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NadirSAR offers high-resolution imaging of targets, lines of communication, and buildings in urban canyons, rough terrain and light foliage areas. This capability can bridge the gap between down-looking LIDAR sensors and side-looking microwave and foliage penetrating UHF SAR systems such as TRACER. In a previous effort for RRTO, TSC and SDL experimentally demonstrated the feasibility of X-band Nad ...

The extended short wavelength infrared (e-SWIR) wavelength band is in a performance gap for infrared detectors. At both shorter and longer wavelengths high performance detector technologies exist: SWIR InGaAs detectors (1.7 m cutoff), and MWIR (3-5 m cutoff) detectors such as InAs-based and GaSb-based Unipolar Barriers, MCT, and InSb. This program proposes development of high performance e-SWIR de ...

The premise behind Robotic Researchs Teleoperation of Robots Improvement System (TORIS) is that we can extract sufficient information about the structure of the scene using image flow, and other sensor specific techniques, to reconstruct a useful, predicted view of the world at a future point in time. This reconstruction can be used as a teleoperation aid. The goal is to make it appear that the ...

An active standoff system that can detect and classify surfaces that have been contaminated with chemical, biological and explosive materials from a safe distance is an important tool in counter terrorism and counter insurgence operations. It has be shown laser induce thermal emission (LITE) is capable of detect and identify common explosive materials and chemical warfare agent simulants with high ...

The meteoric rise of personally identifying information (PII) created and shared online is unprecedented. The sheer volume of open source intelligence available on sites such Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, message forums, Instagram makes the task of collecting and organizing OSINT increasingly laborious for analysts. Novel technologies are largely responsible for creating these challenges, but they ...

Solid oxide fuel cells have long suffered from degradation due to impurities in the fuel and complexities associated with dissimilar materials and high operating temperatures.This degradation lowers the usable cell power output and requires ancillary equipment for fuel sulfur removal and reformation.A unique microstructure for the tubular anode will be produced using a novel freeze-casting techniq ...

Department of Defense (DoD) operations critically rely upon efficient, robust, resilient and secure wireless network communications. Recent emergence of stealth (silent or low-signal) attacks, such as emulating legitimate behaviors or randomizing their footprints, are difficult to detect by the conventional intrusion detection systems. Such stealth attacks can damage communication systems at diffe ...

The shape of a parachute changes during the deployment of the canopy due to control inputs by the paratrooper/guidance system and environmental effects. However, there are currently no effective ways to measure the shape of the parachute and the airflow around the parachute from a realistic jump. This has limited the ability of developmental testers to assess hazards to the paratroopers and airdro ...

With the increased availability of unmanned vehicles, swarming technology can potentially provide a major strategic advantage to the U.S. military.However, effective autonomous swarm control requires the solution of a difficult problem: given a desired collective behavior for achieving some goal, automatically generate a set of individual robot behaviors that will cause the collective behavior to ...

Accurate terrain assessments are critical for terrain analysis, intelligence preparation of the battlefield and commander’s situational awareness. Typically environmental condition characterization has been relying on US Air Force Weather forecast data, which however are based on very few point observations across battlefield for long-term forecast. Furthermore, the accurate and high resolution ...