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Data-rich applications, such as web servers, web browsers, and document editors, are inherently vulnerable to non-control data attacks, i.e., attacks that exploit memory corruption vulnerabilities to leak or corrupt sensitive data. We propose Dobby, a tool that statically transforms software binaries to integrate run-time checks ensuring illicit data flows caused by memory corruption errors in the ...

Next-generation high-performance computing (HPC) hardware, such as the Intel Xeon Phi Knights Landing Many-Integrated-Core processor, provide new deep memory architectures that offer the promise of increased performance. The challenge in taking full advantage of this architecture is selecting which data structures will be placed in the high-bandwidth memory. Optimizing data structure placement in ...

Infrasound and seismic measurements are used by DTRA and the DoD for nuclear test monitoring, terrorist blast forensics, battle damage assessment, and environmental monitoring. However, these long wavelength physical signals are typically recorded through single-point sensors or sparse low density arrays. As a result, the critical signals of interest are often corrupted or masked by noise or inter ...

A significant performance gap exists between the theoretical number of Floating Point Operations (FLOPS) that a HPC machine is capable of sustaining and the number of FLOPS realized by real-world HPC applications. One of the principle reasons for this gap is the parasitic work that computational processes must do to communicate with one another. It has been shown that this communication work can b ...

Insects are a healthful and sustainable alternative animal feed. However, to penetrate the $400B global feed industry, insects need to be produced both at a scale and cost that is suitable for farmers. Mealworms, Tenebrio molitor, are Beta Hatch’s focal species because they are hardy and can feed on an incredible diversity of diets. We propose in this Phase 1 project to develop cost effective di ...

Solid State Scientific Corporation (SSSC) is pleased to propose a Phase I SBIR program to develop a unique multi-spectral imaging sensor prototype The proposed spectral sensor will be lightweight, portable, low-power and rugged with simultaneous imaging of all the spatially registered spectral bands. The optical system which is less than 1 cubic centimeter in volume will provide a sensor field of ...

The purpose of this proposal is to present a novel and promising solution for a portable medical recorder. The system consists of the following modules: a microphone array, adaptive beam forming, noise reduction, audio compression, loudspeaker, and audio/data interfaces. The proposed implement includes three major chips. This company has developed two very similar products for military and CE appl ...

DARPA is seeking an universal sample preparation methods for extraction of nucleic acid capable of being used in many different assay systems for subsequent detection. The method needs to produce nucleic acids from spores, viruses, bacteria (or vegetative cells) that are ready for a wide variety of diagnostic equipment. MicroStructure Technologies (MicroST) in conjunction with Oregon Health and Sc ...

The objective of this proposal is to develop enabling technology for the production of bulk scintillating nanocomposites that have gamma radiation detection properties of single crystal NaI but with the manufacturability of plastic scintillators. These performance criteria may be met by developing nanoparticle polymer composites with ultra-high nanoparticle loadings. These ‘ultra-composites’ w ...

Analysis of nuclear material samples in the field has many advantages over laboratory analysis. Laboratory analyses can be slow, involve increased expense, lead to additional waste generation and disposal problems, and may introduce errors due to sample degradation or mishandling. In situ analysis mitigates all of these problems. The specific aim of this project is the development of a truly por ...