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IERUS is developing a novel phased array ground terminal aperture architecture for the DoD's next generation of satellite constellations. With the proliferation of high-bandwidth satellites across LEO, MEO, and GEO, there is a need for SWaP-C optimized user terminal apertures. The IERUS solution implements scalable and mission-set reconfigurable technologies to enable rapid transition into operati ...

Augmentation Systems (VAS) Range Finder. It provides opportunities for day/night observation and range measurement in a small, easy-to-use device. We tradeoff features and SWAP-C to determine optimal combinations and document them in a feasibility study. Novel methods of presenting ranges are further. investigated and discussed.

HQ AFSOC A2 and JSOC’s JIB have a national defense-related mission need in rapid, effective decision-making to support the nation’s elite special operators. The initial Cerebras’ super-computing Phase II successfully validated the system’s ability to util

Femtosense is an innovative tech startup leading the charge to deploy sparse AI using novel techniques that are far more affordable and easier to implement than traditional AI computational technologies. Femtosense’s invention – the Sparse Processing Unit (SPU-001) is a TRL level 7 processing chip poised to disrupt the $50B AI hardware market. It offers best-in-class SWaP-C (Size, Weight, Powe ...

Toyon proposes to establish the feasibility of a novel approach to performing S2ST between a target language, such as English, and the low density spoken only language Hokkien. While we will focus of Hokkien during the research and development efforts of Phase I, our system can be tailored to any low density spoken language. Our approach leverages our recently developed Android Team Awareness Kit ...

Soldiers conducting missions on foot in remote locations must carry multiple battery powered electronic devices, such as multiband radio sets, night vision goggles and scopes, GPS tracking, thermal imagers, target designators, etc. These devices allow soldiers to target, move, and communicate in the modern battlefield. Depending upon the type of mission and its duration, soldiers might not have th ...

Title: Tangler Trifecta Advanced Mating Disruption that Allows for Time and LaborSavings.Principle Director: Chandra Maleckas-BunkerNON-TECHNICAL SUMMARY: Many factors acting together including concerns about worker safetyfood safety pesticide resistance and new regulations governing pesticides have heightened growerawareness to reduce insecticide inputs and increase reliance on biopesticides. For ...

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Agrofocal has developed a crop monitoring system that can be mounted on any moving farmvehicle. The entire process of collecting the images and operating on those images to extract theinsights is done on the vehicle itself in real-time eliminating the time-consuming process ofuploading images to a central server for processing.The system be completely owned andoperated by the grower themselves wit ...

Project SummarySpandex sneakers car seats all contain 50-70% polyols. Today these polyols are made offshore fromfossil fuels. This USDA Phase II SBIR project will develop novel technology to make commerciallycompetitive polyols domestically from non-food biomass. The technical objectives are distributed benignextraction of hemicelluloses from almond shells efficient conversion of hemicelluloses to ...