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xTechSearch 2.0 Phase IV Proof of Concept Business and Technology Descriptions Business Name & Logo Business Description Technology Description AKHAN Semiconductor, Inc. AKHAN Semiconductor is a fab-lite diamond-based semiconductor technology company specializing in the production of optical and electronic device solutions for applications in Consumer Electronics, Military, Aerospace, Telecom, Automotive, and the broader electronics market. AKHAN is headquartered in Gurnee, Lake County, Illinois. AKHAN has developed its Miraj Diamond® technology for protective coatings intended for directed energy and electromagnetic weaponry applications, addressing future vertical lift Army modernization priorities. Diamond’s multi- layer materials can broadly be applied for the protection of both optically transparent & opaque surfaces on aircraft canopies, sensor windows, & other sensitive structures. POC: Mr. Adam Khan, Founder, Chairman & CTO, [email protected] Mr. Ernest Schirmann, Sr Mbr of Technical Staff, [email protected] Cogitari Cogitari provides high-security wireless communication infrastructures that enhance the safety and productivity of government, military, and private organizations. By balancing technical knowledge of RF threat detection with pragmatism gained through decades of operational experience in complex environments, our solutions improve the availability and resilience of critical communications. To simulate a real-world application of our concept, multiple antenna array elements, fiberoptic cable assemblies, and headend equipment comprising an R-DAS will be deployed throughout the demonstration area. Against a backdrop of visual aids, the R-DAS’s capabilities for delivering secure wireless communications while detecting and locating threats to network/data security will then be explained. POC: Mr. Gerard Heerink, President & Founder, [email protected] Mr. Mike Bishop, CTO & Founder, [email protected] Great Lakes Sound and Vibration Great Lakes Sound and Vibration was established in 1996 to solve acoustic, shock, and vibration problems. Since then, we have grown into a multi- functional engineering company, offering our clients complete concept-to-solution design process in our secure, state of the art facilities. Our strength lies in our diversification of skills and our ability to solve challenging problems that require a broad range of knowledge. Great Lakes Sound and Vibration (GLSV) has developed an active noise cancellation (ANC) system that provides noise reduction capabilities in military ground vehicles beyond current state of the art. The ANC system has been developed as an add-on feature, providing the unique ability to treat noise issues late in the vehicle development cycle, which is a critical asset to new vehicle programs. POC: Mr. Greg Kangas, Project Leader, [email protected] Mr. Kevin Nelson, Controls Engineer Lead, [email protected]

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xTechSearch 2.0 Phase IV Proof of Concept Business and Technology Descriptions

Business Name & Logo Business Description Technology Description AKHAN Semiconductor, Inc.

AKHAN Semiconductor is a fab-lite diamond-based semiconductor technology company specializing in the production of optical and electronic device solutions for applications in Consumer Electronics, Military, Aerospace, Telecom, Automotive, and the broader electronics market. AKHAN is headquartered in Gurnee, Lake County, Illinois.

AKHAN has developed its Miraj Diamond® technology for protective coatings intended for directed energy and electromagnetic weaponry applications, addressing future vertical lift Army modernization priorities. Diamond’s multi-layer materials can broadly be applied for the protection of both optically transparent & opaque surfaces on aircraft canopies, sensor windows, & other sensitive structures.

POC: Mr. Adam Khan, Founder, Chairman & CTO, [email protected] Mr. Ernest Schirmann, Sr Mbr of Technical Staff, [email protected]

Cogitari

Cogitari provides high-security wireless communication infrastructures that enhance the safety and productivity of government, military, and private organizations. By balancing technical knowledge of RF threat detection with pragmatism gained through decades of operational experience in complex environments, our solutions improve the availability and resilience of critical communications.

To simulate a real-world application of our concept, multiple antenna array elements, fiberoptic cable assemblies, and headend equipment comprising an R-DAS will be deployed throughout the demonstration area. Against a backdrop of visual aids, the R-DAS’s capabilities for delivering secure wireless communications while detecting and locating threats to network/data security will then be explained.

POC: Mr. Gerard Heerink, President & Founder, [email protected] Mr. Mike Bishop, CTO & Founder, [email protected]

Great Lakes Sound and Vibration

Great Lakes Sound and Vibration was established in 1996 to solve acoustic, shock, and vibration problems. Since then, we have grown into a multi-functional engineering company, offering our clients complete concept-to-solution design process in our secure, state of the art facilities. Our strength lies in our diversification of skills and our ability to solve challenging problems that require a broad range of knowledge.

