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Voice phishing ("vishing") is an increasingly serious threat that cost victims over $46 billion in 2016. Attackers pose as trusted callers using impersonation, voice mimicry, speech synthesis, voice conversion, Caller ID spoofing, and other techniques. Once victims trust the caller, the perpetrator can engage in fraudulent and criminal activities leading to financial losses and security breaches. ...

NAVAIR has developed a new type of primer based on metallic pigments designed to drive the potential of the underlying alloy below the pitting potential, eliminating pitting and stress corrosion cracking. Although aluminum alloy-pigment primers have been developed and tested, their further development and optimization is inhibited by the lack of any way to design them efficiently or predict their ...

To satisfy unmet military needs for multimode day/night digital image sensors, Voxtel is developing a high-dynamic-range visible-sensitive and near-infrared-sensitive single-photon avalanche diode (SPAD) digital imager with efficient photon detection, hi...

Numerous machine learning frameworks exist, each with highly variable support for accelerated computing (e.g. Graphics Processing Units (GPUs), Field-Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs), etc). A library of machine learning primitives could support the many disparate frameworks and boost the advancement of machine learning research and programs, such as those underway in the DARPA Data-Driven Discover ...

For this effort, Area-I proposes to expand on the collaborative multi-agent autonomy capabilities of the ASW system by expanding the family of unmanned systems able to maximize the probability of detection of enemy systems and to provide the means to eliminate the threat using the manned-unmanned teaming (MUM-T) framework.

Voxtel proposes to develop, characterize, and demonstrate a coherent-ladar optimized readout integrated circuit (ROIC) consisting of 40-micron pixel elements, including circuits designed for snapshot-integration operation as short as 250 ns, formatted in a 32 x 32 array capable of readout speeds of 1 M frames per second. In Phase I, the coherent ladar ROIC architecture was developed and specificat ...

Insider threat poses one of the most problematic cyber challenges facing the warfighter today. This threat to Air Force assets is particularly insidiousas trusted individuals have easy access to sensitive and classified information. Galois, Inc. has developed a multi-layered attack inference engine called ADIDRUS, originally designed to help UAVs fight through cyber attacks. ADIDRUS continuously m ...

In phase II work, we will collaborate with Prof. Dennis W. Prather in UD and continue to develop broadband, low VÏ€, high linearity, thin-film lithium niobate on insulator (LNOI) modulators that are fully compatible with silicon photonic integrated circuits (PIC) foundry processes. We will demonstrate a low VÏ€, broadband, small footprint LNOI modulator with hybrid Si/LN or SiN/LN waveguide ...

Vlabs will develop a prototype of a big data analytics solution for cyber threat intelligence. The solution will be built on top of a big data platform with a goal to improve detection of complex adversarial behaviors. The system will analyze various data sources stored in a scalable data lake. Vlabs is well positioned to perform this work from the extensive experience in big data analytics and th ...

Phase I focused on the selection of a camera and associated optics that would deliver the required imagery along with a concept of operation (CONOP) for the system. Though Phase I isnt complete, preliminary results strongly support the use of a small, zoomable full motion video (FMV) camera for target acquisition paired with an 18MP camera and custom 250mm catadioptric lens to capture still images ...