BLUF Statements 2024

VTO Reading assists teachers, therapists, and tutors in accelerating the pace of literacy acquisition by individualizing assessment and practice. The science of reading including phonics instruction, word origin, and the structure of the English language underpin this method. For a workforce with limited English proficiency, either due to language barriers or low academic achievement, this tool will provide individualized instruction with automated feedback using AI’s large language models. The result is a more literate and capable population regardless of past difficulties with education. 

Motorized Cart Assembly can assist with transporting a pop tent or umbrella for individuals with mobility impairments or their caregivers. It is a lightweight, autonomous wagon/cart, powered by a battery; capable of connecting to smart devices or wearable technology via Bluetooth or Wi-Fi. The technology features an app that allows its user to control it remotely or set programmable locations. This means users can guide the wagon/cart from a distance or pre-program it to move to specific locations autonomously. Additionally, it can be configured to follow its user to a desired location or be directed to a specific area independently. 

Mosquitoes often breed in hard-to-reach places such as steep drainage ditches and ephemeral pools. Trained personnel must apply mosquito poison to these areas on a regular basis. The Automatic Mosquito Larvicide Dispensing Device dispenses pesticide that only hurts mosquitoes, controlling disease and nuisance mosquitoes with less labor than competing technologies. The only human interaction required is setting up the device, which is barely larger than a trail camera, and refilling the pesticide once a year. As the threat of new mosquito-borne zoonotic diseases rises, so does the need for scalable, low-labor mosquito control. 

VAAH™ Purifying Tampons are all-natural, biodegradable, easy to use purifying tampons that are easily accessed by consumers with no doctor visits required. VAAH™ 100% cotton Purifying Tampons contain a selective additive for the adsorption, entrapment, and extraction of odors and disease-causing pathogens while preserving beneficial bacteria. Adding VAAH™ Purifying Tampons to a field medic’s kit can increase the utilization of female combatants in active field duty by greatly reducing the need for antibiotics and simplifying vaginal healthcare. This technology benefits Human Systems in both survivability and readiness for recovery and personnel management. 

The Myri Health App is transforming maternal care with personalized support during pregnancy and postpartum using advanced AI technology. It helps identify high-risk pregnancies, offers custom rehab exercises, mental health check-ins, and tracks the health of both mothers and babies. By working closely with healthcare providers, Myri Health improves birth outcomes and provides ongoing support. It enhances maternal health and reduces costs, paving the way for a healthier future for mothers everywhere. 

The Ocurate is a compact, reliable, reproducible, non-electronic tool that also allows the patient to remain still (as opposed to those items on the market that have to be placed around the head of the patient which may be contraindicated in head injury), for rapid assessment of oculomotor function for patients who have experienced a head trauma. Currently, the tests performed to determine oculomotor function are not fully standardized within the medical profession and are often performed using different tools. This lack of standardization can lead to imprecise diagnosis. The Ocurate will be highly valuable during the Golden Hour after initial head injury, as well as for tracking a patient’s ability to return to active duty/full activity, and for long-term monitoring of the patient's continuing level of impairment. The tool can be used to standardize oculomotor assessments in the field to render a more consistent and repeatable screening for indications of head trauma, concussion, and other neuro-impairments. 

BurstDX is revolutionizing point-of-need immunoassays, delivering accurate, rapid, low-cost, user-friendly diagnostic tools accessible in any setting. Our capillary-flow-driven immunoassay (CaDI) platform offers laboratory-grade results in <10 minutes without the traditional lab. CaDI integrates all the functionalities of a conventional laboratory enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) into a compact, user-friendly device that resembles a lateral flow assay (LFA), requiring only a one-step sample addition. CaDI works in tandem with an affordable chemiluminescence reader to improve sensitivity, detection limits, and add quantification capability, opening new doors for rapid, accurate, quantitative results across human health, food safety, and environmental testing, among other applications.

Saving lives is important in any situation. Savings lives in stressful tactical situations is even more difficult. TACMed Pump provides a real life training solution to the alternative of working with polymer based training aids. The TACMed pumping system in addition to a Pig training cadaver provides as a training aid to tactical scenarios where techniques to quickly stop bleeding can be taught. The trainee experiences real life feel of flesh as well as the nuances found when working with flesh. 

