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The STTR topic T5.01 envisions Autonomous Communications Systems (ACS) that can be aware of RF environment and the network status and learn from experience to enhance adaptability to nominal/anomalous conditions, self-reconfigure network connections, dynamically maximize performance in response to sensed conditions and mitigate system-level effects of outages and interference. In Phase II, Bluecom ...

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The Central Atmospheric Monitoring System (CAMS) IIA used in U.S. Navy submarines has been a reliable and crucial component for the operational safety of submarine crew for 40 years. While the CAMS has been updated slightly, there are lingering unresolvable issues. The proposed sensor is based on two different methods that will be incorporated into a single instrument. The first uses an optical pa ...

Cybersecurity remains a top priority for the Military Health System (MHS). In SBIR Phase II research and development (R&D), Management Sciences, Inc. (MSI) has developed and demonstrated a cyber-secure prototype Multi-Level Security (MLS) software upgrade

PROJECT SUMMARY Extended X-ray absorption fine structure (EXAFS) spectroscopy is a technique that gives element-specific structural and chemical information about molecules. An enormous advantage of EXAFS spectroscopy is that it is readily applied to many different kinds of sample, including, solutions, powders, slurries, and animal tissues. Current EXAFS instruments require bright X-ray beams fro ...

PROJECT SUMMARYThis proposal will develop the High-Throughput Spheroid Screening Platform (HTSSP) to create an entirely new tool to study cell-cell interactions and microenvironmental stresses that occur in tissues and tumors. Such interactions are critical in the pharmaceutical response of cells within tissues, but current methods do not allow high throughput screening (HTS) of cellular responses ...

Currently available anti-thymocyte globulin (ATG) products are polyclonal animal antibodies (ATGAM – equine polyclonal ATG, Thymoglobulin – rabbit polyclonal ATG) and have found broad use as immune tolerizing agents, particularly for induction therapy in a majority of tissue transplants, for acute transplant rejection, and as treatment for graft vs. host disease following bone marrow transplan ...

An Energetic Charged Particle (ECP) sensor with reduced SWaP would enhance the nation’s space-based platform for space weather observing systems by enabling the use of smaller spacecraft. Moreover, a modular architecture that enables customization of the instrument target spectra to the mission profile would allow further optimizations in SWaP while still enabling the acquisition of valuabl ...

Future battlefields employing directed energy technologies will require an electronic Battle Damage Indicator (eBDI) tool that can measure the radiated Radio Frequency (RF) emissions from a target before and after a High Power RF (HPRF) attack and determine if target electronics have been significantly disrupted. Based on the Phase I results, we propose to assemble, test, and demonstrate an Autono ...

There is a growing need for high bandwidth (greater than 2 terahertz) long duration optical waveform measurement in telecommunications, laser development, and data collection from optically encoded sensors.Sensor monitoring requires multiplexing multiple sensors for cost reduction.The system must also be able to completely characterize laser driver pulses at multiple locations, providing the inten ...