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Crowd management is an important task for civilian, police, and military groups that can be very difficult on its own, and becomes even more difficult in hostile environments. The difficulty comes from the many levels of granularity that events can happen at. Making such a system automated adds further challenges, due to difficulties with modeling and sensors. Accurate large-scale crowd models are ...

There is an urgent need detect humans hiding in shipping containers. ANI proposes an innovative chemical sensor that is miniaturized, robust, low power, low power, maintanence free, rapid responsive chemical sensor that reliably detects human(s) hiding in cargo shipping containers. ANI`s multi-sensor module is well capable of handling challenging environmental conditions in the container with mini ...

Concerns over chemical and biological weapons motivate interest in ¿smart¿ building technologies that incorporate a network of sensors for Chemical and Biological (CB) threat agents. Applied Nanotech, Inc. (ANI) proposes to collaborate with Lagus Applied Technology, Inc. (LAT) to develop and demonstrate a Sensor Network Design Tool (SNDT) for the optimal, rapid and verifiable deployment of CB se ...

In the recent past, government agencies from the US and other foreign countries have recognized the problem of orphaned radioactive sources worldwide. Such sources pose a security risk in the form of potential material for a ¿dirty bomb¿ or other illicit applications. We propose to replace Ni-63 beta emitters with a carbon nanotube based electric field ionization source. This CNT-based ionizatio ...

Many SOCOM-specific, passive, maritime, acoustic-surveillance operations cannot be accomplished using conventional sonar-system technologies. Maritime, passive-acoustic surveillance using some combination of submarines and the Advanced Deployable System is a traditional surveillance mission. But, the deployment and use of these capital-intensive assets for surveillance of many shallow-water passag ...

Continuity Solutions (CS), LLC. proposes to apply our experience and capability in developing scenario scripting tools for training to ensure the Department of Homeland Security is prepared to decisively perform in demanding situations. CS proposes a holistic, easy-to-use approach to comprehend and evaluate emergency preparedness requirements and associated responses. Our approach extends the trad ...

dFuzion engineers have worked with soldiers in several military exercises, including Naval Warfare Development Command¿s (NWDC) Fleet Battle Experiments and the Joint Forces Command¿s (JFCOM) Forward Look Experiments. In these experiment sets, we designed and developed a lightweight intelligent bandwidth video dissemination architecture that allowed soldiers with limited bandwidth capabilities t ...

Phase I of this project researches a new approach for collecting a higher degree of relevant bot executables by exploiting the infect vector weakness and by utilizing an inline device that both protects systems and captures the bot as it attempts to infect. Most recent botnet research relies on honeynets to collect bots. Reliance on a single collection mechanism, such as honeypots, creates a weakn ...

With the increasing number of biological agents that are likely to be used in terrorists¿ attacks, there is a significant need for an easy-to-use and practical biothreat detection system for homeland security. Lynntech`s fully automated BioAdvise biothreat evaluation module utilizes well-established sample preparation technology and an innovative, rapid, and multiplexed real-time PCR technology i ...

The proposed SBIR will develop a network of imaging sensors that are extremely small (50 mi) communications node that will relay data into a TCP/IP network to a serve based graphical user interface. The imaging sensor nodes will perform internal image processing to extract target features. A schema of target features will be developed that is compatible with MANET operation. The sensor nodes will ...