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For effective protection against EMP and HPM threats, it is important to understand the physics of the threats, and also to quantify the effects they have on electrical systems. EMP and HPM vulnerability testing requires delivery of high peak power and electric fields to distant targets. The most practical solution to simulate such environments is to develop a modular, optically-isolated MV-antenn ...

This program will demonstrate how additive manufacturing technologies can be used with reactive and high energy materials to create rapid and flexible fabrication of payload and munitions. Our primary approach to this problem will be to use powder bed binder printing techniques to print reactive structures. The anticipated feedstock will consist of composite particles containing all reactant spe ...

This project team will develop and test a prototype of Moby.Read, a stand-alone app for handheld devices or tablets. Using Moby.Read, grade school students will read a passage out loud and the speech-recognition software will generate an assessment of oral-reading fluency in real-time. The app is intended to replace face-to-face oral reading assessments done by teachers in order to save teachers t ...

In prior research and development, the team and their partners developed EdSurge Concierge, an online platform to facilitate school improvement. With this Phase I funding, the project team will develop and test a next prototype of the platform with improved capability to generate information administrators need to make decisions on selecting technology tools to drive school improvement. The protot ...

This project team will develop and test a prototype an online platform to facilitate engineering project challenges within K–12 classrooms across many schools. The prototype will include a content management platform to enable a high volume of challenges for students to conduct projects on a broad range of STEM topics, such as computer coding, digital modeling, or producing simulations. In a pil ...

Luna Innovations is addressing the need to develop novel fluid repellent textile treatments for military uniforms that will actively decontaminate chemical and biological warfare agents (CBWA).There have been recent significant advances in textile treatments that have demonstrated water, oil and chemical agent resistance that are superior to Quarpel repellent treatments currently used on protectiv ...

This program develops innovative technology for chip-to-chip and intra-chip interconnects that will operate in extreme radiation environments.There is considerable development in chip-to-chip and intra-chip interconnects in the commercial market.This program will leverage these advancements and demonstrate their applicability to satellite and unmanned avionic vehicles (UAV) platforms.

The capabilities of modern x-ray light sources have opened up new areas in the study of the temporal evolution of complex materials under dynamic loading, which require detectors with high sensitivity, wide dynamic range at frame rates approaching the bunch repetition rates of modern light sources and detection at x-ray energies above 20keV.However, the capability to do such research is limited by ...

The fundamental problem addressed by this SBIR proposal is the capability to uncover new entity types, relations and topics that are implicit in text documents.Joint inference offers an opportunity to make discoveries that are more accurate and more nuanced than traditional pipelined approaches, but the hypothesis space is more complex and extraordinarily large.In this project we propose to develo ...

To address the DTRA need to enhance island-mode tactics for defense critical infrastructure (DCI) in the event of commercial power grid loss disruption due to an electromagnetic pulse (EMP) or high power microwaves (HPMs), Physical Optics Corporation (POC) proposes to develop an Optimizing power Availability and Sustainability in Islanded Sites (OASIS) strategy based on islanded power management, ...