Great Lakes Sound and Vibration (GLSV) has developed an active noise cancellation (ANC) system that provides noise reduction capabilities in military ground vehicles beyond current state of the art. The ANC system has been developed as an add-on feature, providing the unique ability to treat noise issues late in the vehicle development cycle, which is a critical asset to new vehicle programs.

POC: Mr. Greg Kangas, Project Leader, [email protected] Mr. Kevin Nelson, Controls Engineer Lead, [email protected]

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Business Name & Logo Business Description Technology Description Halomine Inc. (formerly Antimicrobial Materials

Inc.) Halomine Inc. was founded in 2018 to commercialize novel antimicrobial technology developed at Cornell University and Auburn University and is currently headquartered in Ithaca, NY. Our mission is to help people by solving problems associated with microbial growth. The products that we develop help improve people's health and provide a safer food supply.

Our products include next-generation wound management materials (dressings) that deliver these advantages: potent and safe antimicrobial agents that prevent biofilm formation and kill dangerous drug-resistant bacteria, hemostatic properties that stop bleeding quickly, and advanced material properties that promote faster and better wound healing. POC: Dr. Greg Bertsch, CEO,

[email protected] Dr. Mingyu Qiao, CTO, [email protected]

Lumineye

Lumineye provides wall penetrating radar to help soldiers and first responders identify people and threats through walls. We are based in Boise, Idaho and originally spun out of the Hacking for Defense Program. Our technology is based on feedback from over 200 operators, commanders and first responders. We are currently piloting our devices with law enforcement and search & rescue teams.

Our radar device detects moving and still people from more than 10 meters away. The device weighs less than a kilogram and is manpackable. We will demo our device live on stage during the presentation. In our presentation, we will share user research learnings, conduct a brief technological overview, share our next steps and our product development timeline. POC: Mr. Corbin Hennen, CEO & Co-

Founder, [email protected] Ms. Megan Lacy, CDO & Co-Founder, [email protected]

MELD

Our woman-owned small business sells MELD machines and services from our headquarters in Virginia. We hold 13 patents on the MELD process which has won numerous awards, including most disruptive new technology in the R&D 100. Machines offer up to 82 cubic feet of build space and the ability to process the widest variety of metals possible.

At the point of need: repair or build with MELD anywhere because it is open atmosphere, safe, low power, makes wrought fully dense material, and is the only metal additive process that lets you use practically any metal, in solid bar or powder form. These unique advantages are because with MELD, you don’t melt the metal. Visit MELD in booth 2945 throughout the event. POC: Ms. Nanci Hardwick, CEO

[email protected] Dr. Chase D. Cox, Director of Technology, [email protected]

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Business Name & Logo Business Description Technology Description Novaa

Novaa Ltd is a startup founded in late 2016, with the mission to deliver disruptive innovations to the way we access and use the RF spectrum. Our research focuses on low size, weight, and power antenna and RF architectures to tackle the toughest challenges in sensing, navigation, and communications. Current innovations include resilient GPS, ultra-wideband, and same frequency full duplex.

Antenna technology providing protected access to GPS. Uncontested access to GPS-based PNT cannot be assumed. Operators face near-constant threat of denial (jamming), degraded accuracy due to buildings or terrain (multipath), and manipulation with faked signals (spoofing). Novaa’s antenna platform provides impervious access to GPS signals, suppressing unwanted jamming, spoofing, and multipath. POC: Dr. Markus Novak, Founder & CEO

[email protected] Mr. Rob Russell, Business Lead, [email protected]

Olifant Medical Securing the airway is the most stressful and time-critical procedure that medical providers perform. Austere environments and urgent conditions intensify the challenges and risks. Olifant Medical’s mission is to create innovative airway management solutions for medical professionals. Our vision is to ensure better patient and provider experiences through 100% first-pass airway management success.

Consistent and rapid first-pass success is essential during airway management in order to avoid life threatening complications, yet many clinicians still struggle to achieve this goal. Olifant medical has identified the anatomic and ergonomic factors that interfere with successful tracheal intubation and has designed a stylet technology that overcomes these barriers.

