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Aircraft carrier control systems rely upon many sensors and signal processors to ensure safe and efficient aircraft launch and recovery. As one example subsystem, Digital End Speed Indicators (DESI) use reluctance sensors mounted within the catapult trough to determine aircraft end-speed during launch. The DESI was developed in the 1980s, and recent reliability problems have highlighted the need f ...

This SBIR Phase 1 project will improve motivation, learning and self-esteem of children by incorporating well-established principles from behavioral psychology and gaming science. The innovation disrupts conventional paradigms by advantageously leveraging the exploding screen time trends of digital games and social media, which are commonly a nemesis to learning and attention span. Children's inte ...

The broader impact/commercial potential of this project centers on furthering scientific understanding of degradation in electrochemical energy storage. The project will explore technology that will enable the large-scale transfer of a key laboratory-proven diagnostic tool from the lab to the field. This tool, called electrochemical impedance spectroscopy (EIS), is a noninvasive assessment of the ...

This Small Business Technology Transfer Research Phase I proposal will develop and advance the commercialization of STF-ArmorTM nanocomposite materials for use in Environmental Protection Garments (EPG) for long-duration exploration missions, such as the exploration of Mars. The proposed STTR research leverages the results of NASA-sponsored research conducted at the University of Delaware, combin ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant ELISpot including its variant FLUOROSpot remains the mainstay to measure true secretion of single cells and to assess cellular function e g immunity in the pre clinical and clinical settings However because it measures only one or two proteins per single cell and provides minimal biological information it has limited utility for measuring cell biology an ...

We propose to develop a line of mobile security products that provide transparent protection for wireless and wired communication. The products can be deployed either as a wireless or cellular access point (WAP) or inserted within the wired Gigabit Ethernet path to a computer or subnet. Our approach leverages lessons learned from DoD PL5 high-assurance guards (HAGs) with pre-configured public-key ...

There is an ever-growing need for increased battery performance in weight-sensitive and volume-constrained applications.In particular, MDA weapons systems need reserve batteries with greater power and energy density to support new mission profiles.Also needed is the ability to develop batteries with non-standard form factors to fit in systems with tight size constraints.Erigo and our collaborators ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant Sickle cell disease SCD is a severe inherited disease that occurs in about in newborns in the U S greater than that of any other condition detected by newborn blood screening Only one treatment hydroxyurea is approved for the complications of SCD in adult patients Hydroxyurea is not approved in children due to concerns regarding possible genotoxi ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant The National Research Council recognizes that serious computer games can support new inquiry based approaches to science instruction providing virtual laboratories or field learning experiences that overcome practical and logistical constraints to student investigations With the nationally recognized need to encourage and enhance education in the Science Tec ...

The broader impact/commercial potential of this project is to establish a precedence for remote, real time assessment of the safety and serviceability of infrastructural assets through the development of a self-powered structural health monitoring system. This piezoelectric fatigue fuse (PFF) will enable the establishment of quantifiable metrics to discern the current state of life as well as proj ...