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Higher efficiency collection of surface biocontamination with a novel wet-vacuum Microbial-VacT (M-Vac) system will improve speed and accuracy of pathogen detection. Field-portable systems will be designed and tested for practical coupling with RapidCulture Detection (RCD) for field screening of presumptive positives and confirmation with PCR or Solid Phase Laser Cytometry (SPLC). Phase I R&D dem ...

This Small Business Innovation Research Phase II project is to design, model and demonstrate the feasibility of, a reversible CO2 heat pump system, including an advanced compressor design, which meets military requirements for a 3-ton capacityEnvironmental Control Unit. The CO2 system will utilize state-of-the-art system components and computer modeling plus a novel compressor, capable of both va ...

The overall goal of this project is to develop an in-process defect monitoring and correction technique for additive manufacturing (AM) of aluminum alloy to improve repeatability for geometric dimensions, material properties, and quality. In Phase I, Sentient collaborated with Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Lab, and successfully completed all proposed tasks demonstrating two key capabili ...

This Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II Project proposes to develop an innovative solution to the the problem of chlorinated solvent contamination in variably saturated, low permeability soils. Prior Phase I work has demonstrated that: 1) chitin is an effective electron donor for stimulating biodegradation of chlorinated solvents, 2) that chitin enhances bioavailability of the so ...

NON-TECHNICAL SUMMARY: Economic impacts due to coldwater disease (CWD) have dramatically increased in recent years at public and private aquaculture facilities and CWD is the number one disese problem in the commercial rainbow trout industry in Idaho. In the United States, antibiotics available for the therapeutic treatment of fish with this disease are very limited and not expected to increase. V ...

THE NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION (NRC) HAS SPONSORED THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE NUCLEAR PLANT DATA BANK (NPDB) SYSTEM AT TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT OF CALIFORNIA (TDC) FOR APPROXIMATELY THE LAST FIVE YEARS. THIS WORK IS ESSENTIALLYCOMPLETE AND IS AN INTEGRAL PART OF THE NUCLEAR PLANT A (NPA). TO MAKE THE NPDB A USEFUL AND PRODUCTIVE SYSTEM, REPRESENTATIVE DESCRIPTIONS OF NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS MUST BE ENTE ...

AQUACULTURE PRODUCTION OF PENAEID SHRIMP LARVAE IS CONSTRAINED BY COSTLY AND UNRELIABLE SUPPLIES OF LIVE FOOD, ESPECIALLY ARTEMIA NAUPLII. DESPITE JAPANESE AND EUROPEAN COMMERCIALIZATION OF HIGH QUALITY LARVAL FEEDS, A COMPLETE REPLACEMENT FOR ARTEMIA HAS NOT YET EMERGED. LARVAL SHRIMP PRODUCTION CONTINUES TO BE AN INDUSTRY BOTTLENECK. WE PROPOSE TO FORMULATE AND TEST A COMPLEX MICROENCAPSULATED F ...

1. To address the short comings in existing forensics bridge design, reduce the workload of system security staff, and increase the security of assured file transfers, Idaho Scientific proposes a nine month, $150k effort to design and prototype a Secure Assured File Transfer drive. (SAFE-T Drive) is a high assurance purpose built AFT drive with an integrated forensics bridge. SAFE-T Drive will fil ...

This project will investigate the use of offensive binary analysis techniques to extract data from program binaries for use by a runtime diagnostic engine capable of malware detection and response. The open-source Angr framework provides the basis for the tools used to collect the analysis data needed to support a diagnostic engine. A diagnostic engine capable of using these collected results will ...

A new UV imaging polarimeter design was demonstrated by Optical Coating Solutions, Inc. (OCS) as a proof-of-concept breadboard in a 2016 Phase I effort (NASA Contract NNX16CA44P). A version of that generic design is proposed for atmospheric studies in a follow-on effort.nbsp;The new polarimeter design can operate to wavelengths as short as 260nm and does not employ electronic or mechanical modulat ...