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The objective of this Phase I SBIR program is to design and build a system that measures the strain of (or the force transferred through) the parachute riser fabric throughout a paratrooper jump. More specifically, a surface applied riser sensor shall provide a non-invasive mechanism to monitor the forces and resulting strain on risers during a jump. These sensors are comprised of NanoSonic’s pa ...

This Army Phase I SBIR program would develop high frequency, interchangeable multi-axis nanomembrane (NM) based pressure sensors and fiber optic based temperature sensors for ballistic systems, using SOI (Silicon on Insulator) NM techniques in combination with our fiber optic nanocomposite sensors. Such tailored-modulus (0.1 MPa to 5 GPa), conformal nanomembrane sensors with interchangeable fiber ...

Through Army SBIR funding, NanoSonic will develop and empirically optimize a next-generation Spall Protective, Energy Absorbing (SPEA™) HybridSil® material that will provide vehicle occupants with pioneering combinatorial protection from 1) fragmentation behind-armor debris (BAD) and 2) high velocity head / neck impact during underbody blast, crash, and rollover events. NanoSonic's SPEA materia ...

Red phosphorus (RP) is one of most important obscurant materials with long history. RP obscurants offer high yield factor and they are considered as the primary broad band obscurant material with high mass extinction coefficient in the visible band and also has weak attenuation performance in IR bands. However, large flames and high flame temperatures generated by burning RP create incendiary effe ...

Physically UnclonableFunctions (PUFs) have been proposed as central building blocks in cryptographic protocols and security architectures. PUFs are physical devices that exhibit a challenge/responsebehavior: when presented with a challenge, the device produces a response that is a random function of both the challenge and the physical properties of the device.In contrast to most digital designs, i ...

Denial of Global Navigation Satellite Systems for aircraft navigation in a Degraded Visual Environment (DVE) has a significant impact on military missions. To address this, TSC proposes to develop an image-based navigation system that exploits an onboard, forward-looking millimeter wave (W-band) radar. In Phase I, TSC will investigate two different image-based navigation concepts: One will correla ...

Self-driving cars are coming. Building on the successes of the DARPA Grand Challenge and Urban Challenge autonomous vehicle competitions, commercial companies such as Tesla, Uber, Google and others, have invested hundreds of millions of dollars and achieved millions of road hours of autonomous operation. In the meantime, driver safety aids that detect lane departures and cars in the driver’s bli ...

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Recent cognitive research indicates that military teams operate effectively in high-stress, information-rich environments when they 1) share mental models of the battlefield situation and the team; 2) critique their situation model to develop clear goals for information retrieval; 3) effectively communicate information needs to others; and 4) anticipate and counteract information overload. We pro ...

Inappropriate trust of automation can lead to suboptimal performance, in which the respective capabilities of humans and computers are not effectively exploited. In some cases, over- or under-reliance can lead to catastrophe. The primary objectives of the proposed Phase I work are (1) to develop a systematic general framework for training users of decision aids, with particular attention to the ...