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MEVLABS will develop a novel vector control device, composed of non-toxic biodegradeable material that can be formed into various containers. The device will be designed to slowly release attractants and toxicants and will be effective on both adult and larvae mosquitoes. The device will be air-deployable or can be hung by hand and will be camouflaged to match the operational environment and incor ...

The nature of complex combat operations must now include adversaries that have peer-level capabilities, such as the ability to locate friendly troops by their transmissions and jam their radios so they can’t call for help, setting them up for attack. However, critical to all combat scenarios, regardless of adversary capability levels, is the need to command, control, communicate and exchange inf ...

AQUILA proposes adapting a commercially available nanodot technology to embed a small Optically Stimulated Luminescence (OSL) dosimeter into a Common Access Card (CAC), or some other military ID card. The nanodot dosimetry approach can be adapted to the size of a CAC, which is approximately 8.6 cm (3.37 in) high by 5.4 cm (2.125 in) wide. The typical thickness is about 0.8 mm (0.03 in). The OSL re ...

To address the performance degradation of fixed scheduling policies used by TDMA-based tactical networks in contested and congested environments, a distributed cognitive TDMA scheduling and anti-jamming protocol is proposed. Technical approach consists of: 1. Developing a deep learning (DL) classifier for jammer/interference identification and automatic detection of network congestion that exchang ...

Autonomous emplacement of sensors and unmanned ground vehicles by airdrop requires that the payload stay upright after impact and that the parachute, container, and any impact attenuation is derigged from the payload automatically after landing. The 5-50 lb payload scale of sensors and small unmanned ground vehicles offers tremendous freedom for rapid innovation in airdrop technology. The design s ...

Prototypes of ultra-flexible, high efficiency photovoltaic power generation units will be fabricated and tested in two campaigns. Initial batch of 15 units will provide the processing, fabrication and characterization data necessary to evaluate the initial designs. Based on the results of the first batch, a second batch of 20 units will be fabricated and tested. Detailed process, tool and manufact ...

Verus Research is pleased to respond to the A16-123 Army Phase-II SBIR solicitation. To meet the Army’s Phase-II requirements in a risk-mitigated fashion, Verus Research will leverage its innovative “Ferengi” family-of-antennas technology which was conceived, designed, and experimentally demonstrated by Verus Research under the previous Army-funded Phase-I Base A16-123 SBIR effort. For the p ...

One key concern of the Strategic Capabilities Office (SCO) is the security component of the “Asia-Pacific Rebalance” where the Chinese anti-access/area denial (A2/AD) policy threatens regional security. In response to A2/AD our forces in the Pacific require more affordable and rapidly deployable alternatives to costly missile defense such as large caliber projectiles for Navy electroma ...

R-DEX Systems proposes to adapt its commercial discrimination technology used in industrial automation to develop Deep Automatic Target Recognition (DATR) Technology. DATR utilizes revolutionary deep learning processing (deep belief networks or DBNs, restricted Boltzmann machines RBMs, and convolutional neural networks or CNNs) to automatically identify hidden, nonlinear features that are not iden ...

The Chemical and Biological Defense (CBD) Program requires advanced standoff sensor technology that can provide more comprehensive threat information to enhance situational awareness and improve force protection. Historically, CBD and Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR) sensors have been developed with a focus on the individual missions, with little effort applied to developing int ...