Defense Appropriations
Plasma Treatment of Aramids to Enhance Force Protection
Absecon Mills
Cologne, NJ
The requested funding will be used to develop and test non-industry design and manufacturing techniques for force protection technology through non-traditional weave designs of Aramid (Ballistic) fiber, coupled with new applications of microwave plasma treatments. Aramid fiber is one of the high performance fibers, widely used in protective applications, due to its high tenacity, low elongation and outstanding thermal properties.
Requested: $5,266,000
Self-Powered Sensor System for Munitions Control
Advanced Cerametrics, Inc.
Lambertville, NJ
Advanced Cerametrics Inc. in collaboration with Picatinny Arsenal has developed a sensor system that does not require outside sources of power. Piezoelectric fibers can eliminate the need for batteries by harnessing energy through fiber transducers. This project will reduce cost and build more viable, reliable condition based maintenance systems.
Requested: $2,500,000
Breast and Prostate Cancer Vaccine Trials
Advaxis, Inc.
North Brunswick, NJ
The requested funding will be used for the production of clinical grade drug material for phase 1 clinical trials of breast and prostate cancer vaccines at the US military cancer institute. Breast cancer is the second most common form of cancer in women and the leading cancer killer of women worldwide. Prostate cancer is the most commonly diagnosed cancer in men, accounting for 30 percent of all cancers in men. Advaxis has developed a way to infect specific cancer cells necessary to effect a therapeutic response and function from inside these cells as a molecular biochemical factory internally producing a highly effective antigen.
Requested: $5,000,000
Virtual Wound
American Medical Technologies with IPKeys
Eatontown, NJ
American Medical Technologies as content and concept creator and IPKeys as technology designer, have collaborated to make a series of computer-based modules providing didactic and interactive wound training, called Virtual Wound™. This will enhance medical education through emerging technologies in modeling and simulation. The Virtual Wound™ blends science, technology, education and medicine to immerse the learner into a high fidelity virtual environment simulating common wounds.
Requested: $2,000,000
Force Protection Layered Defense
American Systems
Picatinny Arsenal, NJ
The project will integrate existing sensor and computer technology to detect an emerging threat before it is immediate. This will provide decision makers time to take appropriate actions to mitigate or defeat the threat. The foundation of the approach is a series of complimentary, networked and integrated (off the shelf) technologically advanced sensors that filter and assess a threat and allow appropriate counter measures to be taken against the threat.
Requested: $1,000,000
Precision Guidance Kit (PGK) Performance Enhancement
ATK Advanced Weapons Division
Picatinny Arsenal, NJ
The Army and Marine Corps have recognized needs for increased precision for ground combat units. The requested funds will be used to test and insert software technology to improve PGK accuracy at extremely short ranges or high gun elevations, and in situations where the GPS signal is either degraded or denied. The improved capability will reduce the potential for noncombatant collateral damage, while improving the fire support available to US ground forces. The increased precision also results in reduced logistics loads and operational costs to accomplish a mission.
Requested: $4,500,000
Multi-mission Modular Weapon System (M3WS)
ATK Advanced Weapons Systems
Picatinny Arsenal, NJ
Working with Picatinny Arsenal, the requested funds will be used to accelerate the fielding of an active protection system for light combat vehicles. This includes conducting cost and technical risk reduction development and testing of the radar and launcher for the Army's combat vehicle lightweight hit avoidance weapon system. Requirements for the system are embodied in a number of current force vehicles.
Requested: $3,000,000
Advanced Fuze Technology Development
ATK Advanced Weapons Systems
Picatinny Arsenal, NJ
Working with Picatinny Arsenal, the requested funds will be used to continue the development and testing of advanced fuzing designs needed to support next generation Army tank ammunition programs. The Army's 120mm Advanced Multipurpose Projectile (AMP) currently is not able to meet requirements due to a lack of enabling fuzing technology development and cartridge integration. Funding of this project will enable advances in fuzing technology necessary for the AMP to meet required performance thresholds.
Requested: $4,500,000
60mm Mortar Enhanced Lethality Projectile (ELP)
ATK Tactical Propulsion Controls
Picatinny Arsenal, NJ
The requested funds will allow the Army to initiate procurement of enhanced lethality 60mm mortar rounds.
Requested: $5,000,000
Manufacture of Tantalum Alloys for Advanced Army Warheads
Atlantic Technical Components, Inc
Roselle Park, NJ
The Army is interested in demonstrating the capabilities of solid free-form fabrication methods, a green manufacturing technique, to produce tantalum alloys that meet warheads-grade material performance specs. Atlantic Technical Components will design, test and produce a very dense tantalum alloy material alloy using solid free-form fabrication that will meet Army's technical performance specifications for advanced warheads.
Requested: $2,772,000
Demilitarization Technology Research and Development Initiative
Battelle
Picatinny Arsenal
The purpose of the Demilitarization Technology Research and Development initiative is to modernize the Army's ability to develop, integrate, test and evaluate new and existing demilitarization technologies for conventional ammunition, in flexible manufacturing configurations for transition to service ammunition depots, plants and centers. This will give Picatinny Arsenal the means to provide engineering and program analysis needed to draw down the nation's growing demilitarization stockpile, which competes for storage resources with Joint Service ammunition war inventory. It will also arm our warfighters with the tools necessary to eliminate unneeded munitions in the cleanup of old battlefields.
Requested: $5,500,000
Phase I of Berth N-2 Reconstruction-MOTBY
Bayonne Local Redevelopment Authority
Bayonne, NJ
The funding will be used to reconstruct/stabilize 1,380 linear feet of decaying bulkhead and eroding shoreline of the N-2 berth area of former MOTBY in the first phase of Berth N-2 reconstruction. When completed, the Berth N-2 reconstruction project will double functional berthing capacity on the Bayonne side of the Port Jersey Channel for commercial vessels, or military/federal vessels in event of national emergency.
Requested: $4,000,000
Speed Hawk Risk Reduction Program
Breeze-Easton Corporation
Whippany, NJ
The Air Force and other branches are exploring how to extend the capability of H-60 helicopters for combat rescue, medevac and special operations missions and are in the midst of a $40 billion recapitalization of existing helicopter fleets to extend service life beyond 2030. Each branch has identified critical shortfalls in speed, range, ceiling, survivability and reliability. The SpeedHawk VTDP compound helicopter technology can meet these shortfalls at half the cost of procuring a new helicopter. This technology can be incorporated while retaining 70% of the existing H-60 helicopter, providing significant savings in operations, training and support.
