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There is a critical need to develop a non-toxic, regenerative carbon dioxide (CO2) scrubber material with enhanced scrubbing capacities and safety for rebreather applications. The current state-of-the-art (SOA) scrubber material for rebreather is soda lime. Despite its overall robustness, soda-lime is highly toxic, has low CO2 capacity, and is non-regenerative. Physical Sciences Inc. (PSI) will de ...

The SOCOM Tube Launched Cruise Missile is a Common Launch Tube (CLT)/SOPGM compatible expendable that is intended to extend the range of current air launched precision munitions. The goal of the program is for this CLT compatible aircraft to be air launched from its host aircraft’s SOPGM tube, carry a 13 lb energetic warhead with a targeting system, and fly out 200+ nm to a target. The major dif ...

MORSE proposes Human-machine Ensembling for Track Entropy Exploitation, HEFTEE, a revolutionary, scalable, state-of-the-art machine learning-based system to automatically identify and combine the appropriate mix of sensors for an objective area. HEFTEE delivers de-duplicated, accurate, continuous tracks for unique entities, producing a clean and confident view of mission areas for SOCOM analysts. ...

US Special Operations Command (SOCOM) is increasingly reliant on technology to underpin critical operations integral to our national security and to compete against great powers on the technological field of battle. As adversaries, including peer competitors, invest and operationalize technology to degrade Special Operations Force’s (SOF) mission performance, USSOCOM must make corresponding inve ...

Physical Science Inc. (PSI) proposes to develop advanced computer vision algorithms to automatically extract relevant contextual information from video captured during chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear and counter explosive (CBRN) detections. PSI produces the PERM-OWL and PERM-Mobile systems which provide a gamma and neutron radiation sensor suite, synchronized contextual video, and stat ...

Physical Sciences Inc. (PSI) proposes to develop an underwater optical sensor for spatially continuous measurement of sound velocity profiles. The sensor leverages multiple technological advances, including a light detection and ranging (LIDAR) technique applicable for depth-resolved measurements over a large range of water columns, Raman scattering spectroscopy for remote sensing of water tempera ...

Physical Sciences Inc. (PSI) presents an innovation in the vapor cell physics to support miniaturization and increased environmental resistance of warm vapor cells used in a Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) gyroscope currently under development by Northrop Grumman.  The Synthetic Alkali Vapor for Atomic Gyroscopes Experiments (SAVAGE) replaces the rubidium vapor with PSI’s novel Rubidium Alkali ...

In the modern Information Environment, adversaries deliver misinformation and exploit misinformation to gain geopolitical power and influence over one another. Adversaries do so by via messaging (e.g., blogs, tweets, and other online multimedia communications). Analysts require tools to make sense of such communications, and, more specifically, tools that can measure the direct and indirect influe ...

As composite capabilities across warfighting elements multiply, modeling and simulation (M&S) analytics struggle to keep pace. Model integration complexity slows the development of responsive M&S for defense analyses. The challenge is that M&S mechanics are inaccessible, so modeling choices are hard to understand; M&S semantics—the meaning behind the mechanisms in M&S—require human interpretat ...

The specific technical opportunity addressed in this project is to increase the efficiency density of a low-cost neutron detection technology, previously developed for affordable wide-area monitoring capability, to apply it to vehicle and other mobile systems that require higher detection densities to meet relevant ANSI standards. Creating detectors with higher efficiency density usually req ...