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Some of the United States Special Operations Command (USSOCOM) greatest concerns are to maintain the pilot’s ability to see clearly and to provide to the aircraft occupants a greater degree of UV rays, laser and ballistic protection than being currently afforded. However, the weight penalty suffered by the installation of current transparent armor systems would require significant loss of payloa ...

This proposal describes a system that would expedite the lawful decryption of encrypted containers by leveraging the computational speed of field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs). The proposed system, which is partially hardware-based, will provide dramatic increases in speed when compared to purely software-based solutions. In addition to being able to increase speed, the solution is also highly ...

Due to the serious hazards of biological warfare agents, advanced detection capabilities must be developed to protect personnel in a variety of field situations. Aerosols, in particular, are a likely means of delivering the potential biohazards. Analyzing these aerosols rapidly and accurately is critical to successful defense, and can involve several levels of physical and biochemical analysis. ...

The contractor has patented technology for a unique process that directly converts a two-dimensional acoustic disturbance, such as a wave front, into an intensity-mapped visible image in real-time without electronic circuitry; that is, it is a direct pressure gradient imager. The imager relies on the piezo-dichroic properties of a continuous layer of a dichroic material thin film that serves as bo ...

U.S. Customs and Border Protection wants to extend unattended ground sensor (UGS) functionality to provide a real-time capability to track targets of interest. Progeny will develop Acoustic Vector Sensor (AVS) as a low-cost and low-power augment sensor to track airborne targets, with a small covert form factor and connecting to other UGS with a standard serial data and power interface. AVS has a c ...

PROJECT SUMMARY To make simulation-based exercise development efficient, it is important that scenarios be developed and executed ¿on-the-fly¿ in an automated fashion with minimal reliance on software personnel. To this end, what is needed is an intelligent scenario/script building capability that enables training personnel to rapidly assemble and ¿test-drive¿ incident scenarios, and that can ...

In Phase I, Phase IV proposes to develop the overall architecture and design of a prototype RF system for shipping containers that will operate in the marine environment while being loaded stacked aboard ship, on board deck of a ship in a stack, unloaded, and moved and stacked in shipping terminals. Phase IV has developed a state-of-the-art RF system for tracking and monitoring munitions, both at ...

The video surveillance industry is experiencing dramatic change with the move from analog to digital video. Command centers need to have coordinated viewing of multiple camera feeds at one time, and the ability to switch automatically between feeds and display relevant patterns. Conventional security control rooms include a bank of monitors connected through a switch to an array of security camera ...

Standoff detection, identification and tracking of chemical and biological warfare agents is critical to provide hazard warning and dewarning for forces and civilians, and to minimize disruption in deployment of forces. Differential Absorption Lidar(DIAL) can be used for remote sensing of chemical agents via their spectral signatures at MWIR and LWIR wavelengths. However, current gas-laser DIAL ...

The Government is deploying a growing number of radiation detectors at U.S. borders, ports of entry and other key locations, intended to assist in the detection of a potential terrorist`s nuclear explosive device or radiological dispersal device. The most widely deployed radiation detector products today are radiation "pagers". Such products are unable to differentiate between natural radiation, l ...