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NanoSonic is a small advanced materials company with expertise in the development of new materials using additive manufacturing (AM) processes and prototyping existing products with methodology that enables performance enhancements and cost reduction.  In this SBIR program, NanoSonic shall prototype Otto Fuel Coveralls, NSN 8415-01-562-6728(s)/PGC: 03538, using seamless dipping AM techniques in s ...

Medicine Value Partners, Inc. (MVP) will build its Scouting Every Cure (SECure) tool that enables decision makers and logisticians to assess the medicine markets and anticipate vulnerabilities, including shortage risks. The SECure tool will provide a global perspective on how medicines are sourced, produced, and distributed that creates multiple layers of contextual connections along the supply ch ...

Today DLA assembles and kits the UGR at a single facility in San Joaquin (DDJC). Any disruptions in the San Joaquin area would rapidly endanger DLA’s ability to supply UGRs. The fixed assembly and kitting location also prevents DLA from providing the flexibility to respond to emerging customer requirements, such as CONUS and OCONUS disaster relief.     TAF will combine its expertise in manufac ...

Lithium-ion batteries provide a popular energy storage option due to their high energy and power density compared to other technologies and demand is expected to continue to grow. Most lithium-ion battery chemistries rely on cobalt and nickel oxides, both of which are fairly expensive and which the United States obtains primarily via imports. Despite this limitation, most lithium-ion batteries are ...

This SBIR Phase I project will develop a platform and protocol to rapidly identify and prepare materials and methods for the suppression of a viral pandemic after the virus has been identified and sequenced. The project will focus on the currently ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, but the platform can apply to future viral pandemics. With this platform, pandemics can be suppressed with at least two of th ...

WW Technology Group’s (WWTG) proposed effort combines big data analytics (BDA) with modeling and analysis to provide a sustainable economic assessment of the effects of pandemics on the Defense Industrial Base (DIB) and DoD supply chain. The BDA approach will form an ontological data model, which is the foundation for the supply chain model.  Further, it will provide traceability of all analyse ...

Training Acoustic Warfare Operators (AWO) for Anti-Submarine Warfare (ASW) is a time-consuming process that requires extensive human support. But instructors must divide their time between helping students and hunting for the signal in sonograms themselves. To improve training outcomes, nou Systems, Inc. (nSI) will deliver an AI training system that is interpretable, not explainable after the fact ...

SSC will leverage the ability for deep neural networks to perform feature extraction along with transparent classifier architectures, which are innately explainable to create an AI assistant for passive air anti-submarine warfare applications. Deep neural networks will be used to learn the features operators use when reviewing sonar displays. This embedded expert knowledge will enable the AI assis ...

Naval aircraft in operation face the risk of over-temperature incidents such as fires and high-temperature exhaust gas impingement. Protection of composite aircraft structures from excessive heat is important since the thermally damaged component could fail and result in a catastrophic accident. Existing simulation tools are not able to provide a reliable damage assessment of a large-scale structu ...

The definition of insanity is trying the same thing again and expecting a different result. Solutions like aerodynamic shaping, magnetic windows, and liquid injection have all attempted to solve the problem of plasma sheath communications. They have all failed. What is needed is not a technical evolution, but rather a technical revolution. Conventional modulation techniques are poorly suited for t ...