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DESCRIPTION provided by applicant Stereologic cell counting has revolutionized the field of neuroscience over the last years and numerous studies highlighting the impact of stereologic cell counting in basic neuroscience and pharmaceutical and biotechnology research continue to be published A single study however may take months since investigators must decide by visual inspection whethe ...

The Phase I effort demonstrated our technology called FORM, Flexible Optical Ray Metrology. Our prototype system demonstrated that this technology achieves the precision and dynamic range needed for measuring conformal windows. The Phase I metrology system can now be refined to provide metrology of collaborators conformal windows. We expect this data to enable completion of the polishing of these ...

ABSTRACT: In Phase I, CFDRC in partnership with ESI, have developed and validated a physics-based CFD tool to quantify fuel spurt caused by impact and penetration of fuel tanks. CFD tool development, qualification and validation study showed good correlations with experiments in terms of fundamental physics including: a) droplet formation, breakup, size, timing and distribution; b) cavitation zone ...

ABSTRACT:As the next evolution in missile agility, the Air Force is looking at integrating small but capable divert and attitude control systems (DACS) into new and existing missile systems. This will increase the agility of the missile and allow for interception of faster or maneuverable targets. During Phase I, CFDRC supported this goal by defining two miniaturized thruster designs that utilize ...

The broader impact/commercial potential of this Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II project are both technical and economic. The developed error-correction solutions will enable flash-memory-based devices to have higher capacities, higher reliability, and faster speeds at lower power while driving down the cost. This will have a major impact on mobile computing capabilities and ente ...

This document outlines the activities proposed by STI Electronics Inc. to develop cleanliness requirements on a complex military electronics assembly using Real Time Surface Insulation Resistance (SIR). Real Time SIR testing under components allows for the non-destructive, real time data acquisition necessary to validate cleanliness in a production environment. This proposal outlines hardware co ...

A multi-scale Lagrangian-Eulerian algorithm has been developed during Phase I to determine the vorticity confinement term for rotorcraft Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) computations. Similar to the Large Eddy Simulation approach, the present algorithm simulates the large scales in the flow field and models the unresolved small scales like the tip vortices in the computations. The large scales a ...

ABSTRACT: The proposed program addresses the cost effectiveness of maintenance operations for mission-critical electronic warfare circuit card assemblies (CCAs), by reducing no fault found (NFF) codes and accelerating accurate diagnosis of root causes in support of repairs of analog, digital, radio frequency (RF) and mixed-signal CCAs. Benefits of the proposed work include a projected 50% reducti ...

ABSTRACT: Ridgetop Group, Inc. will develop an innovative solution to isolate troublesome no-fault-found (NFF) occurrences in the maintenance depot. We will develop advanced technology to integrate into improved Test Program Sets (TPSs) used to test complex circuit card assemblies (CCAs) of line-replaceable units (LRUs) in electronic warfare (EW) systems. The work will result in a 60% reduction ...

ABSTRACT:The ETRS technology developed under the Phase II SBIR program exploits Lean Depot Management System (LDMS) historical data and CCA analysis to enhance the effrciency and effrcacy of the Versatile Depot Automatic Test System (VDATS). Prioritized diagnostic and repair actions achieve cost-avoidance through reduced mean time to repair (MTTR), reduced frequency of no fault found (NFF) cod ...