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The goal of this project is ultimately to develop a new mechanism to enable rigid body armor plates to defeat armor piercing threats. Our Phase I results showed three separate mechanisms for defeating both traditional armor piercing rounds as well as new AP rounds that use tungsten carbide penetrator cores. With these mechanisms now understood, our Phase II work will focus on optimizing the physic ...

Each year, over 48 million people fall sick, 128,000 are hospitalized and 3,000 people die due to food related illnesses in the U.S. alone. Unfortunately, existing technologies for pathogen detection in food and water are too slow and inefficient taking days to conclude, and requiring either intense labor in a dedicated laboratory or expensive capital equipment. We propose to develop a sensitive, ...

Multi-point initiators used in modern explosive projectiles rely on high voltage capacitors which can deliver high power in a low inductance configuration. Current capacitors meeting the required performance specifications are based on dielectric ceramics in multi-layer configurations. These capacitors cost as much as $100 and have a volume of over 400 mm3. This translates to $200-400/J/cm3, conse ...

In Army SBIR II Management Sciences, Inc. has developed the EdgeWare edge-enabled system for soldiers on the move equipped with Nett Warrior End User Devices. EdgeWare is game changing because it pulls delivery of important information to the combat soldier and reflectively pushes information from the combat soldier to commanders and other support organizations such as medical, logistic, and intel ...

In this proposal, Protein Sciences Corporation proposes to develop a bivalent, recombinant protein based adenovirus vaccine to protect against serotypes 4 and 7, based on our proprietary platform technology of baculovirus expression vector system (BEVS) and insect cells. We propose the hexon protein as the target antigen as it is considered the primary target for neutralizing antibodies generated ...

This proposal describes a method to reduce the acoustic noise and torque ripple of a switched-reluctance machine by solving a multi-objective optimization problem. The physical limitations of the machine, namely voltage and temperature, are used as constraints, and these are related to the objectives of noise and torque variation. Electrical, mechanical, and thermal models are used to form an anal ...

Amastan, in collaboration with the University of Connecticut, proposes to produce high temperature phase stable and CMAS resistant coatings of lanthanum magnesium hexaaluminate (LMHA) material as a suitable substitute to YSZ top coat for thermal barrier coating (TBC) applications. In phase I feasibility effort, Amastan demonstrated high temperature (1600 C) phase stable LMHA coatings that are phas ...

The overall goal of this proposed program (through Phase III) is to develop an innovative Portable Fuel Quality Analyzer (PFQA) capable of providing a final fuel quality check of jet and diesel fuels at the point-of-use as either a stand-alone analyzer or

PEO-Aviation has established a requirement for Integrated Vehicle Health Monitoring Systems (IVHMS) that perform passive data collection, diagnostics, and prognostic assessment of the remaining useful life of components and systems. The information and data produced by the IVHMS augment the existing helicopter usage monitoring system (HUMS) which focuses on collecting data related to use of the ro ...

Therapeutic ultrasound is a common modality for pain management and rehabilitation therapy which has been clinically utilized for 60 years. Specifically designed ultrasonic devices for accelerated healing and wound site debridement are generally hand-operated bulky systems. As such, they are used on a case-by-case basis with irregular therapeutic treatment regimens dependent on patient access and ...