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Adaptive Materials, Inc. (AMI) proposes to evaluate technologies and mission profiles for use in the development of an efficient power management system for the United States Marine Corps Distributed Operations Squads. The base Phase I effort will focus on optimizing existing AMI power management technology to analyze mission profiles and provide optimized power solutions for given combat load. T ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The overall purpose of this Phase I SBIR application is conduct of research to address the scientific and technical feasibility of using diammine (also spelled diamine in the literature) silver fluoride as a topical age nt to arrest the progression of tooth decay, and to conduct the initial work that, in the longer run, will result in FDA 510 K approval of an i ...

This proposal details the feasibility, design, implementation, risk mitigation, and plan for construction of prototype millimeter-wave, electronically tunable filters. Such a technology can achieve near fixed frequency filter performance while tuning over a respectable bandwidth enabling applications to take advantage of reduced size, weight, and potentially additional bandwidth.

Because of its condensable nature Bi may cause unacceptable spacecraft contamination when used as a Hall thruster propellant. Experiments are proposed to determine the potential for bismuth deposition on spacecraft surfaces. The proposing team’s extensive experience with bismuth technology has uncovered surprising bismuth/surface interaction kinetics that will greatly complicate deposition mea ...

The Local Space Imaging System (LSIS) proposed here will be capable of continuous, autonomous situational awareness of the local space about a high-value host spacecraft with minimal impact to the host. The LSIS can independently determine instrument inertial attitude and bring a high-resolution imager to bear on a hemispherical field-of-regard. Innovative image processing algorithms will be use ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Coronary heart disease, the most prevalent manifestation of atherosclerosis, remains the single largest killer of American men and women. The hallmark of vascular disease or atherosclerosis is the accumulation of chol esterol in arteries, which can lead to heart attack (coronary heart disease), stroke or peripheral artery disease. The excess cholesterol cause ...

BASED ON WORK PUBLISHED IN 1981 BY JAYARAMAN, MCPARLAND, MILLER, AND TS'O (PNAS 78 1537 (1981) WE PROPOSE THAT A NOVEL TYPE OF ULTRA-BROAD-SPECTRUM ANTIBACTERIAL AGENT MAY BE POSSIBLE. SUCH AN AGENT WOULD BIND TO A KEY RNA SEQUENCEWHICH IS EXPECTED TO BE HYPERSENSITIVE TO INACTIVATION ONLY IN PROCARYOTES. IF SUCH AN ANTIBACTERIAL AGENT PROVES FEASIBLE THEN THE BASIC APPROACH MAY ALSO ALLOW RATIONA ...

The mitigation of mainlobe jamming is essential to missile defense radar performance. Applied Radar is currently investigating distributed aperture and adaptive processing architectures that promise a new generation of advanced radar performance. Our proposed program will research the application of these distributed aperture radar techniques to determine the mainlobe jammer suppression possible w ...

The design and development of phased-array radars requires the integration of solid-state components and adequate thermal mitigation within the array lattice constraints. The current trend is towards increasingly planar designs and a reduction in the array depth. The MDA SPEAR program is one example in which a planar T/R “tile” architecture is utilized. System-on-a-chip technologies such as Si ...

Long-duration wide-area surveillance missions increasingly are space-based. MEO orbits offer space-based radar systems more time on station, but require very large array apertures on the order of 100m in diameter. Achieving larger apertures with smaller, lighter launch packages and stable on-orbit pointing is a challenge that E-Textiles promises to meet. Textile processes can be used to achieve a ...