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This technology project aims to advance the art of aviation in reducing - by almost an order of magnitude - landing and takeoff distance for diverse aircraft. AEREON will exploit the "dynamic lift" phenomenon, emulating the technology/technique of birds. Such technology accomplishment will respond to the Phase I SBIR Topic "To Enhance the Navy's Warfighting Capabilities" (enabling very short-field ...

In Phase 1 we will demonstrate the feasibility of integrating high-speed InP-based HEMTs with ASIP's proprietary asymmetric twin waveguide photonic integration technology. A common source HEMT driver transistor will be integrated with a simple, asymmetric twin waveguide (ATG) compatible laser. In Phase 2, we will extend this feasibility demonstration to demonstrate an EPIC consisting of a single ...

Multiple Hypothesis Tracking (MHT) is an increasingly important element of the sensor-to-shooter computational chain. However, modern MHT methods are still limited in their ability to integrate multiple sources of information to reduce ambiguity, and in their ability to sustain multiple hypotheses over long periods of time. These limitations reduce the quality of products delivered by MHT systems. ...

By tapping into recent research in Logic Programming, Databases and Human-Computer Interaction, Deductive Solutions proposes to develop a deductive extension to the spreadsheet. This tool is intended as an automated assistant for the daily reasoning and decision-making needs of computer users, in the same way as the traditional spreadsheet assists them every day with calculations ...

In modern military operating environments, military personnel are faced with the challenge of accomplishing more with less human resources. To meet this challenge, each personnel must be able to function optimally. In other words, each operator's cognitive resources must be maximized and delegation of tasks by supervisors to each operator must be based upon knowledge of the soldier's remaining cog ...

There is a large and growing demand for chemical sensors in various uses, including sensitive detection of chemical warfare agents, detection of gas leaks of various sorts, air quality monitoring, and to monitor various chemical processes. As chemical sensors become less expensive, less obtrusive, and more readily networked for computer control, they will become ubiquitous in sensing and controlli ...

Phraselator is a handheld speech recognizer/machine translator developed by previous DARPA programs and it is currently in use in Iraq and Afghanistan. As in all existing automatic speech recognition systems, the recognition performances of the Phraselator can be degraded seriously by background military noises and extraneous talking. The objective of this project is to solve the problems and make ...

This proposal defines unique and promising solutions for robust and sequential emotional and stress state recognition in military operational environments. The solutions are non-invasive, multi-modality approaches, including speech, video, and thermal images. The feature sets are selected automatically based on the operational environments. For example, when the environment is too noisy, the syste ...

The objective of the Phase I proposal is to show feasibility of the modeling and simulation of electro-radiation effects using an application programming interface (API) based approach. The techniques used in the demonstration will be: * Behavioral modifications of a standard MOS model. * Automated VHDL-AMS code generation from the modeling tool. * The use of a well-defined API to an AMS simula ...

The goal of the project is to (a) further develop an innovative in-situ real-time characterization tool for nanoimprint lithography (NIL) processes and (b) in-situ template cleaning using a laser beam. The characterization tool is based on real-time diffractive scatterometry and can measure many important imprint parameters (e.g. imprint depth, imprint speed, the resist deformations, etc) in-situ ...