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UAV engines have a mean time between overhauls of about 400-500 hours, after which the engine is torn down for inspection. One of the primary findings during this overhaul is the presence of abundant carbon deposits in the engines and the combustion areas. There are a number of issues caused by carbon build up. When large carbon deposits are formed, they reduce the smooth air flow which can res ...

Chesapeake Technology Internationals (CTIs) proposed solution for the Cloud Data Synchronization with Limited Bandwidth Communications small business innovative research (SBIR) program is a technology framework that allows for flexible presentation of data to consumers (applications and analytic environments); resilience to intermittent and low bandwidth communications; automated, distributed sync ...

DoD has been leveraging commercial cloud technologies in its enterprise cloud environment to accelerate IT delivery, efficiency and innovation. This process has been rapidly accelerated with the maturing of the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP). However, while commercial cloud services offer great potential for rapidly consolidating IT infrastructure in DoD, adopting them ...

Cellphire offers to meet the goal of this SBIR development of a Lyophilized Canine Plasma. During Phase I we will stabilize and pathogen-reduce canine plasma before lyophilization to a stable cake. After reconstitution, the efficacy and safety of Lyophilized Canine Plasma (StablePlas) will be evaluated both in vitro and in vivo. Cellphire expects that the Phase I data will support broader evaluat ...

The U.S. Special Operations Command (USSOCOM) trains, equips and deploys Special Operations Forces (SOF) to worldwide locations to advance the nation's interests. The reality of worldwide operations requires a worldwide intelligence gathering and analysis capability, a processing capability and a way to disseminate actionable intelligence to operational units. Our solution will directly supp ...

The military transports hundreds of millions of rounds of small-caliber ammunition domestically for training and internationally for wartime activities each year. Aside from the logistics cost of moving the rounds, the cost to produce rounds with brass cartridge cases is tied to the escalating price of copper. Additionally, soldiers in small units (squads/fire teams/crews) are physically overburde ...

Physical Sciences Inc. (PSI) proposes to develop an open-path spatial ringdown spectrometer (OP-SRS) for the detection and quantification of chemical warfare agents (CWAs) and toxic industrial chemicals (TICs). This approach enables sensitive and selective detection of the chemicals of interest over a broad dynamic range down to the 10 minute negligible military exposure guideline (MEG) level. Thi ...

This project is a unique metagenomic evaluation of under-studied extremophilic microbiome natural products (NPs), with the goal of discovering novel antibiotic biowarfare agent (BWA) countermeasures. A metagenomic biosynthetic gene cluster library from extremophilic sources was created, sequenced, analyzed, and exploited to produce several broad-spectrum antibiotic extracts during the Phase I effo ...

While aluminum casing materials provide some enhanced performance and thermal loading to explosive ordinance, their overall effectiveness is highly limited by incomplete combustion and long residence times. In order to reduce these problems, the casing material must be designed to facilitate rapid fragmentation through either specialized casing geometries or greatly refined initial particle sizes. ...

We are prototyping a helmet-integrated system for personal hostile fire detection (HFD). The system detects small arms fire and geo-locates the shooter(s). This project to develop a Mark 1 prototype is conceived as the first of three efforts to create a mature system that meets the sponsors objective specifications.