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The DoD must field weapon systems more rapidly in order to retain technological advantage over its peer competitors. This goal necessitates a paradigm shift to transform the acquisition process from the costly and time-consuming design-build-test methodology into a modern model-analyze-build approach that complements the use of virtual/physical prototyping and experimentation. Recent examples have ...

This model-centric approach must integrate different model types with simulation, surrogates, systems and components at different levels of abstraction and fidelity across disciplines throughout the life cycle. The integrated perspectives provide cross-domain views for rapid system level analysis allowing engineering from various disciplines and using dynamic models and surrogates to enable contin ...

The Software Communications Architecture (SCA) 4.1 is emerging as the worldwide standard for tactical software-defined radio waveform development. The lack of automated test tools targeted to the SCA is a limiting factor in the certification cycle, resulting in longer turnaround times at JTEL, which, in turn, jeopardizes the timely introduction of required waveforms and upgrades. Due to the scope ...

An innovative, minimally intrusive temperature and composition sensor concept, proven in Phase I, will be developed into a prototype and tested in a high-pressure combustor in Phase II. The sensor, designed to monitor the hot gas stream at the turbine inlet in advanced, high performance turbine engines, uses passive fiber-optical probes and a remote readout device to collect and analyze the spatia ...

PROJECT SUMMARY: This R44 supplement application is focused on the development of a comprehensive publication strategy to meet the company’s long-standing goal of disseminating its findings to the scientific community. The proposed work is designed to create a long term publication plan for the company which will include the writing and publishing of (2) manuscripts during the project term. The ...

The Phase II Technical Objectives align with the project goals of developing an outdoor device for spatial protection in a defined, limited outdoor area. While existing work has proven out technology which is effective in indoor areas, the work has not b

Confocal microscopy has become the tool of choice for sub-micron imaging, particularly of biological tissues, and is being used as a diagnostic tool in other disciplines as well. Confocal microscope systems require the use of broadband optics in order for the instrument to collect emitted or scattered light throughout the visible and ultraviolet regions, with minimal spectral and temporal dispersi ...

Blood in thechestcavity (hemothorax) as a result of injury remains a common and seriouschallengein military and civilian trauma management. The primary treatment of hemothoraxrequires a tubeto beinserted into the pleural space around thelung. Unfortunately, in about20% of thecases,significant amounts of blood,clot, and fibrin remain after initial drainage.Left untreated, thiscan lead to a permanen ...

For this PhaseII SBIR, Vcom3D,with its subcontractors, the University of Washington and IVIR, Inc.,will develop an Advanced Female Trauma Training System (AFTTS) with realisticfemale anatomy, physiology, and behaviors. The AFTTS include both a Female Trauma Manikin and a tablet-based Virtual Instructor/Patient System (VIPS) thatcommunicates wirelessly with themanikin. The AFTTSwill includesensors ...

VitaMe Technologies Inc. (doing business as “VitaScan”) and Cornell University will develop the “Iron.Scan” - a point-of-care system for iron deficiency and anemia diagnosis in about 10 minutes from a finger stick of blood. The system comprises of (1) an