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"The overall goal of this Phase II STTR proposal is to demonstrate the capability of Naval surface and aircraft-based radars to detect and track marine mammals at representative encounter geometries. There are two major components to the proposed work: 1) acomprehensive land-based demonstration and validation experiment, using a suitable GFE radar, against humpback whales off of the coastline of H ...

"Improved networking capabilities for unmanned air vehicles (UAVs) will be a compelling necessity for a wide range of 21st century applications, both military and commercial. To make these applications successful, two main technical challenges must beaddressed: (1) dynamic, highly mobile network technologies to provide reliable, time-critical exchange of the network's media, and (2) information ma ...

"Low power real-time processing of large area image sensor data is not computationally feasible using existing digital technology. A practical solution to this computational bottleneck centers on the use of neuromorphic array based, low power analog visionprocessing systems.Computational Sensors Corporation (CSC) proposes to develop core enabling technologies for the development of a new massively ...

"The close-quarters battle (CQB) simulation application is a demanding one but it is exciting to realize that the technology pieces are all now available to actually realize a wide FOV HMD for this kind of application. Putting them together and meetingthe ergonomic constraints will be to realize many peoples' expectations for HMDs at last. Finally, there are commercially available microdisplays ...

"The US Navy has identified the need to develop quantitative frameworks to solve a variety of challenging problems, including sensor management and allocation, and adaptive flight control of Unmanned Air Vehicle (UAV) swarms. In collaboration with the MITAI Lab, we propose to develop a framework that combines Reinforcement Learning (RL) and Genetic Programming (GP) to evolve adaptive solutions to ...

"We propose to evaluate the space-time characteristics of biological feature detectors found in the mammalian retina and use these mechanisms as the basis for generating algorithmic feature detectors implemented in image processing devices. Bothconventional digital hardware and cellular nonlinear networks, a massively parallel analog array processor with architecture much like the vertebrate reti ...

"We propose to develop a wearable device that allows the warfighter to eavesdrop on conversations in a non-English language, extract keywords from the speech, and help the warfighter form an impression of the significance of the conversation relative to thecurrent mission. The firmware of the device will be engineered to function under acoustically difficult conditions and will be integrated into ...

"Perception-based reasoning will be an important capability of future intelligent systems. One of the key aspects of this theory is granulation, which will allow agents to process imprecise information in large complex state spaces. In complex and uncertainenvironments, autonomous agents will need to adapt the initial definitions of granules and perception structures according to new information r ...

"Ionfinity and its collaborators - the Jet Propulsion Laboratory and Pace Technologies propose to develop an innovative, miniature and highly sensitive system to sample and analyze water and air in real time within the payload bay of an underwater platform.PaceTech is experienced in underwater sensing and has developed a patent-pending liquid sample acquisition system. The Jet Propulsion Laborato ...

"We propose to develop integrated resource management models and a prototype tool for supporting real-time multimedia communications in highly mobile networks. The network is configured as a scalable hierarchical UV-aided Mobile Backbone Network based adhoc wireless network. In Phase I, we will develop the network integrated resource management structure and performance models, characterize the m ...