CASSIE utilizes patented infrared technology to disinfect filters contaminated with viruses, bacteria, and molds within 8 seconds. Unlike other disinfection systems, it can penetrate biological matter more effectively. Additionally, CASSIE is software-controlled - it monitors air quality, disinfection cycles, humidity, temperature, and tracks maintenance schedules.  

 VerteCore Technologies has created a game-changing solution for back pain and spinal compression disorders with its innovative wearable devices. The VerteCore Lift® represents a significant advancement in therapeutic spinal decompression, offering a portable, easy to use form factor, which provides pain relief and accelerates rehabilitation without reliance on drugs or risky surgery. The effective, user friendly features and portable nature of VerteCore’s wearables means that relief goes where you go, allowing patients to be drug free, surgery free, pain free.

The ESP-DLux® provides continuous disinfection of air and periodic disinfection of hard surfaces using a patented system combining industrial-strength UVC light, sensors and wireless controls. With the ESP-DLux® installed in a facility, a continuous log of disinfection is maintained, documenting that dangerous pathogens including COVID-19 have been eradicated. The ESP-DLux® is offered in 2 models to facilitate different needs: the stand-alone Series 100 is designed to be rapidly deployable, while the Series 300 model features advanced Safety-Net® technology, allowing multiple UVC fixtures to be networked and wirelessly controlled throughout an entire facility. Both models provide powerful, automated UVC disinfection. 

The ESP-DLux® provides continuous disinfection of air and periodic disinfection of hard surfaces using a patented system combining industrial-strength UVC light, sensors and wireless controls. With the ESP-DLux® installed in a facility, a continuous log of disinfection is maintained, documenting that dangerous pathogens including COVID-19 have been eradicated. The ESP-DLux® is offered in 2 models to facilitate different needs: the stand-alone Series 100 is designed to be rapidly deployable, while the Series 300 model features advanced Safety-Net® technology, allowing multiple UVC fixtures to be networked and wirelessly controlled throughout an entire facility. Both models provide powerful, automated UVC disinfection. 

This technology enables quick evaluation of vital signs and automated triage, reducing the time taken to initiate treatment. A neck-adhered patch displays vital information on an integrated screen and links to a command dashboard, streamlining patient management for larger groups, thereby conserving time and resources. Consequently, this system lowers mortality rates and decreases instances of unnoticed patient deterioration and adverse events.

PleXignal's MMM technology is a powerful platform technology that accelerates and increases efficiency in pharmaceutical drug discovery. It helps testing of many potential drug candidates simultaneously to see how they affect various disease signaling pathways (similar to electronic circuits) inside cells. This technology not only provides complete information about the complex signal network but also drastically reduces risks in drug discovery failures, saving time and money. By improving how drugs are discovered, PleXignal is making it easier (avoiding laborious multiple-multistep experiments) and saving billions of dollars, to develop new treatments for diseases, helping to bring better medicines to people sooner. 

Mobile micro filtration harnesses unique hollow membrane technology to filter dirty or contaminated water. Our mission is to design and manufacture a sustainable filter line that can be utilized in disaster relief, search & rescue, as well as special operations. Our filters remove 99.6% of harmful contamination in water accessed from rivers, streams, ponds, and rain run-off. No matter where you are, if you have access to water of any kind, DropFilters can provide safe hydration for survival.

AgTechLogic developed Agtellio, a proprietary AI-Powered technology that can collect and analyze data to identify savings and yield improvements in agriculture and beyond. Agtellio is the only product on the market that can track and report on chemical applicators to ensure compliance. It supports Intelligent Precision Spraying to reduce chemical use up to 90%, making a significant environmental, health, and financial impact. Our technology solution is unique as it can be applied to existing equipment and can bring insights that are not able to be captured today.

