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In this project we propose to develop an end-to-end high performance system for cross document entity consolidation. The problems tackled are person name disambiguation, personal alias detection as well as location name disambiguation. Performance on alias detection is proposed to be enhanced by using the results of entity consolidation in a second pass. Flexibility to configure and use additio ...

This Phase II project will develop lightweight, wide bandwidth, and affordable antenna technologies by integrating VHF (30-300 MHz) / UHF (300-512 MHz) communications antenna and GPS L1/L2 band (1.575/1.227 GHz) antenna into the UAV structure to provide multiband, 360-degree coverage without significant impact on aerodynamics, and designed to occupy the smallest practical surface area at the lowes ...

A new complementary approach is proposed to identify, characterize and integrate high temperature materials into harsh environment diagnostic systems. Program partner URI will sputter candidate conductive oxides with continuously varying levels of doping. Test specimens will be fabricated and systematically assessed using combinatorial synthesis to determine which exhibit the most favorable charac ...

The US military must provide the right information to its warfighters in a timely manner. This must be done securely, to a large variety of mobile devices across different networks, in different formats, and using multiple protocols. Mobile devices should be used to receive information from the network, gather data, and send it to the network. The commercial products for these purposes do not mee ...

Clear Science Corp. proposes to develop Aeroelastic Model Updating (AMU) software that enables safer, more efficient and accurate flutter testing of military aircraft. Aircraft certification involves a battery of expensive and sometimes risky flight tests. The proposed tool will reduce costs by reducing required hours of flutter testing and will reduce risk by providing supplemental aeroelastic- ...

Critical technology is increasingly encoded as software, exposing it to risk of loss when deployed on platforms in hostile environments. Because of this, special anti-tamper hardware may be incorporated into a device to prevent access to the software. The platform may also include insecure hardware resources, due to reasons of cost or power. There is a need to structure software in such a way that ...

Distributed systems have become too complex to develop and maintain without the aid of mathematical techniques supported by automated tools.  Abstraction has been the most reliable means for gaining intellectual control of such complexities.  Over the past several years, ATC-NY and Cornell University have developed the event logic formalism to support specification and reasoning about distribute ...

Upgrading a service in a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) can be costly and inefficient, especially since in SOA environments services typically depend on other services in a system-of-systems context. ATC-NY, together with Architecture Technology Corporation, will develop WIRE (Web service Interface Revision Environment), a system designed to efficiently manage version problems in a large dist ...

The Air Force has identified a need for the development of predictive design tools that can be used to accurately determine the fatigue life of components containing both applied and engineered residual stresses and determine the optimal location and processing parameters for residual stress introduction. Impact Technologies proposes to develop an integrated analysis tool that will achieve this o ...

Several high-fidelity computational schemes and turbulence-combustion interaction models, including the option for high-order spatial and temporal calculations, are proposed to significantly improve the accuracy and turnaround time for practical scramjet engine design and performance analysis. The proposed enhancements of existing tools, such as the government-owned VULCAN computer program, focus ...