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This Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) Phase I project proposes to develop magneto-optical current and temperature sensors capable of direct integration into power electronic modules, with the design goal of improving reliability and survivability of the power conversion and control circuitry. Existing power electronics designs generally use one of three components to sense current in pow ...

This Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I project will develop a fast, reliable and sensitive technology that can identify the nature and the content of the particles in aerosol samples, and provide an early warning of the presence of bio-warfare agents. Current biological agent detection systems rely on point detectors that cannot sample actual aerosol condition in real-time. Additio ...

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A 2.5 MV PULSER WAS BUILT AND TESTED AS A "PROOF-OF-PRINCIPLE" FOR THE EMPRESS II THREAT LEVEL NAVY EMP TEST FACILITY. NO DISPOSITION OF THIS QUARTER SCALE PULSER HAS BEEN MADE. CASDE CORPORATION BELIEVES THAT THIS PULSER OFFERS DNA AND THE SERVICES A UNIQUE DEVICE THAT COULD BE UTILIZED FOR EMP TESTING OF NUMEROUS DOD EQUIPMENTS. CASDE PROPOSES TO: (1) IDENTIFY THE PRESENT CAPABILITIES AND PARAME ...

IF U.S. NAVY SURFACE COMBATANTS SURVIVE THE EARLY EFFECTS OF NUCLEAR WEAPON BURSTS SUCH AS AIRBLAST, THERMAL, ABIS, AND UNDEX, THERE IS STILL A REMAINING THREAT FROM THE BASE SURGE. THIS THREAT IS COUNTERED BY AN ON BOARD WASHDOWN SYSTEM. THIS STUDY WILL DETERMINE THE REGIONS OF THE BATTLE ZONE WHICH ARE (OR ARE NOT) DOMINATED BY THE BASE SURGE AND ASSESS THE BENEFIT DERIVED FROM SUCH WASHDOWN SYS ...

ALTHOUGH MUCH RESEARCH HAS BEEN DONE ON DELINEATING WHAT SORTS OF COGNITIVE PROCESSES AND BIASES OPERATE IN MAKING CERTAINTY JUDGMENTS WITHIN VARIOUS DECISION MAKING CONTEXTS,THE IDEA OF TREATING THE TASK OF DECISION MAKING AS AN INDEPENDENT VARIABLE IN AND OF ITSELF AND EXPLORING WHAT DEMANDS IT PLACES ON THE DECISION MAKER HAS NOT BEEN ADEQUATELY INVESTIGATED. THE PRESENT PROPOSAL VIEWS THE DECI ...

This Small Business Technology Transfer Phase I project will produce a unique computational tool for predicting transport in nanoscale systems. The novel approach to be used here is based on Lattice Boltzmann Methods (LBM) which will enable virtual prototyping of nanodevices using grids of up to a hundred million computational cells thus opening the way for computer aided design and analysis of N ...

This Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I project will culminate in the design of a system that integrates assessment of complex, standards-based instructional objectives within interactive simulations and makes the resultant data available in a timely and efficient manner to teachers and administrators. Standards-based educational reform efforts are currently impoverished by a lack ...

This Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) Phase II project aims to build a prototype of a rapid-deployment, three-dimensional (3-D), seismic reflection system for near-surface exploration. Although the 3-D seismic reflection method enjoys tremendous commercial success in marine applications, 3-D seismic systems for land-based geophysical exploration have been limited because cost-effective an ...