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In its effort to provide necessary intelligence and analysis, the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) utilizes extensive traffic camera systems. However, the large amount of data overwhelms both analysts and existing processing methods. In order to provide a better understanding and reduce the search space for common problems such as target tracking, it is necessary to extract the camera ...

Deep Neural Networks have become ubiquitous in the modern analysis of voluminous datasets with geometric symmetries. In the field of Particle Physics, experiments such as DUNE require the detection of particle signatures interacting within the detector, with analyses of over a billion 3D event images per channel each year; with typical setups containing over 150,000 different channels.  In an ...

Carbon fiber reinforced polymers have found wide use in aerospace structures, however currently used materials are costly and require extended cure times which greatly increases manufacturing cost and consequently part cost.  Most aerospace and defense structural composites are manufactured using slow hand layup and autoclave curing processes which are labor intensive and costly.  Cylindrical ...

Experimental results have concluded that a Jetfire engine can successfully run on heavier F24/JP-8 based fuels and provide a substantial opportunity for reaching fuel efficiency milestones in both military and commercial applications. Detailed analysis has shown that properly mixed F24 distillates combined with proper cooling/heating conditions, and low compression ratios effectively maintain cons ...

The Persistent UNmanned Team (PUNT) Phase II objective is to continue the development of  PUNT to address the problem of using UAS to persistently survey an area for an extended period of time, recharging as necessary and tracking identified targets at user request.   PUNT will provide a software package with the reasoning and coordination to achieve persistent surveillance by dealing with sev ...

We propose to continue Phase II development of the Intelligent Detection of Human-generated Threats (IDEHT) system, which will use artificial intelligence and machine learning capabilities to detect emerging human-generated physical threats to Army installations by monitoring open source and security-related data sets. Our innovative approach includes analyzing potentially threatening individuals ...

Polarization imaging has shown significant improvements in contrast in several target detection and discrimination applications. Infrared earth backgrounds can be very complex making it very difficult for a thermal passive sensor system to acquire and identify a target amongst background objects of similar color, size and temperature.  Because of this difficulty, the Army has identified the need ...

Makai Ocean Engineering, Inc. will address the overloaded AMPV cooling system with its TFHXTM technology which will provide at least 5%, and potentially 10%, performance improvement with minimal increase in pressure drop.  The heat exchanger pack will also meet durability and reliability requirements for military operating environments.  Additional focus on durability and reliability is require ...

To address the Army PEO Aviation need for secure architecture concepts and components for development of common avionics display technologies, Intellisense Systems, Inc. (Intellisense) proposes to continue development, in Phase II, of the new Secure Modular Architecture for Reusable Transfer of Display Data (SMART-2D) proven feasible in Phase I. SMART-2D implements Future Airborne Capabilities Env ...

A nondestructive test system is under development for thorough, rapid and economical evaluation of the structure and properties of polymer-inorganic interfaces during curing and in service. The system is capable of in-situ, real-time and spatially resolved monitoring of the molecular structure and properties. It employs (single-sided) NMR relaxometry principles to detect and quantify defects and d ...