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KalScott Engineering is developing miniature electronic position reporting systems for unmanned air vehicles. These conform to FAA#39;s the RemoteID and ADS-B standards, while also being interoperable with IoT standards. Using the ADS-B standard, vehicles or personnel carrying these devices can be quot;seenquot; by ADS-B equipped aircraft. The position can also be reported via the RemoteID standar ...

KalScott has developed a unique system for improving the safety of unmanned air vehicles and air taxis (aka Advanced Air Mobility, ot AAM vehicles). This is a hardware/software solution which can transmit alerting messages about UAV operations in legacy VHF airband communication protocol so that the alert can be heard and understood readily by human pilots and air traffic controllers. In effect, t ...

Problem: A need persists for innovative sensors and measurement technologies to characterize parameters that directly support existing power reactors, materials test reactors, and transient test reactors. Science performed at DOE test reactors inspires future nuclear energy technology and requires more precise and localized instrumentation. Next generation nuclear reactors also benefit from higher ...

Problem: A need persists for innovative sensor solutions to monitor the integrity and internal conditions of dry storage cask systems for spent nuclear fuel. Spent fuel is loaded in these dry storage cannisters (DSC) which are typically welded, 5/8-inch-thick stainless steel that are then inserted for long term storage in metal or concrete overpacks. The DOE needs sensor solutions to periodically ...

The broader impact/commercial potential of this Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I project is to enable the safe and autonomous management and control of airspace. The Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) and Advanced Air Mobility (AAM) sectors are expected to grow but that will only be economically viable if the UAV and AAM operations are highly automated. The technology developed in this ...

The broader impact of this Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I project is potential commercial development of superconducting neuromorphic computing (NC) circuits with the ability to enable true biological brain-inspired deep neural network circuit algorithms and to improve efficiency, speed, and scalability of NC by orders of magnitude. The knowledge and approaches developed through ...

PROJECT SUMMARY Continuum Educational Technologies’ (Continuum) will work with the University of Kansas (KU) on the proposed I-RED program entitled Smart Tools to Accelerate Research Translation by Uplifting Participants for the Central IDeA State Region (STARTUP Central) program to stimulate technological innovation in the IDeA state regions by addressing the entrepreneurial educational needs o ...

PROJECT SUMMARY/ABSTRACT Cancer immunotherapy activates the host immune system to seek and destroy cancer cells. Checkpoint inhibitors block immunosuppressive signals, thereby ‘releasing the brakes’ of the immune system. Solid tumors, however, typically do not respond well to checkpoint inhibitors. They are only effective in the 20-30% patients with an already immunologically ‘hot’ tumor. ...

Enduralock proposes development of the first mechanically locking, self-aligning nut plate that is magnetically unlocked. It dramatically reduces flight line maintenance time involving access panels, and it provides for high vibration resistance. Due to i

Enduralock’s proposal is to improve flight line maintenance times on the B-1, B-2, and KC-135 aircraft by developing its mechanically locking, high vibration resistant fasteners, self-aligning nut plates, and locking V-Band clamps as component substitutions. In vibration testing, Enduralock fasteners survived 10x the aerospace requirement. They remain locked even with loss of preload (clamping f ...