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Under SciTec’s Atmospheric InfraRed Transmittance Calculator (AIRTraC) Small Business Innovative Research (SBIR) effort, we developed a software application to perform autonomous ingest and fusion of available atmospheric profile data with that collected by a ground-based meteorological station to improve the atmospheric correction process for remotely sensed data. SciTec extends this previous w ...

The objective of this study will be to develop technologies for recompiling legacy binaries to the secure CHERI ISA in support of DoD modernization priorities. Doing this would enable upgrading DoD systems processors and software by ruling out several important categories of security vulnerability that are possible on legacy architectures. However, recompilation is inherently a very difficult task ...

The vision of the CAMDEN project has been to explore the use of mechanism design as a solution to effectively incentivize and accelerate collaboration in critical DoD domains. Our Phase II goal is to “make it real” by building one or more deployable mechanism design solutions, demonstrating in a very tangible way how mechanism design can benefit the DoD. In the 8-month Phase 1 effort, we aimed ...

Due to exponential growth in complexity, current hardware designs cannot be thoroughly tested, which leads to significant hardware vulnerabilities reaching the field. Recent innovations in Model-Based Engineering (MBE) provide information flow analysis results that can be used to drive design state space partitioning – separating the design into multiple, individually verifiable portions – bas ...

Navigation of aircraft using the crustal magnetic field variation of the earth is a novel and developing technique for use in GPS-denied environments. Location estimation is accomplished by matching the magnetic field measurements in flight to a specific track on a magnetic map of the globe. Atomic scalar magnetometers are ideally suited for use on aircraft because they are not sensitive to aircra ...

We propose a two year program to develop an atomic vector magnetometer to replace standard commercial fluxgate magnetometers in use by the US Navy. Thousands of fluxgate magnetometers are used to measure ship magnetic signatures and they are often limited by low frequency drift. An vector magnetometer based on atomic spin will have significantly improved drift. The alkali metal atomic vector magne ...

The Generating Requirements Evidence with Analysis and System-level Enforcement (GREASE) project will develop a static binary verifier that generates evidence that COTS software components satisfy their requirements. The GREASE tool will accelerate both (1) the safe and high-assurance integration of COTS components into systems, and (2) the generation of assurance cases for the certification of sy ...

In this Phase II SBIR project, we will optimize the design and develop the growth processes and equipment to routinely produce large (through 150mm), high-quality, single-crystal cadmium zinc telluride (CdZnTe or CZT) bulk material suitable for the production of CZT substrates for producing larger and highest-performing long-wave infrared (LWIR) detector arrays. We are addressing these issues by i ...

Growing amounts of text and visual files are being stored in document archives at organizations' servers, network attached storage devices and cloud storage services. These archives contain valuable information that is not cataloged in a data-driven manner conducive to discovery.  Under an SBIR Phase II effort, Semandex developed Discovery, a cloud-based application that uses Natural Language Pro ...

In this SBIR project, we will optimize the design and develop the growth processes and equipment to routinely produce large, high-quality, single-crystal cadmium zinc telluride (CdZnTe or CZT) bulk material suitable for the production of CZT substrates for producing the highest-performing long-wave infrared (LWIR) detector arrays. Structured Materials Industries wished to improved manufacturing cr ...