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This project creates and evaluates a mobile version of a Signing Science Dictionary with at least 1300 scientific terms.

A Solid-State Imaging LIDAR (SSIL) receiver for the AN/AES-1 and AN/AQS-20A mine detection systems will be designed, fabricated, tested, and demonstrated. Each of the SSIL’s 1024 signal channels tightly couples a highly-sensitive APD with a wide-bandwidth, low-noise amplifier, and high-sample-rate analog wavefront storage register. The high-performance, monolithic, CMOS LIDAR receiver benefits f ...

To allow warfighters the ability to detect, classify, identify, geolocate and track entities buried in large amounts of urban clutter, an optical taggant technology, delivery system, and interrogation system, is proposed that not only is environmentally robust, but permits a very large number of unique, covert identifiers to aid target identification and tracking, even in crowded urban environment ...

CMOS image sensors offer advantages for scientific and military applications, and although technology scaling benefits CMOS imagers by reducing pixel size, reducing power, and increasing each chips transistor density, today’s sub-micron CMOS technology is not directly suitable for designing high-quality image sensors. Furthermore, the CCD back-thinning processes don’t routinely transfer CMOS a ...

The objective of the proposed work is to develop ultrasonic, non-contact, nondestructive testing technology for marine aluminum structures. Three novel approaches will be evaluated for the marine aluminum weld application. Technology selection will be based demonstrated defect sensitivity and inspection cost per linear feet of weld.

The goal of this research is to produce a light-weight, inexpensive bioluminescence sensor capable of accurately measuring fine-scale vertical bioluminescence potential (

The emerging field of terahertz imaging and spectroscopy offers great promise in physical security, military, drug enforcement and pharmaceuticals. Progress in THz applications awaits development of a high power THz laser, and a fast, sensitive focal plane array. Both of these are under development at Zyberwear. This work proposed here is development of a new class of laser operating at teraher ...

The overall goal of this Phase II project is to develop the Nanobreath® detection system for proximity detection of explosives at 50 meters, and specifically detection of peroxide improvised explosive devices (IED’s) such as TATP and HMTD. Pentagon statistics show that about half the U.S. battle deaths occurred as a result of homemade, easy-to-hide IED’s. Proximity vapor sampling and detect ...

MixZon, Inc., hypothesizes that lightweight infrared (IR) and video cameras mounted on an unmanned tethered helium balloon accessible via a wireless network can remotely sense water quality at site scales. MixZon will demonstrate the technical feasibility of a ground-based network to monitor and control balloon-mounted, IP-enabled wireless IR and video cameras for measurement of the spatial distri ...

Vegetated roofs (ecoroofs) offer diverse benefits, including energy savings and stormwater runoff reductions. Installation of ecoroofs in both new and existing buildings has expanded significantly during the past 5 years, with several local jurisdictions providing incentives for their installation and the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design green building rating system offering multiple ...