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Narratives organize and motivate social networks, enabling them to process and interpret complex events and take individual and collective action in response. However, while past work on narrative extraction and analysis provides useful ‘snapshots’ of a narrative at a given point in time, it generally fails to 1) distinguish over-arching, foundational narratives from concrete, focal events tha ...

Operations against near peer adversaries will occur in aggressive electronic warfare (EW) environments. Problematically, widely used GPS signals are inherently weak, and can be easily overwhelmed by malicious, or interfering signals, thus vulnerable to jamming. Current anti-jamming/anti-spoofing systems are of varying degrees of effectiveness, with additional size, weight, power, and cost (SWaP-C) ...

Low Probability of Detection (LPD) is a critical characteristic in modern covert waveform design to protect Soldiers and enable mission success. Increasingly, adversaries are able to detect LPD waveforms designed using traditional methods such as Direct Sequence Spread-Spectrum by using cyclostationary analysis techniques. In this Phase I effort, Cryptic Vector will leverage our existing featurele ...

Ultralight Industries Corporation, working with MIT Lincoln Laboratory proposes to assess the feasibility of an adaptable, scalable and efficient digital phased array that allows intelligent simultaneous RF multitasking and rapid iteration of core and tenant capabilities defined in software at the speed of relevance. Through this project, we will assess what is in the art of the possible for a low ...

The Whisper Next Gen WiGig project plans to evaluate optimization opportunities within the IEEE WiGig (60 GHz) standard for use cases as a potential low size, weight, and power tactical ultra-secure communications capability for Special Operations Command (SOCOM). It has the potential to be a highly secure, covert and reliable data transmission link for soldiers or indigenous allies in hostile env ...

The demand for rechargeable energy storage systems with greater specific energy and improved power density continues to increase to support current and next generation soldier-assisting electronics and unmanned aerial, underwater, and ground vehicles (UAVs, UUVs, UGVs). Insufficient electrical power and energy can directly impede military missions by inhibiting infantry and vehicle performance, sa ...

Organophosphorus nerve agents are highly toxic chemicals that can cause severe adverse effects upon exposure, including respiratory failure and death. In severe cases, up to 100 mg of atropine sulfate (AS) may be required to control cholinergic symptoms. Such a requirement could not be easily met with commercially available formulations, since too many vials would be needed to deliver up to 100 mg ...

Early in the covid pandemic, decentralized and democratized AM of PPE was activated to alleviate supply chain failures that prevented normal suppliers of devices like face shields to meet the demands of the domestic health care system. Quality control testing, while critical to reducing risk by ensuring appropriate, safe, and reliable parts, is a time intensive and equipment intensive process. As ...

Expansion of aquaculture production depends crucially on the development of technologies that are able to perform functions important in a fish farming facility, without human input. For instance, early detection of a disease or parasite outbreak is critical in intensive aquaculture settings. Parasites, such as Sea Lice in Salmonid aquaculture are responsible for large losses. Existing options for ...

Additive manufacturing is a growing area of advanced manufacturing (AM) and is comprised of joining multiple layers of materials to build up an object. There are various AM processes but many of them have risks of ensuring that the interfacial bonds between layers are sufficient. A material can potentially be insufficiently bonded at the layer interface creating a threat of delamination and materi ...