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ArchieMD, Inc. proposes to develop a framework for rapidly creating military-relevant micro-games. The utility of the framework will be validated through the creation of a micro-game targeted at reducing leishmaniasis among military personnel deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan. These games SCORM compliant web-deliverable games will be created using Adobe Flash. The objective is to present preventi ...

Caldera will use its R&D 100 award-winning XRpro technologyto develop functional biomolecular taggants for Chemical/Biological/Radiological/Nuclear/Explosive (CBRNE) targets. These taggants will possess functionality which will allow networks of interpersonal connections and travel to be determined, and will allow CBRNE MASINT to be tracked at a distance. Main features of these synthetic protein ...

We propose to employ a novel Boundary Element Method (BEM) numerical technique to develop a parallel computer code that will allow simultaneous solution, in three dimensions (3-D), of the vacuum magnetic vector potential and magnetic field structure for complex geometries. The primary advantages of the chosen approach are the reduction of the dimensionality of the problem from three (volume) to tw ...

Many aircraft are hardened against the effects of various forms of various high power electromagnetic waves, including EMP, HPM, and HIRF. These aircraft typically have electrically conductive screens built into their windows, with an electrical connection to the metallic fuselage that forms an electromagnetic seal. To maintain the shielding effectiveness of the window, it is necessary to check pe ...

The purpose of this program is to reduce the size, weight, and improve efficiency and reliability of the power generation system for UAV’s. The approach taken will not only accomplish this goal, but provide on board starting with virtually no weight or cost penalty (for systems with onboard starting there will be a tremendous size and weight reduction). There are four key components of this ...

Advanced gas turbine aircraft engines are designed to operate at higher overall pressure ratios, elevated turbine temperatures, and more severe duty cycles. Thermomechanical fatigue (TMF) is expected to be the leading failure mode for hot-section components in these engines, a behavior typically dominated by adverse thermal gradients combined with cyclic thermal and mechanical loading. Improveme ...

Modern cooled gas turbine components are typically characterized by small-scale features (turbulators, impingement holes, and film cooling holes) and complex physics (boundary layer transition, separated shear layers from turbulators, and unsteady mixing of film coolant into the mainstream). The geometric complexity and computational rigor required to resolve the physics yields conjugate CFD/heat ...

The success of a rocket launch depends upon the reliability of the launch vehicle, with the riskiest part being the engine’s turbomachinery. The top two life issues for turbopumps are the turbine blades and the bearings. Currently in turbopumps, there is no direct measurement of turbine blade health, and the existing methods for rolling element bearing health monitoring rely on indirect measur ...

This phase I proposal addresses ultra-thinning (~ 5-10 micrometer) of Si wafers and memory dies through a mix and match approach in which advanced deep reactive ion etching (DRIE)and pulsed laser etching (PLE)methods are used for coarse and plasmaless XeF2 vapor etching for fine thinning. Die-thinning in sub 10-micrometer regime is a subject of enduring interest in ultra-dense 3D MCM packaging and ...

Most directed energy weapons systems separate beam clean-up and atmospheric compensation into two (or more) separate adaptive optics (AO) systems. This approach arose for a variety of reasons. The aberration structure of the high energy laser (HEL) is significantly different than that of the atmosphere resulting in different requirements on the deformable mirror and the wavefront sensors. The l ...