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There are two main focus areas in this proposal. The first is to transition a number of successful DARPA projects into the Open Group Sensor (Open System Architecture) SOSA™ Consortium. The second is to develop a system that can evaluate current and future key management architectures.

The promise of personalized medicine can be realized in part via point-of-care 3D drug printing, but only if there are reliable quality measures available. Children and seniors may need custom or easy-to-swallow doses, a need now addressed only in a limited way by ad-hoc in-pharmacy compounding. Compliance-targeted enhancements such as flavor and shape choices are particularly important for childr ...

SpaceWorks proposes to develop an improved, novel RBCC propulsion system for long-range, high-speed flight that will revolutionize various DoD missions and commercial cargo transport. This approach contrasts with that of several start-up and established ventures currently seeking to develop high-speed aircraft for commercial passenger travel. While the aircraft proposed by such companies represent ...

Rotating Detonation Combustors (RDCs) are a subject of great interest in the field of propulsion and power generation for their theoretical pressure gain and increased thermal efficiency and power density over conventional deflagrative combustors. This allows smaller, lighter and more efficient airbreathing and rocket propulsion systems, as well as conventional gas turbine based civil power gene ...

US forces deployed abroad often have to use foreign-manufactured and -operated mobile infrastructure for communications, especially in the early stages of operations. The infrastructure might be in a friendly, neutral, or hostile region, yet has to be relied upon for secure communication. Non-authorized, misconfigured, or compromised systems increase the risk of malicious activities impacting th ...

We propose “EMSCALe: Component Decomposition and Attestation by Leveraging Electromagnetic Side-channels”, a novel approach to accurately identify functions of integrated circuits (ICs) and detect deviation from ordinary activities by monitoring the unintended electromagnetic (EM) signal emanated from heterogeneous ICs (HICs). EMSCALe will collect EM signals using purpose-designed antennas, th ...

Secure systems rely on physical implementation of hardware and software systems, where various information leakage can be observed through various side channels and extracted with advance side channel analysis (SCA) algorithms. Recent advancement in computing, sensors, and SCA techniques have exposed new and more dangerous vulnerabilities. Hence a comprehensive SCA evaluation framework that can gr ...

5G (including licensed-Cellular, CBRS, and next-generation Wi-Fi 6E/7), Next-G, high-performance networks, as enablers for next-generation Edge and Cloud computing, are anticipated to offer more efficient and superior capabilities. Considering the anticipated disruptive capabilities provided by such networks, the Department of Defense (DoD), other federal government agencies, and the private secto ...

Current efforts to provide advanced maintenance capabilities can be burdened by legacy documentation and a lack of visibility into the fine-grained status of jobs in progress on the flight line. The Cognitive Observant Assistant for Coaching and Helping (COACH) addresses both of these problems concurrently with an intelligent virtual assistant that goes significantly beyond the state of the art by ...

The goal of the U.S. Army, Air Force, Navy, Marines, commercial aviation and industrial power plants to develop gas turbines capable of reliable operation at turbine inlet temperatures up to 3100oF. Consequently, there is a driving need to extend the capability of SiC CMCs and/or related Ceramic CMCs and associated thermal—environmental barrier coatings (T-EBCs) to resist degradation in harsh mo ...