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Opportunity: Guayule, a US native plant, is the only alternate rubber crop with an established, mechanized, agronomic system. Problem: Low rubber yields and lack of effective resin and bagasse coproduct valorization, have prevented widespread adoption by American farmers and processors. Rubber is only made when the cytoplasmic monomer pool (isopentenyl-pyrophosphate; IPP) is larger than that requi ...

Etegent is proposing an agile hardware platform to enable object detection at extremely high pixel per watt rates and is also capable of quickly incorporating new algorithmic approaches. The core enabling technology of this system is a multicore system on a chip (SoC) server utilizing several low-power COTS processors configured with a high-speed interconnect switch. Etegent has developed a variet ...

Cornerstone Research Group Inc. (CRG) proposes to develop an externally wearable, non-invasive, battery-operated device capable of providing analgesia equivalent to pharmacological peripheral ring nerve blocks by manipulating nervous system activity with

Current balance and gait assessment practices in field environments lack adequate sensitivity to measure subtle but potentially duty-limiting deficits in Service Member (SM) performance. Clinicians endeavor to provide timely, evidence-based assessment of

Battle Sight proposes the development of a new product utilizing Battle Sight’s chemiluminescence material that is compact, easy to deploy, that can server multiple special operations mission sets. This technology will provide a infrared signature that can be applied to any environmental surface including sand, dirt, pavement, grass along with vehicles, personnel, and weapon systems, but im ...

The prolific nature of Advanced Battlefield and Ground surveillance radar (BSR/GSR) in military markets is driving the need to develop new methods of reducing infantry forces’ radar cross section (RCS) in effort to avoid detection and more freely move throughout the battlespace. One approach to combat the growing threat of BSR/GSR surveillance is through the development of advanced textiles that ...

Fiber optic isolators are critical to prevent deleterious back-reflection effects in high power optical fiber laser systems. To address coherent beam combining (CBC) and other high optical power DoD applications, a compact and power scalable fiber coupled in-line isolator is currently needed that can operate at 1064 nm at forward optical power levels over 100 W, with optical loss less than 0.2 dB ...

Legacy satellite command and control capabilities and their related telemetry operate in a largely stove piped framework. Satellites are still commanded, controlled, and communicated with their ground station in a specific constellation structure. Each ground station is unique to a given constellation and the communications and telemetry are aligned to the specific constellation, underscoring an o ...

In recent years, Department of Defense (DoD) readiness has been negatively impacted due to increased reports of unidentified physiological events (UPE’s) during and after fixed-wing flight missions and training. One potential cause of such UPE’s is chemical contamination in pilot breathing air. A gap remains in the development of a standardized and manufacturable investigative device ...

The research objective of the proposed work is to increase the efficiency of the laser return of a Sodium Guide Star Laser (SGSL) reflected off the sodium layer for increased reliability and applicability of the artificial guide star technique. During Phase I, we will demonstrate the concept of maximizing the SGSL signal returns using numerical simulations that account for the effects of atmospher ...