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From pharmaceuticals and stimulants to industrial chemicals like pesticides and plastic components, the number of contaminants in waste, surface, and groundwater is increasing astronomically. As the hazardous limits of some of these toxins are as low as the 1 part-per-trillion (ppt) range, very sensitive analytical techniques are required. A variety of techniques exist, but they are expensive, lab ...

The goal of the proposed effort is to develop polychlorinated biphenyls (PCB)-free pigments and synthetic pathways that do not unintentionally generate PCB as byproducts. This effort will harness Kebotix’s existing AI-powered platform, which includes a workflow that controls high-throughput computational modeling of molecules and materials, proprietary machine learning methods for process contro ...

Behavior change through the use of messages is a common objective across the Defense community. The ability for analysts to craft effective messages is a challenge, and there are many features of messages that can be varied and that have moderating effects on sharing messages and creating effective behavior change. However, current research has not established definitive causal relationships betwe ...

Artificial intelligence (AI) is swiftly integrating into the workforce and complementing the human as a teammate. AI imbued with social reasoning capacities, or artificial social intelligence (ASI), is posited as the next avenue of technological advancement. However, researchers have begun to note some of the pitfalls of careless or quick implementation of AI without proper consideration of the we ...

This project will establish the clear feasibility of bonded GaN-GaAs heterostructures to enable wide-bandgap heterojunction bipolar transistors (HBTs) with an unprecedented combination of high power, speed, and linearity at high frequencies (>10 GHz). Over the past decade, GaN-based high electron mobility transistors (HEMTs) have matured in reliability and performance and set the standard in high- ...

In this Direct to Phase II project, we propose to develop the first concealable and persistent IR sensors that meet all stringent requirements on size (< 2 cm3), battery lifetime (> 5 years), accuracy (Probability of Detection > 95%, False Alarm Rate < 1/month) for wireless people presence detection in defense and intelligence applications. In particular, this effort will aggressively enhance the ...

GreenSight proposes to develop the Secure Advanced Attrittable Aerial Asset (SA4) aircraft, an ultra low cost but high performance SUAS designed for be used in a variety of advanced swarm combat CONOPs. SA4 combines high performance with low cost by taking advantage of novel manufacturing, tooling and material selections. The aircraft is designed for low cost manufacturing, with a simplified low ...

Mobility superiority is a force multiplier, allowing for military assets to respond to changing battlefield conditions quickly and unpredictably. Ground and sea-based platforms designed to transport troops and supplies have been utilized for millennia; however, they are limited by the terrain in which they are deployed. Aerial vehicles overcome these limitations by operating above the obstacles en ...

Complex military missions have failed in the past due to poor planning, wherein critical contextual elements of the mission environment, team, equipment, and/or contingencies were missed. Furthermore, important information is often lost in transition from planning to action stages in teamwork due to memory leaks and communication errors. The ultimate success of a mission relies on gathering and ca ...

BlueRISC’s proposed solution provides a new, fundamental approach to enabling the validation of COTS software with respect to a set of defined requirements. The solution is built on a generic program analytic framework for processing and validating against requirements. The proposed solution operates strictly at the binary-level and does so in a processor/ISA-agnostic manner. The solution automa ...