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During the Phase II effort, Ballydel Technologies will develop scalable and safe processes for the manufacture of MAX phase and MXene powders in 1Kg batch sizes.  Additionally, our team will implement commercial-scale mixing procedures for the production

The Technical Problem: The Air Force Nuclear Weapons Center (AFNWC) and the broader Department of Defense (DOD) require operational agility that can only be achieved through the implementation of Software Defined Weapon Systems. In today's modern systems,

Classifying and marking documents in the Department of Defense is largely a manual process. Manual classification is challenging, time-consuming, resource-intensive, and sometimes inconsistent. Recent advancements in AI and large language models (LLMs) ar

Stuxnet malware destroyed Iran’s nuclear centrifuges by altering the rotational speed by increments undetectable to humans. Cyber attacks with nation-state backing have produced this and other examples of adversarial danger.  It is very possible for an adversary to carry out the destruction, detonation, or launch of our ICBMs. In order to understand where software comes from, validate its pedig ...

The realization of practical multi-static RADARs could provide significant deployment flexibility to modern Air Force operations by decoupling the transmitter from the high value platforms. However, the realization of such systems requires highly coordinated receivers capable of track the transmit beam as it propagates across the receive arrays field of regard. New photonic approaches to spatial b ...

The purpose of this effort is to develop enhanced Custom Support Electronics (CSE) capable of providing high-fidelity scene data synchronously to a large-format scene projector or sensor for HWIL simulations.  The goal is to use the new CSE (NESSIE2) for driving current and new scene projectors with synthetic imagery generated by KHILS-developed FLITES or FLINT scene-generation PCs. A major empha ...

Modern lithium ion batteries are known for their poor safety performance, with many reports of battery failure and fire having been reported. One of the major causes of battery fire is from the use of flammable solvents, such as organic carbonates, as the electrolyte. These hazards have long limited the usage of batteries in dangerous conditions, such as on the battlefield. To combat this issue, t ...

Biomason’s prototype MEDUSA dust abatement system provides a superior performing, logistically lean, and environmentally friendly solution for rapid dust suppression for VTOL operations in austere, forward operating positions. Moreover, base MEDUSA systems and processes may be adapted for utilization in multiple industrial sectors and serve several other key military and civilian use-cases - fro ...

10% of cancers are associated with an inherited pathogenic variant that can partially be identified by cancer gene panel testing, but up to 40% of cases show variants of uncertain significance (VUS) or no pathogenic variant results. VUS or no pathogenic variant do not reassign risk and, are confusing for how to proceed with surveillance/prevention. Morgan & Mendel Genomics (MMG) has developed rapi ...

In the realm of cyber operations a compromised identity puts warfighter lives at risk and may result in failed operations. The cyber operator of today needs to contend with the next generation of online counterintelligence (CI) and protect their cover. Ne