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• Design and Demonstration of a Location Tracking System for Underground Coal Mines (Award 2)
  7/18/2016 - Contracts and cooperative agreements
  A contract to design and demonstrate a location tracking system for underground coal mines using ultra-wideband (UWB) radio technology.
• Design and Demonstration of a Location Tracking System for Underground Coal Mines (Award 1)
  7/18/2016 - Contracts and cooperative agreements
  A contract to develop a miner tracking system based on inertial navigation technology.
• Design and Construction Considerations for a Protected Compressed Air Line to a Refuge Alternative
  7/18/2016 - Contracts and cooperative agreements
  A contract to explore the need for ensuring compressed air line integrity in a practical way through laboratory tests and design and construction considerations for compressed air lines to a refuge alternative.
• Demonstration of Inertial Sensor Tracking and Communication System
  7/18/2016 - Contracts and cooperative agreements
  A contract to complete a beta test installation of the contractor’s inertial sensor tracking and communication system in a working mine and demonstrate the accuracy, communication capability, and suitability for use in a working coal mine.
• Application of Extreme Power Line Communication Methods to Mine Environments
  7/16/2016 - Contracts and cooperative agreements
  A contract to assess the suitability of current power line communication methods (used in nonmining applications) for underground coal mine communication, using mine electrical power distribution conductors as a system backbone.
• Exploring Virtual Mental Practice in Maintenance Task Training
  7/1/2016 - Peer reviewed journal articles
  An article contributing to the general understanding of mental practice by investigating the utility of and participant reaction to a virtual reality maintenance training among underground coal mine first responders.
• Evaluating the Use of Stretchers in Two Mobile Refuge Alternatives
  7/1/2016 - Peer reviewed journal articles
  This article by NIOSH discusses a study that evaluated the time required to move three types of stretchers into two commercially available refuge alternatives.
• NIOSH Refuge Alternative Webinar
  6/16/2016 - Calls for participation
  Reserve a spot now to attend a webinar on refuge alternatives June 23.
• Through-the-Earth (TTE) Communications: Range Reliability Improvements
  11/20/2015 - Contracts and cooperative agreements
  A contract to develop and test an enhanced magnetics-based communications waveform with increased ability to provide communications in the presence of ambient noise and interference in order to extend existing magnetics-based technologies.
• Underground Mine Refuge Alternatives: A Look at Food, Water and Sanitation Requirements
  9/1/2015 - Non-peer reviewed journal articles
  This trade publication piece by NIOSH discusses how MSHA standards for rations, supplies, and sanitation facilities are addressed by various refuge alternative manufacturers.