Award Data

The objective of this SBIR Phase I proposal is to determine the feasibility of viscosity characterization of high concentration protein formulations (HCF) by QATCH’s microcapillary quartz technology. HCFs are non-Newtonian fluids with shear-thinning behavior and they are administered to patients by subcutaneous or muscular injections. The injectability of HCFs depends on the viscosity at high-sh ...

Natural rubber is an essential manufacturing material that possesses performance properties that are superior to synthetic rubber for many product applications. However, natural rubber production is limited to a single species (rubber tree) in a limited geographic area (Southeast Asia) and is predicted to be incapable of meeting future demand. Producing rubber from another commercial crop such as ...

The objective of this project is to develop a compact and efficient avalanche photodiode (APD), operating between 200-250 nm, for implementation in the next generation bio-chem-detectors. The proposed detectors will be based on the AlGaN materials system and will be solar blind, highly sensitive, smaller, less expensive, and more robust than current UV detectors. Development of such APDs will enab ...

BioMojo proposes to develop a language-based intelligent patient simulation platform for the purpose of providing students with a realistic training environment and instructors better control over the training environment involving simulated patients.

The overall goals of our effort are to reduce the cost and lead times of test articles while maintaining their fidelity. Corvid Technologies will partner with North Carolina State University to examine why metal alloys produced by AM processes differ in high strain-rate response compared to traditional foundry (TM) alloys at their CAMAL facility. We will identify the differences in response by exa ...

Vigilant Cyber Systems, Inc. (VCS) proposes to design and develop the Manipulation Analysis and Visualization (MAV) Tool to enable users to analyze extremely large and diverse multi-dimensional datasets and gain insight into the data and the phenomena that produced the data. MAV will revolutionize analysis of modeling and simulation and test data by significantly enhancing user cognition and enabl ...

Vadum will develop a deep learning-based computer vision technique to automatically and accurately estimate the number of objects in a synthetic aperture radar (SAR) image. The technique learns on key features of SAR and optical images while being resilient to a wide range of SAR image resolutions, collection geometries and object poses. The analysis architecture is extensible to images collected ...

In response to the need for drastic surface finish improvement on additively manufactured metal components, Voxel Innovations Inc. has developed a novel manufacturing process termed: oscillatory pulsed electrochemical machining (O-PECM). O-PECM is a heat-free, stress-free, surface finishing technique capable of producing sub-200 nm Ra roughness. In O-PECM, a thin envelope of build material is prin ...

AURA Technologies proposes an innovative method of using an ultra short pulsed laser to create a plasma at a distance.

Unmanned Systems, such as Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS), have become an essential element of US military operations. The rapid advancement of unmanned systems technologies and missions are requiring systems to evolve quickly. While techniques such as rapid prototyping can rapidly field new capabilities, the complexity of the software that controls these unmanned systems makes cybersecurity hardeni ...