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TECHNOLOGY AREA(S): Air Platform, Human Systems OBJECTIVE: To support Warfighter (soldier, airman, commander, etc.) situational awareness and decisive actions through the development of presentation techniques capable of providing 360 degree field of view with enhanced symbology in a 120 degree field of view immersive virtual reality display. DESCRIPTION: Background Advancements in computer pro ...

TECHNOLOGY AREA(S): Materials OBJECTIVE: Design and develop novel materials, processes and/or geometries of optical pump combiner to increase coupling efficiency. DESCRIPTION: Lasers and optical amplifiers are pumped with shorter wavelength light to excite electrons required for the amplification of optical signals. The pump light needs to get into the center of the laser fiber in order for it t ...

TECHNOLOGY AREA(S): Info Systems OBJECTIVE: Design and develop a handheld robotics and armament controller that can receive information from combined group of manned and unmanned platforms treated as a single operator control unit. DESCRIPTION: Mounted/dismounted computing platform architectures will rely on multiple unmanned systems to perform focused mission; i.e. mapping, reconnaissance, fire ...

TECHNOLOGY AREA(S): Materials OBJECTIVE: Develop innovative approaches to, and demonstrate the production of, an alternative gamma spectrometry material that simultaneously improves technical performance and lowers procurement costs. DESCRIPTION: Research, development, innovation, and demonstration of methods and processes are sought to reduce the costs of radioisotope identification det ...

TECHNOLOGY AREA(S): Bio Medical OBJECTIVE: Develop a capability to enable emerging mobile robotic platforms to function as a team to locate, assess, and extract a casualty back to a safe location for medical treatment and further evacuation from difficult terrain and hazardous environments. DESCRIPTION: The Army and Marine Corps are developing concepts and strategies for future ground combat ope ...

TECHNOLOGY AREA(S): Bio Medical OBJECTIVE: Develop improved fieldable capabilities for the collection and preservation of blood samples for biomonitoring occupational and/or environmental exposures. DESCRIPTION: At least since the Viet Nam conflict, it has been recognized that exposures to environmental and industrial chemicals during military operations can result in long term adverse health ef ...

TECHNOLOGY AREA(S): Materials OBJECTIVE: Develop a material and structural solution designed to be integrated onto the M1A2 Abrams tank and isolate the Abrams Gunner Primary Sight (GPS) system from the turret. The isolator shall reduce MIL-STD-810G ballistic shock inputs in all 3 axes, to levels which allow various optical vision systems to continue functioning. This problem can be solved by ...

TECHNOLOGY AREA(S): Sensors, Electronics OBJECTIVE: Develop Optical Character Recognition (OCR) automated document pre-processing software that can be integrated into the US Army Machine Foreign Language Translation System (MFLTS) Software Architecture. Pre-processing software should provide automated document cleaning and correction for seamless OCR processing and machine translation (MT). DESC ...

TECHNOLOGY AREA(S): Sensors, Electronics OBJECTIVE: Design and develop the algorithms needed to perform onboard Automated Feature Extraction (AFE) and/or aided target recognition (AiTR) on Light Detection and Ranging (LIDAR) data. DESCRIPTION: The U.S. Army has an interest in automated exploitation algorithms for airborne LIDAR systems. These algorithms would take as input, airborne LIDAR data o ...

TECHNOLOGY AREA(S): Air Platform, Sensors OBJECTIVE: Propose and develop next generation hardware and waveform for the Encrypted Aircraft Wireless Intercom System (EAWIS) capable of supporting both voice and data while meeting a new mission time requirement of eleven hours. DESCRIPTION: The Medevac community has expressed interest in a wireless data bridge through the Blue Force Tracking (BFT) s ...