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The flow of equipment, repair parts, and other materiel to the Warfighter is critical to his or her success in the field. As a result of this critical need for materiel, DLA employees must contend with the difficult task of promoting and encouraging the reuse and disposition of excess property. With the advance of e-commerce sites and modern networks, searching a catalog for property has become a ...

Counterfeit electronic parts in the Department of Defense (DoD) supply chain undermine the operational readiness and performance of weapons systems, provide a competitive edge to adversaries, and put American warfighters at risk. Only through the elimination of such counterfeit components can we assure confidence in our defense systems and in defense force readiness and lethality. The DoD establis ...

There is limited domestic production of nickel superalloys, used in propulsion, turbines, heat exchangers, exposing the military to risk of overdependence on foreign sources. End-of-life parts and shop scrap represent an untapped source of superalloys that can serve as a domestic supply, provided they can be converted into material with properties meeting specs for original parts manufacturing. Th ...

This project will result in the creation of multiple Technical Data Packages (TDP) and Source Approval Requests (SAR) as well as supporting CEPEDA’s acquisition of all of McNab’s Navy products.  Successful completion will qualify CEPEDA Associates as an approved vendor for these items that have been orphaned as a result of McNab's dissolution.  CEPEDA is a qualified Navy vendor for critical ...

The ability for a warfighter to quickly and effectively decontaminate chemical and biological agents on sensitive equipment in the field can significantly improve the readiness and effectiveness of that warfighter. We propose to improve current decontamination technology based on hot air decontamination techniques, already at TRL 4, to enable the rapid and complete removal of threats from sensitiv ...

Vivonics is proposing a novel approach to address the needs of a non-invasive and real-time system to measure intracranial pressure (ICP) to support development of medical countermeasures. The proposed Intracranial Pressure Assessment and Screening System for Viral or Bacterial Infections (IPASS-VBI) leverages Vivonics expertise in non-invasively assessing ICP in humans due to traumatic brain inju ...

Human butyrylcholinesterase (BChE) is an effective bioscavenger of organophosphates and has potential for acting as a pre-exposure prophylactic or post-exposure treatment for organophosphate (OP) nerve agents, such as sarin. Ideally, a single dose of BChE could be administered and protect the warfighter for days or even weeks while in combat. To be effective in a military setting, especially as a ...

Synthetic opioids including fentanyl and its derivatives pose a serious threat to both civilians and warfighters. The serum half-life of the current FDA-approved antidote for acute opioid poisoning, naloxone, is shorter than that for fentanyl and its synthetic analogs, and thus does not provide effective protection against these threat agents. The mechanism of action of naloxone is by competitive ...

Threats using chemical and biological weapons are ever-evolving and expanding in scope, underscoring the need for preparedness; therefore, the development and procurement of medical countermeasures is a high priority for the US. The high availability of synthetic opioids, such as fentanyl and its derivatives, is a threat to both the civilian and military communities. Currently, long acting opioid ...

The standard US military treatment for nerve agent exposure is application of up to three autoinjectors, each containing atropine sulfate and 2-pralidoxime, to counteract symptoms of nerve agent intoxication and restore acetylcholinesterase activity. This treatment increases survival rates after nerve agent exposure, however, seizures resulting from nerve agent poisoning are a common symptom that ...