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SIFT and the University of Southern California's Information Sciences Institute (USC/ISI) propose to develop the Multi-Agent Debloating Environment to Increase Robustness in Applications (MADEIRA). MADEIRA will apply AI/ML techniques to learn how to apply diverse debloating tools, automatically reducing the attack surfaces of full systems that may include firmware, OS, container, and application-l ...

Development of a strategic radiation hardened FPGA with secure boot through MRAM. The FPGA will be demonstrated on state-of-the-practice foundry technology. The FPGA architecture will be developed to support a future port to state-of-the-art foundry technology. The FGPA will be architected to support a chiplet embodiment which will enable rapid reconfiguration of strategic rad hard FPGA products ...

The US Navy DDG-51 Arleigh Burke Class Destroyer fleet currently utilizes AISI 4130 steel tie downs which metal is highly reactive to seawater which without protective coatings would rapidly corrode severely and need immediate replacement as well as unexpectedly fail causing possible loss of life and loss of high value equipment as well as having very poor resistance to high heat and cold. Conseq ...

Metis enables collaborative mission planning across locations connected by low-bandwidth, unreliable network links.  It provides a Synchronization Service to ensure planners at different locations have consistent views of plans and planning data.  This service works across network connections and disconnections and can detect conflicts when service state is updated independently at different loc ...

Future DoD and Navy missions require advances in current high voltage power electronics technology. For this, Gallium Nitride (GaN) is a suitable materials candidate given the numerous fundamental figures of merit that make it superior to SiC and Si, respectively, the current state-of-the-art and standard material systems for power electronic devices. With the Baliga figure of merit, respectively, ...

Adventium Labs proposes to implement the Continuous Human Operator Requirements Analysis of Linkage (CHORAL) tool to support a new requirements management methodology that will allow human factors engineers to input, link, and track cognitive human operator requirements within Systems Modeling Language (SysML) models. Off-the-shelf tools focused on project requirements management are designed to c ...

The Vendor-Interoperable Ontology Linking and Exploration Tool (VIOLET) project will develop a tool that will allow multiple stakeholders across roles and engineering disciplines to easily traverse, understand, associate, and synchronize information distributed across multiple organizations, stored in multiple repositories, represented in different modeling languages and formats, and manipulated w ...

The Navy has identified the need for a platform to provide scalable mass data delivery for nodes in a large network. To address this need, Architecture Technology Corporation (ATCorp) proposes an innovative software technology called Optimal Network Clustering for Large Data Dissemination (ONet). The ONet approach will address the three major requirements for building a mass distribution platform: ...

The Navy has aircraft tie-downs in their helicopter flight decks aboard Destroyers that should last the expected 40 years life of their ships but are failing prematurely due to severe corrosion and wear; so to meet this need this research and development project will identify new novel metallic superalloys along with a unique innovative design change altering the location of the weld and heat affe ...

Metis enables the integration of the disparate locations where mission planning occurs and facilitates collaborative mission planning in Ready Rooms.  Metis provides a framework and a set of techniques to integrate mission planning devices at different locations.  Metis is designed to be secure and can be used for collaborating on, and for sharing classified mission plans and data.