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In order to maintain acoustic advantage, submarine crews need to assess acoustic vulnerability for historical and planned tracks and own ship noisy evolutions. A TDA or TDAs that produce acoustic advantage and vulnerability overlays for the geographic plot are essential to this. Our Phase I effort will develop a MATLAB-based TDA tool engine that when provided with the required inputs (own ship, en ...

ABSTRACT: The objective of this effort is to develop next-generation architectural and operational concepts, leveraging recent advances in High Performance Computing (HPC) technologies, to improve Wide Area Motion Imagery (WAMI) tracking capacity and performance. WAMI systems typically produce tens of thousands of moving target indicator (MTI) detections from city-sized urban areas at update rat ...

Luna Innovations, teamed with University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth has developed a novel textile technology to provide improved protection for soldiers. Soldiers are exposed to significant risk of injury and death from gun shots and blasts from improvised explosive devices (IEDs). Whereas heavy protective armor exists, it is bulky leading to thermal discomfort, additional weight, and difficulty ...

Antimicrobial treatments have been incorporated in a number of textile products used by the U.S. Army to control odor and reduce skin irritation, thus improving the quality of life for the warfighters. Current textile treatment using chemically-derived antimicrobials such as metals (silver- and copper-based compounds), polyphenols, halamines and quaternary ammonium compounds can effectively kill o ...

Skin infections caused by bacteria represent a significant risk to wounded soldiers. The most common source of bacterial infection is found in the fabrics of clothing, boots, and gear worn by the warfighter. Reducing the risk of infection for soldiers by treating the source fabrics will lead to positive outcome and support medically-related activities in non-sterile environments encountered by t ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant Advances in DNA sequencing technology have now made it practical and affordable to generate datasets containing millions of genetic attributes that can be tested for association with disease susceptibility The computational complexity of searching for genetic interactions over such high dimensional datasets imposes great challenges for genome wide associatio ...

The area of thin film growth has progressed rapidly, producing many high performance new materials which require accuracy of their atomic composition to perform as expected. Any method to provide real time in situ information about the elemental composition of the growing surface is highly valuable for these new, complicated materials. Utilizing a new instrument design, the Phase I project team ...

COAXIS (Course of Action Extra-Intelligence System) recommends both information relevant to an operational order and a course of action (COA), where COA is defined as a decision of what action to take given a specific situation. COAXIS performs semantic analysis of natural language of an operational order to bridge the world of human-oriented natural language communication of orders to machine ana ...

ABSTRACT: Shared Spectrum Company (SSC) partners with Virginia Tech (VT) to develop resilient and agile space communication systems using innovative cognitive radio techniques. The objective of this STTR Phase II project is to develop anti-jamming capability using frequency agility provided by Dynamic Spectrum Access (DSA) technology for satellite communications (SATCOM) systems. The SSC team foc ...

ABSTRACT: Low frequency antennas provide us with the most critical challenge in small UAVs due to the limited available real estate on the platform. The primary objective of our Phase I research was to fill a critical technology gap in small UAVs for low frequency communication and SIGINT applications. We carried out a very comprehensive Phase I research to develop light-weight, conformal volumet ...