Requested: $5,000,000
Defense Manufacturing University Apprentice Program
Burlington County College
Pemberton, NJ
The Defense Manufacturing University (DMU) Program will train the engineering and technician workforce for the Armament Research, Development and Engineering Center at Picatinny Arsenal. The DMU will be a unique approach to educating ARDEC's current staff and future employees by developing a curriculum that is designed to meet the unique requirements of military systems.
Requested: $3,000,000
Persistent Surveillance Test Bed /Electronic Warfare Capstone Demonstration
CACI Technologies Inc.
Eatontown, NJ
The funding will be used to expand the Persistent Surveillance Test Bed /Electronic Warfare Capstone Demonstration facilities and capabilities and to integrate airborne and ground-based sensors and electronic warfare assets. This project supports the continuation of efforts to provide persistent surveillance, tracking, and electronic warfare targeting technologies, tactics, techniques, and procedures that help assist the warfighter in monitoring wide areas.
Amount Requested: $8,055,300
Cancer Initiative for Research at the Dean and Betty Gallo Prostate Cancer Center
Cancer Institute of New Jersey
New Brunswick, NJ
The CINJ Gallo Prostate Cancer Center is poised to produce novel approaches to prevent and treat prostate cancer in military and civilian populations. Through its partnership with the Department of Defense, CINJ is using powerful mathematical and computational approaches to discover new markers of prostate cancer susceptibility and new targets for prevention. The requested funding will support research to validate these methods and facilitate rapid transfer of the findings to the clinic.
Requested: $7,043,479
High Strength Metal-Carbon Nanotube Composites
Carbomet, LLC
Newark,NJ
High strength steel-carbon nanotube composites will meet an urgent requirement for higher strength and lighter composite materials for weapons, vehicle structures and armor. This composite will increase military vehicle survivability and mobility and reduce fuel consumption. This funding will support research that will simultaneously synthesize and incorporate carbon nanotubes into iron.
Requested: $1,500,000
Rehab Center of Tomorrow
Christian Health Care Center
Wyckoff, NJ
This project is designed to address orthopedic and spinal cord injuries, traumatic brain injury, neuro-muscular complications, slow-healing wounds and other injuries using infrared and electrical stimulation, therapeutic ultrasound, shortwave diathermy, orthotic therapies, and other technologies designed to maximize healing and achieve the highest level of limb function.
Requested: $1,700,000
Delaware Valley Continuing Education Initiative
Collegiate Consortium for Workforce and Economic Development/Camden County College
Camden, NJ
The requested funds will be used to provide job skills training and continuing education at area community colleges to veterans, National Guard and Reserve personnel returning from Iraq and Afghanistan. To date, more than 300 veterans have received scholarships under this program. This funding would expand capacity at Camden County College and other Consortium member colleges and provide between 200-300 new scholarships for recent returning veterans.
Requested: $1,500,000
Mid-IR Laser Materials
Crystal Genesis
Sparta, NJ
There is a current need for high power, high-energy lasers in the mid-infrared atmospheric transmission band for critical defense applications including: infrared counter measures, target designation and tracking, and stand-off detection of chemical and biological weapons. Crystal Genesis will develop composite crystalline materials to enable the construction of the next generation high-power short pulse mid-infrared lasers.
Requested: $1,100,000
Sealless Centrifugal Axial Motor Pump
Curtiss-Wright EPD
Phillipsburg, NJ
The funding will be used to combine and enhance existing technologies that have been developed for the Navy to create a class of leakless, critical function pumps for Navy ships and submarines that would reduce weight, eliminate maintenance, reduce ship manning requirements and produce ship space and weight savings in excess of 50 percent. The resulting class of pumps will be able to survive shock events, thus enabling support of all ship mission requirements.
Requested: $4,500,000
Optical Harness Network
Defense Photonics Group, Inc.
South Plainfield, NJ
The requested funding will support continued technical advancement and full aircraft qualification of a unique, flexible, scalable aerospace dual use fiber optic system. The new equipment revolutionizes fiber optic application on legacy and new aircraft designs by reducing the carbon footprint, life cycle and operating costs and increasing safety.
Requested: $2,000,000
Stryker Modernization (S-Mod) Power Generation & Management Rapid Prototyping Initiative
Dewey Electronics Corporation
Oakland, NJ
The requested funding will be used to complete development and testing of a high-performance prototype 30kW power generation system for combat vehicles. The Army is seeking improvements to the Stryker combat vehicle which needs an advanced electrical power generation and management system. This improved power generator would provide increased efficency and power for the vehicle which can reduce the costs of producing and maintaing the vehicles.
Requested: $2,200,000
Building a Unified Information Framework
Drakontas LLC
Camden, NJ
The U.S. Army ARDEC at Picatinny is leading an effort to combine and harmonize a number of Homeland Defense and Homeland Security programs involving government, academia and industry with a project entitled Project National Shield (PNS). The intent of PNS is to establish the mission value of a network of virtual communication and collaboration capabilities fielded by the Department of Defense (DOD) that will provide technologies to support Small Unit Operations as part of the DOD Civil Support mission. Drakontas will develop a shared interoperable data framework and unified messaging platform to facilitate rapid sharing of command and control information among military and civilian emergency response teams.
Requested: $4,100,000
Applied Communication and Information Networking (ACIN) Program
Drexel University
Camden, NJ
The U.S. Army's Communications-Electronics Research, Development and Engineering Center has contracted with Drexel University to operate the Applied Communication and Information Networking (ACIN) program in Camden. The core objective of ACIN is research and development and commercialization of technologies that will revolutionize military capabilities, and methods of operation. This objective is addressed by focusing on high value military systems which employ rapidly advancing Command, Control, Communications, Computers, Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance technologies and by providing innovative applications of these technologies.
Requested: $7,000,000
Procurement of Virtual Interactive Combat Environment Training Systems for the New Jersey National Guard
Dynamic Animation Systems, Inc
Ft. Dix, NJ
Virtual Interactive Combat Environment is an infantry training system that provides improved tactical decision-making skills and more realistic combat training by immersing the trainee in a realistic 3-D environment. The sense of immersion is enhanced both by the high-fidelity rendering of the dynamically changing environment and by the ease of navigating through the environment using intuitive controls mounted on the tether-free simulated weapons. With greater capacity, training can be increased to simultaneous team, squad, platoon, and even company level training with progressive scenarios and increased levels of collective training experience.
