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Our team has conducted a Phase 1 feasibility analysis of developing an Artificial Intelligence (AI) platform to augment and integrate into currently available biological aerosolized detectors in support of DHS and its BioWatchProgram.The BioWatch program was stood up in the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) in 2003.The program currently operates in more than 30 metropolitan jurisdictions and p ...

IoT devices expose greater security risks due to their limited resources, lack of security functions and maintenance. There is a fast-growing trend for cyber-attacks exploiting IoT system vulnerabilities. software based IoT security solutions cannot meet the stringent requirements of real-time detection high accuracy, and low performance overhead. Our goal is to a multi-level hardware-assisted thr ...

Ensemble intends to develop a proof-of concept Neutral Density Monitoring and Alert Service. To establish an innovative and accurate space weather analytics service, Ensemble has partnered with CU Boulder's SWx-TREC, who offer leading space weather research-to-operations support. Ensemble will create the foundational architecture for Neutral Density Alerts and Notifications for commercial satellit ...

Anthropogenic Radio-Frequency Interference (RFI), or interference from human-generated sources, continues to plague spaceborne microwave radiometer and sounder instruments. Unmitigated RFI adversely affects the quality and reliability of Earth remote sensing data used for determining water availability, quality, and risk. Proliferation of wireless technologies, Earth-orbiting commercial satellite ...

The threat posed by chemical agents extends beyond Toxic Industrial Chemicals (TICs) and Chemical Warfare Agents (CWAs) and has evolved to include lower volatility materials referred to as Non-Traditional Agents (NTAs). Similarly, illegally distributed and manufactured opioids, known collectively as pharmaceutical-based agents (PBAs), pose significant risk to emergency response teams and law enfor ...

The promise of personalized medicine can be realized in part via point-of-care 3D drug printing, but only if there are reliable quality measures available. Children and seniors may need custom or easy-to-swallow doses, a need now addressed only in a limited way by ad-hoc in-pharmacy compounding. Compliance-targeted enhancements such as flavor and shape choices are particularly important for childr ...

Existing airborne defense systems integrate a wide variety of sensors necessary to provide operators with situational awareness across the visual, thermal, signals, and electromagnetic spectrums. To date, individual sensor systems have been largely stove-piped, as have Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning (AI/ML) and advanced, Size, Weight, and Power (SWaP)-optimized data processing systems. T ...

Modern lithium ion batteries are known for their poor safety performance, with many reports of battery failure and fire having been reported. One of the major causes of battery fire is from the use of flammable solvents, such as organic carbonates, as the electrolyte. These hazards have long limited the usage of batteries in dangerous conditions, such as on the battlefield. To combat this issue, t ...

U.S. Coast Guard personnel monitoring radio transmissions of vessels at sea must be able to identify distress calls despite interference, degraded conditions, and the stressed speech of those in emergency situations. However, not all distress calls are genuine. Hoax calls can be intended as malicious pranks, due to intoxication, or to distract Coast Guard assets from other tasks such as drug inter ...

Natural, extreme climate change, and human-induced disasters bring together teams of scientists and practitioners supported by several agencies, such as NOAA, NASA, EPA, and FEMA. These scientists and practitioners work at monitoring for conditions leading to, working through, and recovering from disastrous events. They currently use state-of-the-art sensors capable of detecting hazardous gases an ...