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Advances have been made in the radar detection of IED/EFPs. However, multiple targets are detected in a clutter rich environment. Current radar systems cannot discriminate a threat from a non-threat, therefore all detections must be treated as potential threats and either remediated or avoided. This proposal proposes a system for improved radar target detection, discrimination and target identific ...

This proposal addresses the development of a sensor capable of detecting IEDs and EFPs under camouflage and in the presence of urban clutter. The proposed sensor builds upon previous ZAI efforts. The system proposed for this new effort consists of a new full polarimetric (FulPol) array of antenna elements which will provide for an increase in the returned energy from the target and an increase in ...

Body wearable antennas are needed in the context of Tactical Network Communications for the Land Warrior/Ground Soldier System ensembles. Specific bands of interest are 225-1000 MHz and 1350-2700 MHz. These frequency bands are particularly vulnerable to signal cancellations due to multipath. Moreover, body worn antennas often lead to gain losses (as much are 10 to 15dB less gain). As result of the ...

Aurora Flight Sciences proposes a comprehensive set of sensing, estimation, and control techniques to enable urban flight in the face of gusts and other disturbances. Biological entities utilize a number of sensory mechanisms to insure stable flight with respect to their surroundings and reject disturbances. Some of these mechanisms are suitable for adaptation into engineering systems that are s ...

Develop a prototype Wireless Denial of Service (DoS) system (WADAR) to detect, characterize and mitigate DoS phenomenon which threaten 802.11 networks performance. The proposal culminates in a prototype demonstration. The WADAR system focuses threats that range from inadvertent to intentional and from simple to complex RF waveforms. WADAR will provide mitigation based upon detected threats and wil ...

Reconstruction and Stabilization (R&S) operations are a trans-disciplinary challenge that must be met through the establishment of an enterprise-wide planning culture that dynamically assembles and maintains an R&S community of interest (COI) encompassing U.S. agencies, allies, international and non-governmental organizations. USJFCOM and the Department of State’s Office of the Coordinator for R ...

During Phase I of this research, we developed the GeoSpatial Temporal Evidential Reasoning System (GEOSTEERS) Phase I to III vision. GEOSTEERS provides the necessary capabilities for users to interactively transfer subject matter knowledge and experience into computational probability models. GEOSTEERS provides the following capabilities: discovery of relationships, patterns and connections betw ...

Technology to aid in the understanding of intelligence data has not kept pace with the technology used to generate and store the data. This imbalance has led to a situation where the time required for an analyst to understand the content of a data set and mine the relevant information far exceeds the time available to the mission they support. The root of the problem is a mismatch between the me ...

The U.S. Army Natick Soldier Center (NSC) and Army Materiel Systems Analysis Activity (AMSAA) are leading an effort to develop a robust constructive force-on-force simulation that accurately represents individual Ground Soldiers (GS) and dismounted Small Combat Units (SCU). The purpose of the Infantry Warrior Simulation (IWARS) is to assess the impact and value of information on small unit operat ...

One of the causes of derailments occurs when the track gage is no longer compliant with the FRA track safety standards for gage measurments. Ensuring track gage is in compliance with the FRA track safety standards is therefore of paramount importance to the FRA. Currently, the FRA wishes to develop a non-contact track gage measurement system that overcomes the limitations of current systems (unr ...