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In its effort to provide necessary intelligence and analysis, the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) utilizes extensive traffic camera systems. However, the large amount of data overwhelms both analysts and existing processing methods. In order to provide a better understanding and reduce the search space for common problems such as target tracking, it is necessary to extract the camera ...

Deep Neural Networks have become ubiquitous in the modern analysis of voluminous datasets with geometric symmetries. In the field of Particle Physics, experiments such as DUNE require the detection of particle signatures interacting within the detector, with analyses of over a billion 3D event images per channel each year; with typical setups containing over 150,000 different channels.  In an ...

To address DARPA’s need for a lightweight, wearable laser alert sensor system, Intellisense Systems, Inc. (Intellisense) proposes to develop a new Laser Irradiance Sensor and Alert (LISA) system based on a multi-aperture detector array that covers a 2-pi steradian (360 by 90 degree) field of view (FOV) and distinguishes laser sources from non-laser sources by the correlations in intensity among ...

Attollo Engineering proposes to design and build a TRL6/TRL 7 prototype laser sensing device spanning the spectrum from 450 nanometers (nm) to 1600nm that is man or vehicle mount capable.  Attollo has a TRL 8/9 device called the OMNir (https://www.attolloengineering.com/laser-sensing.html) that senses laser designators (1064nm) and laser rangefinders (1550nm) designed originally for fratricide av ...

Lasers present a threat to military forces. They can damage the eyesight of dismounted soldiers, operators of ground vehicles and pilots, as well as damage EO/IR sensors. Existing solutions operate over a narrow spectral band, have small field-of-view (FOV), have large size, weight and power (SWaP) and do not meet the requirements of the solicitation. Trex proposes a wearable Laser Alert System (L ...

Underwater Acoustic Modems (UW-A) have seen significant R&D and commercial product introductions in recent years. Standards including JANUS (NATO) and JSATS (USACE), have emerged.  Yet, interoperability remains limited due to the generally proprietary nature of commercial products, the complexity and vulnerability of high bandwidth options, and high costs/size/power consumption limiting modem use ...

Software and hardware flaws can be exploited to make programs perform unintended computations or leak sensitive data. We propose to counter these threats by isolating libraries and other program units inside a single process. The developer will insert source-level annotations that i) map code and data units to compartments and ii) capture how each compartment is intended to interact with others, i ...

To address the DHS's need for security of multimedia messages from the public to the Next Generation 9-1-1 (NG9-1-1) Public Safety Answering Point (PSAP) Emergency Communications Cybersecurity Center (EC3) within NG9-1-1 Emergency Service Internet Protocol Networks (ESINets), Physical Optics Corporation (POC) proposes to develop a new Hardened Encryption Routing to Mitigate External Susceptibility ...

To address the DHS need for new remote sensor data protection and anti-spoofing techniques, Intellisense Systems, Inc. proposes to develop a new Blockchain-based Anti-Spoofing and Integrity Protection (BASIP) system. This proposed BASIP is based on redactable blockchain-based data protection and challenge-response-based spoof detection. The BASIP will offer high resilience to sensor spoofing and m ...

To address the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) requirements and strategic intent, Karagozian and Case, Inc. (K&C) proposes to develop a SECURITY MITIGATION ASSESMENT OF RISKS AND THREATS (SMART) software application for SOFT TARGETS AND CROWDED PLACES (ST-CP) which leverages advanced Geographical Information Systems (GIS) mapping softwa ...