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Chest tubes are an important tool in the fight to save lives of critically injured warfighters on the battlefield. Penetrating chest wounds caused by gunshots or stabbings, or blunt force trauma caused by IEDs can result in a life-threatening introduction of blood and/or air to the chest cavity. This condition is known as a pneumothorax and is caused 33% of the preventable deaths in OEF and OIF. I ...

Our solution to solving complex problems in a rapidly changing environment is leveraging disruptive dual-use technologies that can impact both the public and private sector. We will do this by running an International Defense Accelerator. Doing so ensures the technological edge of the US military and its allies, as the commercial market drives that market forward at the speed of relevance. Additio ...

EPEVENPULSE (EP) merges basic life-skills with professional skills into a baseline training that positively impacts health, well-being, stress, resilience, and human performance. With a focus on the neurophysiology of stress and a discrete, applicable skill-set known as the BASE-R Methodâ„¢, the education and training model addresses everything from the fundamentals of mission readiness and AF ...

Our adversaries are investing in new defense technology at a record-setting pace. To combat this the AF has stood up several innovation offices to pull in commercial technology. However, these innovation offices face many challenges from the acquisition process and are limited in the commercial technology they can use for engaging, tracking, and interacting with private industry.

Carbon-carbon (CC) materials are key to the development of hypersonic vehicles, and to maintaining the U.S. defensive edge through development of hypersonic missile systems. The production process for CC materials includes many high heat, high pressure cycles which can produce damage (voids, delaminations, incomplete fiber coating) to the part before it is even deployed for hypersonic flight. New ...

Online marketplaces provide buyers a diverse product selection and sellers a variety of customers. Successful marketplaces create transparency in industries previously having none. Before Uber or AirBnB, the consumer had little insight into available rental spaces or nearby ride share services. The Marketplace concept has revolutionized many industries over the last 15 years. Examples of this incl ...

Seed Innovations, LLC’s (Seed Innovations) capabilities transform how commercial organizations in cybersecurity, banking, and commercial imagery develop and deliver software. Seed Innovations drives our customers to be world class at consistent software development and deployment. Seed Innovations can transform DoD in how they develop and deliver scalable, stable software systems. Seed Inno ...

EXSUM is an executive summary level Space Situational Awareness (SSA) monitoring, planning, and tasking dashboard for mission commanders. Operators spend hours to produce static representations of the space environment through PowerPoint and other manually intensive means. The minimum viable product (MVP) aims to reduce manual operator tasks through a continuously updated situation dashboard, flex ...

Greetly is the perfect application to track individuals that enter a facility or base. Greetly can capture visitor information, send notifications to hosts, and store that information for future reviews, analytics or communications purposes. Greetly envisions allowing Security Forces personnel to email a link for a vetted visitor to download a QR code or barcode to a Smart Device. Upon arriving at ...

Worker Studio and it’s partnering teams are motivated to bring its interactive AR Classroom and Education Content Delivery platform to the US Air Force to explore how it can be customized to meet the immediate and evolving education, training, public engagement, and recruitment needs. The technical objectives to be accomplished by this team will focus on gaining USAF support and developing ...