POC: Dr. Steven G. Venticinque, MD, Co-Founder & Chief Medical Officer [email protected]

Spark Thermionics, Inc.

Spark Thermionics is developing is developing a transformative silent generator based on thermionic energy conversion. This 300+ W multifuel generator can translate to up to a 5-fold reduction in weight of the power sourced carried by the warfighter. These generators will dramatically easy transportation and greatly improve mobility.

We will showcase our thermionic devices, which form the core of Spark's generator. These devices directly convert heat to electricity for true fuel flexibility, relying on modern materials and wafer fabrication techniques to leap-frog competing approaches and enable novel capabilities.

POC: Dr. Jared Schwede, CEO [email protected] Dr. Yonas Yemane, Senior Scientist, [email protected]

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Business Name & Logo Business Description Technology Description United Aircraft Technologies, Inc

UAT is developing a smart aircraft clamp solution with an Augmented Reality Monitoring System for aircraft wiring that improves fuel economy (overall weight reduction of the aircraft), decreases the occurrence of Repetitive Strain Injuries among the workforce, improves aviation/aerospace maintenance through 3D fault location and visualization, and reduces the environmental impact of CO2 emissions.

UAT will present a smart interconnecting clamp with a 3D visualization system to provide maintenance crews wiring fault localization. UAT will showcase wireless sensing technology to help expand the utilization of Augmented Reality to beyond all electrical wiring maintenance. The anticipated benefits will apply equally to aircraft weight savings and reduction of Repetitive Strain Injuries (RSI).

POC: Ms. Evaguel Rhysing, Founder/CEO, [email protected] Mr. Daryian Rhysing, Founder/CTO, [email protected]

Valley Tech Systems, Inc. (VTS)

Valley Tech Systems, Inc., (VTS) is an aerospace engineering company that specializes in innovative rocket propulsion systems and command, control, communications, computers, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (C4ISR) systems and services. The privately held company has its headquarters in Folsom, Calif., and its propulsion development facility in Reno, Nev.

Valley Tech Systems’ innovative active nozzle concept applies controllable solid propulsion technology to modernizing Army rockets. This all-in-one axial propulsion system with integral thrust vectoring can extend range, improve precision and reduce cost. Initial trade studies for a sample application indicate a 53% increase in lethal range and a 70% decrease in turning radius.

POC Mr. Russ Carlson, VP Aerospace Opns, [email protected] Mr. Allen Yan, Systems Engineer [email protected] Vidrovr, Inc.

Vidrovr builds video understanding systems. Vidrovr's dual-use system is leveraged by the large media, tech and intelligence companies. The DoD and the State Dept. utilize Vidrovr to track disinformation campaigns and track fake news and other PAI applications. Vidrovr is also developing video processing capabilities for force protection, airborne and ground level platforms leveraging FMV.

Vidrovr has built a high bandwidth, source agnostic machine-learning/computer-vision system to detect and link valuable intelligence from online, broadcast and other sources of PAI and FMV. It creates a knowledge-graph off these features which allows for various applications in 2nd generation machine inference. It is funded by the NSF, the Air Force and is a potential performer on DARPA SEMAFOR.

POC: Dan Morozoff, Co-Founder & CTO [email protected] Mr. Connor O’Day, Head of Business Development, [email protected]

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xTechSearch 3.0 Innovators’ Corner Day 1 Business and Technology Descriptions

Business Name & Logo Business Description Technology Description Brayton Energy, LLC

Brayton Energy is an R&D firm dedicated to making meaningful contributions to the field of gas turbines and high-efficiency power generation. Founded in 2004, Brayton has grown to staff over 40 engineers, designers, and technicians on a diverse mix of private and government programs. Brayton specializes in managing the entire designbuildtest process for challenging emergent technologies.

New gas turbine developed specifically for UAVs and other mobile platforms to address challenges from UAS Roadmap endurance/reliability, range/payload, heavy fuels. Also supports FVL/UGV objectives with all-electric variants. The design yields substantial improvement over competitors with units presently in lab qualification. Achievable SFC more than 40% lower than current state-of-the-art

POC: James Kesseli [email protected]

LiquidPiston

LiquidPiston develops advanced power solutions based on innovations in thermodynamics, optimized mechanical systems, and controls. The company has a team of 20 highly engaged engineers in Bloomfield CT, and is initially focusing on commercializing its X Rotary Engine technology in the Aerospace and Defense sectors.

