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Plastics and petroleum-based foams are a conventional solution for the material needs of many industries. Today these non-biodegradable, fossil fuel derived products compose 13 percent of all municipal solid waste streams, as opposed to 1 percent in 1960. This waste stream is associated with a number of environmental concerns, including greenhouse gas generation from incineration, as well as land ...

The need for the United States Navy to maintain a superior global Anti-Submarine Warfare capability is heavily dependent on sonobouys and Navy has identified a need to develop batteries to power sonobuoys which have higher power capabilities than currently used technology. Nanowise LLC proposes to develop a high power MnO2/CFx battery based on interpenetrating conductive network of nanostructures. ...

U.S. Naval operations, like all U.S. Military operations, have come to depend more and more on high power electronics for Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR), communication, targeting, and other mission related activities, which has created a huge increase in demand for the energy sources one that hasnt been met adequately. To ensure the long duration, high power operation, sonobu ...

SciMax Technologies proposes to design a modular and innovative CH-53K Cargo Floor Panels that meets the static and dynamic flight and landing load requirements for palletized cargo & axial vehicles while being durable, damage tolerant, significantly lighter than the baseline aluminum design. SciMax Technologies' CH-53K Cargo Floor System phase-I features an in depth trade study with structural, w ...

This proposal provides an innovative CH-53K cargo floor that will exceed all technical requirements by using in-situ automated fiber placement of thermoplastic composites along with optimized stringers to produce a cobonded floor structure. The design will take advantage of the superior damage tolerance of thermoplastic composites while stressing manufacturability and affordability. Stringer optim ...

Significant improvements in remote sensing technologies for icing weather avoidance is required to increase the level of safety for UAVs flying in the atmospheric icing environment. New developments in Multi Frequency Radar (MFR) and low-frequency Polarimetry show promise to provide onboard icing hazard information, however solutions may be heavy for application to small unmanned aircraft. Recent ...

The broader impact/commercial potential of this Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II project is to provide enhanced vision for patients after cataract surgery. Current devices, called intraocular lenses (IOLs), can correct certain vision problems. However, commercially available IOLs do not provide the same restoration of capabilities as other surgeries, such as hip replacements. In ...

The broader impact/commercial potential of this Small Business Innovation Research Phase II project, if successful, could facilitate significant energy and cost savings for olefin manufacturing facilities. In the US, ethylene and propylene are the most commonly produced light olefins with annual production exceeding 25 million tons for ethylene and 16 million tons for propylene. It is estimated th ...

The broader impact/commercial potential of this Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II project is in removing sulfur compounds from various fuels such as diesel, gasoline and mixture of refined fuels known as transmix. It is critically important to reduce sulfur levels below 10 ppm as the emissions from transportation vehicles can cause acid rain and associated undesired effects. Sulfu ...

This Phase I proposal for unclassified basic research and exploratory development titled Mitigation of Military Communication and Radar System Interference from Current and Future Fixed and Mobile Wireless Broadband Systems: Interference Resilient Waveforms is submitted in response to Department of Defense SBIR Program Solicitation Number 14.2, Topic N142-106. This proposal outlines an innovative ...