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There are embedded control systems throughout our combat systems, including thousands of programable logic controllers (PLCs) installed in various defense systems such as ground based defense, aircraft, land vehicles and combat ships. These systems are not typically connected to a network yet are vulnerable to cyber-attack through other various mechanisms. There is currently no way to quickly and ...

We propose developing a small pitch probe card with a pitch down to 5 µm that will have minimal thermally induced deformations over an operational temperature range of 77 to 300 Kelvin. The probe card design will contain eight probe points initially, but the number of points can be increased or decreased as needed by the customer. The pitch can also be specified anywhere from 5 µm and up. The pr ...

Tactical battlespace superiority requires high-fidelity, real-time knowledge of current and forecast weather to effectively deliver aircraft firepower and support ground operations. Adverse weather can impair target acquisition, weapon sensor functionality, curtail aircraft support times and lead to loss of the platform through threats such as icing or lightning. PEMDAS proposes a Phase I discipli ...

Silicon Technologies’ will design and simulate in Verilog-AMS and Cadence Spectre an ADC, two DACs, a serial interface and other circuits to be built on a single chip in a ITAR complaint manufacturing process. The ARMY is interested in this development for use in a SWAP-C ASIC for next generation fuse proximity sensors and other programs. STI proposes to use an existing pipelined ADC that has be ...

Particle agglomeration is a severe impediment to dissemination of fine powders used as an obscurant for both military and law enforcement purposes. Agglomeration increases rate of particle settling and decreases screening ability of the obscurant within certain regions of the electromagnetic spectrum. It is therefore desirable to develop technology that reduces agglomeration of these powders durin ...

As autonomous vehicles become more prevalent in day-to-day military and industry operations, the technology surrounding functionally-safe autonomous subsystems must become increasingly reliable. A vehicle’s kinetic energy must be safely dissipated during a stop. Steering and braking must be done intelligently to maintain vehicle control and mitigate vehicle wear and tear. There are many factors ...

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The DoD lacks the massive annotated data needed to train Deep Neural Networks (DNN) for IR domain applications for which recognition of militarily significant target types is critical. Pixel-wise annotations are close to impossible in IR. When adapting recognition between visual domains, changes in object types, appearance, and poses are not adequately modeled in the new domain. How to suppress th ...

There is a significant need to improve the IR attenuation performance of military obscurants and advanced nanostructures could fulfill this demand. Very few types of commercially available obscurant materials perform well in the IR waveband. Recent numerical simulation has shown that highly conductive materials with a one dimensional nanostructure should exhibit excellent IR obscuration when their ...

Autonomous Solutions, Inc. is seeking to develop a sensing architecture that fuses information from both deterministic and machine-learned algorithms to provide a sophisticated world model for autonomous vehicle road-following and obstacle detection. This architecture allows for safe and efficient navigation through road networks to accomplish a mission, both in military applications such as AGR a ...