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Burns represent 5-10% of overall military casualties. Burn resuscitation requires large volume and carries the risk of severe complications or mortality resulting from under-resuscitation or over-resuscitation with severe edema and associated conditions. Traditional fluid therapy requires hourly adjustment as the burn pathophysiology changes during the resuscitation phase. Casualty evacuations (CA ...

The goal of the Phase I research is to identify the process parameters required to form armored steel plate using magnetoplasticity. This technology, called Mag Forming, is based on theoretical magnetoplasticity fundamentals that have been demonstrated at ORNL and is supported by high cycle fatigue experimentation reported in literature. The objected of the research is to identify the Mag Forming ...

Balcones Technologies, LLC, (BT) has formed a team with subcontractors The University of Texas Center for Electromechanics (CEM) and the Texas Research Institute Austin, Inc (TRI) to address the Armys SBIR Topic A14-061, High Capability Off-Road Suspension System.The Army specifiedproject goals are to useadvanced active suspension technology for MRAPs and JLTVs to enhance soft soil mobility; enabl ...

Millimeter and terahertz wave imaging can image objects behind or within other objects. However, current equipment that does this quickly is expensive, and affordable equipment is prohibitively slow. Researchers at Missouri S & T have successfully developed and demonstrated several innovative millimeter wave imaging systems capable of real-time, high-resolution imaging at frequencies up to 150 G ...

The SmartBalance? engine cylinder balance algorithm utilizes engines? existing speed sensors and a hybrid combination of advanced methods of crank vibration analysis to determine inter-cylinder imbalance and trim injector durations to reduce IMEP variation in real time.

This proposal addresses the need for a portable closed loop burn resuscitation system to optimize fluid therapy, automate medical caretaker tasks, and record and communicate resuscitation data. Patient care can be further optimized by the integration of a closed looped ventilator into the platform. The proposed system will be capable of intelligently determining fluid therapy parameters, minimi ...

Autonomous or teleoperated navigation of unmanned ground vehicles (UGVs) is difficult even in benign environments due to challenges associated with perception, decision making, and human-machine interaction, among others. In environments with rough, sloped, slippery, and/or deformable terrain, the difficulty of the navigation problem increases dramatically. In this effort, Quantum Signal, LLC, Un ...

Many military casualties survive the first few days of burn and trauma resuscitation and surgeries only to fall victim to an infection and sepsis. Intensive care for these casualties is complex, requires treatment of systemic and often multiple organ systems at a time and is highly error prone. Evidence-based best practices are published, but yet not implemented in step by step detail at the bedsi ...

The objective of this proposal is to demonstrate the feasibility of producing large area, single crystal monolayer Molybdenum disulfide (MoS2) for high frequency applications. In order to be able to achieve this aim, it is necessary to work on three main components: (a) the channel material itself, (b) the gate dielectric and (c) the drain/ source contacts to the channel material. This work propo ...

The proposed innovative technology advances state-of-the-art mobile device security solutions by combining data integrity, n-persona security policies and enhanced attestation of devices on a Mobile Ad-hoc Network (MANET) to enable system operators and the Warfighter to securely transmit information within a space communication network. The technology leverages multiple levels of attestation to pe ...