LiquidPiston’s rotary X-engine technology is 1/10th the size and weight of traditional Diesel engines, and 30% more efficient. The company proposes to apply this engine for FTUAS and FVL, as an efficient primary / supplementary power unit for aircraft. As a first step, LiquidPiston will demonstrate the 3kW X-Mini engine as a hybrid electric power supply for Group 2 UAS on heavy fuel.

POC: Alexander Shkolnik [email protected]

Response Technologies, Inc. Response Technologies is bringing additive manufacturing and advanced materials to develop and ultimately produce 21st century fuel bladders fuel cells for military aircraft. Lighter weight, longer lasting and improved survivability.

A dynamic self-sealing polymer combined with Response Technologies' additively manufactured aircraft fuel bladders reduces weight and improves survivability by moving the material to the wound and healing the wound.

POC: Ed Bard [email protected]

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Business Name & Logo Business Description Technology Description Summit Technology Laboratory STL is a woman minority owned small business

that provide solutions for next generation projected AR based applications used in different domains like defense, retail, trade shows and conferences.

Summit Technology Laboratory STL presents the decision pod, a pack-and-go collaborative interactive large high resolution display infrastructure for hybrid visualization in next generation defense visual analytics. The decision pod can be deployment anywhere -- base camps, offices, laboratories, conferences, workshops, training centers. It is a gently curved rear multi-projector based seamless interactive display with the following capabilities. POC: Aditi Majumder

[email protected]

ISAGE, Inc. ISAGE Inc. is a company co-founded by researchers at the University of Southern California to develop real time data analytics, ML and AI based solutions to address real-world problems relevant to the society and the nation.

SWAPT-optimal lightweight phase transformed Deep Neural Network implementation on FPGA to enable low latency all around situational awareness in complex, cluttered adversarial environments urban/suburban using ultra low form factor ML at the edge.

POC: Viktor Prasanna [email protected]

SIGINT Systems, LLC

SIGINT Systems, LLC is an engineering company that designs and develops solutions for SIGINT problems. Our cross-discipline experience allows us to develop innovative solutions combining techniques and methodologies from various fields such as acoustics, radar, mechanical testing etc. to the solution of SIGINT challenges. We leverage our expertise in both hardware and software development to arrive at system designs that allow the user the maximum flexibility, while solving tricky problems. All of our systems are designed to be scalable and configurable in order to fit a user's mission requirements, and we pride ourselves on being able to work with our customers at the level they desire.

The SIGINT Systems Jaguar-X is a compact HF and low VHF sensor 1 MHz - 88 MHz that allows signal collection commensurate with tactical ISR sensitivity levels for all propagation modes - ground waves, sky waves including NVIS and mixed mode. The system also performs DF on all propagation modes from an extremely small footprint 6-inches x 6-inches.

POC: Ash Law [email protected]

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Business Name & Logo Business Description Technology Description Syncopated Engineering

Syncopated Engineering is a creative solution provider of software and embedded systems for wireless communications, signal processing and machine learning. Our CIELO cognitive radio products enable intelligent wireless applications capable of exploiting multiple “radio personalities” with the same radio platform. Our ALEGRE fog analytic acceleration products enable real-time analytic results at the edge of the network as the data is collected.

Our large RF footprint is easy to target by our adversaries, which puts our troops at significant risk especially in forward-deployed positions that require both communications connectivity and stealth. Our Mockingbird RF decoy emulates multiple “radio personalities” to deceive and confuse the adversary at a fraction of the cost of the high-value assets i.e. people and equipment it has been designed to protect.

POC: Jim Costabile [email protected]

TRX Systems

TRX Systems is the developer of NEON® GPS-denied location solutions, delivering location and mapping where GPS is not available or is unreliable including indoors, underground, in dense urban areas, and where GPS is jammed or erroneous. NEON delivers ubiquitous, low-cost, GPS-denied location through the use of advanced sensor fusion, ranging, and patented dynamic mapping algorithms.

