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Arenaviruses comprise a diverse group of Old (Africa) and New World (Americas) species. Several species are associated with hemorrhagic fever (HF) with case-fatality rates as high as 30%. Arenaviruses infection typically occurs via the mucosal route through contact with excretions of an infected rodents although direct human-to-human transmission may occur in clinical settings. Lassa arenavirus en ...

Ebolavirus species including Zaire (EBOV), Sudan (SUDV) and Bundibugyo (BDBV) are responsible for severe hemorrhagic fever outbreaks with high case fatalities in Africa. Weaponized pathogens present an additional threat to the health protection of the warfighter and first-generation prophylactic and therapeutic medical countermeasures (MCMs) may prove inadequate in biodefense settings. Ebolaviruse ...

The ability to develop new technology on the basis of existing commercial technology can offer significant cost savings when compared to research programs to develop new technology from scratch. Continuing developments in mass spectrometry (MS), vacuum Systems and high speed gas chromatography (GC) sampling and analysis methods, have created an opportunity to fully demonstrate a powerful handporta ...

To address the U.S. Army CBD need for a low-cost, universal, robust, and fieldable device for rapid, reproducible identification of protein variants from biological samples with high throughput, Physical Optics Corporation (POC) proposes to develop a new Dielectrophoretic Microfluidic Protein Analysis (DiMiPA) system. The system is based on an electrodeless dielectrophoresis-based, continuous-flow ...

Positively identifying a target at tactical ranges is a formidable task that is hindered by target occlusion, atmospheric turbulence, hardware limitations, focus errors, lens aberrations, and blur from unstable platforms. The solution proposed solves these issues by combining a recently developed Digital Adaptive Optics technology with advanced facial recognition algorithms, to arrive at a man-po ...

To address the U.S. SOCOM need for a particle sensor and monitoring/warning system to be integrated into aircraft engine air inlets and air intakes to environmental control systems (ECSs), Physical Optics Corporation (POC) proposes to develop a new Digital Electronic Scanning Holographic (DESH) particle sensor. The proposed DESH sensor is based on real-time digital holography (electronic holograp ...

As the Web has become an increasingly important communication network, it has also become a resource for terrorists, criminals, insurgents and other adversaries. For this reason, military and intelligence analysts are increasingly interested in technology for monitoring and analyzing information on Web sites, social media and other sources.However, there are many difficult technical challenges inv ...

To address the USSOCOM need for modular tactical packaging (MTP) of body-worn signals intelligence system electronics, Physical Optics Corporation (POC) proposes to develop the new DIstributed MOdular Networked Devices (DIMOND) interconnectivity architecture. This proposed electronics packaging and interconnect technology is based on COTS computer components and MOTS radio frequency communication ...

The objective of this proposal is to develop a robust, lightweight and compact device for re-heating and maintaining the temperature of a divers inspired breathing gas when diving on a closed circuit underwater breathing apparatus for the duration of the dive. As a solution, Simuleer proposes to develop the Hybrid Energy Abiotic Thermoelectric (HEAT) system based on a high-power hybrid (i.e. passi ...

Applied Physical Sciences Corp. (APS) in collaboration with Ocean Technology Systems (OTS) will develop a diver physiological monitoring (DPM) system with integrated microdisplay that easily retrofits with existing full face masks (FFM) and that leverages commercial-off-the-shelf biometric sensors. The capability to quantitatively evaluate and assess a remote diver"s status will significantly imp ...