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The current fuel economy of military vehicles limits the effectiveness of the deployment into various theaters. As Future Combat Systems (FCS) vehicles are developed, fuel economy, overall weight, performance, power generation, survivability, emissions and maintenance will highlight the need for hybrid vehicle designs. The first step towards a hybrid vehicle design is an Integrated Starter Alterna ...

We propose to develop an analytical system for import, visualization and comprehensive network analysis of proteomics data. Proteomics data will be integrated with other datasets relevant for the same biological system, and compared in the framework of biological networks. The system will be based on our existing comprehensive database of human protein-protein interactions MetaBase, the toolkit fo ...

Viral vectors are used in more than 70% of current gene therapy trials. However, immunogenicity, oncogenicity, and poor tumor transfection efficiencies present significant barriers to clinical success. Sleeping Beauty Transposon (SBT) technology, combined with a targeted, tumor-penetrating, non-viral gene transfer system, offers an alternative approach for therapeutic transgene production with lo ...

US troops are beginning to discover tactical advantages offered by quiet vehicles. This is partially due to the recent deployment of the Stryker. As a result, requests to reduce vehicle noise are becoming more frequent. The HMMWV will be used as a basis for developing an acoustic signature reduction process. The US ground vehicle fleet contains a large number of these vehicles being used in c ...

Conventional flow control methods employ actuation frequencies that are the same order as the characteristic frequency of the flow. Georgia Tech has demonstrated novel high-frequency synthetic jet actuation to modify the apparent aerodynamic shape of aerosurfaces and achieve quasi-steady flow reattachment over an otherwise separated airfoil. Practical application of this technology in dynamic ma ...

Diesel engines are attractive for military use because of good fuel economy and ability to use JP8-type fuels. However naturally-aspirated (n.a.) diesel engines have low power density, and small diesel engines are not amenable to turbo-charging. To overcome this disadvantage for weight-sensitive applications such as portable generators (gensets), the use of a novel supercharger is proposed. In ...

Robotic vehicle applications requires significant information about the nature of the terrain and objects ahead. Spectral and polarization measurements in addition to normal intensity information provides the kind of information needed for real time decision making for robotic vehicle control and target detection and identification. This proposal is for a sensor that provides spatial, spectral, ...

Auditory displays that encode spatial audio cues have advanced significantly in recent years, yet, their ability to convey the distance between a sound source and the listener remains limited. This Phase I SBIR project proposes to investigate algorithms capable of adding distance cues to natural and synthesized speech. The particular approach involves manipulation the speaker's vocal effort, wh ...

This SBIR proposal will develop/demonstrate the integration of advanced energy power generation and storage-units into a flexible power mini-grid allowing all future military units to interconnect and share power generation, storage and use requirements. System accepts power from a variety of sources, and provides overall power-distribution based on pre-established protocols. Small-systems will b ...

Key to the development and delivery of a successful IA work product is technology developed by Idetix, Inc. The Idetix eScoreT tool set allows for rapid deployment of a full Net-Centric information sharing environment with distributed databases. In essence, the Idetix eScoreT tool set may be thought of as a universal "plug-and-play" environment for web based applications that facilitates informa ...