TRX Systems will deliver NEON, a low SWaP, easy to use assured PNT device that provides position/navigation when satellite technology is unavailable or unreliable. NEON detects spoofing and jamming events and delivers continuous location during such incidents and delivers 3D personnel location indoors and underground.

POC: Carol Politi [email protected]

Flash Steelwork, Inc.

Flash Steelworks, Inc is an independent steel research concern located 30 miles north of Detroit. The company was founded almost 20 years ago with a sole mission to improve the performance of steel. With roots in the Defense Industry as armor plate, Flash has expanded its vision to include many facets of industry including automotive, Oil & Gas, architecture, and consumer products.

“Stronger than titanium, lighter than aluminum, able to stop speeding bullets” at record velocity in US Army Labs, Flash Processing makes best-in-class armor and advanced high strength steel. Heat treating in seconds, Flash tested in Army Labs to highest results against 0.30-cal M2AP and 20mm blast fragments. Flash Armor is “truly” weldable at room temp to provide non-brittle welded assemblies.

POC: Gary Cola [email protected]

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Business Name & Logo Business Description Technology Description Knight Technical Solutions

Knight Technical Solution KTS is an advanced concepts engineering company comprised of veterans with passion for applied engineering and science to solve challenging problems. A Service-Disabled Veteran Owned Small Business SDVOSB in DoD Silicon Valley, Huntsville, Alabama, KTS provides research and development, technical support, program management and product development. Our management team have wide variety of military and civil experiences in technology development and integration in support of combat and domestic situations. In 4 short years, KTS have patent on FDT and additional patents pending on recoil reduction buffer system, bio-mimicking UAS, and Counter-UAS technologies.

The Fixed Displacement Turbine FDT engine is a constant rotation, fixed displacement, high compression, power dense, and energy efficient engine. In its most simplistic form, the basic FDT has only 2 moving parts. Principally it is a twin-screw compressor joined to a twin-screw expander. Both twin screw expanders and compressors are proven technologies over decades of integrated uses in the HVAC, power generation, super chargers, and air compressor markets. The key technical innovation in the FDT is the arrangement of engine components and the addition of precision engineered rotary valving. The FDT’s simple design lends itself to burn multiple fuel like turbine engine, unlike the piston engines, and it is highly scalable, reliable, sustainable and effective. POC: Tony Davila

[email protected]

Merciless Motors

We are a small company that came out of the research lab in NYU. After 4+ years of research on the new electric motor design, we participated in many local and nation competitions, grants and accelerators, to turn this research in to a successful business.

Merciless Motors is developing a new improved electric motor that is 50% lighter, 33% smaller and ~5-10% more efficient than current electric motors with the same power output. This can provide longer range and better performance to vehicles all at a lower cost.

POC: Nadar Ahmed [email protected]

Scientific Systems Company, Inc.

At Scientific Systems, we develop advanced technologies for navigation, mission planning and AI-enabled autonomy systems for the Aerospace and Defense industries. Our solutions enable unmanned systems across air, ground, maritime and space domains to implement Commander’s Intent, ensure mission effectiveness, and dramatically shorten operational timelines.

This effort will develop a sUAS agnostic software module which will enable autonomous landing of a sUAS on a moving ground vehicle. This will be accomplished using advanced visual perception and robust tracking path planning and control algorithms. Realizing autonomous deployment/recovery of sUAS from/to moving ground vehicles opens the door to fluid deployment of ISR and ATR capabilities. POC: Jansen Smith

[email protected]

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xTechSearch 3.0 Innovators’ Corner Day 2 Business and Technology Descriptions

Business Name & Logo Business Description Technology Description Anti-Rotational Technologies (ARTs), Inc.

Anti-Rotational Technologies ARTs supports helicopter hoist operations through the development of operationally unobtrusive and technically sound stabilization devices that reduce the burdensome cognitive load on military aircrews. ARTs was founded by Soldiers for Soldiers, and is comprised of three Army pilots two on active duty, two mechanical engineering doctoral students, and a physician.

Medical evacuation missions require that helicopter hoist operations be performed in the face of disadvantageous environmental conditions. Helicopter hoisted objects tend to spin due to rotor downwash. Spinning is a potentially catastrophic event that can be life-threatening for evacuees. SALUS is an operationally unobtrusive reaction-wheel stabilization assembly suited for harsh environments.

