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In previous R&D, the developers created codeSpark Academy, a game that employs a visual and block-based approach with puzzles to teach coding skills to students ages 5 to 9 years old. codeSpark Academy is in widespread use in and out of schools around the world. In this project, the developers will expand storytelling creative tools within the existing game. The pretend-play scenarios will include ...

Ardica has identified aluminum hydride (Alane) as the best candidate for solid hydrogen storage. Alane provides greater amounts of hydrogen stored compared to compressed hydrogen gas, including twice the hydrogen capacity on a per volume basis. During Phase I, Ardica demonstrated Alane’s use on a small scale, and has provided specifications for a full-sized hydrogen storage system to provide hyd ...

In Phase II, Physical Optics Corporation (POC) proposes to advance the development of the Rapid and Agile Component Development (RACD) tool suite. This tool suite consists of open-source tools and royalty-free, FACE/ARINC-661 software modules to rapidly implement a reusable pilot-vehicle interface (PVI) with updated functionality with minimal development effort and recertification. We conclusively ...

The future battlefield, whether in cluttered urban environments or isolated rural areas, will increasingly rely on unmanned systems to provide support to the warfighter. Medical unmanned systems must be able to reliably identify and interact with patients in order to perform casualty evacuations, execute telemedicine or medical interventions, or precisely communicate the location of all injured pa ...

Unsecured areas contain multiple threats. These threats include unknown radio frequency (RF) transmissions in the 2 MHz to 6 GHz frequency range. To assist in securing the area, there is a desire to detect, identify, locate, and potentially disrupt these RF transmissions. Due to the physical threats in the environment, a solution that can provide intelligence of the RF transmissions via an unmanne ...

To address the U.S. Army’s need for a system to transmit localized wind data to increase the accuracy of air delivery of supplies, Physical Optics Corporation (POC) proposes to develop the Surface-to-Air Weather Interface (SUWI) system. For compatibility with the Joint Precision Airdrop System (JPADS), the SUWI design integrates the standard JPADS radio with POC’s Micro Weather Sensor (MWS) to ...

Deep Focus applies deep learning neural networks to Apache Fire Control Radar (FCR) targeting and target identification, with applicability to related systems. Recent innovations in deep learning theory and implementation have enabled neural nets to achieve what was once unthinkable: beat humans at complex image recognition skills, safely pilot cars over chaotic road systems, and overwhelm Grandma ...

Missile plumes emit electromagnetic radiation that can alert adversaries to their presence, cause troublesome thermal loads to the missile, or temporarily blind the pilot of the release aircraft. Techniques are needed to measure the three-dimensional (3D) plume structure and associated spectral emission to obtain a better understanding of the physical processes governing plume radiation. A method ...

Areté Associates proposes to develop a low-SWaP-C, rifle-mounted downrange crosswind sensor operating at the eye-safe wavelength of 1.5 microns for rapid ballistic correctional calculations. The sensor will use standard-issue batteries and include a simple user interface and display. The error on the crosswind measurement will be less than 1.5 m/s for winds from 0 to 20 m/s, up to a range of 1.5 ...

In order to meet the US Army’s need for a biometric identification and access management system for medical personnel and patients for Android-based platforms for operation in situations with intermittent network access, ChromoLogic proposes to develop a Biometric Authentication and Identification (BAID) system. BAID consists of an Android OS application and biometric collection hardware leverag ...