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Physical Sciences Inc. (PSI) and its partners, Research Support Systems (RSI, a PSI-subsidiary) and Professor Thomas Strohmer of UC Davis, propose to develop an innovative approach that can be employed by an ‘on-the-move’ sensor constellation to determine the size (length, width, and height), absolute geo-location, and 3-D concentration distribution of chemical threat clouds released on battle ...

Sharing platforms have already transformed some sectors of civilian logistics, promoting the efficient utilization of resources, such as cars and bicycles. Sharing resources is particularly desirable when those resources are costly, and high utilization is critical, characteristics often observed in military settings. In order to address specific constraints imposed by military applications on res ...

Currently large capacity cryostats, capable of hosting experiments for many qubits, require expensive and hard to obtain liquid cryogens. A few small cryo-free systems exist but they are non-ideal for this use. An opportunity exists for a large scale, c

Currently large capacity cryostats, capable of hosting experiments for many qubits, require expensive and hard to obtain liquid cryogens. A few small cryo-free systems exist but they are non-ideal for this use. An opportunity exists for a large scale, c

The purpose of this STTR Phase II project is to continue research and development on novel fire resistant thermal barrier coatings (TBC) with low temperature flexibility. Polyurethane coatings are the most important segment of aircraft coatings. Excellent

There is a need for easy-to-use, versatile alloys for additive manufacturing that print consistently regardless of the specific process or machine, or the metallurgical and manufacturing knowledge of the user. Such capability is especially critical for soldiers to be able to make every day items on demand in the theater of war. Toward meeting this need, recent successes developing high performance ...

Current cervical spine assessment methodologies are focused on subjective measures (i.e. pain reports) and range-of-motion (ROM) measures that only measure maximum head excursion and reach, but not dynamic motion. Due to report bias and existing incentive

The goal of the proposed program is to identify an effective passivation material and develop a capable passivation methodology to protect highly reticulated HgCdTe surfaces. The proposed passivation material and technique using highly conformal atomic layer deposition (ALD) will allow the DOD to develop high-performance infrared focal plane array detectors that can operate under wider operating c ...

Physical Sciences, Inc. and Colorado State University will advance the technical maturity of the Compressive Sensing Hyperspectral Imager (CS-HSI) platform. The CS-HSI operates in the longwave infrared (LWIR) spectral range with a single-pixel architecture for low-cost, standoff wide area Early Warning of chemical vapor plumes. The motivation for applying CS to LWIR HSI is to eliminate the high-co ...

Local water production for troops using standard membrane filtration processes presents a significant logistics burden because of high energy consumption for removing particles based on size-exclusion methods and the constant need to replace fouled membranes. A membraneless filtration method using dissolved CO2 has been demonstrated to separate charged particles through the mechanism of diffusioph ...