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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 ...

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 ...

Rampart Communications, Inc. has developed a cryptographically secure RF modulation. Using our product, Unitary Braid Division Multiplexing (UBDM), we hypothesize that we can build a radio that has lower SWaP and better performance than any options available to date. In this feasibility study we will analyze channel models, determine the optimal physical layer OSI configuration, and conduct a side ...

Intelligence analysts without on-site translators are often relegated to use existing online translation services that limit non-English text translation to small blocks of text with a finite number of characters. Today’s translation services do not generate contextual information about entity relationships within the text or provide advanced analytical tools (e.g., sentiment or topic extraction ...

 It is imperative that operators and analysts are equipped to securely and efficiently leverage the most operationally relevant data sources available. To prepare for the GPC, Special Operations Command (SOCOM) Futures continues to investigate and operationalize innovative tools to enable the SOF operator’s information dominance in environments where time sensitivity, low visibility, and covert ...

While increases in maritime shipping traffic continue on an exponential trend, marine mammals, especially the critically endangered Right whale, is experiencing ever increasing injuries and deaths due to ship strikes and fishing gear entanglements. This SBIR seeks to combine two fielded prototype technologies- a parafoil built for the US Navy (TALONS), and a whale detection sensor system that woul ...

Atmospheric Rivers (AR) transport large volumes of water vapor outside the tropics and, when making landfall, produce large quantities of rain that replenish aquifers, contribute to beneficial increases in snowpack, yet can cause flooding and significant damage to property and lives. Accurate forecasts of precipitation during landfalling ARs are critical because of their large role in water supply ...

Traditionally, common operational pictures (COPs) have focused on portrayal of GEOINT products. Warfighters need situational awareness of the cyber domain merged with these products. Elements of interest in cyberspace include computer systems, networks, network-enabled systems, and the electromagnetic spectrum. To support mission command, operators need processing tools that are adaptive to new an ...

Special operations (SO) are often conducted at great distances from the supporting operational bases and depend critically on situational awareness to perform precision strikes and achieve scalable lethal or nonlethal effects. To accomplish this, the SOF warrior must have the smallest yet most effective antenna that can be integrated with his uniform and which can facilitate maintenance of UHF SAT ...