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Warfighters in global regions endemic to vector-borne diseases such as malaria experience increased probability of being non-combat casualties. Currently, there is a malaria vaccine under development that requires cryogenic storage and transport (-150C or lower), and therefore does not readily integrate with existing vaccine distribution networks such as the World Health Organizations Expanded Pro ...

Shigella and non-typhoidal Salmonella (NTS) frequently cause gastrointestinal illnesses that lead to diarrhea and loss of duty days in Service members with very limited access to advanced clinical diagnosis and care. These infections are easily communicab

Electronic textiles (aka electrotextiles, e-textiles, or smart fabrics) represent a revolutionary advancement in how the myriad of peripheral devices and associated capabilities issued to dismounted personnel might be integrated into their combat ensemble. The Defense Health Agency (DHA) has identified e-textiles as a potential means of unobtrusively monitoring health and detecting injury events ...

Complete human anatomy avatars have a broad future role in advanced training environments, providing, for example, medically correct immersive experiences, performance-related physiological modeling studies, and in simulations for the purpose of designing protective armor. USARIEM have created individualized avatars as 3-D tetrahedral Finite Element (FE) meshes with full labeled anatomy, fitted to ...

Innovision LLC proposes an innovative and robust solution to this topic, a software toolDACAA (Dynamic avatars with Complete Articulated Anatomy) that can be used to quickly reposition USARIEMs avatars to the desired postures and apply natural motions to them. A template skeleton model with well-defined joints will be constructed and fitted to each individualized avatar. Methods and algorithms wi ...

The overall goal of this SBIR effort is to develop a rapid, portable system to test for presence and viability of coliform bacteria and E. coli in field water samples. The end system will be portable, battery-powered, reusable, easy to use, and selective to the specific indicator organism. The specific R&D objectives of Phase I are to (i) advance recent breakthrough technologies developed by the U ...

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CRG proposes to develop a wearable health monitoring system that leverages multi-modal, distributive sensing through an array of miniature, ultra-low power sensors to realize high accuracy while mitigating bulk and discomfort. The proposed approach facilitates integration of electronics into a compression garment enabling remote health monitoring of physiological data, generating actionable infor ...

Commercial off the shelf (COTS) sequential samplers that pull contaminated air through thermal desorption (TD) sample tubes have many limitations that hinder their use in measuring VOCs in air. Current sequential samplers can only sample VOCs using one flow rate, for each of the tubes during the sampling session within each bank. The minimum flow time for each tube cannot go below one minute, and ...

This Phase I project will prototype a noninvasive monitor of vascular volume fluid shifts. The monitor will be developed to detect volume fluid shifts of 2% in less than 1 hour. Through a prior DARPA SBIR Phase II, we prototyped a revolutionary non-invasive technology called HemoTag, to measure pulmonary artery pressure (PAP). HemoTags absolute measurement of the PAP during IACUC approved catastro ...