Requested: $4,100,000
New Jersey Intelligence-Led Policing Portal (NJILP)
The Omega Group/East Orange Police Department
East Orange, NJ and Picatinny Arsenal, NJ
The NJILPSP project supports the work being done at Picatinny Arsenal to harmonize homeland defense and homeland security. The initiative brings together Northern New Jersey law
enforcement, fire service and emergency management agencies to support the integration of real-time video, motion detection, acoustic gunshot detection, tactical asset tracking and other disparate intelligence systems into an advanced web-based enterprise portal environment to enhance information sharing, visualization, operational awareness and decision-making during all phases of intelligence-led operations in a joint mission scenario.
Requested: $2,500,000
Institute for the Advancement of Bloodless Medicine
Englewood Hospital and Medical Center
Englewood, NJ
The Institute for the Advancement of Bloodless Medicine assists military and civilian physicians and other healthcare providers with implementing improved strategies to conserve and manage blood loss in emergency situations. The funding will be used to to continue research, teaching, education, and consultation programs aimed at developing procedures and techniques related to blood conservation. After a 5-year period, a series of Department of Defense medical providers will be proficient in blood management and will be able to take a leadership in developing a blood management programs throughout military and within military and civilian hospitals. Through this initiative, patient-centered care in blood management will be available.
Requested: $1,866,000
National Guard Global Education Project
Fairleigh Dickinson University
Teaneck, NJ
Fairleigh Dickinson University will provide National Guardmembers with access to high quality online coursework in a flexible curriculum appropriate for individuals who hold down full-time jobs but also may be required to deploy on short notice for long periods of time. Funding is used to develop additional online courses and ultimately an online Bachelor's Degree.
Requested: $750,000
Advanced Bilge Water Treatment System
Filtration Solutions, Inc.
Hackettstown, NJ
The purpose of this project is to develop a filtration unit to resolve the current bilge water treatment problem encountered aboard Navy ships. The objective is to install a prototype unit onboard a selected Navy vessel for performance and operation evaluation as well as technology demonstration at the completion of the project.
Requested: $3,000,000
Advanced Fuel Filtration System
Filtration Solutions, Inc.
Hackettstown, NJ
The Advanced Fuel Filtration system is one-third the cost of the legacy centrifugal purifier. This equipment will save $25 million dollars per year for the Navy from maintenance and operation cost after it is fully implemented to the DDG-51 and CG-47 class ships. The goal is to complete a retrofit of the developed fuel filtration unit for the replacement of the current shipboard centrifugal purifier onboard a Navy ship.
Requested: $3,200,000
Advanced Reactive Hybrid Armor Material Technology
Frontier Performance Polymers Corporation
Dover, NJ
The requested funding will be used to create an advanced reactive hybrid armor system using hybridizing advanced reactive armor material technology, novel structural energetic materials and innovative non-reactive composite armor systems. Using a cost effective production process, rapid prototyping and rapid transition to production will provide an affordable and effective lightweight hybrid armor system to meet challenging demands faced in current and future unconventional warfare scenarios. Acceleration of this program will fulfill the need to rapidly advance the use of advanced hybrid armor material technology to protect the warfighter and light armored combat vehicles in a multitude of future warfare scenarios.
Requested: $3,500,000
Vaccine Development Program
Garden State Cancer Center
Belleville, NJ
The requested funds will be used to continue and to expand the Center's work with the Department of Defense on a vaccine development program. Currently the program is focusing on the development of a vaccine against smallpox that does not require whole or live virus, thereby eliminating the danger of vaccine-associated side effects. Using new antibody technology, the program will be expanded to include not only the smallpox virus but other bioterrorism agents, namely Clostridium botulinum.
Requested: $4,330,000
Command Post of the Future
General Dynamics C4 Systems and Future Skies
Wall Township, NJ
Command Post of the Future (CPOF) is a software application used by commanders and staff for efficient decision making, cross functional planning, rehearsals, and execution of on-going operations. CPOF reduces complexity and save lives by allowing commanders and their staff to collaborate from geographically dispersed headquarters via a shared operational picture reducing the need to travel on dangerous roads. The scope of the CPOF program includes software development, logistics product development, training, fielding, field support, and sustainment.
Requested: $2,000,000
Enabling Production of SWIR Imaging Systems
Goodrich Corporation
Princeton, NJ
The funding will be used to develop production processes and procure 50 Short Wave Infrared (SWIR) cameras that can provide unique intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance capabilities. The establishment of a new manufacturing process will help to reduce the unit cost of SWIR sensors and enable higher production yields.
Requested: $3,800,000
Bioterrorism & Battlefield Medical Solutions
Hackensack University Medical Center Foundation
Hackensack, NJ
The requested funding will allow Hackensack University Medical Center to build on the 5 year partnership with the Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) by addressing gaps in associated medical research targeting therapies and prophylactic measures that DTRA's Therapeutic Medical Technologies Initiative considers effective against multiple pathogens including Class A (smallpox, influenza virus & Anthrax), Class B, and other highly infectious agents of interest.
Requested: $5,000,000
Canned Lube Pumps (CLP) for LHD-1 Class Ships
Hansome Energy Systems, Inc.
Linden, NJ
The requested funding will be used to procure and install Canned Lube Pumps on six of eight LHD-1 class amphibious ships. These pumps have been proven to reduce/eliminate maintenance and increase fuel efficiency on Navy LPD and LSD classes of amphibious ships, resulting in significant cost savings for the Navy. Each LHD-1 class ship requires four lubricating plant pumps, two per machinery plant. The Navy has indicated that the total savings over the life of the LSD-41/49 class (12 ships) from installing the CLP is over $33.1 million and the return on investment to the Navy is 394%. The preliminary maintenance savings estimate for the life of seven LHD-1 class ships is $16.8 million.
Requested: $4,000,000
Advanced Ground Electronic Warfare System (AGES)
Honeywell International
Morristown, NJ
The Advanced Ground Electronic Warfare System (AGES) will enhance situational awareness by enabling friendly communications while jamming enemy communications and IED trigger signals while localizing the source of these signals. The program is specifically structured to spiral and adapt new emerging electronic warfare threats as well as integrate with existing Army fixed and mobile platforms and assets. It will network fixed, mounted and dismounted systems together to maximize use of assets to identify and prioritize threats and determine which asset to use to defeat the threat.
Requested: $9,000,000
Chip Scale Atomic Clock (CSAC)
Honeywell International
Morristown, NJ
Chip Scale Atomic Clocks (CSAC) enable navigation in environments where the GPS signal is degraded, denied, or simply not available - for example in urban warfare situations, firefighting inside buildings, and underwater navigation. In addition to navigation, timing allows communications and sensor systems to synchronize with each other permitting systems to transmit and receive mission critical information without the probability of detection. Honeywell is developing these clocks for inclusion into F-15 fighter navigation boxes.
