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To address the DHS need for a single wireless device that will monitor physiological and environmental conditions of and surrounding a first responder, and relay the information to the incident command, Physical Optics Corporation (POC) proposes to develop a new Wireless Physiological and Environmental Monitoring (WiPEM) system incorporating four major components: (1) an array of physiological sen ...

Incontinence affects almost two thirds of nursing home residents and half of acute care patientsHalf of these incontinence patients and a third of diapered children suffer from incontinence associated dermatitisIADa skin inflammation resulting from exposure to urine and or feces as a result of incontinenceIAD increases the risk of developing microbial skin infections and pressure ulcersDelays in c ...

Flight launch tests typically require additional instrumentation remotely placed across the rocket; however harnesses for both data and power can be wrought with complexity and resulting incremental size, weight and power (SWaP) may affect the performance of the launch platforms. The compromise may be to trade-off instrumentation thus reducing valuable data collected during a flight test. Wireless ...

To address the Army need for dismounted soldier see-through display, Physical Optics Corporation (POC) proposes to develop the new Wireless Soldier Information Technology Enhanced Head Mounted Display (WiSITE-HMD) based on the use of a unique waveguide configuration and UWB based HD display interface compatibility. The see-through capability is made possible by a thin image routing waveguide with ...

Aircraft structure nondestructive testing (NDT) is performed in a field or depot setting depending primarily on the amount of disassembly required to gain access to the inspection area. In order to reach set field and depot inspection intervals, the minimum detectable flaw size (Andi) must be sufficiently small. Legacy NDT methods with Andi's that are too large require out of cycle inspections whi ...

In this Small Business Innovative Research (SBIR) effort, Leiden Measurement Technology LLC (LMT) proposes to design and build the Wholly-integrated Optofluidic Laser-induced Fluorescence Electrophoresis Chip (WOLFEChip) System, a microchip capillary electrophoresis (MCE) system using a miniaturized optofluidic approach for packaging all critical optical elements necessary for laser-induced fluore ...

Access to up-to-date information, with contextual relevance, is critical to advancing the mission objectives for human exploration in space. Crew efficiency and safety depends on the associated workflows.The proposed project aims to develop a new user experience (UX) for information visualization, with a custom user interface (UI), navigated via micromovement sensors. This innovation allows crew m ...

There is a compelling need for compact high brightness mid-wavelength infrared (MWIR) lasers. Applications of such sources include spectroscopic detection of the fingerprint of molecular absorptions, illumination, electronic warfare (EW), and infrared countermeasure (IRCM) systems in response to increasingly sophisticated seeker technologies and increased threat ranges. Todays state-of-the-art hig ...

To realize the immense opportunity for energy savings from retrofitting existing residential buildings, and to develop a self-sustaining energy efficiency marketplace, accurate data about energy efficiency opportunities needs to be made available at a large scale to all market actors and decision makers. But identifying cost-effective energy efficiency measures for individual homes, or for groups ...

Computer simulations have the potential to improve the development x-ray-based explosive detection equipment. Despite the number of available simulation tools, no existing tool meets the needs of the explosive detection community. This is due to (1) the flexibility required to model the range of objects, physical processes, and system geometries used in explosive detection, and (2) the usability ...