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Artificial intelligence-assisted detection and imaging technology can gather data on underwater, surface, and aerial threats to gain situational awareness over opposing forces, and aids in navigating dangerous marine and terrestrial environments. Successful and efficient use of intel is crucial for strategic information warfare, but many current technologies require active monitoring to identify t ...

Rincon Research Corporation (RRC) proposes assessing modern devices and techniques in the art of the possible that satisfy a number of key requirements. To reduce costs and shorten development timeline, RRC will focus on implementing the solution on low-cost, commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) software-defined radios (SDRs) which meet the low probability of interception/detection (LPI/LPD) waveform†...

Plastic Ocean Waste (POW) is accumulating in our oceans and on our beaches at an accelerating rate. Eight million metric tons (8M MT) of plastic is entering the world's oceans each year at a rate of one ton per minute. Alaska represents 53% of the U.S. coastline. During Phase I, we estimated the amount of POW accumulating on Alaska's shorelines at 34,500 to 51,700 MT/yr at a rate of three ton per ...

This project aims to strengthen the cybersecurity of edge computers used by special operation forces warfighters. Our team has developed a novel approach for edge computer security called CyberShield that implements hardware obfuscation to detect and defeat cyberattacks. By obscuring the edge computing hardware, an attacker can never write effective malware because they do not know the target inst ...

Intelligent detection and imaging technology hold considerable value for Department of Defense to attain situational awareness and advantage over opposing forces, and for aid in navigating potentially dangerous marine and terrestrial environments. Technologies obtain intelligence on underwater threats and can gather intelligence on approaching surface threats. Current sensor technologies require a ...

Per-and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) have been used extensively since the 1940s due to their chemical stability and unique thermophysical properties. Those same properties make PFAS extremely recalcitrant environmental pollutants, and bioaccumulative toxins. Regulations are rapidly being established by U.S. states, including Michigan, New Hampshire, and New Jersey, beholding municipal water u ...

The Environmental Protection Agency is seeking proposals that will improve the U.S. recycling system.PKS Consulting is an Alaska-based small technology firm that proposes the development of a Mobile Plastic Ocean Waste (POW) Recycler that can be moved from community to community to produce Recycled Plastic Lumber (RPL) products from locally collected POW. Fishing gear is primarily composed of Poly ...

SOCOM is seeking to develop a capability to connect Radio Frequency (RF) transmitters/receivers to any antennas in the distribution system quickly and efficiently. The general requirement for this topic is to enable a series of receivers/transmitters to access various antennas, each designed to operate most efficiently in a specific section of the RF spectrum, using control software. There may be ...

Repeated use of aqueous firefighting foams containing per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) has contaminated hundreds of sites. To delineate the extent of contamination, many of these sites are undergoing intensive site investigations and generating large quantities of investigation derived wastes (IDW). Current disposal practices of landfilling or incineration are costly and burdensome. This ...

VAWD Applied Science and Technology is pleased to offer the following proposal in response to Phase II - SOCOM173-004 - "Handheld or Body-worn Hidden Chamber Detection". The Handheld Hidden Chamber Detection Radar will operate like a flash light and automatically detect, locate, and classify hidden compartments. The Radar will operate from inside a building for room to room operations discriminati ...