Requested: $4,000,000
Environmentally-Intelligent, Safety-Enhancing Concrete
Hycrete Inc
Carlstadt, NJ
Funding will be used for research and development of Hycrete's hydrophobic concrete to improve aging water infrastructure and block radon or other toxic threats to buildings and personnel. The deterioration of Defense Department concrete structures is a world-wide problem, and the funding for this project will result in significant life-cycle savings for Defense Department facilities.
Requested: $4,200,000
Wireless HUMS for Condition Based Maintenance of Army Helicopters
ID Systems
Hackensack, NJ
There is a critical need for real-time, on-line monitoring to track helicopter health and usage and prevent mechanical failure during military operations The requested funding will be used to build and deliver an advanced Health and Usage Monitoring System (HUMS) for Army helicopters that will improve safety, reliability and deployability of its helicopter fleet.
Requested: $3,000,000
Automated Critical Care System (ACCS)
Impact Instrumentation, Inc
West Caldwell, NJ
ACCS will increase survivability for injured warfighters by establishing a system that is usable in field hospitals and during transport that automatically monitors and manages patients with life-threatening trauma with or without an attendant. ACCS will provide automated control of ventilation, fluid management, oxygen generation and smart help to guide patient care.
Requested: $4,700,000
Lightweight Munitions & Surveillance System (LMSS)
Imperial Machine & Tool Co.
Columbia, NJ
The requested funding will be used to continue development of Lightweight Munitions and Surveillance System for Unmanned Air Vehicle (UAV) technologies, with specific focus on the US Army Armament Research and Development Command (ARDEC) Hybrid Projectile program. The Hybrid Projectile program will produce low-cost guided munitions capable of reaching targets in a fraction of the flight time of a traditional UAV. These munitions will be more efficient and effective than current guided projectiles of the same caliber because they will have larger payloads and the ability to change targets or be recalled mid-flight.
Requested: $4,800,000
Marine Mammal Detection System to Support Navy Training
Integrated Systems Solutions, Inc.
Lakehurst, NJ
This funding will support a U.S. Navy research and development project to demonstrate the feasibility of using an advanced sensor-carrying aircraft to provide airborne marine mammal detection and tracking in coastal training ranges used by the U.S. Navy fleet. The Marine Mammal Detection System (MMDS) will use a multi-sensor strategy to detect marine mammals from the air at long range to assist the Navy with adhering to Marine Mammal Protection Act while conducting training exercises.
Requested: $2,000,000
MH-6 Mission Enhanced Situational Awareness (MESA)
ITT Electronic Systems
Clifton, NJ
This project will provide modern electronic situational awareness receivers to MH-6 Special Ops Helicopters to increase survivability. Current MH-6 rotorcraft are equipped with minimal situational awareness capabilities that has the potential to compromise the mission and the safety of the team.
Requested: $3,000,000
The Mobile Buddy
Kessler Foundation
West Orange, NJ
The Mobile Buddy is designed to develop a mobile social networking application that embraces The Army's Telemedicine and Advanced Technology Research Center current cell phone initiative for Warrior Transition Units (WTU) and extends it to the soldier's caregiver network and community to improve health outcomes through enhanced social resources, educational outreach, community re-integration, and targeted acquisition of employment related skills. The Mobile Buddy Initiative is a timely effort to create an advanced, powerful social support system for heroic service members returning home to a new battle with wounds both visible and invisible.
Requested: $3,000,000
Mobile Firefighter Training Initiative
Kidde Fire Trainers, Inc.
Montvale, NJ
The requested funding will be used for an innovative firefighter training demonstration project utilizing mobile fire simulators on Navy bases. Mobile firefighter simulators replicate the intense heat, flames, smoke, and chaos of real fire emergencies. This allows firefighter to learn the essential skills needed to respond to a wide range of hazards. This will show how deploying mobile training solutions can enhance the Navy Fire & Emergency Services training program, improve trainer safety, reduce training program costs, and improve overall fire training program effectiveness.
Requested: $5,000,000
Face in a Crowd
L-1 Identity Solutions
Jersey City, NJ
Current technology does not permit identification of individuals using facial recognition (FR) technology unless the person is facing the camera at a set focal length. Face in a Crowd develops technology that increases the military utility of FR by identifying people at a variety of angles and focal lengths. By automating the identification process, it removes the requirement for a soldier to approach individuals with an identification device thus permitting automated, remote screening of people in the combat zone. It automates the identification of individuals in a crowd by scanning faces and then using the FR information to identify them.
Requested: $3,000,000
SIGINT payload for Expeditionary Unmanned Aircraft
L-3 Communication Systems
Camden, NJ
Expeditionary Unmanned Aircraft System (EUAS) was initiated in September 2009 by the U.S. Special Operations Command to provide an enhanced Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance capability to Special Ops units. EUAS is capable of carrying Multi-Intelligence (Multi-INT) payloads however a signals intelligence (SIGINT) payload is required to satisfy the Multi-INT requirement.
Requested: $4,000,000
Guardian Communications System for Search and Rescue
L-3 Communication Systems
Camden, NJ
The requested funding will be used for the development of the Guardian Communications System for Search and Rescue Missions of the Air National Guard. Use of this device will improve coordination and interoperation with U.S. military and civilian authorities who possess current Type 1 (Top Secret) devices. The United States will greatly benefit by providing interoperable, highly mobile secure communications to a broader array of users.
Requested: $3,500,000
Free Space Optical Communications
LGS Innovations
Florham Park, NJ
The Department of Defense (DoD) continues to have a critical need for highly capable, small size, low weight and power, secure communications to and from users and sensors. Advanced methods in wireless communications, RF and Free Space Optical, are necessary to satisfy these constraints and meet mission requirements. This research will provide DoD with a fully operational secure, miniaturized, RF optics propagation hybrid wireless communications system meeting the application specific volume, weight, and power constraints required for secure, covert defense and intelligence-related communications. This program leverages previously completed successful research and development to respond to new operational requirements.
Requested: $6,000,000
Planar Lightwave Circuit (PLC) Development for High Power Military Laser Applications
LGS Innovations, LLC
Florham Park, NJ
LGS Innovations will develop a revolutionary high power, high efficiency, electrically-driven laser technology that can be turned into a ruggedized system for use by all branches of the military. LGS will leverage its rich Bell Labs heritage in Planar Lightwave Circuits (PLCs) to develop a novel high power laser-on-a-chip to meet this need. This approach offers several compelling advantages over other technologies including dramatically reduced size and weight, higher efficiency, and longer operating life. The Defense Department has an operational need for deployable high power lasers with reduced power consumption and long life for military applications.
