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A successful WMD terrorist attack against the United States would have profound and potentially catastrophic impact on our nation. Quick, efficient, and effective localization of radiological threats in unstructured environments is imperative to mitigate and deny such an event. Man-portable devices are used to localize radiological materials in unstructured environments, but manned detection is bo ...

While this solicitation described the need for better sampling methods and rugged mass spectrometers, the topic author funded our alternative approach, which employs existing DoD Raman spectrometers. The Phase III project goal is to develop a Field-Usable Designer Drug Analyzer capable of identifying and quantifying drugs in saliva and blood at 10 ng/mL in 10 minutes. Feasibility was demonstrated ...

There are currently no vaccines or therapeutics available for Marburg Virus Disease (MVD). Given the specter of weaponization and the terrible morbidity and high mortality rate of MVD, this represents a critical threat to the operational readiness of the Warfighter. While traditional vaccines have contributed greatly to public health, they have some limitations especially in the context of operati ...

The Next-Generation 911 (NG911) initiative, which aims to update the United States' emergency communications systems to be Internet Protocol-based, should bring about profound benefits in system usability and resilience. However, there is great concern that NG911 systems will be highly vulnerable to cyber- risks, both because the increased accessibility provided by the system increases likelihood ...

The increasing number of breaches and hacks against organizations demands new and more effective ways to provide defense. Increased kNwledge sharing among peers could make a tremendous difference in improving current practices, especially since the cyber landscape is a dynamically changing environment. Our goal is to develop an effective peer-to-peer platform for sharing cybersecurity kNwledge and ...

Toyon Research Corp. proposes development of a software prototype for automated 3D damage assessment in urban environments. We will document the requirements for the algorithms and software, and optimize or extend the algorithms as needed. We will implement the software prototype, leveraging and integrating existing components where possible and implementing new components as needed. We will qua ...

At a high level, the primary technical objective of the proposed effort is to Identify, obtain, evaluate, and improve datasets; Investigate the use of Meta-Learning to improve the low-shot detection performance of the feed forward network;   Extend research in multi-branch multi-domain embedding networks and semantic layouts for low-shot detection in remote sensing imagery; and Develop and implem ...

The multidisciplinary area of GEOINT is changing and becoming more complex. A major driver of innovation in GEOINT collection and processing is artificial intelligence (AI). AI is being leveraged to help accomplish spatial analysis, change detection, and image or video triage tasks where filtering objects of interest from large volumes of data is critical. NGA is confronting the changing GEOINT l ...

BluEyeQ LLC and Los Alamos National Laboratory are pleased to propose an interoperable network of Internet of Things (IoT) enabled CBRNE detectors.With the emergence of high performance, low cost networking equipment and Big Data cloud analytics, the opportunity exists to harness the vision and intelligence available from distributed sensor data.Our proposal demonstrates a path to modernize past C ...

Through this STTR contract, we propose to evaluate the efficacy of our vaccine, FlowVax Marburg, in nonhuman primates (NHPs). This will be achieved through four Tasks. In Task 1, we will manufacture the vaccine in a quantity sufficient for the animal studies. In Task 2, we will perform MHC genotyping on a representative population of NHPs and, based on results, select a set of MHC-matched NHPs for ...