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The proposed program will span the design, production, purification, and testing of a novel protein based food ingredient with >80% Essential Amino Acid content. A generally recognized as safe (GRAS) production organism will be used to enhance the safety of production and accelerate the timeline to GRAS approval of the protein feed. The resulting material will be incorporated into combat rations t ...

The Army needs to develop energetic formulations suitable for additive manufacturing. One approach is to tailor energetic prepolymers and plasticizers to enable rapid curing. This would lower manufacturing costs, increase manufacturing throughput as well as increase the range and lethality of the system it is incorporated into. To date, the problem with energetic polymers and additive manufacturin ...

Low noise optical amplifiers with watt-class optical power are a critical component for a variety of applications such as free space optical communications, light detection and ranging (LIDAR), high-performance microwave photonics (MWP) and so on. Traditionally, such applications have utilized erbium doped fiber amplifiers (EDFAs). Although capable of generating high powers and the required low-no ...

Deep Labs recognizes USSOCOM’s challenge to process multiple data and communications inputs for optimized decision making, and to support rapid on-the-move abilities to learn and communicate knowledge to enhance tactically relevant situational awareness in peer/near peer environments. Deep Labs has proven this capability across complex challenges in the world’s largest commercial enterprises a ...

Multi-Dimensional Event Sourcing & Correlation - Publicly Available Information (PAI) (MDESC-P) will support collection jointly across disparate PAI sources with coordinated cueing of more constrained intelligence, surveillance, target acquisition, and reconnaissance (ISTAR) sources. The primary objective for MDESC-P is to deliver a scalable and automated PAI collection management solution using a ...

PseudolithIC Inc. and Michigan State University (MSU) are pleased to offer the CoUNTER proposal to address the threat posed by the proliferation of Unmanned Aerial Systems (UASs) with a codesigned hardware-signal processing approach. This proposal combines the benefits of mm-Wave signals, advanced MIMO architectures and novel micro-Doppler signal processing to deliver superior active radar perform ...

The blinding or disabling of focal plane arrays (FPAs) can greatly impair situational awareness for the warfighter. Some passive technologies, such as filters, can selectively remove certain wavelengths if those wavelengths are known to be threats, but there exists a need for a technology that can 1) attenuate 99.9% of high intensity light in a localized region within the viewing area, 2) perform ...

The proposed project seeks to increase the reliability of cold spray additive manufacturing (AM). Cold spray technology has been developed into a large format (1 m x 1 m in x-y) commercial AM system (called WarpSPEE3D) by the Australian company SPEE3D. The Australian Army is currently testing the enclosed, modular AM system in the Australian “bush” as a field-ready AM system. Supply chain and ...

Challenge: Long lead times, vendors going out of business, and unreliable quality control for advanced materials are creating an unstable supply chain for production of large format components, particularly those made of specialty materials. Large area additive manufacturing has been identified as the ideal way to onshore manufacturing and create a flexible, sustainable supply chain for critical h ...

Terrain strength data are critical inputs to autonomous maneuverability and off-road mobility platforms. Soil strength is a complex variable that varies in both space and time and is a function of the soil composition, density, structure, and moisture content. Because of the interplay of these factors, estimation of terrain strength using remote sensing is unlikely to be successful if it relies on ...