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5G technology is targeting very high throughput, low power, and low latency, which will benefit not only commercial but also tactical communication systems. Operating in millimeter wave (mmWave) bands provides high bandwidths to meet the ever-growing throughput demands in shared spectrum environments. However, 5G waveform, as it is, does not satisfy Army’s requirements on jamming resistance, low ...

A Directed Energy (DE) system able to remotely disrupt packaged electronics in a realistic target in less than a few milliseconds are of interest, especially if the solution may be scaled to neutralize targets more than 1 km away. The long dwell times as well as high electrical and cooling requirements associated with high power microwave and continuous wave (CW) laser systems restrict their deplo ...

Military platforms and personnel rely on Global Positioning System (GPS) for precision navigation and targeting, to enhance situational awareness, improve command and mission effectiveness, and to operate more safely. However, Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS – including GPS and other similar systems such as Galileo, GLONASS) rely on very low-powered signals susceptible to threats from j ...

Melanin-based biomaterials present novel solutions to radiation shielding/countermeasures, camouflage, and insulation, among others. A scalable and sustainable production process for natural melanins is needed to support the R&D and commercialization of melanin-based technologies. MelaTech proposes to develop a fermentation system that involves a novel, rapid melanin isolation process to yield gra ...

This Phase I STTR proposal addresses the development of a low cost electrically conductive obscurant, with functionality in the visible and IR spectra. A commercial low-cost state of the art PVD process that is currently used to manufacture aluminum nanoflake will be adopted to produce copper nanoflakes with surface interference layers designed to produce conductive flakes that have a black appear ...

Current state-of-the-art object detection algorithms are almost exclusively based on Deep Convolutional Neural Network (DCNN). These algorithms all require a large amount of labeled examples for each of the object categories they can recognize. These algorithms will fail for novel objects that only very few or even no prior examples are available. These algorithms are also far less accurate when c ...

Friction stir additive manufacturing (FSAM) will be utilized for repair, fabrication and processing of Titanium components and sub-assemblies for high performance military applications. The innovation will address the issue of part distortion resulting from high residual stresses imposed during traditional fusion welding based additive manufacturing techniques. In addition to enhancing dimensional ...

The meteoric rise of personally identifying information (PII) created and shared online is unprecedented. The sheer volume of open source intelligence available on sites such Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, message forums, Instagram, etc. makes the task of collecting and organizing OSINT increasingly laborious for analysts. Zeuss has already built and tested an operational product that addresses this ...

Wireless communication systems are critical components of Department of Defense (DoD) information operations, such as tactical mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs) and control of unmanned vehicles. These systems must offer trusted and reliable mission-oriented information exchange over the air in contested, congested, and adversary battlefield scenarios. The broadcast nature of the wireless communicati ...

Advances in multi-core computing systems, networking, mobile and smart devices, complex software and Internet have enabled the development of revolutionary capabilities that have served many fields across industry, military and academia. However, along with these advances, vulnerabilities in the computing systems stemming from failure to enforce the semantics of computation, have led to an ever in ...