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Team Mystic Spear will identify and procure a best-in-class software package capable of identifying, interrogating, extracting, correlating, and fusing data from sensors into a standard dashboard of USSOCOM’s choosing. We will also discuss APIs and all things access with smaller Smart Cities that also have Port facilities to determine any less obvious sensor/data feeds. From this research we wil ...

According to National Transportation Research, 43% of the public roadways throughout the U.S. are in poor or mediocre condition. With over 4 million miles of public roadways in the United States moving nearly $17 trillion of goods across the nation, it is critical that improvements are made to the resurfacing methods currently employed to maintain our transportation infrastructure. To achieve a te ...

A cyber-physical trust anchor is an essential component of a secure additive manufacturing supply chain. Customer discussions show a strong need for low-cost trust anchors as well as high-security, more costly trust anchors. The concept underlying our trust anchor enables implementations that can be described as good, better, best. The two physical-digital components are first embedded digital cod ...

Antenna capabilities are critical to acquiring warfighter intelligence collection, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) using a variety of receiver platforms, requiring agility in frequency, bandwidth, gain, directionality, polarization, and durability. Dynamically and automatically reconfigurable antenna connection concepts are proposed herein, by applying recently available lightweight, low po ...

Radio Frequency (RF) Fingerprinting is an important capability for the warfighter to identify threats and protect against malicious attacks on the RF spectrum. Most RF Fingerprinting techniques work by identifying small variations in a transmitted signal that are introduced by hardware components (capacitors, inductors, etc) of the transmitter within the non-linear regions of operation. Neural Net ...

DTRA’s mission requires finding the match between the research and definition of explosive’s formulation and warhead performance properties and the defining of the expected explosive effects to defeat target structures (e.g., produce fragmentation, perform some chemical, biological defeats) which are different target effects than “simply blowing things up” (e.g., fragmentation).  Even in ...

Mechanical metamaterials are a class of advanced materials that use repeated three-dimensional geometric patterns to endow common materials with new, enhanced, and superior material properties. The “meta” in “metamaterials” refers to the geometric pattern, while the “material” can be a metal, polymer, ceramic, etc. Our expertise focuses on the design and production of mechanical metama ...

Prescriptive and Predictive Decision Analytics have proven invaluable in helping the USAF sustain combat support goals. The challenge lies not just with the analytics but in aggregating mountains of varied data and exploiting information; data curation is the real goldmine. Humans lack the ability to provide real-time data curation of the deluge of new data. Machine Learning (ML) is now providing ...

A generalized network topology-aware algorithm has been developed that efficiently maps structured and unstructured domains onto available nodes to minimize MPI message passing costs. The methodology utilizes sub-domain inter-dependency information, readily available from standard domain decomposition codes, along with a simulated annealing optimization technique to automatically assign sub-blocks ...

This proposal describes the development of a generalized toolkit that enables improved and automated mapping of partitioned subdomains onto available distributed compute nodes for applications operating within pure-MPI or hybrid-MPI parallel runtime environments. This toolkit may be invoked either as an independent pre-processing step or as a dynamic library, improving an applications real-time do ...