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We propose to design, build and test genetic circuits and DNA constructs that will be expressed in human cells and that will ultimately have applications for the health of warfighters. The circuits will have physiological inputs representing, for example, (1) infection/sepsis, (2) altitude sickness or blood loss, and (3) radiation exposure; which will be mediated through signal transduction pathwa ...

Nanohmics, teaming with CUNY, proposes to develop high-performance, metamaterial-based lenses that can be scaled up to tens of centimeters of clear aperture for ISR and other imaging applications. These high-throughput achromatic metalenses will operate across all visible wavelengths, 400-700 nm, demonstrating polarization-independent, low-aberration f/2 imaging comparable to much bulkier conventi ...

Commercial  technologies  to  create  wireless  networks  of  underwater  unmanned  vehicles  (UUV)  or  static  sensing  devices are limited to a few proprietary solutions that fall short of providing the flexibility, performance, and ability to adapt their networking capabilities to the time-varying environments that characterize underwater missions in the military and commercial d ...

To address DARPA’s need for a lightweight, wearable laser alert sensor system, Intellisense Systems, Inc. (Intellisense) proposes to develop a new Laser Irradiance Sensor and Alert (LISA) system based on a multi-aperture detector array that covers a 2-pi steradian (360 by 90 degree) field of view (FOV) and distinguishes laser sources from non-laser sources by the correlations in intensity among ...

Software and hardware flaws can be exploited to make programs perform unintended computations or leak sensitive data. We propose to counter these threats by isolating libraries and other program units inside a single process. The developer will insert source-level annotations that i) map code and data units to compartments and ii) capture how each compartment is intended to interact with others, i ...

Hypersonic vehicles will be flying in conditions that subject their structure and propulsion systems to harsh environments not previously seen by other aircraft. Conventional instruments cannot survive in these extreme environments and do not provide reliable data. optoXense proposes to design and develop a new pressure measurement system that will survive harsh (2000psi, 1800°C) hypersonic envir ...

Localization of over water airborne contacts by a ship at sea or a land-based collector, typically requires either active sensing of the target or a combination of passive measurements from two or more cooperative platforms sharing information about either the time and frequency of arrival or angle of arrival of the RF energy from the aircraft. In both of those cases the friendly platforms are una ...

Metalenses, with their ability to arbitrarily control the amplitude and phase of light across a band of wavelengths, have the potential to disrupt imaging and communication systems which rely on traditional lenses to focus, collimate, and otherwise manipulate optical signals, and are under increasing pressure to operate with reduced size and weight. We propose to design, develop, and demonstrate a ...

The Integrated Reconfigurable Intercommunication and Sensing (IRIS) platform will create a paradigm shift in underwater acoustic communications systems and open up a new era of innovation and performance flexibility for the developer and end-user communities. The current model of proprietary and incompatible computational platforms, networking protocols, acoustic signal modulation formats and freq ...

Triton Systems, Inc. will work in collaboration with Professor Mark Yim of the University of Pennsylvania (UPenn) to design a viable, robust ground robot with novel, reconfigurable actuators. This robot can reconfigure from a wheeled state to a legged state, enabling it to overcome tall obstacles and rough terrain. This ground robot will also be of a modular nature, able to be combined with others ...