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This proposed effort is to fabricate the next generation of Printed Circuit Board (PCB) based antennas using Direct Digital Manufacturing (DDM).The PCB based antennas will be converted to Printed Circuit Structures (PCS) antennas will open up opportunities for small to large UAVs to be thoroughly integrated with electronic sensing systems at a reduced weight and lower cost.The end of this program ...

Obsolescence of electronic parts, and diminishing manufacturing sources and material shortages (DMSMS) for integrated circuits (ICs) has driven the need for innovation in systems support. Die extraction and reassembly (DER) technology has been demonstrated to be a feasible option for replacing monolithic military integrated circuits. This project will demonstrate the feasibility of building comple ...

To counter Anti-Access and Area-Denial (A2/AD), one strategy is to launch synchronized attack using countermeasure-adaptable weapons with tailored autonomy so as to saturate the threat and deliver increased lethal and selectable effects. Optimized Mesh-networking Platform Navigation (OMPIN) is hereby proposed to support networked heterogeneous munitions equipped with a disparity of sensing capabil ...

Securboration Inc. will focus on Pre-milestone A and develop an innovative tool to support Systems Engineering Enhancement of Digital-thread (SEED).Pre-milestone A was selected since it will have the greatest impact on the acquisition process if SEED is able to provide a living Analysis of Alternatives (AoA)/Draft Capabilities Development document that will be used to drive the Digital Thread/Digi ...

Earths outer radiation belt, which consists of electrons with hundreds of keV to MeV energies, is a highly dynamic and driven environment.The large variations in electron flux, if unaccounted for, can cause satellites that travel through this complex region to experience anomalous behavior ranging from temporary satellite outages due to electrostatic discharge events in system electronics to poten ...

SIFT proposes Network Enforcement Using TRansactONs (NEUTRON) a dynamic fine-grained network enforcement policy design that captures network dependencies.NEUTRON closes the knowledge gap between mission needs and observed network traffic to increase mission network awareness. Then using that knowledge develops a revolutionary security enforcement policy based on network transactions.It reduces the ...

Securboration is proposing to build a prototype tool called CRATE - Cyber Risk Assessment for Threatened Environments, which will take as input mission requirements and run-time transactions, and produce a mission-centric threat map (as opposed to network-node-centric which most COTS tools do) during execution. It will trace the run-time behavior of various processes in the system that expose thos ...

Recent technology advances have enabled the simulation community to achieve greater realism in virtual training environments, including physics-based simulated sensor views. As new methods for sensor view generation are developed, the lack of readily available supporting data to populate these specialized techniques limits their implementation. Currently the capability is not available to efficien ...

Truventic proposes to design, build and characterize a 5x5 array of fully functional MEMS-based plasmonic infrared scene projector pixels which operate at multiple wavelengths to support hardware-in-the-loop testing of missile seekers, forward looking IR cameras (FLIR), counter measure simulation and tracking systems. The approach avoids known limitations of resistive arrays and provides high dyna ...

As both the response speed and sensitivity of thermal imagers have improved significantly over recent years, new IRSP systems are needed to provide greater dynamic range and faster response speeds. Addressing these issues, as well as producing a cost effective and modular IRSP system will be critical for providing quality scene projection for the next generation of infrared imagers. To address the ...