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A colorimetric ticket is a cheap, disposable sensor comprising a set of chemically reactive indicators that are printed on a paper-like substrate using chromogenic inks that change color when exposed to certain chemicals. Using different combinations of inks to print the indicators, colorimetric tickets can selectively detect a wide variety of chemically diverse substances. Decades of research in ...

The Army seeks to develop a technology that prevents infected and traumatized combat wounds on service members from becoming septic during extended tactical operations in austere environment. Critical Innovations and KARA & Associates, with consultants Captain David Tanen MD, FAAEM, FACMT (USN, Ret.) and former Commander Denise Whitfield, MD, FACEP (USN), have formed a team of medical device exper ...

The Department of Defense has made significant investment in high-power infrared laser sources for critical U.S. military applications like infrared countermeasure (IRCM).  There is a need to leverage the high-power infrared laser technology by developing a corresponding high-performance infrared fiber technology.  Advanced IRCM laser systems will emit over 100 Watts power in multiple wavelength ...

NextGen Aeronautics is partnering with Renmark Pacific in proposing an automated system that relieves the functions of cannoneer, gunner, and assist crew chief in the rapid decision-making process while he/she retains final Go/No-Go authority for each munitions fire decision. The system will satisfy space, weight, and power, safety, and manual bypass requirements. The NextGen team brings innovativ ...

Dynovas’ Rotating Automated Munition Preparer (RAMP) and Fast Automated Shell Transfer Reloader (FASTR), collectively RAMP-FASTR, addresses the Army’s need for an agile, automated, and accelerated technology enhancing the lethality of the modern Howitzer and warfighter. The FASTR system attaches directly to the cannon barrel and loads munitions and propellant into the barrel, cleans the barrel ...

Emerging Global Positioning System (GPS) technologies aim to combat well known GPS vulnerabilities: GPS signals struggle to penetrate through natural and man made structures, are easily jammed by malicious actors, are susceptible to spoofing attacks, which can trick GPS receivers into devising a false PNT solution. The US Army conducts tests of emerging GPS technologies on static, dynamic, and a ...

Our “end vision” for the effort is a soldier-worn or vehicle-mounted device which is capable of providing GPS-quality position and timing information from sources independent of GNSS to serve as test range instrumentation for testing of devices and systems equipped to operate in GPS-denied environments.  The key innovations in our proposed Augmented Positioning System (APS) device are 1) the ...

To address the Army’s need for a localized high-bandwidth wireless secure mesh network, Intellisense Systems, Inc. (Intellisense) proposes to develop a new Wide Area Multigigabit Extensible Radiofrequency Sensor (WAMERS) network based on an optimal combination of free-space optics (FSO) and millimeter-wave (mmWave) communication links. The WAMERS network forms a localized resilient hierarchical ...

Cold spray additive repair has the potential to revolutionize DoD aircraft maintenance processes.  It enables parts to be repaired with nearly full density and strength so that damaged parts can be reworked, rather than replaced, at a small fraction of the cost.  For use in Critical Safety Items (CSIs), it is essential that non-destructive quality control processes are used to verify no loss in ...

RC Integrated Systems LLC (RISL), with support from Lockheed Martin, Boeing, and Dawnbreaker, proposes to develop an Intelligent Condition Awareness Monitoring (ICAM) System for aircraft operational data recording and analysis to achieve real-time health and usage monitoring. Boeing and Lockheed Martin have expressed their interests in this technology for applications in their vertical lift progra ...