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For many programs, it would be desirable to fail fast in the face of attack in order to preserve confidentiality and integrity. We propose a tool to statically rewrite binaries to increase their fragility, adding this fail-fast property. We will operate on binaries to maximize the number of programs we can protect. Binary rewriting can be applied to any program without cooperation from the compile ...

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Research the use of laser powder bed fusion to provide a lower cost method to manufacture complex geometries in C103 and other refractory metals.

The implementation of microgrids at military bases will improve both security and energy management through expanding the use of renewables, while reducing the dependence on both diesel generators and grid connections for mission critical systems. GridBridge, a developer of advanced grid-based power management systems, will develop a miniature microgrid substation, the Grid Energy Router, to provi ...

The Windlift MPWES will utilize proven principle of airborne wind energy to improve the energy density of man portable renewable energy systems by an more than an order of magnitude relative to existing systems such as the Ground Renewable Expeditionary Energy Network System (GREENS) project. The MPWES system will deploy a 75 lb., tethered quadcopter coupled to a 145 lb., 10kW-hr battery pack capa ...

The Visual Performance (VP) team proposes to design, construct, test, and refine the design of a Display Measurement Toolkit (DMT) that will allow SimCert and ISE professionals to rapidly measure display systems and compute the 14 metrics defined in the Phase I report. These metrics include: static, blend, and dynamic resolution, sampling artifact magnitude, luminance, contrast, channel and blend ...

As the Navys fleet of Unmanned Air Systems (UAS) continue to grow so do the desired capabilities of these systems. Of specific interest is the extension of range and endurance through the use of autonomous aerial refueling. This presents a unique challenge to the control law development of the UAS as autonomous refueling can be susceptible to many external variables including atmospheric gusts and ...

Corvid is pleased to offer an innovative load path management solution to ensure the survivability of electronic fuze components in multi-frequency shock environments. Covids solution is superior to conventional encapsulation, potting, and underfill methods by offering mass efficient mitigation of damaging SRS conditions, increased structural integrity, and being detachable. Risk and development t ...

Submarine applications for antennas are severely constricted by mission constraints for stealth and force protection. High fidelity fiber optic links could potentially open a new range of mission capabilities by enabling towed antenna arrays that could be accessed while submerged. However, to date RF photonic links have had insufficient noise performance and/or dynamic range to satisfy these missi ...

The main focus of this research will be to develop effective modeling toolboxes to analyze CM current/voltage behaviors and fault conditions at any part of the power system in a cost and time effective way. The toolbox will assist with grounding strategies and enhance the baseline design. A CM equivalent circuit model [3] has been developed to analyze the CM current/voltage behaviors. In this work ...