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The proposed effort will employ an array of broadband (W band) antennas, integrated with high-speed (subnanosecond) GaN HEMTs in an array, to detect potential threats to military personnel. The system will be low SWaP, low-cost, and will detect a NETD of 3 degrees or less, from at least 15 meters, with a pixel resolution of < 10 cm. Millimeter wave imaging has been shown to be a useful tool in the ...

Food irradiation technology has attracted more attention in the past decade given that it can provide a sustainable solution on how to address pathogen contamination in food. X-ray irradiation has several advantages compared to other irradiation technologies including superior penetrating quality compared to electron beams, and considerably larger dose rate compared to gamma rays. However, the low ...

This proposal is for a Team Oriented Resource Management and Control (TORMAC) solution to the problem of distributed decision-making for resource constrained platforms in complex environments. As autonomous unmanned vehicles (UXV), sensor and manned vehicle capabilities have proliferated, it is more important to find ways of coordinating these assets towards common objectives in an evolving, commu ...

Optical power beaming systems have the potential to revolutionize energy supply for airborne military platforms, allowing networks of unmanned aircraft to operate aloft indefinitely.  To ensure safe and efficient optical power transfer, receiving optics must be designed to provide rigorous photon containment.  Stray reflections and scattered light must be minimized in order to ensure safety fo ...

DARPA and the US Department of Defense are interested in technologies which can enable a wireless energy web comprising multiple nodes to enhance military capabilities.  Wireless power transmission is difficult to scale to relevant powers and distances due to poor system efficiency.  For example, as transmission distances increase there is a severe reduction in system efficiency; at distances of ...

A host of new integrated optics and photonics technologies and applications stand to benefit from transitioning the successes of lithographic patterning and vacuum thin film deposition to mass-producible, large-area conformable optoelectronic device manufacturing. However, present methods for large-area device manufacturing such as displays have severe limitations when serial patterning of each †...

Intelligent Optical Systems, Inc., in collaboration with Bowling Green State University, proposes to develop a field-rugged, eye-readable indicating spray solution that can immediately detect synthetic opioids over a large area of contamination (i.e., military vehicles, individual protective equipment, clandestine labs, etc.). The proposed chemosensor in a spray solution format will detect multipl ...

There is potential for intense, pulsed and non-uniform electromagnetic fields (EMFs) to exist within DoD tactical aircraft, and the potential for such EMFs to degrade pilot performance and lead to serious mishaps including loss of life. Proposers will begin with a methodical study of the actual EMF environments in the cockpits of representative aircraft to establish nature of any extreme fields pr ...

Team AIS proposes tRustEd STORage dEvice (RESTORE), a secure microcontroller bootloader and operating system (OS) that will form the foundation of a next-generation secure USB removable storage device.  Our system will provide defense in depth through integration of several defensive techniques. Our system will achieve a secure measurement-based bootloader capability using a new trusted computing ...

Memory sticks are a convenient mechanism for portable data storage and transfer. Unfortunately, the embedded microcontroller required to present raw flash as a USB peripheral exposes an attack surface that can enable privilege escalation on a host computer even in the presence of tamper-resistant device designs, data encryption, and host protections such as anti-virus software. We propose Twi ...