POC: Mahdi Al-Husseini [email protected]

Battery Streak

Battery Streak is a California based start-up commercializing revolutionary battery technology, capable of charge to 80% state-of-charge in under 10 minutes, based on UCLA patented technology. Our batteries charge like a capacitor 8C typically and discharge like a battery C/10 to 8C. Applications include portable medical devices, mobile electronics, warehouse robots and electric vehicles.

Exhibit shows a demonstration of 1 Ah prototype cells charging in under 10 minutes and discharging in 15 minutes. A 2 Ah demo cell is also shown along with a 12 Volt module. The cells demonstrate energy densities of ~100 Wh/L and 45 Wh/kg with an expected ceiling of 400 Wh/L and 200 Wh/kg.

POC: David Grant [email protected]

Corvid Technologies Corvid offers design and analysis support to military applications using HFCP based approaches. With our extensive array of in-house technologies and capabilities, including our indigenous supercomputing and digital manufacturing facilities, as well as a combination of state-of-the-art proprietary, governmental, and off-the-shelf tools, we provide customers with quick-turnaround computing.

Selectable Precision Effects Articulating warhead provides new capability to ground forces via integration-ready focused lethality fragmenting warhead. SPEAR provides the ability to choose a warhead’s yield direction based on the target for first-pass lethality while minimizing collateral damage. No other warhead in the arsenal allows for dual mode select-ability for effect.

POC: Sean Treadway [email protected]

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Business Name & Logo Business Description Technology Description GhostWave, Inc. GhostWave is a radar company with four patents

exclusively licensed to them from The Ohio State University. The team consists of the patent inventor and retired professor, an antenna expert, an engineer with a Master’s degree along with the founder who has an engineering degree, an MBA, and international telecom experience.

The technology is radars that are stealthy, low probability of detection, low probability of intercept and anti-jamming. This is done by using a random noise generator to produce and transmit the RF signals. The transmitted signals are stored in a high-speed memory. At different range gates, the signal is compared to what is detected by the receivers. The data is processed on board.

POC: Dean Zody [email protected]

Hyssos Tech, LLC Hyssos Tech is a leading provider of cutting-edge technologies and services, targeting domestic and international defense, public safety and intel customers, offering multimodal solutions for C2, C5ISR and GIS Systems. Founded to continue the work and bring to market a 10-year DARPA funded software solution that bypasses complex user interfaces by using speech and sketch to input plans.

STP fuses the warfighters doctrinal sketch and speech, bypassing complex user interfaces of individual army systems, allowing the planner to focus on the task, not the tool, resulting in faster and more efficient planning. STP data drives tight adjudication loops, automated analysis and wargaming, leading to more optimal COAs which in turn saves soldiers’ lives and increase soldier lethality.

POC: Sean Johnson [email protected]

SOAL Technologies

SOAL Technologies has successfully developed and commercialized R&D technology (including technology developed through the SBIR program) into products, leading to sales revenue. We have a team that has been carefully selected to include business development, marketing, chemical and mechanical engineers, and scientists. We have a vertically integrated company with many manufacturing capabilities.

Our innovation is called the Micro Power Generator (MPG). Our MPG can output 6-10 W of power continuously for 24 hours and only weigh 1-2 kg (approx. 2-5 lbs) with fuel. For a 72 hour mission, our MPG will only weigh between 3-5 lbs (with fuel). Our MPG is designed to be autonomous (i.e. it will not require any user intervention), be silent and have a small heat signature.

POC: Rasdip Singh [email protected]

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Business Name & Logo Business Description Technology Description Squishy Robotics

Squishy Robotics is a majority women-owned small business with extensive industry and research experience. The team is comprised of experts in robotics, customer development, user experience, and sensor fusion. Squishy Robotics is the commercialization of joint UC Berkeley / NASA research, applied to real-world problems affecting first responders and warfighters.

Squishy Robotics’ sensor robots, which are dropped by drones or other aerial vehicles, carry mission-swappable sensors in order to provide situational awareness in dangerous situations. These robots use unique tensegrity tension-integrity structures to protect sensor payloads, mesh network radios to enable communication, and analytics to provide advanced sensor fusion.

