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The Air Force Research Lab's Software Protection Initiative has a mission to prevent unauthorized distribution and exploitation of application software critical to national security. That mission has led to investment to develop advanced software protections, including the use of rootkit-like methods that provide anti-piracy and anti-reverse engineering protection critical to software application ...

The goal of this Phase II research is to synergistically combine the novel Electrical Resistance Change Method (ERCM), the guided wave inspection method, and the robust processing algorithms for nondestructive evaluation and inspection of composite structures. The ERCM has key advantages such as low cost, no strength reduction, the capability to detect and locate delaminations and cracks, no need ...

Recent terrorist activities and law-enforcement situations involving hostage situations underscore the need for effective through-the-wall surveillance (TWS). Current building interior imaging systems are based on short-pulse waveforms, which are easily recognizable by the intelligent adversary who may employ countermeasures to confound detection. We propose a coherent continuous-wave ultrawideban ...

In Phase I, we have shown the feasibility of our unique attack graph approach: separating different graph types during modeling, integrating abstract and network-specific knowledge for actual attack graph creation, and generating real-time graphs for situational awareness. This unique approach renders appropriate balance for the critical tradeoff between model semantics and scalability, whereas pr ...

The goal of the prototype planned for this Phase II effort is to provide non-neurosurgeons with the training to successfully perform burr hole and cranial flap procedures in patients with head trauma. The work will include underlying mathematical and engineering frameworks; computer graphics modeling, including that of the skull, brain, vasculature, and dura; visual, auditory, and haptics display; ...

Our Phase I work has demonstrated the feasibility of wirelessly transmitting strain data from a rotating jet engine to an external data collection system. In Phase II, we will develop a prototype Wireless Strain Gage (WSG) system with these components: (1) Wireless Strain Gages (WSG). The objective WSG device is a conformal "postage stamp" transponder that can be bonded onto a curved surface, just ...