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To meet the demands of the A18-061 SBIR solicitation (“Medical Sensors Powered by Human Generated Energy”), MaXentric proposes an energy harvesting system that generates power directly from the user’s body. This harvesting system, when integrated with a sensor patch, results in a system with greatly extended continuous use time allowing for application in “prolonged field care” scenarios ...

This Army Phase II SBIR program would develop high frequency, interchangeable multi-axis nanomembrane (NM) based pressure sensors and fiber optic-based temperature sensors for ballistic systems, using SOI (Silicon on Insulator) NM techniques in combination with our fiber optic sensors. Such tailored-modulus (0.1 MPa to 5 GPa), conformal nanomembrane sensors with interchangeable fiber optic sensor ...

Through Army SBIR funding, NanoSonic has designed and empirically optimized a next-generation multipurpose Spall Protective, Energy Absorbing (SPEA™) HybridSil® material that will provide vehicle occupants with pioneering combinatorial protection from 1) fragmentation behind-armor debris (BAD), 2) high velocity head / neck impact, and 3) fire during underbody blast, crash, and rollover events. ...

The Department of Defense desires to develop and produce a reliable turbocharger for an aviation compression-ignition engine with a maximum power of 180 hp at sea level which additionally provides 60% of maximum sea level power at 30,000 ft. The challenge is to reliably provide adequate manifold pressure to achieve the desired power at altitude. Diesel engines with existing standard turbocharger t ...

This research develops an algorithm capable of reliable target classification for a wide range of targets, including, but not limited to, Rockets, Artillery and Mortars (RAM); Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs); and cruise missiles. For defensive High Energy Laser (HEL) missions, the engagement timeline can be very short. Thus, it is highly desirable to have a robust target classification system that ...

Dynamic Collaborative Visualization Ecosystem (DynaCoVE) is a new visualization tool that will support a data-centric, user-centric, visualization algorithm and systems agnostic visualization. It is a visualization software that will allow the user to generate visualization from the data and display it on any of the display systems available in the visualization ecosystem for knowledge discovery a ...

During the Phase I program, Utility Development Corporation successfully proved the feasibility of using a syntactic foam based material for the production of an ultra-wideband, ultra-low loss radome for an antennae application. UDC developed and tested formulations that will pass the X-Ku band frequency and withstand 10TW peak power, and a pulse length and frequency of 30ns and 500Hz. In the Phas ...

A hybrid electric vehicle architecture can use the low-weight, high-power advantage of electric motors in conjunction with the high specific energy of liquid fuel to create a VTOL aircraft capable of long missions. A transitioning vehicle is an ideal architecture for hybrid propulsion technology due to the large difference in power for hover and cruise. In this system, the battery power would augm ...

Self-driving cars are coming. Building on the successes of the DARPA Grand Challenge and Urban Challenge autonomous vehicle competitions, commercial companies such as Tesla, Uber, Google, and others, have invested hundreds of millions of dollars and achieved millions of road hours of autonomous operation. In the meantime, driver safety aids that detect lane departures and cars in the driver’s bl ...

To address the Army need for a next generation sunlight-readable head-up display (HUD), Intellisense Systems, Inc. (ISI) proposes, in Phase II, to advance the new Visor Projection Aviation Head-Mounted Display (VIPA-HMD), which was proven highly feasible in Phase I. The system is based on an innovative modular design modification of a commercially available miniature laser pico projector to produc ...