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Low-cost systems operating at video rates within W-band have remained elusive – especially for stand-off and remote applications. Real time video rate imaging requires parallel detection modalities that traditionally led to high costs and calibration challenges. Substantial advances in low-cost packaging and chip-level integration driven by commercial millimeter-wave applications can now be appl ...

Autonodyne has been at the forefront of autonomy in aviation for two decades, applying autonomy in every aspect of aviation. The last 5 years’ efforts have brought the same avionics, autonomy, and interfaces to unmanned aviation, both for DoD and for the emerging Urban Air Mobility (UAM and Advanced Air Mobility - AAM) market. Autonodyne was hand selected by NASA/FAA to bring our expertise in Au ...

This STTR Phase I project proposes novel deep learning models for generating realistic multi-spectral remote sensing imagery, specifically in the infrared (IR) and near-infrared (NIR) bands. The proposed system enables synthesis of semantically realistic imagery and provides parametric control of synthesizing objects-of-interest, type of terrain and land cover, time or season, weather, cloud cover ...

Engineered biological systems can enable the template-directed synthesis of biopolymers such as proteins and peptides with desirable material properties and functions. The cellular engine of this process, the ribosome and associated translation apparatus, drives the polymerization of hundreds to thousands of amino acid monomers into sequence-defined biopolymers with speed, efficiency, and accuracy ...

To address the challenge DTRA faces in identifying rare objects of interest to defeat improvised threat networks using multispectral imagery, small business ARiA and research institution Michigan Technological University (MTU) will develop and demonstrate the feasibility of the Generative Augmentation Process (GAP). The Phase I effort will (1) conduct a proof-of-concept study for GAP by developing ...

Global migration reached a staggering record of over 280 million migrants in 2020, a number that has almost quadrupled over the past 60 years. The share of the world’s population that are migrants has also markedly increased, now nearing 4% of the global population. As these numbers continue to rise, it is increasingly unsustainable for researchers in the population migration modeling (PMM) comm ...

This work is focused on the development of fabrication technology for large form-factor scintillation crystals for multi-modal detection of radioactive sources, and development of mobile imaging and mapping instruments based on these large format scintillators.

krtkl (“critical”) will conduct a Phase I Feasibility Study to identify the best approach for reducing aviator cognitive load by optimizing information delivery and decision-making based on a thorough analysis of existing platforms, sensors, data sources, and onboard compute resources. This information will be used to identify Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning based algorithms for p ...

High performance underwater operation with low probability of detection in challenging areas can provide significant value across many naval missions. There is an ongoing desire for greater range, endurance, and speed for unmanned underwater vehicles (UUVs). Bio-informed UUV designs offer potential improvements, particularly in swimming speed. Boston Engineering is proud to offer “bio-robotics c ...

Although metal additive manufacturing (AM) technologies have demonstrated capabilities for producing complex geometries beyond those of traditional manufacturing of subtractive or multi-part assembly, wider AM adaptation is limited by low throughput and poor material quality. Consequently, AM fabricated parts are costly and unable to meet demand where dynamic failure is unacceptable. Triton System ...