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DoD’s 2018 Artificial Intelligence (AI) Strategy [1] noted that adversaries and strategic competitors such as China and Russia are making significant investments in AI technologies for national security purposes. Since 2018, DoD has made organizational changes and is investing billions of dollars to incorporate AI technology into its operations. However, there exists a potential for unintended c ...

Tessellated Inc, in partnership with the University of Notre Dame, has produced composite thin films with the highest reported tensile strengths. These films have been produced using widely available roll-to-roll manufacturing techniques that can be adapted to current manufacturing lines. Small amounts of thermally reduced graphene oxide particles can be added to a ultra high molecular weight poly ...

Musculoskeletal injuries (MSKI) cost the DoD $3.7B and 25 million lost duty days annually.  Ankle injuries are the second most common MSKI  with service members 5x more likely to sustain an ankle injury than the general population making it a leading cause of lost training and combat operation time. Research shows the military will incur $7.4 million in savings by investing just $154,550 per yea ...

Within three months, SHE BASH will conduct the research necessary to confirm the applicability of their Department of the Air Force Enterprise Public Key Infrastructure (DAF ePKI) solution to determine how the capabilities of the technology can address well-defined defense needs and conduct outreach with empowered and committed USAF Customers and End-Users to plan a SBIR Phase II prototype effort. ...

Military Working Dogs (MWDs) serve on the battlefield as a force multiplier, by performing various jobs beyond the capabilities of humans. Because of these benefits, the use of dogs in military operations is expected to increase. Like human warfighters, MWDs are exposed to harsh environments and battlefield hazards. MWDs are trained to sit or down once they find an explosive, and this requires ha ...

The overall goal of this multiphase STTR program is to develop a pulsed source of high purity entangled photons suitable for use at the Air Force’s Starfire free space optical range to support advances in free space quantum networking hardware and protoco

The overall goal of this multiphase STTR program is to develop fully packaged waveguide-based biphoton sources with high brightness and ultra-high, well characterized heralding efficiency. The specific goal of this phase I STTR is to establish the feasibi

  Mission success in contingency operations depends on communication and Beartooth Radio provides a solution when traditional comms are degraded; saving lives by reducing much-needed time battle-tracking friendlies and engaging the enemy when and where it

The Legionarius smart combat shirts are capable of detecting vital signs and penetrating wounds to the warfighter (shot, shrapnel, cut, burn), autonomously sending out an alert via Android Tactical Assault Kit (ATAK) and the Air Force Battlefield Assisted

Modern and next generation warfighters are introducing design challenges necessitating advanced modeling and simulation (M&S) techniques to solve. Large integrated system models spanning multiple analytical and physical domains are needed to solve the pro