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This Small Business Technology Transfer Phase I project seeks to develop and commercialize novel ceramic membrane-absorbers for hydrogen purification in fuel processing systems associated with polymer electrolyte fuel cells. Our innovation is based on integration of novel highly efficient reversible adsorbents, based on a metal organic framework, that are incorporated into monodisperse ceramic me ...

Techno-Sciences, Inc. (TSi), in collaboration with the Smart Structures Laboratory of the Alfred Gessow Rotorcraft Center at the University of Maryland (UMD), proposes to develop an innovative Active Pitch Link (APL) Technology for improved active rotor performance. The APL will exploit the superior performance characteristics of a new magnetostrictive material, GalFeNOL, and nano-particle enhance ...

A suite of sensors is required to detect, analyze, track, and report position, speed, and direction of travel of watercraft in interior waterways. WaveBand's millimeter-wave sensors have demonstrated the capability to provide watercraft data whose attributes contain the position, speed, and direction of travel of these objects. The sensors are also capable of furnishing near-photographic quality ...

Mayflower's proposed Robust MINT system is fully responsive to the Army STTR program objective to develop a robust high data rate, short distance mobile wireless communications system, which would allow the transfer of 100's of Mbps in a range of 50 - 100 feet from mobile base stations to combat vehicles or dismounted soldiers. The "robust" feature of our MINT system refers to its jamming immunit ...

The techniques of linear filtering have contributed tremendously in missile guidance and modern radar technology. However, they can only serve as a first order approximation to the infinite-dimensional nonlinear filtering problem. Solutions to these problems are known in theory, and with the explosive growth of high performance computing, they have also increasingly become available in terms of ...

As nanotechnology fabrication develops internationally, the availability of tools for ensuring that materials and systems abide by their chemical design characteristics becomes essential. In order for nanotechnology to mature, diagnostic instruments must be developed to detect and analyze physical and chemical properties with spatial resolution much less than the dimensions of the nanostructures ( ...

Surface Optics Corporation (SOC), teamed with the University of California, Irvine, proposes an exploratory study aimed at the development of an inexpensive portable optical tagging system with an intelligent retro-reflective encoded tag, dynamic modulator, and sensors needed for tracking and identification of U.S. military assets. The encoded tag can be either affixed to, or printed onto, milita ...

Triton Systems Inc., in partnership with Lawrence Berkley National Laboratory, proposes to develop a Trauma Patient Tracking System (TPTS). This system utilizes a `Tag' that is placed on the wrist or ankle of a patient at the point of initial care, which is then activated to provide accurate location and tracking information up to the point of hospital arrival. The location system uses a synergist ...

Triton Systems Inc. responds to the Army's need for novel adsorbents that can selectively remove small molecule contaminants, or store hydrogen as produced by a fuel cell's processing system in order to support a 20-W Polymer Electrolyte Membrane Fuel Cell (PEM-FC) for a minimum 72-hour operation. Current adsorbent technologies for contaminant removal and/or hydrogen storage in fuel cells are limi ...

During Phase I Sonalysts, Inc., Worcester Polytechnic Institute, and Advanced Interactive Simulations, collaborated to investigate the feasibility of producing a training system that, using a simulated urban environment, supplies instructional interventions (such as real-time feedback) that are pedagogically sound and contextually relevant to the Soldier engaged in first-person simulated training. ...