Requested: $3,800,000
Vascular ECM-Based Grafts Research for Military Medicine
LifeCell Corporation
Somerville, NJ
Funding will be used to develop off-the-shelf transplantable vascular graft materials from porcine tissue for combat casualties prior to their evacuation from the combat zone. Such treatment will stop hemorrhage while enabling limb preservation and reducing the need for amputation.
Requested: $3,000,000
Aegis Multi-Mission Signal Processor
Lockheed Martin Maritime Sensors and Systems
Moorestown, NJ
The requested funding will provide for system engineering services to assess approaches that will enable affordable fielding of simultaneous Sea-based Ballistic Missile Defense (SBMD) and enhanced air defense capabilities for up to three additional modernized cruisers. Fielding additional Multi-Mission Signal Processors responds to a vital National need to increase SBMD capable surface ships, while smartly leveraging Navy investments in back-fit and forward-fit strategies.
Requested: $5,000,000
Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense (BMD) Ascent Phase
Lockheed Martin Maritime Sensors and Systems
Moorestown, NJ
While the Program of Record for Aegis BMD provides significant capability against ballistic missiles, continuous spiral improvements are required to counter emergent threats. Additional funding would accelerate Early Intercept capability in Aegis BMD, expanding threat battlespace. This will exploit the inherent Aegis BMD capability to track and engage threats during the early ascent phase of flight and allow for intercepts during the most vulnerable state of the ballistic missile trajectory.
Requested: $15,000,000
Advanced Fluid Controls for Shipboard Application
Marotta Controls
Montville, NJ
The requested funding will be used to continue the development of shipboard fluid controls using composite materials to reduce weight, corrosion and life-cycle costs; and to increase fuel efficiency, and incorporate Smart Technology to monitor the operation and performance of the equipment. These composite valves and advanced fluid controls will have multiple applications for both pneumatic and hydraulic applications, significantly increasing the reliability of fire fighting systems to enhance safety and survivability.
Requested: $5,000,000
Man-pack Satellite Micro-Terminal
MaXentric Technologies, LLC
Fort Lee, NJ
MaXentric Technologies will manufacture a fully functional military grade Man-pack Satellite Micro-Terminal which will meet the Air Force 's goal of highly miniaturized satellite communication terminals that are capable of operating over satellites. It can be used by all branches of the military and will replace much larger, heavier, and more expensive portable satellite terminals.
Requested: $3,000,000
Multifunctional Stealth Coating- Advancement of Classified Material
MILSPRAY Military Technologies
Lakewood, NJ
The objective of this project is to advance the production of specific materials developed by MILSPRAY, components of which are considered classified, under a cooperative agreement with the U.S. Army Research Lab.
Requested: $2,900,000
Dynamic Information Visualization
Monmouth University
West Long Branch, NJ
The requested funds will be used to provide a web portal and data base system to display and share among tactical decision-makers dynamic chemical and biological sensor data in near real-time.
Requested: $4,000,000
Manufacturing Development of Transparent Spinel for E/O Domes and Windows
Morgan Technical Ceramics
Fairfield, NJ
The requested funds will be used to establish robust, cost-effective Spinel manufacturing processes to provide the government with cost-effective, high-quality Spinel electro-optical (E/O) domes and windows.
Requested: $3,980,000
Scalable Smart Reserve Cell Technologies
mPhase Technologies, Inc.
Fairfield, NJ
The requested funds will be used to refine and further develop Smart NanoBattery technology for use in powering "smart" munitions and other critical defense applications. This technology will integrate energy storage methodology with new architectures with superior energy management characteristics, designed to provide munition electronics with power on demand. The architecture can be miniaturized or scaled up to meet diverse requirements.
Requested: $5,000,000
Development of a Compact Pulse Generator
NDI Engineering Company
Thorofare, NJ
The requested funds will be used to develop and demonstrate that a high power (60 Megawatt) and high energy density compact pulse generator is achievable. This funding will provide a major leap in increasing power and energy density capability for shipboard high energy systems.
Requested: $4,368,000
Development of Three Phase Cycloconverter
NDI Engineering Company
Thorofare, NJ
The requested funds will be used to develop high-frequency, variable-frequency and high-current power supplies or Cycloconverters that control the high-speed linear or synchronous motors. These motors are being proposed for a variety of military applications such as launch-assist of aircraft, decoys, missiles and unmanned aerial vehicle aircraft. Electric power has become increasingly critical for the U.S. Navy to improve operational safety for the sailors, reduce manning, and reduce costs through the use of modular components.
Requested: $1,041,900
Nanotechnology-Enabled Self-Healing Anti-Corrosion Coating Products for Protection of
Weapon Systems
NEI Corporation/American NanoMyte
Somerset, NJ
The requested funds will be used to develop and demonstrate a novel class of self-healing pretreatment and polymer coatings that contain corrosion inhibiting nanoscale particles. The intent of these nanoparticle-enabled coating products is to exhibit damage responsive behavior similar to that of chromate-based pretreatments and polymer coatings with reduced environmental impact.
Requested: $2,500,000
Perimeter Security Systems
New Jersey Institute of Technology
Newark, NJ
The requested funding is for a 150 acre military compound to be used as a live test bed to integrate, demonstrate and expand a novel layered defense model that deters, detects, delays and defends against unauthorized entry to better protect the warfighter and civilian personnel as well as the integrity of their operations overseas. It will provide a testing platform to conduct research and development of technology to enhance situational awareness that will help establish a layered defense model.
Requested: $5,000,000
Nano Advanced Cluster Energetics
New Jersey Institute of Technology
Newark, NJ
The Nano Advanced Cluster Energetics (NACE) Program has developed the only technology that can produce, process, and safely handle coated nano-energetic particulates. This funding would be used to develop the NACE as a scalable process, and use the coated nano-sized RDX particulates to form self assembled nano/microsized stoichiometric energetic cluster particulate products.
Requested: $5,000,000
Agent Defeat by Energetic Nano-Materials
New Jersey Institute of Technology
Newark, NJ
The funding will be used to further a fundamental research effort aimed at adding halogenated compounds to energetic nano-materials with the objective to allow U.S. military forces to disable and destroy chemical and biological weapons stockpiles without removing them from their bunkers or releasing the lethal agents thus reducing the risk of exposure.
