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The modern warfighter faces the constant threat of endemic infections, multi-drug resistant bacteria and Biological Warfare Agents. In order to provide accurate front-line treatment that will curtail the overuse of antibiotics, a rapid and robust molecula

This proposal describes the development of a process to synthesize low defect Ge1-xSnx and SiyGe1-x-ySnx layers on silicon and silicon-on-insulator (SOI) substrates through low thermal budget excimer laser and rapid thermal annealing/crystallization for ...

Knowledge Based Systems, Inc. (KBSI) proposes to design and develop Training Environment for Design of Resilient Systems (TENSILITY), a distributed interactive simulation-based training environment to enable systems designers, systems integrators, platfo...

GrammaTech proposes WARP, a tool for Weaving Application-specific Runtime Policies into embedded systems binaries.Perimeter defenses such as firewalls or network filters provide insufficient security and generic inline defenses such as control flow or ...

There are many challenges in creating Air Force systems that are resilient against cyber threats. The cyber environment and its threats are highly dynamic, requiring practices and training to be dynamic as well. Cyber threats must be considered during th...

Recent breakthroughs in the fabrication of InAs/GaSb-based strained layer superlattice (SLS) structures with Type II band alignment has made possible the manufacture of high-performance MWIR/LWIR detectors and LEDs. The main advantages of Type-II SLS (T2SL) are: (1) wide spectral response and emission (3-30 m) by adjusting the thickness of SLS layers and bandgap engineering, (2) high composition u ...

Tensile-strained germanium tin structures will be developed for infrared emitters and detectors that are compatible with silicon fabrication processes.Optical detectors in the wavelength range of 2-5 microns will be developed by using GeSn on silicon ...

Recent breakthroughs in the material quality and fabrication methods of III-V InAs/GaSb superlattice (SL) structures with a Type II band alignment has enabled high-performance MWIR detectors and LEDs. Nanohmics Inc. in collaboration with UT Austin proposes to develop Type II InGaSb/InAs quantum dot infrared light emitting diodes (QD-IRLED) for high-power infrared scene projection. This particular ...

Because of rising demand for human analysts and more efficient processing of increasingly large and challenging amounts of intelligence, human limitations on mental workload, cognitive fatigue, and attentionor task engagement, need to be accurately monitored in real-time in order to provide sensitive detection of impaired cognitive states. It is a challenge to continuously monitor these cognitive ...

High-power, high-efficiency, broadly-tunable coherent sources in the mid-wave infrared (MWIR, =35 m) spectral band are coveted for applications relating to infrared (IR) countermeasures, remote chemical sensing, and free-space optical communication. MWIR sources based on optical nonlinear frequency conversion can generate broadly-tunable kilowatt-level coherent radiation over the entire MWIR spect ...