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The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) seeks to address concerns about foodborne illness outbreaks linked to untreated open source irrigation water via a proposed revision to the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) Produce Safety Rule. The rule change addresses the threat to public health from the foodborne illness outbreaks that continue to occur with high frequency in certain produce commoditie ...

10% of cancers are associated with an inherited pathogenic variant that can partially be identified by cancer gene panel testing, but up to 40% of cases show variants of uncertain significance (VUS) or no pathogenic variant results. VUS or no pathogenic variant do not reassign risk and, are confusing for how to proceed with surveillance/prevention. Morgan & Mendel Genomics (MMG) has developed rapi ...

Poultry growing consumes a a great deal of energy and electricity and fuel (propane) costs are asignificant part of farmers' growing costs.Current solar photovoltaic power systems seem like theycould reduce the industry's costs however because of their technical limits they can not.Sun Edge proposes novel optics for separating sunlight into its component wavelengths allowingfor precise spectrum ma ...

NASA has shown interest in applying thin-ply, tailorable technology with the potential to reduce cost and weight (including minimum gauge designs) optimizing mass efficiency in aerospace and space components. Our approach will focus on small end fittings for struts but larger hollow structures such as the strut itself can be considered. Damage tolerance with thin-ply is key in propellant tanks, wh ...

This proposal will focus on building and demonstrating photonic integrated circuits (PICs) to support optical processing of RF signals in multi-channel transmit and receive phased array systems. The PICs will be incorporated into system-level demonstrations of receiving phased arrays that can process a wide range of RF frequencies (up to at least 40 GHz) with wide instantaneous bandwidths (up to 1 ...

The purpose of this effort is to develop enhanced Custom Support Electronics (CSE) capable of providing high-fidelity scene data synchronously to a large-format scene projector or sensor for HWIL simulations.  The goal is to use the new CSE (NESSIE2) for driving current and new scene projectors with synthetic imagery generated by KHILS-developed FLITES or FLINT scene-generation PCs. A major empha ...

Ballydel Technologies will collaborate with Drexel University to develop a scalable process for the manufacture of MXene-based coatings that exhibit superior electromagnetic interference (EMI) performance.  These coatings will be designed for use in a var

The standoff detection of potential threats to military personnel is of primary importance to the Department of Defense as a whole. Millimeter wave imagers are one class of sensor systems that have been employed for the detection of a variety of threats including chemical/biological agents, improvised explosive devices, land-mines, and unmanned aerial systems (UASs). More specifically, W-band (75 ...

Ballydel Technologies will develop a novel, minimally invasive, and cost-effective fiber optic sensor technology that efficiently interrogates the interior of red phosphorous containers for the presence of phosphine.  The approach is passive in nature, withstand the potentially corrosive environment associated with phosphine, and takes up minimal space within a munition container.  During the ph ...

Conventional battery enclosures made up of metals or plastics and securing battery durability and safety, are not ideal for electric aircrafts due to the weight and durability concerns. TalosTech and University of Delaware (UD) propose to design and develop a novel aircraft structural battery enclosure by 3D printed continuous fiber-reinforced/thermoset composites (lightweight and high strength) w ...