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Intelligent Optical Systems, Inc., in collaboration with Bowling Green State University, proposes to develop a field-rugged, eye-readable indicating spray solution that can immediately detect synthetic opioids over a large area of contamination (i.e., military vehicles, individual protective equipment, clandestine labs, etc.). The proposed chemosensor in a spray solution format will detect multipl ...

For this Phase I STTR program, TRS proposes to investigate the synthesis of new single crystal piezoelectric compositions that will operate at higher temperature, higher electric field and/or higher stress than current state-of-the-art PMN-PT single crystals. PMN-PT single crystals are readily available for certain applications, however a broader operating range would allow for greater device des ...

Raytum Photonics teams with the Center for Advanced Life Cycle Engineering (CALCE) of University of Maryland in order to come up with an efficient burn-in process to effectively screen out infant mortality and accurately predict life time for QCL lasers in shortest possible time.   The proposed burn-in process is based on an accelerated degradation model which speeds up the burn-in process by el ...

Off-board vehicles deployed in littoral environments are subjected to severe operational loads, including wave slamming, high-speed collision with debris, and underwater explosions. They additionally serve as sensor platforms, and would benefit from reduced self- and radiated noise for towed array performance and mine defense. Consequently, we propose to exploit the flexibility of design offered ...

The Team will demonstrate a continuous cryomilling system for Aluminum powder processing that promises cost effectiveness. · The continuous attriting system will use a series of connected attritors, so loading and unloading of each machine is accomplished sequentially on-line, with a minimum of downtime for unloading, cleaning, and loading. With all machines at the Liquid Nitrogen temperature, t ...

The essence of information assessment is the process of distinguishing signals from noise. In the military, intelligence analysts are constantly searching for signals that might suggest an adversary's intentions. In each case the analyst must search through a quantity of data, searching for meaningful patterns within the preponderance of noise. In many contexts, the volume of data available is t ...

Game-based training (GBT) has been touted as a promising medium for achieving improved training objective performance outcomes and increasing learner motivation, particularly in military training environments. However, there is little empirical research upon which to make informed decisions about when, where, or even if applying particular game elements to training is effective. The primary object ...

Puritan Research proposes GRIDCAM Technology. GRIDCAM adapts networked embedded sensors to enhance conventional cameras so that they exchange explicit information about entities in their field of view and are common in the field of view of other cameras at the same moment in time. This allows ordinary cameras to include 3D information in the images they collect. GRIDCAM technology will create a ub ...

For many military operational scenarios there is an extremely large geographical theater. Providing coverage requires 100s to 1000s of sensing devices. Command and control (C2) of such a large number of devices, to provide time sensitive targeting (TST), poses a difficult technical challenge. Our solution to this problem is to use a hierarchy of unattended ground sensors (UGS). Ultra low-cost trig ...

We propose the novel approach of using chaotic micro-resonators on photonic integrated circuits to reduce the size, weight, and power (SWaP) and increase the stability of the random basis generation portion of a compressive sensing system with the goal of enabling a large bandwidth radio frequency (RF) receiver while reducing the requirements on data capture. Our proposed technical and programmati ...