The PSC breathing apparatus technology assists in protecting the combatants’ lungs, like body-vest to heart and helmet to brain, from deployment-related respiratory diseases (DRRDs). The technology utilizes state-to-art seal and filtration technologies to eliminate respiratory threats including by not limited to dangerous antigens, burning toxic particulates and gases, desert dusts, fuels exhausts, combat dust and debris, extreme dry and cold weathers, bad smells. The result is a portable and comfort-breathing apparatus supplying the combatants with safe and clean air at all time. This technology is at a technology readiness level 7 and addresses the DoD requirements need for combatant health. 

Fast Foam Suppression has developed a patent-pending portable, self-contained, multi-use, firefighting apparatus for use in complementary roles alongside existing infrastructure or in remote locations without access to traditional firefighting equipment or service. 

PROE is designed to enhance SOF operator’s capabilities by exposing them to traumatic incidents in a controlled environment. While assessing and identifying psychological weaknesses, the operator’s biometric data guides the individualized training program for maximum performance enhancement, team success, and longevity of our most valuable warfighters.  

Our device, called Tular, enables launch and recovery of both rotary wing and fixed wing drones from any moving vehicle, autonomously, and even during windy conditions. Vehicles include trucks, trains, buses, cars, planes and even ships at over 65mph. We are dual use for both the military and commercial users, such as Oil & Gas & Energy for inspections, package delivery and even for first responders. 

Using Pürlin bed and bath linens will eliminate up to 50% the daily wash load at forward operating bases, tactical healthcare operating sites, or when deployed to support emergency management operations, or natural disaster encampments. Using Pürlin bed and bath linens will eliminate up to 50% the daily wash load at forward operating bases, tactical healthcare operating sites, or when deployed to support emergency management operations, or natural disaster encampments.

Pürlin linens are sustainable products that were designed as a disruptive alternative to cotton-based linens which require an expensive and manpower laden logistics system requiring continual maintenance.   Pürlin linens are super-soft, hypoallergic, one-time use, and 100% recyclable.  Made of manmade materials, they are shelf-stable, packaged to free up to 75% of normal warehousing space with about the same savings in transportation needs.   Easily, efficiently, and economically deployable to support ConOps, natural disasters, or other emergency lodging needs.  Users of our product will never have to Sleep on Used Sheets Again - Ever.

The HDO Health JourniquetTM helps prevent deaths from uncontrolled bleeding caused by traumatic junctional wounds. It offers warfighters a product that is easy to choose, use, and saves time, ultimately being a lifesaver. The JourniquetTM effectively and consistently stops traumatic junctional bleeding at the point of injury and during patient movement and transport for both experienced and novice users. It is simple, fast, light, and secure and does not require fine motor movements for assembly or application. Additionally, it integrates easily into existing Self Aid Buddy Aid and Care (SABA & SABC) and Tactical Combat and Emergency Casualty Care (TCCC & TECC) training and supply chains. 

Noleus Technologies is focused on developing and commercializing innovative technologies intended to accelerate recovery and to improve outcomes after abdominal surgery. We aim to establish a new standard of care for post-operative ileus through our differentiated and proprietary technology to accelerate the return of bowel function after abdominal surgery.  

We aim to develop the Noleus Leaf, a single-use medical device, to mitigate post-operative ileus (POI)  which is the intestinal paralysis that occurs in most patients after abdominal surgery. The device uses the platform on negative pressure wound therapy (NWPT) which has been safely used for wound care for the past 20 years and translates that into a single device, that is temporarily placed inside the peritoneal cavity in proximity to the bowels.  The Leaf is easily placed at the end of surgery and will be used while the patient is in the hospital. It will allow patients to regain bowel function sooner allowing them to eat and leave the hospital sooner. The result will be better outcomes for patients and cost-savings for the hospital and healthcare system.

The Zac by Bay Block is a device that alerts up to five people that a person in fall protection has experienced a fall.  It is a completely reusable device enabled with Bluetooth for cellphone/device connectivity. Currently working on the capability to include Wi-Fi/satellite/cellular (not cellphone/device reliant). Technology developed to protect against orthostatic intolerance, harness hang syndrome, and to be used as a compliance tool for supervisors.