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Advanced Protection Products, Inc. (APPI) will use advanced materials and processes to develop and certify Very Light Body Armor (VLBA) plates that are capable of defeating a variety of ballistic threats. The VLBA plates will be designed using a titanium allow based metallic-composite armor system to provide cost-effective, lightweight protection. Composite facing and backing materials will be u ...

THE GOAL OF THIS PROJECT IS TO DEVELOP ELECTROCHEMICALLY SENSITIVE DETECTORS WHOSE SIGNAL DEPENDS ON THE POTENTIAL DEVELOPED BY ELECTROCHEMICAL OR ENZYMATIC REACTIONS. BIOLOGICALLY SELECTIVE MATERIALS SUCH AS POLYCLONAL OR MONOCLONAL ANTIBODIES ARE IMMOBILIZED AT THE ELECTRODE SURFACE. IN THESE PROPOSED BISENSORS THE HIGH SPECIFICITY AND SELECTIVITY OF BIOLOGICAL MOLECULES ARE COMBINED WITH THE HI ...

An automated dynamic firing zone generation imaging system is needed to increase the effectiveness and utility of shipboard weapon systems. The current manual firing zone definition process is manpower intensive, complex, and cannot account for motion or changing topside configuration. These limitations greatly restrict the lethality and utility of shipboard weapons. This project proposes a dyna ...

A significant problem for modern combat control system implementations is the incompatible development and deployment environments. These applications have specific performance requirements that until recently were only accurately obtained on the target installation system. However, for various logistic and economic reasons, the platforms utilized for advanced applications have typically been inc ...

This SBIR Phase I project builds upon Digital Optics Corporation's experience in the design, fabrication and commercialization of diffractive and micro-optics and the experience of Dr. George Whitesides of Harvard University to provide an innovative approach to the fabrication of diffractive and micro-optical components using self-assembled monolayers (SAM's). The proposed approach makes use of SA ...

Emergent Technologies Corp. (ETC) in conjunction with research partners at West Virginia University has developed and recently patented an innovation antenna that promises to revolutionize the science of antenna design, construction and utilization. The antenna, labeled the Countrawound Toroidal Helical Antenna (CTTHA), offers a number of significant advantages over conventional antennas. The CT ...

AeroMed Software, L.L.C., proposes to develop an interactive virtual environment simulator for vertical aircraft signal training. The proposed system is intended to provide Landing Signal Enlisted (LSE) trainees with a dynamic training device similar to the operational flight trainers used by aviators. Recent advances in data acquisition, signal processing and graphics software, computer process ...

THIS WORK ADDRESSES THE RECOGNITION OF TRANSIENT AND NONSTATIONARY SIGNALS BY A COLLECTION OF FEATURE EXTRACTION ALGORITHMS FOLLOWED BY LOGIC THAT COMBINES THE FEATURE ESTIMATES TO PRODUCE SIGNAL CLASSIFICATION. THE FEATURE EXTRACTION ALGORITHMS INCLUDE ESTIMATORS FOR SPECTRAL COHERENCE, A TECHNIQUE THAT ILLUMINATES THE PRESENCE OF RHYTHMIC MODULATIONS IN SIGNALS. NEURAL NETS WILL BE EXAMINED AS A ...

This project will focus on the development of a compact, rugged, low-maintenance, cost-effective, all solid-state Marine Raman Image Amplifier (MARIA) capable of amplifying low-level ocean LIDAR images and producing gated images with potential gate times of tens of picoseconds. The innovative technology to be implemented is based on a solid-state stimulated Raman scattering technique developed by ...

Current techniques for the production of red phosphorus powders cannot produce 5¿m size powders while maintaining a pure surface. Two new processing techniques are suggested that are capable of processing red phosphorus into powders 5¿m or smaller in size. These techniques have been demonstrated with conventional metals and alloys but not with phosphorus. One important advantage of these proc ...