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Early in the covid pandemic, decentralized and democratized AM of PPE was activated to alleviate supply chain failures that prevented normal suppliers of devices like face shields to meet the demands of the domestic health care system. Quality control testing, while critical to reducing risk by ensuring appropriate, safe, and reliable parts, is a time intensive and equipment intensive process. As ...

Expansion of aquaculture production depends crucially on the development of technologies that are able to add uncrewed management capabilities to fish farming operations, i.e., the ability to control the tank’s population remotely and without human presence. The present project aims to expand our successful Phase I feasibility research toward commercializing an autonomous device that can be inse ...

Expansion of aquaculture production depends crucially on the development of technologies that are able to perform functions important in a fish farming facility, without human input. For instance, early detection of a disease or parasite outbreak is critical in intensive aquaculture settings. Parasites, such as Sea Lice in Salmonid aquaculture are responsible for large losses. Existing options for ...

Additive manufacturing is a growing area of advanced manufacturing (AM) and is comprised of joining multiple layers of materials to build up an object. There are various AM processes but many of them have risks of ensuring that the interfacial bonds between layers are sufficient. A material can potentially be insufficiently bonded at the layer interface creating a threat of delamination and materi ...

"First responders are more frequently using Small Unmanned Aerial Systems (sUAS) to aid rapid response to various types of natural disasters. Platforms, however; are typically focused on small, specific areas of interest and resulting data is rarely shared in real time. Decision makers may have no access to this data, nor access to broad area Common Operating Pictures (COP) fusing real-time sUAS d ...

TECHNICAL ABSTRACT: A cost-effective, nutritious feed that minimally impacts the surrounding environment is critical to the profitability of a commercial aquaculture operations. As common sources of protein, such as fishmeal and fish processing byproducts, are becoming limited and more expensive to use, feed producers have turned to plant-based proteins. Plant-based feeds however, come with their ...

GIRD Systems leverages its extensive experience with interference cancellation systems, particularly for military SATCOM (UFO and MUOS), to propose two fundamental architectures for mitigating the wireless mobile uplink interference expected once spectrum sharing in the 1695-1710 MHz band begins. GIRD's ADEPT digital solution leverages the latest advances in digital technology to develop algorithm ...

NEOEx Systems, Inc. proposes to use advanced energy and power systems technology to significantly improve Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS) endurance and capabilities required to meet the NOAA NWS anticipate mission scenarios. Our innovative approach integrates high technology readiness level power and energy subsystems into existing and proven commercial off the shelf aeronautical subsystems for airf ...

The result of this project will be a fully functional prototype of the Model 8686H Precision Resistance-Ratio AC Bridge. The unit is capable of measuring resistances from 0 to 400 ohms with better than 0.1 uohm resolution and an accuracy of better than +/-0.05ppm. The unit will have advanced features such as a built-in web-browser, USB interface and built-in complex functions. Examples of such com ...

This Small Business Innovation Research Phase II project uses the ¿smart-cut¿ methods to produce high performance and advanced functionality lithium tantalate pyroelectric sensors. Phase I has been devoted to feasibility demonstration of the ¿smart-cut¿ process, preliminary design studies for the advanced pyroelectric detectors and prototype device fabrication and testing. The Phase I ...