Press Releases

Oct 31, 2016

Optical Biosensor for Real-Time Assessment of Tumor Cellularity During Core Needle Biopsy Procedures

PSI has been awarded a Small Business Innovation Research contract by the – National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, to develop and translate to clinical use a novel technology that will help interventional radiologists improve the success rate of core needle biopsy procedures.

Oct 20, 2016

PSI’s Bio-MAV Development

Physical Sciences Inc. (PSI) has been awarded a contract from the US Army RDECOM to develop an unmanned aircraft system based bioaerosol detection capability that is cued to a region of interest using non-specific, persistent and wide area thermal imagers commonly deployed for surveillance.

Oct 12, 2016

Compressive Sensing Flash IR 3D Imager

Physical Sciences Inc., (PSI), has been awarded a contract from the U.S. Army Research Office to develop a compact infrared flash 3D imaging sensor employing compressive sensing (CS).

Aug 25, 2016

High Performance Airborne Laser Scanner for Routine Mapping of Terrain from UAS’s

Physical Sciences Inc. (PSI) has been awarded a research contract from the Department of Energy to develop a compact airborne sensor payload for unmanned aircraft that will be an economical mapping solution for geospatial mapping of topography around critical infrastructure.

Aug 12, 2016

Defect Detection in Narrow Bore Components With Quantum Dot Liquid Penetrants

Physical Sciences Inc., (PSI) has been awarded a contract from the U.S. Army to develop a liquid penetrant system based on colloidal QDs and a high resolution dual-channel fiberscope to enable nondestructive examination of micron sized cracks in the bore evacuator holes of gun tubes.

Aug 04, 2016

Fractal Heat Exchanger for Gas Turbine Pre-Cooling

Physical Sciences Inc. (PSI) has been awarded a contract from the Air Force Wright-Patterson to develop a novel heat exchanger based on the mathematical concept of fractal branching.

Jul 21, 2016

High Performance, Electrically-Assisted Ionic Monopropellant Thruster

Physical Sciences Inc. (PSI) has been awarded a research contract from the Navy, Office of Naval Research to develop a unique ionic monopropellant thruster for next generation divert and attitude control systems (DACS).

Jul 15, 2016

Compact LIDAR for Continuous Monitoring of Atmospheric State Variables

Physical Sciences Inc. (PSI) has been awarded a research contract from the US Navy, Office of Naval Research to develop an advanced, compact Raman Lidar capable of continuous, automated profiling of atmospheric state variables.

Jul 07, 2016

Hyperspectral Compressive Imager Based on an Electronically Tunable Tandem SWIR Fabry-Perot Filter

Physical Sciences Inc. (PSI) has been awarded a contract from the Department of Energy to develop a highly sensitive yet low-cost and ruggedized compressive sensing hyperspectral imager for monitoring activities associated with nuclear and radiological material production.

Jun 29, 2016

Sensitive, Quantitative Standoff Methane Emission Detector and Imager

Physical Sciences Inc. (PSI) has been awarded a contract from the Department of Energy to integrate lower-cost laser sensors with video cameras to create highly sensitive methane plume imagers that also quantify emission rate.