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This proposal responds to DARPA’s STTR solicitation, topic 7 (ST082-007). Advanced computational technology based on solid mathematical ground will be developed and applied to elimination of blurs and super-resolution of video of faces. These applications are important in aerial surveillance systems and homeland security tasks. Success of the project will overcome limitations of current methods ...

A staggering number of microbes on Earth (99%) are not culturable using standard laboratory methods. These microbes are called “unculturable”. Microbes not grown and studied in laboratories are uncharacterized and may be a source of useful biological products and molecules. Unculturables have been found in many sample types and environments. Furthermore, characterization of these organisms wil ...

In Phase II of AQUIRE, we will develop a prototype document background generation and management system that can be used by analysts and decision makers to access information gathered from a wide variety of unstructured sources about entities, relations, and complex situations. This system will be able to (1) construct topically organized entity corpora which are automatically supplemented with st ...

A RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT PROJECT IS PROPOSED TO DEVELOP MATERIALS FOR PACKAGING LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAYS (LCDS) USINGPLASTIC SUBSTRATES. THE PLASTIC LCD TECHNOLOGY WILL MEET THE DOD'S NEED OF DISPLAYS RANGING FROM HAND HELD TO BLACKBOARD SIZE. THE KEY TECHNOLOGY IS SELECTION OF PLASTIC SUBSTRATES AND DEVELOPMENT OF A LOW TEMPERATURE DEPOSITION METHOD FOR A TRANSPARENT CONDUCTIVE THIN FILM ON THE ...

We propose to develop an LED-based berth light for circadian regulation specifically designed to support transition from laboratory research through shipboard deployment with minimal alterations. The device will be form factor compatible with MIL-F-16377/17 and electrically compatible with MIL-STD-1399.

Sensors are proliferating in military applications. From unmanned air vehicles (UAVs) to unmanned ground vehicles (UGVs) to satellites the amount of video, infrared, range and other data is growing exponentially. These sensors are often stovepiped into their own processing streams with much of the final processing done manually. This proposal aims to create a general purpose sensor-to-symbol arc ...

The 3-D integration of systems through monolithic wafer stacking is an emerging technology that can alleviate power, delay, and area problems for digital circuits and can enable a host of new applications in the System-on-Chip design space. Currently, CAD tools for 3-D integration are severely lacking stagnating potentially explosive growth of the technology. GoofyFoot Labs will develop a CAD ...

Most project management (PM) tools on the market today use some type of PERT and/or CPM methodology as its primary underlying methodology. PERT (Program Evaluation and Review Technique) was invented by the U.S. Navy in the 1950''''''''''''''''s to manage the Polaris submarine missile program. CPM (Critical Path Method) was invented about the same time in the private sector. These two approaches ...

The 3D Wide Area Reconstruction (3DWAR) effort brings the operational benefits of superior 3D reconstructions to the warfighter. Superior performance is achieved by combining super-resolution (SR) and computational stereo processing to reconstruct 3D models of the combat environment with voxel size of one half the imagery ground sample distance. If input data has sufficient 3D visual effects to su ...

Mission assured networking (MAN) is a capability for mapping mission tasks to information technology (IT) resources in a highly dynamic environment where both tasks and resources change rapidly. Autonomic MAN would permit such task-resource allocations to be performed in a bottom-up decentralized manner with limited need for human intervention. Highly granular task priorities should be accommodate ...