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Internet worms have become a common occurrence, but they have yet to inflict significant damage on our information infrastructure. Security experts predict the dawn of a new age of superworms that are far more dangerous than those we have encountered, and whose speed, stealth, and destructive power pose a significant threat. One promising approach to preventing the spread of future worms is to ex ...

The DECISIVE ANALYTICS Team presents a suite of novel technique to perform distributed event correlation across distinct administrative domains while preserving privacy. Our approach for detecting attacks is based on the facts, prerequisites, and consequences of an attack. Such an approach allows us to detect well-known and stealthy attacks while also minimizing false alarms. Normal and suspicious ...

Special Operation Forces personnel require a rugged, miniature receiver that is capable of monitoring RF energy while deployed on a mission. The RF receiver will give a better picture of the electromagnetic threat environment enabling a heightened situational awareness, yet the device must be small enough that it does not hamper the SOF warfighter during missions requiring stealth and rapid mobil ...

What is proposed is a listener analysis of ultrasonic echoes generated in fluid filled tanks. Ultrasonic hearing humans is possible and the firm has a SBIR on a related device for the blind. The company also has the rights to an ultrasonic hearing air patent. The brain is capable of extracting the ultrasonic signal from the tank

Current bioaerosol monitoring strategies rely on inertia-based sampling and suffer from high power consumption and low efficiency limitations. In contrast, our overall objective is to design and demonstrate a novel electrostatic sampler that provides dramatic improvements including low power requirement (90% for 1-10mm), high viability (>80%), scalability for varying threat scenarios, low noise, a ...

The worldwide ocean going freight transportation infrastructure, known as the Marine Transportation System (¿MTS¿) is the cornerstone of the global economic well-being. Approximately ninety percent of all cargo moves via the MTS. However, one need only look to the open movement of containerized cargo to find simple, effective, and efficient means of large-scale economic damage. The result is a c ...

The goal of this SBIR Phase I project is to develop supersensitive MPD enabled, binding assays for detection of BW agent using aptamers as the capture molecules instead of antibodies. Multi Photon Detection (MPD) is the most sensitive methods for protein detection and achieved a few zeptomole sensitivity. MPD enabled immunoassays will be developed first and from these Super-ELISA methods will be d ...

TecSec’s CKM technology and tool kit will be used to develop an effective, easy to use, Secure Cryptographic Management System (SCMS) to protect SCADA systems/network. The management scheme will be designed to meet all unique requirements for SCADA/DCS operations, and provide a seamless migration of future protection schemes. The SCMS facilitates an RBAC methodology that can be set up to reflect ...

ITAC will research the latest in communication and collection technologies, and develop a plug and play, scaleable architecture to satisfy SOF portable command center needs. At the completion of Phase I, a demonstration will be provided of a seamless communications and collection capability, which can monitor a local communications/electronic warfare environment, coordinate the collection process ...

Prototype two SORAD units based on design developed in Phase I to meet SOF requirements and conduct the following research with the integrated hardware and software. - Conduct a Military Utility Assessment (MUA) with SOF personnel to assess human factors for man portable, standoff sensors and refine conceptual user interface from phase I design. - Test SORADS in austere SOF environments to ens ...