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Luna Innovations, teamed with North Carolina State University’s (NCSU) Non-Wovens Institute (NWI), will meet the Army’s need to develop a novel wash durable, flame resistant, non-woven textile. This practical system will provide military uniforms with excellent flame resistant (FR) protection at a lower manufacturing cost without compromising performance such as durability, repellency, and vec ...

Phase I effort will develop an innovative Exploitation of Discrete GPS interference for Enhanced navigation (EDGE) technology. EDGE uses existing antenna configurations and RF front-ends on a missile platform (or similar platforms) to detect and locate GPS interferers (jammers and spoofers). Localized interference sources are then exploited for navigation, targeting, and guidance. Common approache ...

Tactical situation awareness (SA) is critical for ensuring the Warfighters situational dominance, especially during combat. SA can improve security, survivability and optimize lethality. The object of this SBIR is to develop a dual-mode transducer (B-Tac) that provides both bone conduction (BC) sound transmission and vibrotactile cues. The merit of each technology alone has been shown to enhance p ...

Many injuries in the battlefield are being treated by non-medical personnel(e.g. 42% of tourniquet applications are applied by non-medical personnel). Unfortunately, most non-medical personnel are not provided with opportunities to practice medical skills in a high stress environment prior to completing them during live missions. This lack of practice of critical skills is related to a need to foc ...

Our service members deployed worldwide are at risk of exposures to local environmental and industrial toxicants which can potentially result in long-term adverse health effects. Understanding the impact of these exposures is critical for improved force protection and safeguarding individual soldier health. Capturing and classifying exposure data is essential for developing and implementing risk mi ...

For dynamic protection of LWIR sensors from laser dazzler threats, Nanohmics, Inc., proposes to develop a thin, light-weight, electronically tunable notch filter based on microfabricated graphene-integrated metasurfaces. The optical filter can reject a specific narrow spectral line (“notch”) or multiple simultaneous notches. The metasurface comprises an engineered array of resonant microstruct ...

Developing a safe and effective malaria vaccine remains the hope for reducing the spread and resurgence of the disease. In recent years, vaccine research has broadened with subunit protein, and DNA vaccines due to their inherent safety, simpler storage and easier production at the expense of attenuated and inactivated organism based approaches. RTS, S/AS01, the most advanced subunit vaccine, has u ...

The goal of the Phase II program is to demonstrate growth of large-area single-crystal diamond substrates having surface area of 6 cm2 and suitable for electronic device applications. This will represent a major leap in available substrate area, from less than 1 cm2 available today. The technical path will directly follow the work begun in the Phase I program, which is, using our toroidal plasma C ...

Systems & Processes Engineering Corporation (SPEC) is proposing a fast moving Phase II Expendable Active RF Technologies for Helicopters (EARTH) program to deliver a fully functional 1”x2”x8” active expendable RF countermeasures prototype flight unit, which is form/fit compatible with the AN/ALE-47 dispenser. The proposed countermeasures flight unit (microUAV) expendables are configured with ...

Oceanit proposes to develop improved circumaural ear seals for hearing protection and communication devices that have the ability to better fit to the features of the Service members head and eyewear providing an improved seal, reducing environmental stress while providing an improved level of noise attenuation to help reduce incidence of noise induced hearing loss (NIHL) and improve communication ...