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Soldiers require upwards of 15 L of water/day to remain properly hydrated. On an extended mission, soldiers can obtain water from indigenous sources using recently developed TIC/TIM filters that are compatible with the MOLLE hydration pack. There is currently no way to assess the continued efficacy of the filtration system in the field. Triton Systems and its partner will develop a handheld electr ...

Physical Sciences Inc., together with its STTR partner, New Mexico State University proposes, to develop the design of a prototype microwave measurement facility for dispersed radio frequency (RF) chaff materials in this Phase I STTR effort.  The resulting design would be built and tested in Phase II establishing a unique, compact testbed for quick, relatively low-cost screening of laboratory-sca ...

Warfighters engaged in tactical operations are increasingly reliant on time-sensitive sensor information collected from Internet of Battlefield Things (IoBT) devices at the tactical edge to achieve mission goals. If the information flow is disrupted or the information is not processed correctly, then mission success can be severely impacted. A tactical edge network poses unique challenges for info ...

Triton Systems Inc will build a complete system for the portable generation of 99.999% pure hydrogen from water including greywater or wastewater. The catalysts on which the technology is based are unique in having demonstrated stable and efficient hydrogen production in non-corrosive, near-neutral water and natural water sources such as seawater. The platform will be scalable to a production rate ...

The US Army aims to integrate multi-modal sensor data streams and advanced AI analytics at the tactical network edge in support of its vision for a future Internet of Battlefield Things. To maintain situational awareness within mission-acceptable levels despite dynamic conditions and infrastructure disruptions, we propose the ConnextEdge framework for resource-aware location-agnostic adaptive AI p ...

COVID-19, a novel coronavirus disease, induces a hyperimmune response (cytokine storm) upon infection that often leads to hyperinflammation and immunosuppression. During the immunosuppression, the body is susceptible to other infections, which potentially increase mortality rates. The Center for Disease Control and Prevention reports that the military’s cumulative hospitalization rate (2%) is 50 ...

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 ...

In this program Optowares Inc., in collaboration with Professor Jay H. Park at the University of Massachusetts at Lowell (UML), proposes to develop a novel technique for uniform dispersion and alignment of short fiber reinforcement in highly loaded composite materials. The new approach combines the cutting-edge polymer composite synthesis and development methods at Optowares with the extensive exp ...

Precision Combustion, Inc. (PCI) together with University of Michigan (UMich) proposes a system to use solar energy to convert water to ultra-high purity compressed hydrogen suitable for PEM fuel cells. We will combine UMich’s high efficiency photocatalytic water splitting approach with PCI’s integrated hydrogen separator/compressor. The proposed effort will confirm the avoidance of external e ...

Cost effective and compact thermal energy storage systems that enable passive, non-powered, repeatable storage and release of heat could offer significant tactical and practical advantages for soldiers’ mission execution and success in a deployed setting of cold climates. Sorbent systems can store heat indefinitely, however, current sorbent-based technologies require storage tanks and complex co ...