POC: Douglas Hutchings [email protected]

TexPower, Inc. TexPower was founded to commercialize lithium ion battery technology out of the University of Texas at Austin. TexPower offers high-performance lithium-ion-battery cathode materials with 10 % higher energy density and at least 75 % less cobalt usage a costly metal subject to volatile supply than state-of-the-art cathode materials LiNi0.6Mn0.2Co0.2O2, NMC-622.

Mobile applications such as next generation combat vehicles, unmanned aircraft systems and medical robotics all rely on lithium-ion-battery LIB technology that is constrained in range. TexPower offers a high-performance cathode material with 10 % higher energy density than state-of-the-art cathode material. Additionally, LIB cathode materials utilize significant amounts of cobalt, a limited global resource with a supply chain dominated by China, who have threatened cobalt export restrictions. TexPower’s cathodes utilize significantly lower cobalt by cutting at least 75 % compared to state-of-the-art LiNi0.6Mn0.2Co0.2O2 NMC-622 cathode material, mitigating cobalt supply chain risks to US economic and military security

POC: Evan Erickson [email protected]

The Orion Group, LLC

The Orion Group, LLC represents and integrates leading products, solutions and services in six industrial sectors: Process, Oil & Gas, Energy, Water, Agriculture & Defense. Our focus on Industry 4.0 and artificial intelligence enables us to deliver innovative complex solutions to a diverse client base - Process to Defense – supported by a global team of engineering professionals.

TOSS is an AI enabled Lethal Integrated Operator-Network LIO-N that meets the extreme SWaP 1 lb. system and cost requirements to be deployed to every dismounted Warfighter. Comprised of three stand-alone systems: the Orion NET MIMO Mesh SDR battlefield video & data network, the Orion APP ATAK AI software platform and the AIR Blade 145g, 245g, 680g small unmanned aerial system sUAS. POC: Seth Spiller

[email protected]

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Business Name & Logo Business Description Technology Description Cayuga Biotech, Inc.

DOD-funded, Cayuga is developing IV therapy for uncontrollable hemorrhage for the battlefield. Founded by two PhDs, Cayuga’s team utilizes decades of scientific, regulatory, and clinical expertise in drug development to support the warfighter by enabling treatment immediately after injury. Combat casualties are an unfortunately reality – with Cayuga, the warfighter will live to tell the story.

Cayuga's technology is an injectable drug that accelerates clotting to reduce blood loss following injury. The drug is stable for battlefield use and can be delivered in the same packaging that combat medics currently use to treat injured soldiers. 90 % of combat fatalities occur prior to hospital arrival. Cayuga’s proprietary technology will reduce deaths by improving treatment on the battlefield. POC: Damien Kudela

[email protected] ElectroNucleics, Inc.

The pathogen detection technology of ElectroNucleics consists of a unique, electrochemical nucleic acid-based assay that is rapid, inexpensive, amplification-free, optics-free and highly sensitive.

The pathogen detection technology of ElectroNucleics consists of a unique, electrochemical nucleic acid-based assay that is rapid, inexpensive, amplification-free, optics-free and highly sensitive.

POC: Harold Monobouquette [email protected]

Tribo Labs

Tribo Labs is a startup company with the purpose of building disruptive solutions based on a revolutionary X-ray source technology originally developed with a DARPA funded effort. The company owns all the intellectual property rights. The team includes the inventors of the technology, the key individuals responsible for its development, advisors and partners who share our vision.

Our X-ray sources, based on contact electrification, do not require heavy and bulky high voltage supplies. This has allowed us to build the world’s smallest turn-key X-ray sources. Our prototype sources for X-ray imaging are the size of a soda can and produce X-rays with more than 140kV from a 12V battery. We will be exhibiting an ultraportable X-ray imaging solution enabled by our technology.

POC: Carlos Camara [email protected]

XO-NANO

NCP transforms regular foam products into “Smart” products that can measure impact and pressure. By adding conductive particles to liquid foam, we created the world’s first foam sensor. This technology measures the magnitude, location, and frequency of impact with lab-quality accuracy.

XO-NANO takes lab-quality gait analysis out of the lab and into the real world with a field-ready ground reaction force measurement system. XO-NANO’s technology creates the potential for an unprecedented study of the forces experienced by the lower extremities. This data provides and essential first step in the diagnosis and prevention of injuries to the lower extremities.

POC: Samuel Wilding [email protected]