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Salo IT Solutions, Inc. will design and implement the Wide-area, Environmental Sensing and alterTing network (WESTnet) protocols, a next-generation suite of wireless network protocols that will provide enhanced services for hydrologic warning systems and other large-scale, wide-area environmental monitoring activities. The WESTnet protocols will offer significant functionality over that available ...

The objective of this proposal is to demonstrate the feasibility of developing a novel field programmable gate array (FPGA) based physical unclonable function (PUF) with higher entropy than current implementations, the feasibility of creating PUF based RNGs, and PUF based authentication algorithms. These PUFs will be used to ensure intellectual property (IP) is protected, to prevent tampering with ...

Space Photonics plans on using state of the art failure analysis tools to detect the differneces between the netlist sent to the untrusted foundry and the IC under evaluation. In subsequent versions, SPI plans to identify extranious features and label them for the user

Applied Colloids proposes the use of a unique heating method to degass cryomilled powders for use in Metal Matrix Composites (MMCs). This method is low-cost and scaleable to production quantities. Phase I of this program will degass nanostructured aluminum-boron carbide powders at the rate of 20 pounds per eight hours. Cryomilled powders will be supplied by Bepex International, a company famili ...

The purpose of this SBIR research is to develop an Indium Oxide (InOx) inhibitor coating for applications to high performing Large Format and High Definition FPAs with a fast hybridization cycle time and high yield. The primary constraint for this method of hybridization is an Indium Oxide layer present on the surface of the Indium bumps at elevated temperatures. The Indium Oxide layer, at the sca ...

There is currently no commercial-off-the-shelf network-management tool optimized for mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs). As a result, MANET administrators are forced to use wired-network management tools that perform badly in the MANET environment. Carver is a MANET management tool comprised of distributed data-collection agents and one or more visualization stations. The data-collection agents logic ...

The proposed Integrative Communications Effects Environment (ICEE) enables the creation of a"mixed-mode"test environment where live, virtual, and constructive nodes can exchange data with one another during realtime test execution. ICEE bridges the mixed-mode testing capability gap, combining constructive (simulated), virtual (mostly real hardware), and live (completely real hardware) nodes. ICEE ...

To address the Army need for development of designed-by-reliability zero-maintenance air filtration system for modernization of military air filtration systems for ground vehicles to increase the system service life and reduce operation and support costs, BuckyTech, LLC proposes to develop an Embedded Resonated Screen Air Filtration device, based on a new, highly efficient nano-fiber mesh with emb ...

Inflammation has been implicated in the etiology of many pain disorders and diseases including myalgia, arthralgia, tendonitis and dental and bone irritation. In the U.S., patients spend approximately USD $3 billion each year on over-the-counter drugs. NSAIDs possess anti-inflammatory, analgesic and antipyretic activities, and are therefore widely used to treat acute and chronic inflammatory dis ...

As a conductive material for EMI shielding, carbon nanotubes hold significant promise. Carbon nanotubes are conductive, nanometer-thin fibers that can be many microns in length. They are a mechanically robust material—100 times stronger than high-strength steel and six times lighter. Carbon nanotubes can stretch beyond 20% of their resting length without damaging their structure or conductivity. ...