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The explosion of new wearable medical monitoring devices, miniaturized sensors, and artificial intelligence is providing new opportunities to optimize human performance and mitigate the effects of stressors that degrade performance and health within operational settings, particularly for professional athletes. Similar techniques can be used to make tomorrow’s warfighter faster, smarter, and stro ...

Most AI accelerator hardware, such as GPU and TPU, are focused on increasing the throughput and efficiency for training and inference algorithms by massively parallelizing the computation across distinct computing unit and processors. Massive parallelization has to be powered by the continuous shrink of transistor nodes. Unfortunately, an increasing number of barriers are inhibiting the scaling of ...

While robotic systems have advanced in recent years, they are still dramatically outperformed by their biological counterparts. Robots are largely limited by the use of decades-old actuation paradigms such as electromagnetic motors which are bulky, rigid, and expensive, thus limiting the complexity and degrees of freedom of such systems and making close interactions with humans unsafe (such as in ...

In the field, warfighters are exposed to a complex set of stressors. Increasingly heavier combat loads, extreme environmental conditions, and improper nutrition are a few examples. Unfortunately, the effects on their physical and cognitive performance are not well understood, which can negatively affect the decision-making processes causing tactical errors leading to operational or strategic conse ...

Precise diagnosis of biomarkers can stratify the disease progression. Multi-analyte biomarkers provide high-resolution specificity of the disease complexity. At present, Cytochrome P450 single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) genes (such as as-CYP2D6 and CYP2C19) linked to the metabolism of 25% of clinically used drugs. Detection of these polymorphic genes are essential for drug metabolism is instrum ...

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 ...

SI2 Technologies, Inc. (SI2) proposes to build a radar detector and locator system integrated with the existing warfighter uniform to increase soldier lethality by enabling undetected maneuvering in the presence of hostile radar surveillance. This system alerts to the presence and direction of Ground Surveillance Radar (GSR) or Battlefield Surveillance Radar (BSR) at distances beyond maximum radar ...

The ALE-PNNL Team is developing a nonflammable high capacity and high power 18650 cell using nonflammable electrolyte for military electric vehicle and energy storage applications. The 18650 cells will be nonflammable even under extreme temperature conditions and after metal penetration, even including bullet penetration.

Deep Neural Networks have become ubiquitous in the modern analysis of voluminous datasets with geometric symmetries. In the field of Particle Physics, experiments such as DUNE require the detection of particle signatures interacting within the detector, with analyses of over a billion 3D event images per channel each year; with typical setups containing over 150,000 different channels.  In an ...

Traditional spherical optics implemented on a common optical axis are the foundation of today’s fielded gunsights for small arms fire control. SA Photonics has helped pioneer the application of precision injection molded freeform optical surfaces in head/helmet mounted display (HMD) systems for augmented reality (AR), virtual reality (VR) and low light level sensor applications. SA Photonics tea ...