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SHIELD is a defense-in-depth multi-layered architecture that is suitable for a GIG end-node based upon COTS technology. The architecture contains the following layers: 1. A set of application software and data protection techniques, which utilize an out-of-band secure coprocessor and its reconfigurable hardware. 2. An in-band kernel module that detects host subversion and cooperates with secure co ...

This task seeks to develop a deployable system for intermediate-level event extraction with emphasis on sense tagging and time/location normalization. Currently, only shallow Information Extraction (IE), mainly the identification of named entities andsimple events, is available for deployment. There is an acute demand for concept based, intermediate-level extraction of events and their associated ...

The goal of this effort is to develop a prototype training system that provides entry level Computer Network Defense (CND) analysts with the ability to learn fundamental concepts and practice their skills, within a compelling environment that offers network simulation and a gaming interface. The system will provide both standard Computer Based Training (CBT) for instruction in basic concepts, as ...

Human cognition has played a major role in many past programs that we have had experience with. This includes the “Affordable Moving Surface Target Exploitation” (AMSTE) and NetTrack programs. Although each program approached the tracking and fusion problem from a different aspect and with various technologies, they both gave us insight into the role that human cognition plays with practically ...

The Phase II proposal seeks to improve sensor concepts demonstrated under Phase I to meet program requirements for scramjet monitoring. Thermocouples, heat flux sensors and skin friction sensors were produced under Phase I using Mesoplasma direct write, a high precision derivative of thermal spray deposition processes. Under this phase of the program, a series of tests and design revisions are p ...

Clear Science Corp. proposes to develop feedback systems that control flow over a three-dimensional turret and demonstrate the technology through control-in-the-loop Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) simulations and wind tunnel tests. A parallel-track plan is designed to meet two broad objectives: development and demonstration of systems for controlling flow separation with an emphasis on clos ...

To advance DRFM technology, instrumentation is required to facilitate an understanding of DRFM performance requirements, capabilities, and implementation trade-offs. It is highly desirable that the requirements, capabilities, and trade-offs be evaluated in the context of a total EW system, and with test stimulus that is representative of the actual stimulus seen in combat missions. Su ...

Scheduling is a complex, NP-hard problem that challenges the use of any single solution technique. In Phase I, we built a model that uses our multi-technique Quantum Leap Problem Solving Engine to solve a representative but simplified version of the AirForce Satellite Control Network (AFSCN) contact scheduling problem. The system demonstrated that it could schedule the hundreds (500 to 600) of t ...

This proposed effort is for an unclassified research and exploratory development program to adapt AI/ES software technologies for the design and demonstration of a smart pre-processor for Computational Electromagnetics (CEM). Despite their inherent power, most CEM tools can challenge even the most proficient user, let alone the novice. One method of alleviating difficulties is by adapting AI/ES ...

BEAM has identified an opportunity for the development of systematic design procedures for multi-step forging. These procedures will be marketable to the forging industry in the form of robust and open computer codes capable of dealing with multi-stage forming processes and capable of designing shape as well as internal states such as stress and micro-structure. The proposed development will imp ...