proposes to develop physiologic biomarkers requested by the US Air Force to quantify workplace exposure to hexavalent chrome (Cr+6). Exposure to Cr+6 is dangerous and unwanted, because it is a primary carcinogen (class 1 International Agency for Research on Cancer / IARC) and a known lung cancer carcinogen. Chromium (Cr) exists in several valence states, the most ...

ABSTRACT: Kestrel Corporation's Distorted Grating Wavefront Sensor detects can be used to sense against point source (classical active beacon) or passively against the image of an extended source. The DGWFS is more tolerance of harsh seeing conditions, such as scintillation, than Shack Hartmann sensors. The proposed Phase I work is to demonstrate (via modeling) performance of such a sensor ...

ABSTRACT: Echo Ridge proposes to design and evaluate GNSS processing algorithms designed to provide high accuracy and spoofing robustness (information assurance (IA)) by exploiting diversity in radio navigation signals (frequency, location, bandwidth, format). We will extend on-going work in the area of multi-satellite, multi-frequency GNSS signal processing with novel and original algorithms to ...

ABSTRACT: CubeSats provide a new, low-cost platform for space weather missions. They enable new mission paradigms, such as the ability to perform multiple measurements of the same physical phenomena globally from several satellites, in contrast to high accuracy measurements of multiple phenomena on the same spacecraft. Flight-tested neutral wind sensors must be miniaturized to fit into these mu ...

ABSTRACT: In this proposal, SK Infrared LLC (SKI), a spin off from the Krishna Infrared Detector (KIND) laboratory at the University of New Mexico, is teaming up with Raytheon Vision System (RVS) to develop a flat top broadband high operating temperature mid wave infrared and long wave infrared detector based on InAs/GaSb/AlSb Type II superlattice detectors using unipolar barriers to decrease the ...

ABSTRACT: For this project, we propose to modify our existing natural language processing (NLP) techniques to conduct automated discourse analysis on original documents produced by the People"s War Group (PWG) in India. Using templates developed by Toman et al (2010) we will evaluate our ability to automatically identify and measure shifts in in-group alliance building, out-group distancing, and ...

ABSTRACT: RF transmitting devices are found nearly everywhere today, ranging from lower-power cell phones to radar equipment to high-energy weapons systems. Accidental exposure of humans to the RF radiation emanating from these devices can cause harmful thermal effects including tissue damage or death. Modeling these thermal effects across a whole population of humans is difficult and time consum ...

ABSTRACT: Dual-mode scramjet engines must operate over a wide range of flight Mach numbers. Closed loop engine control is necessary to maintain thrust and flame stability while preventing unstart over the large flight envelope. High-frequency sensors and actuators will be a key component of future scramjet Full Authority Digital Engine Controllers (FADECs) due to the short time scales associate ...

ABSTRACT: Certain remotely piloted aircraft (RPA) use propulsion systems derived from commercial systems not designed for harsh environments. Operating experience and reliability data obtained in benign environments does not necessarily apply to engines operated in harsh environments, thereby invalidating existing propulsion health management (PHM) methods. There is a need for improved PHM syst ...

ABSTRACT: To meet the demands of next generation military GPS handsets, as well as growing commercial demand for low-power GPS, we propose a GNSS baseband receiver that is flexible for both current and new waveforms, and highly energy efficient. We achieve flexibility through the design of a programmable spreading code generator that is highly compact, yet able to generate all publicly known GPS ...