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The objective of the Phase II research is to utilize the lessons learned from the Phase I risk reduction work to develop a prototype CAD-programmable environment for the development of condition-based maintenance systems for rotorcraft. This developmentenvironment features a CAD scenario modeler for constructing, via click n' drag modeling, fault-to-failure damage models which can account for the ...

ChemImage Corp. and ITT are proposing to demonstrate the feasibility of detecting and identifying chemical and biological threats using UV Raman Chemical Imaging techniques from a stand-off distance of 1 meter and against complex stationary backgroundmaterials such as asphalt and soil as commonly encountered by fielded military and homeland security personnel. The use of a standoff surface detect ...

Chesapeake PERL is a contract manufacturing company using the baculovirus expression system for mass production of proteins in lepidopterous insect larvae. PERL's automated in-line insect mass rearing and inoculation systems enables the production oflarge quantities of complex, biologically fully functional proteins. The baculovirus expression system as developed in the eighties and nineties is ...

There is an immediate need for real-time sensitive and selective detection of biological warfare agents (BWA) in air or water. Essential components of developmental biological and chemical sensors are the molecular receptors or recognition elements.Molecular imprinting of polymers has been used with promising results to create artificial chemical receptors. Echo Technologies, Inc. proposes to de ...

Besides performing a thorough statistical analysis of the government furnished data sets to determine the features and metrics for spectral unmixing, Intelligent Automation, Inc. and Prof. C. Chang of University of Maryland at Baltimore County also proposean innovative approach to detect and classify chemical and biological agents. There are two major steps. First, we propose to apply a recently d ...

The goal of the proposed research is to develop a highly sensitive and specific amplification system that can be coupled to any pathogen detection and quantification unit for sensitive real-time detection of biological warfare agents. The system is builtaround a dual-enzyme substrate-recycling electrochemical amplification system coupled to an immunoassay detection technology that has already been ...

Suspended or reduced animation of brain and heart tissues during battle-field injury or during critical-care trauma may result in a significant protection from organ damage, systemic shock, and pain and may provide a prolonged window of opportunity fortreatment. Suspended or reduced animation of brain and heart tissues may be achieved by a complete suspension or suppression of neural activities ( ...

U.S. forces require rapid, early and accurate pathogen detection systems designed for use in extreme combat situations. Numerous options to deliver weaponized pathogens drives the necessity for U.S. forces to have technology to detect infectious pathogens.TPL has conceived a unique methodology for amplifying the presence of a pathogen without multiplying physical number of pathogens. TPL proposes ...

The Defense Modeling and Simulation Office (DMSO) has developed the High Level Architecture (HLA) as one of the principle components of a DoD-wide Common Technical Framework for modeling and simulation (M&S). Unlike previous distributed simulation technologies such as DIS and SIMNET, HLA provides federation developers, via the Object Model Template (OMT), the means to define the structure and for ...

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