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The engagement and utilization of the organic U.S. Industrial Manufacturing Base has never been more important than in today’s current landscape of the National Defense Strategy of the United States. The USAF released in April 2019 its Science and Technology (S&T) Strategy, which includes the need for the AF to ‘Develop and Deliver Transformational Strategic Capabilities.' This document furthe ...

Military missions often have a deep hierarchical structure due to the need for extensive support for the top-level goal.  A typical strike mission in an Air Tasking Order has the top-level goal to degrade specific targets.  We propose a uniform representation for modeling planning domains and for representing joint/combined/all-domain planning processes.  The essential idea is view plans in ...

The broader impact/commercial potential of this Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II project is in addressing an unmet need in incomplete colonoscopy procedures. Incomplete colonoscopy procedures can result in missed colorectal cancer and ultimately increased healthcare expenditures related to follow-up procedures. Use of current balloon overtubes during colonoscopy can significantly ...

The broader impact/commercial potential of this Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I project is to enhance exploration and commercial development of the Moon and, eventually, solar system, by lowering the risk of damage to surface and orbital infrastructure from ejected lunar dust during rocket landings and launches. This activity is in the area of material processing/manufacturing in ...

Direct bioelectronic detection of SARS-CoV-2 from salivausing single-molecule field-effect transistor arrayNucleic acid tests have become the gold-standard for diagnostic testing for COVID-19, usually performed in specialized laboratories. Most are based on reverse-transcription quantitative polymerase chain reaction (qRT-PCR). The time required for specimen transport and processing results in a t ...

ABSTRACT Defecatory disorders such as chronic constipation (CC) and fecal incontinence (FI) affect 25% of the population and the incidence is rising. These disorders pose a major health care burden and are poorly recognized and treated. The need for better diagnostics and therapeutics is substantial. CC, a symptom of underlying defecatory disease, affects 12-19% of Americans with expenditure on la ...

To eliminate the release of ventilation air methane (VAM) associated with coal production, the core challenge is how to oxidize methane given the low concentrations. Precision Combustion, Inc. (PCI) proposes an innovative modular array combining three key elements: (1) short contact time, low thermal mass reactor design to achieve maximal total conversion in a small volume, (2) catalyst formulati ...

To eliminate the release of ventilation air methane (VAM) associated with coal production, the core challenge is how to oxidize methane given the low concentrations. Precision Combustion, Inc. (PCI) proposes an innovative modular array combining three key elements: (1) short contact time, low thermal mass reactor design to achieve maximal total conversion in a small volume, (2) catalyst formulati ...

To eliminate the release of ventilation air methane (VAM) associated with coal production, the core challenge is how to oxidize methane given the low concentrations. Precision Combustion, Inc. (PCI) proposes an innovative modular array combining three key elements: (1) short contact time, low thermal mass reactor design to achieve maximal total conversion in a small volume, (2) catalyst formulati ...

Abstract The COVID-19 pandemic is a critical global public health emergency and many countries are failing to contain the virus's spread due to slow and insufficient testing. While several diagnostic methods are now available, most tests are either reagent-intensive and must be done in CLIA-approved labs, making them expensive and slow to report results, or rapid and inexpensive, but potentially l ...