Requested: $2,000,000
New Jersey Technology Solutions Center Initiative
New Jersey Technology Solutions Center
Shrewsbury, NJ
The New Jersey Technology Solutions Center (NJTSC) will grow high skill, high wage jobs in the Central New Jersey region. These positions will be designed to take advantage of the highly skilled Fort Monmouth workforce that chooses not be move with the mission to Aberdeen, MD. The NJTSC will give the U.S. Army unparalleled reach back-capabilities to allow for continuity in warfighter support for the Global War on Terrorism. This highly skilled workforce will develop a technology center of excellence that will allow other federal, state and local agencies the opportunity take advantage of these assets and capabilities.
Amount Requested: $11,000,000
Persistent Surveillance Wave PowerBuoy System
Ocean Power Technologies
Pennington, NJ
This requested funding will provide the Navy with a viable system for protecting critical infrastructure and military assets from surprise maritime attacks and will include a system that detects and locates surface and subsurface threats. Ocean Power Technologies, Inc. (OPT) and Rutgers University will develop port and harbor security solutions to enhance security for the U.S. Navy.
Requested: $3,800,000
Ohel Military Family Wellness Program
Ohel Children's Home and Family Services
Teaneck, NJ
The Ohel Military Family Wellness Initiative serves active duty soldiers, returning soldiers, and their families in the New York and New Jersey areas, and will provide outreach and treatment to address the mental and emotional disorders in military families. In addition, the program will conduct research and provide education about mental health and emotional conditions so that members of the military community can overcome stigma and prejudices regarding seeking mental health treatment.
Requested: $1,650,000
Ex-Rad Radiation Protection Program
Onconova Therapeutics
Lawrenceville, NJ
The requested funding will be used on clinical trials to assess the efficacy of radioprotectant therapy and the benefits received by patients, through the validation of safety parameters, and evaluation of targeted drug activity with the selective radioprotectant, Ex-RAD, as an adjunct to other treatment. The key objective of this project is to improve the outcome of radiotherapy in advanced prostate cancer patients. This initiative will advance the development of an enhanced treatment option to benefit prostate cancer patients and to ameliorate the harmful side-effects of radiation therapy.
Requested: $2,000,000
Military Family Strengthening and Support Program - Joint Base McGuire-Fort Dix
Parents Anonymous
Joint Base- McGuire, NJ
This project seeks to develop a demonstration project for military families around the Joint Base. This evidence-based program will offer a variety of services including weekly support groups for parents, children and youth offering emotional support, benefits assistance and an all encompassing peer support network. The goal is to create a safe and nurturing environment through mutual support and shared leadership for family members dealing with re-unification and deployment.
Requested: $2,500,000
Recombinant Human Fibrinogen and Rhucin for Army Combat Casualty Care
Pharming Healthcare Inc.
Jersey City, NJ
The requested funds will be used to develop theapeutic products to control bleeding and lethal inflammatory response for soldiers wounded in combat. Internal bleeding is the leading cause of preventable death in combat settings. Pharming Healthcare, Inc. is developing recombinant human fibrinogen that has great potential to control bleeding under emergency circumstances, as well as recombinant human C1 inhibitor (Rhucin) to impede lethal inflammation.
Requested: $4,600,000
Turais Wing and Bomb Bay Launched UAV
Piasecki Aircraft Corporation
Millville, NJ
The Turais Wing and Bomb Bay Launched (WBBL) UAV is designed to be locally launched by the on-board sensor operators and then utilized to assist the host platform in reconnaissance, surveillance, communications relay, and other missions. The requested funds will be used to complete integration of the propulsion system and conduct a flight demonstration from a manned host aircraft. This will be conducted at the Millville Airport in Millville, NJ.
Requested: $3,000,000
Static Detonation Chamber at Picatinny
Picatinny Arsenal
Picatinny Arsenal, NJ
The U.S. Army ARDEC's Demilitarization and Environmental Technology Division at Picatinny Arsenal has identified commercially available technology, the Static Demonstration Chamber (SDC), as a way to address the current shortcomings of Picatinny's energetics/munitions waste disposal system and also serve the greater Defense Department needs for energetics waste technology. As the Army's premier center for the research and development of tomorrow's weapons and munitions, Picatinny generates up to 27,000 lbs of waste energetics per year including various munitions items, bulk propellants and explosives often made in small sample batches for experimental purposes, as well as contaminated disposable laboratory implements. The current waste disposal is inflexible, requires too much handling of energetics and requires too many resources to process, store, transport and operate. The SDC is a safe, flexible, low-cost environmentally sound alternative.
Requested: $6,000,000
Advanced Foamed Celluloid Technology
Polymer Processing Institute
Newark, NJ
Foamed celluloid is a new class of high performance combustible material offering war fighters a weight reducing and cost saving alternative for a wide range of Defense Department applications. In addition to superior insensitivity characteristics, munitions items made from foamed celluloid also leave no debris on the ground which mitigates littering and hazard issues encountered on both the battlefield and the training grounds. The requested funds will be used to mass produce a variety of munitions with precision and part-to-part consistency in an energy saving, cost-effective fashion.
Requested: $3,000,000
Powder Injection Molding for Advanced Munitions Applications
Polymer Technologies Inc.
Clifton, NJ
The requested funding will be used to establish a technology and manufacturing upgrade in order to produce metal injection molded parts with significantly reduced costs. This effort will investigate the use of state-of-the-art powder injection molding technology to support an evolving critical defensive munition that the Army is developing to counterattack and destroy incoming rocket propelled grenades and similar munitions.
Requested: $2,000,000
Software Lifecycle Affordability Management
PRICE Systems, LLC
Mount Laurel, NJ
The Software Lifecycle Affordability Management (SLAM) project will provide decision makers a means to understand cost tradeoffs in relation to performance and the total cost to own. The ability to fully understand capabilities, risk, schedule, and cost in software system design and affordability is a critical capability to reduce wasteful spending of federal funds on military programs and eliminate the potential for a cost breach.
Requested: $5,000,000
Advanced Sensing Technologies for Demilitarization Applications
Primis Technologies, LLC
Princeton, NJ
The requested funds will be used to develop a Laser Analytical Device (LAD) that monitors/controls explosives production and weapons systems demilitarization. The LAD will ensure that static detonation chambers scheduled for domestic and global deployment meet the environmental requirements of local governing authorities.
Requested: $2,000,000
Manufacturing the Transmit/Receive Module for Geo-desic Phase Array Antenna for Air Force Satellite Control Network
Princeton Microwave Technology, Inc.
Mercerville, NJ
The requested funds will be used for the manufacturing of modules for a phased array antenna that will provide multi-beam satellite communications for increased intelligence capabilities.
Requested: $4,120,000
Autonomous Optical Sensing and Replanning System for Spacecraft
Princeton Satellite Systems
Plainsboro, NJ
This project will provide critical navigation technology and situational awareness for Defense Department satellites. The sensor is autonomous and does not rely on GPS, enabling satellite attitude and navigation determination without ground or GPS contact. The requested funds will be used to build a flight ready model of the sensor.
