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Solar Particle Events (SPEs) pose a life safety and mission success threat in the cis-lunar and X-GEO environments that fall under the domain of the United States Space Force, or within the USSF “sphere of interest [that extends to] 272,000 miles and beyo

Municipal Solid Waste (MSW) is a huge untapped renewable feedstock resource to produce hydrogen through gasification. Currently, the utilization MSW for hydrogen production is not realized due to the presence of chlorine that causes degradation of gasifier components and formation of pollutants during gasification. This proposed technology has the potential to remove chlorine and produce a consist ...

Bird and wildlife strikes endanger Airmen and aircraft safety. Current Department of the Air Force (DAF) Bird/wildlife Aircraft Strike Hazard (BASH) detection and mitigation measures are highly manual, cost-prohibitive, and limited in their detection capa

Underground water leaks from damaged or ruptured utilities pipes are a highly dangerous, labor-intensive, and operationally disruptive occurrence for Department of the Air Force (DAF) air bases and installations. Identifying these incidents is extremely d

In 2021, roughly 200,000 veteran medical records were stolen through ransomware cybersecurity attacks.  Combine this with the recent events in September of 2022, where two military doctors were indicted for conspiring to leak medical records to Russia and

Project Summary A diagnosis of Head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (HNSCC) includes many cancer subtypes. We will focus on the oral cavity squamous cell carcinoma (OSCC) subtype on the proposed project. OSCC is the 11th most common malignancy in the world. Despite advances in treatments, the 5-year survival rates for OSCC have not improved for the past 25 years. OSCC is a very aggressive tumor, ...

nGrand Forks Air Force Base (GFAFB) is a sprawling installation on a 5,773 acre installation with 13 miles of perimeter fence-line. Many of these perimeter areas have limited monitoring capabilities due to a lack of grid power for fixed sensors and cameras. Installing sensors is impractical due to cost and time constraints and the remoteness of these areas.  The squadron deploys teams of Defender ...

The broader impact/commercial potential of this Phase I project is to offer novel opportunities to substantially improve temperature-controlled storage and transportation systems. The technology has the potential to become the ideal temperature-sensitive medication storage solution available to advance the health and welfare of the American public and third world countries by enabling a reliable m ...

Project Summary Around 400,000 patients in the US and at least 5 million world-wide, receive weekly sessions of hemodialysis (HD), the standard long-term treatment for irreversible kidney failure. Although it has revolutionized the field by increasing the longevity of patients, improvements in the technique and equipment have been stagnant for decades. Besides from still suffering from high premat ...

Decades of coal use in the United States has resulted in large amounts of waste coal materials produced from coal preparation plants. Currently, these coal wastes are stored in piles and ponds, and many are causing environmental problems such as acid mine drainage. Technologies must be developed that can utilize these coal waste materials. Gasification of coal waste combined with biomass has the p ...