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Around 400,000 anterior cruciate ligaments (ACLs) are surgically treated annually in the U.S., comprising a $2.2B market. In the U.S. military, 3,000 ACL reconstruction surgeries are performed annually. ACL standard of care involves reconstruction and/or use of synthetic suture to act as an “internal brace” to support the joint. Autografting however involves patient tissue harvest related como ...

The DOD faces significant challenges as it replenishes its satellite constellations and is confronted with growing threats in space which may require very different satellite architectures and acquisition strategies. Trident is proposing to develop, implement and demonstrate a Multi-Mission Architecture and Framework (MMAF) suitable for single-chip, adaptable radio platforms such as the Zynq® Ult ...

Radiant Technologies will team with the University of New Mexico (UNM) and the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) to characterize Radiant’s PZT-based piezoMEMS process on 6-inch wafers. Radiant’s unique I-Beam piezoMEMS process uses a single Deep RIE step to release integrated circuit thin-PZT-film capacitors as piezoelectric strings, membranes, and cantilevers on a silicon wafer. The ...

Prediction of complex dynamical systems is an important task that has implications in a wide variety of technological and policy domains.  Accurate prediction of processes such as terrestrial and space weather, climate change, financial and economic markets, and pandemics can have profound policy and engineering impacts.  As a result, diverse methods of time series prediction have been developed ...

There are four key technical problems that this program must address: 1) Composition of sensor processing and flight control software elements into a workflow for each operational asset. For this program, the assets will be manned and unmanned aircraft. 2) A robust distributed processing architecture that can execute workflows without user intervention. 3) Automated provisioning of aircraft with m ...

Current tracking software and algorithms are typically limited to forming tracks from individual sensors. When multiple sensors are present, data fusion and track correlation can improve tracking performance, but holistic incorporation of multiple distinct sources of information (OSINT, text reports, patterns of life, doctrine, etc.) is not possible in standard tracking models. This work is intend ...

The objective of the proposed Phase II effort is to create a proof-of-concept integration of precision PNT algorithms with small-form factor Link 16 terminals.

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 ...

Today, overwater emitter localization is performed using a combination of direction finding and/or multilateration. Both techniques inherently require multiple, well-separated receivers determine 3D emitter locations. The lensing effects of atmospheric ducting and surface reflections can potentially produce near-field phenomena whereby the electric fields received from an emitter is sensitive to t ...

Texas A&M University (TAMU) and Applied Technology Associates (ATA) propose to develop and characterize a set of orbit determination and estimation algorithms for closely-spaced objects in low Earth orbit. The algorithms will span existing state-of-the-art-in-practice and possible state-of-the-art-in-research approaches. These algorithms will seek to extract maximal information out of existing spa ...