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Soldiers conducting missions on foot in remote locations must carry multiple battery powered electronic devices, such as multiband radio sets, night vision goggles and scopes, GPS tracking, thermal imagers, target designators, etc. These devices allow soldiers to target, move, and communicate in the modern battlefield. Depending upon the type of mission and its duration, soldiers might not have th ...

Antibiotic resistant infections are a principal concern for the Department of Defense and society at large due to the current lack of available treatments. Monoclonal antibodies represent a promising drug class that could be applied to antibiotic resistant infections to harness a patients own immune system to effectively combat the invading threat. In this program we continue program development t ...

This Phase II work will develop a methodology for radiation hardness testing of microelectronics. This methodology includes understanding of device physics and irradiation sources, as well as utilization of irradiation facilities and dosimetry of irradiated microelectronics. The methodology necessarily incorporates design of testing procedures, development of experimental setups including microele ...

Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is a significant health issue which affects service members and veterans during times of both peace and war. The high rate of TBI and blast-related concussion events resulting from current combat operations directly impacts the health and safety of individual service members and subsequently the level of unit readiness and troop retention. The impacts of TBI are felt w ...

Per the Strategic Radiation-Hardened Electronics Council (SRHEC) Program Needs Report #4 version 1, February 2022, the overall goal for analog and mixed signal components is to keep pace with and leverage current industrial investments. GlobalFoundries (GF) 12nm and Intel 16 have been identified as two of the State-of-the-Art processes (SOTA). Analog and mixed signal devices have been identified a ...

In conjunction with the USAF, Ozark IC has developed packaging systems based on silicon (Si) and silicon-on-insulator (SOI) components for advanced control of turbine engines. A clear opportunity exists to evaluate and improve Ozark IC’s packaging systems, demonstrated from 200C to 800C for extreme vibration and shock to meet missile interceptor requirements. This can be accomplished through use ...

Acute Radiation Syndrome (ARS) is an acute illness caused by irradiation of a significant portion of the body by a high dose of ionizing radiation (IR) in a short period of time. Global proliferation of radioactive and nuclear materials has resulted in increased threat of weaponized exposure or inadvertent exposure resulting from industrial accidents such as the case with the Chernobyl Nuclear Pow ...

The current steam based sterilizers have weight and power related challenges that limits their use to Role 3 environments. Further, due to high temperature of use, these are unsuitable for non-metallic objects such as medical scopes. The proposing team will develop a sterilizer for far forward austere Role 2 environments. The sterilizer uses modalities such that it can be used for sterilization of ...

We will investigate the radiation effects on microelectronics due to gamma-rays and beta-rays and compare the effects on electrical and material properties between the two radiation types to formulate a quantitative mapping of radiation types (gamma and beta) and effects. The purpose is to: 1) Develop an overall physics-based strategy; 2) Define the experimental design, guided by analytical calcul ...

The primary objectiveis to develop acommercially-viable prototype of theslopeadaptive prosthesis design and to iteratively improvethe design based on ISO standards testingand rigorous usein human subject field trials. The proposed work will build upon knowledgegained in PhaseI of the project,which established feasibility for this design approach in alightweight, passive hydraulicfoot-anklesystem. ...