Requested: $7,000,000
Solid State W Band Development: Non-Lethal Systems
Raytheon Corporation
Tucson, AZ - work performed at Picatinny Arsenal, NJ
Active Denial (AD) Systems have successfully demonstrated the ability to stop, deter, and turn back people without causing them harm. In order to make this technology tactically viable to mobile forces, the current technology must be replaced by smaller, lighter, lower cost systems that allow AD technology to be integrated with ground combat vehicles. The key enabler for this is a versatile high power solid state W-band Electronically Steered Arrays. The development of a high power solid state W-band Array will provide a more durable, compact, and tactically survivable system that will increase operational readiness and reduce life cycle costs.
Requested: $2,500,000
Magnesium Alloy Powders For Lightweight Structural, Energetic & Other Applications
Reade Manufacturing Company
Manchester, NJ
The requested funding will be used to test new magnesium alloy powders and evaluate their performance. The powders will be used to produce extremely lightweight, high strength armaments for military vehicles. These parts will greatly improve vehicle agility and fuel economy. The newly developed magnesium powders will also be used for next generation anti-aircraft countermeasure flares which will enhance performance and increase protection for the pilot, crew and aircraft.
Requested: $3,200,000
Special Projects Aircraft Communications Upgrade
RF Products, Inc.
Camden, NJ
The requested funding will be used for hardware/software upgrades to the Aircraft Radio and RF Distribution systems. The upgrade will help improve communication systems used on Air Force planes.
Requested: $3,000,000
Mass Casualty First Responders Disaster Surge Technology Program
Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital
New Brunswick, NJ
The Mass Casualty First Responders Disaster Surge Technology Program will use radio-frequency identification (RFID) technology to improve the effectiveness, efficiency and safety during disasters and/or mass casualty events and in routine hospital operations. This will be accomplished through improvement in the coordination, processing and management of patients, equipment, supplies, and response personnel. The project involves system design and implementation, technology selection and installation, optimal response plan development, systematic training and exercising and system testing and fine-tuning through functional and/or full-scale exercises of simulated mass casualty disaster.
Requested: $3,000,000
Multifunctional Nanomaterials for Homeland Defense, Counter-Terrorism, and Energy Applications
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
New Brunswick, NJ
The primary mission of this proposal is to establish a research and development partnership between Rutgers University and Picatinny Arsenal (U.S. Army ARDEC) to develop critical nano-based technologies for Homeland Defense, Counter-Terrorism, and Dual-Use (Energy) Applications. This partnership will perform research on the development of a lightweight and transparent armor, refractory materials, high-power lasers sensors and energetic materials.
Requested: $5,000,000
Combat Ration Supplements for Improved Physical and Cognitive Performance Using Nanodelivery Systems to Improve Bioavailability
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
New Brunswick, NJ
The objective of this research is to develop the next generation of military foods and beverages to provide the warfighter with rations containing natural, safe and effective nutraceutical extracts. The extracts increase physical and cognitive performance while sparing the use of non steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) which have adverse side effects on the warfighter. The relationship between strenuous physical activity, mental stress, inflammation and immune system response is well established and provides the scientific rationale for this research program.
Requested: $1,000,000
Standard Ground Station - Enhancement Program
Sarnoff Corporation
Princeton, NJ
The requested funding will be used to support the Base Expeditionary Targeting and Surveillance System Combined (BETSS-C), which addresses the needs posed by irregular warfare. The system overlays data from multiple imaging and radar sensors on 3-dimensional terrain models to provide real-time, multi-sensor situational awareness, enhancing troop survivability and helps make targeting quicker and more accurate.
Requested: $4,000,000
Low-Light Low-Power CMOS Sensor (L2 CMOS) Program
Sarnoff Corporation
Princeton, NJ
The Low-Light Low-Power CMOS Sensor (L2CMOS) Program will produce prototypes of a low light level Complementary Metal-Oxide Semiconductor sensor to meet the specialized needs of the warfighter. L2CMOS will use an ultra-thin silicon-on-insulator manufacturing technology, developed for low cost cell phone imager production, and a customized process. These innovations will help decrease the price of the sensors and increase their efficiency.
Requested: $4,000,000
Tactical Metal Fabrication (TacFab)
SeaBox Inc
East Riverton, NJ
The goal of TacFab is to provide a mobile production capability for warfighters in the field to fabricate and cast spare metal parts necessary for quick repairs. The project is currently under development and the requested funding will be used to demonstrate a tactically mobile rapid metal fabrication capability to provide spare and replacement parts for our warfighters in theater, and also as a stand-alone metal casting resource provided to domestic Army depots and industrial facilities.
Requested: $5,200,000
Li-ion Advanced Munitions Power Solutions (LAMPS) for Armaments & Control Systems
SKC Powertech, Inc.
Mt. Olive, NJ
The requested funding will be used to develop safe high energy extended storage polymer Li-ion power sources for advanced munitions and weapon systems. These newly developed power solutions will be used in-theater and provide enhanced mission capabilities over multiple systems.
Requested: $4,000,000
Gunner Situational Awareness Armor Kit
SMH International
Mount Laurel, NJ
The requested funding will be used to build of a full scale prototype Gunner Situational Awareness Armor Kit and to field it for qualification testing. The program plan also includes the facilitation of a composites manufacturing plant to be located in New Jersey. This plant will be a composite development and manufacturing plant with the specific focus of supply to the Department of Defense.
Requested: $5,000,000
Aviation Data Management and Control System for Amphibious Ships
Specialty Systems, Inc.
Toms River, NJ
The requested funding will be used to implement a system that provides integration and management for Mission Execution, Tactical Aircraft Control, Ship to Shore Movement and Interfaces with other shipboard systems. This initiative will apply state-of-the-art technology to L-class amphibious ships to minimize the manual labor required to maximize operating effectiveness of the ship in satisfying both strike and humanitarian missions.
Requested: $3,500,000
Traumatic Brain Injury Consortium Treatment Initiative
St. Joseph's Regional Medical Center
Paterson, NJ
The requested funding will be used to establish a clinical research and treatment center for wounded service members and veterans suffering from traumatic brain injury (TBI). This will help reduce long term care costs for the Defense Department and Veterans Administration while providing important care to these individuals suffering from TBI.
