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Among the factors that inhibit the use of composite materials in both general aviation aircraft and DoD platforms are the high cost of engineering and the cost of certification. Unless manufacturers can control risk when introducing new materials and pro

There is a need to achieve 10^-9 reliability for actuators for critical aerospace applications and this precludes single point failure for all but the simplest and most reliable electrical and mechanical components. LC Drives proposes a method of constructing a high reliability linear actuator for critical aerospace applications that is designed such that jams caused by conventional electrical a ...

Looking Glass is an immersive, story-driven game experience that enables computer science education for students K-12. It presents learning in a game-based series of challenge levels that permit a high degree of player choice in tailoring educational progression and adapting game systems that present both STEM and SEL interactions. Gameplay occurs within a futuristic Wonderland, where proficiency ...

The dried blood spot (DBS) method is an alternative to venipuncture. The available data indicates that the DBS method is both precise and accurate for a diverse range of compounds. We discovered that proprietary additives vastly improve extraction of proteins in DBS using electrospray. Our unexpected results appear to dramatically increase analyte recovery concentration while reducing DBS prep, an ...

The objective of this topic is to rapidly and efficiently develop mobile applications (apps) for handheld devices and to demonstrate their utility in a number of military domains. Remcom proposes to develop within the TIGR environment a handheld app for the Android device that will provide real time mapping of various RF propagation (communications) performance parameters in urban, rural and litt ...

Bacteria employ a vast array of virulence factors that enable them to confront and damage the host cell during the infectious process. Identification of these virulence factors is essential to understanding pathogenisis and defining targets for future development of more efficacious next-generation therapeutic agents and vaccines. Thus, there is an urgent need for a rapid, relatively inexpensive ...

Advanced Cooling Technologies, Inc. (ACT) is proposing to develop a pump capable of moving a two-phase fluid against large pressure gradients. This pump will accept fluid at any quality and will maintain outlet pressure regardless of inlet quality variation. Pumping will be provided by conventional means with a prime mover dedicated to each phase. To allow for this, the phases will be passively ...

Our objective is to provide a semi-automated system to generate and verify scalable, high fidelity, multi-dimensional, social networks with realistic distributional, temporal and spatial characteristics. This will enable the user to generate networks varying in size, node attributes, geo-temporal characteristics, consistency with other networks, and reflection of known subpopulations, in formats u ...

We propose to demonstrate a"Tracking with Planning"module for tracking objects in a highly cluttered environment from a moving platform. This system is designed to track objects with multiple long occlusions, by anticipating where and how the objects might move. The main innovations are 1) actively anticipating objects'goals and intentions, 2) using motion planning to create multiple plausib ...

Daniel H. Wagner proposes to develop further the methods and the mathematics by which information and networks are dynamically evaluated to minimize the transmission or display of redundant, low-value data while assuring that high-value information, and subsystems are available. We propose the continued development of our non-probabilistic measure of value that encompasses all possible aggregates ...