Requested: $7,200,000
Center for Microplasma Science and Technology (CMST)
St. Peter's College
Jersey City, NJ
The requested funding will be used for the St. Peter's Center for Microplasma Science & Technology for research and educational programmatic activities in the evolving field of mircoplasmas. The establishment of the Center at St. Peter's College will help create a national center of operations to organize national microplasma research efforts for defense and military applications.
Requested: $1,500,000
One Air Force/One Network - New Jersey Air National Guard
Telos Corporation
Atlantic City, NJ
The requested funding will be used to complete the New Jersey Air National Guard communication infrastructure upgrade. This project would complete the Atlantic City site survey, network design, development, procurement, integration, installation and testing of necessary components to help establish network compatibility and interoperability across Air Guard, Air Reserve, and Air Force Active Duty bases.
Requested: $2,000,000
One Air Force/One Network - New Jersey Air National Guard
Telos Corporation
Atlantic City, NJ
The requested funding will be used to complete the New Jersey Air National Guard communication infrastructure upgrade. This project would complete the Atlantic City site survey, network design, development, procurement, integration, installation and testing of necessary components to help establish network compatibility and interoperability across Air Guard, Air Reserve, and Air Force Active Duty bases.
Requested: $2,000,000
Multi-Stage Consolidated Electrochemical High Pressure Hydrogen Compressor
TreadStone Technologies, Inc.
Princeton, NJ
The requested funding will be used to integrate and demonstrate an electrochemical hydrogen compressor for hydrogen fuel distribution and delivery at military installations. The military is currently testing hydrogen based fuel cell power systems for a variety of applciations ranging from small power modules (generators) to vehicles and for shipboard operations. The objective of the project is to combine and integrate innovations into a single, consolidated unit for high-efficiency hydrogen separation and compression.
Requested: $1,500,000
Low Cost Fuel Cell Power Systems for Unattended Ground Sensors
TreadStone Technologies, Inc.
Princeton, NJ
The requested funding will be used to develop a low cost fuel cell power system for Unattended Grounds Sensors (UGS) and tactical radios. UGS systems and encrypted tactical radios allow soldiers, sailors, airmen and marines to relay data, information and intelligence throughout any combat theater of operations. Unattended ground sensors are useful for an array of applications including perimeter defense, surveillance, target acquisition and early warning for chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear threats.
Requested: $2,500,000
Innovation Enterprise
U.S. Army Armament Research, Development and Engineering Center (ARDEC)
Picatinny Arsenal, NJ
The requested funding will be used by the US Army Armament Research, Development and Engineering Center for the Innovation Enterprise. This initiative involves consortia from across the nation consisting of small and large businesses that work with military installations to develop technical innovation that will be applied to new products having both military and commercial use. In New Jersey, an Innovation Enterprise consortium consisting of local businesses has partnered with Picatinny Arsenal and this public-private partnership will coordinate resources to research and develop technologies and equipment for the military.
Requested: $100,000,000
Support for Service Members
United Service Organization
National Organization based in Washington, DC
The United Service Organization supports U.S. military service members and their families. Through outreach, family community centers, entertainment for our troops and various other valuable services, USO serves as the bridge between the American public and the U.S. military. To meet the ongoing challenges posed by current conflicts, the USO is adding facilities and expanding programs to address the needs of America's troops and families. Additional funding will enable the USO to continue to support our men and women in uniform and their families.
The University Center for Disaster Preparedness and Emergency Response (UCDPER)
University Center for Disaster Preparedness and Emergency Response
New Brunswick, NJ
The University Center for Disaster Preparedness and Emergency Response is a collaboration of UMDNJ, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, Rutgers, and RWJ University Hospital. The funding will be used for research, education, community outreach, and clinical advances in preparedness/response to all-hazards, emergencies, disasters, and terrorism. The Center utilizes its expertise in medicine and health care, pharmacology and drug development, environmental and exposure science, mathematics and engineering to establish strategies and plans to help New Jersey and the region preapre and respond to emergencies.
Requested: $5,500,000
Energy Efficient Flexible Lighting for Military and Commercial Applications
Universal Display Corporation
Ewing, NJ
The requested funding will be used to develop light-weight, thin-form factor, high efficiency flexible phosphorescent OLED lighting to provide the U.S. Army with energy saving lighting. This can be widely produced and deployed with portable applications and low power requirements. Funding will be used to make prototypes to demonstrate the technology, and further improve technology performance as well as lower the cost of the flexible thin film encapsulation. This effort will be in collaboration with Princeton University and will help reduce costs for the Department of Defense and support clean energy development.
Requested: $2,000,000
The Valley Hospital Medical Errors Reduction Initiative: Stage V
Valley Hospital
Ridgewood, NJ
The Valley Hospital is launching the next stage of its Medical Errors Reduction Initiative with the Department of Defense by implementing a system that will improve patient care by allowing for real time monitoring and management of all hospital operations with a focus on enhancing patient safety and outcomes. Valley is currently involved in the third stage of this project which involves a critical research study to determine how best to facilitate medical staff interaction with information technologies to prevent patient harm and encourage widespread use of the technology.
Requested: $1,000,000
Women Veterans and Servicemembers Joint Health Resource Center
Virtua Hospital
Marlton, NJ
The requested funding will be used to establish a collaborative Veterans Administration-Department of Defense Women Veterans and Servicemembers Joint Health Resource Center in partnership with Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst. This program will study and identify the demographics, risk factors, incidence, medical and psychosocial needs of this community and establish a nurse navigator program to direct women to appropriate health care resources. The Women Veterans and Servicemembers Joint Health Resource Center will dedicate specific, local care providers and resources to provide access to treatment with the goal of reducing the long-term social and economic burden on the Military Health System.
Requested: $3,000,000
Ultra Wide-Band (UWB) Communications Network for Battlefield Sensor Intelligence Gathering
Westgate Consulting Group, Inc.
Wall, NJ
The requested funding will be used to develop the advanced sensor tracking algorithms integrated with Ultra Wide-Band communications technologies. This will help provide advanced technology that will support service members by providing them with improved intelligence capabilities.
Requested: $700,000
Large Area, APVT Materials Development for High Power Devices
Wide Bandgap Materials Group, II-VI Incorporated
Pine Brook, NJ
The requested funding will be used for additional research dedicated to developing 150mm Silicon carbide substrates. Advanced Physical Vapor Transport (APVT) crystal growth, along with next generation wafer fabrication, and polishing technologies will be utilized to address material quality, reliability, size, and cost issues associated with high power devices critical to multiple DoD weapons and sensor systems. The use of silicon carbide (SiC) technology would result in longer range, increased mobility, and more compact system opportunities and is proposed for development of new radar systems, particularly in the UHF through S-band frequency ranges.
Requested: $3,000,000
