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Purpose: In prior research and development, the project team developed Storyworld, a web-based activity with mini-games to support English Learners (EL) in language acquisition. In this project, the team will fully develop and test a formative assessment dashboard that provides teachers with insights into EL student's progress as they use Storyworld. ELs are the fastest-growing student population ...

Purpose: This project team will fully develop and test Woot Math Polls, a formative assessment dashboard that converts student math work into data-driven insights to inform teacher instruction and student learning in middle and high school algebra classrooms. Research has marked a decline in math achievement around the time students take algebra in middle school. Technological innovations that pro ...

Purpose: The project team will fully develop and test CloudLab, a web-based dashboard to present scientific data captured by sensors during experiments. The Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) emphasize the actual doing of STEM so that students can apply learning to the real world. However, students often have difficulty collecting, measuring, and applying data from inquiry activities to furt ...

To address the Army’s need for a fire control radar for small UASs, Physical Optics Corporation (POC) proposes to develop an Advanced Fire Control Radar for Group 1 and 2 Unmanned Surveillance Systems (ARGUS). ARGUS is a compact, lightweight, and low power sensor that directly fits in the electronics or payload bay of Group 1 and 2 UASs. It interfaces with the platform’s flight computer throug ...

Deep Focus applies deep learning neural nets to Apache Fire Control Radar (FCR) targeting and target identification, with applicability to related systems. Recent innovations in deep learning theory and implementation have enabled neural nets to achieve what was once unthinkable: beat humans at complex image recognition skills, safely pilot cars over chaotic road systems, and overwhelm Grandmaster ...

To address the Army’s need for a novel approach that enables pump combiners with improved coupling efficiency for high-power fiber laser systems, Hedgefog Research Inc. (HFR) proposes to develop a new Fiber Laser with Enhanced Coupling (FLEC) that minimizes excess heat generation in fiber lasers via efficient mode scrambling of the pump light in the cladding of the active fiber. Specifically, we ...

Building on our established thin-film chemical detection technology, Intelligent Optical Systems (IOS) proposes to integrate its highly sensitive multi-agent chemical and toxic chemical detection sensor substrates, for mounting onto a quadcopter camera to assist in identifying/mapping target contaminants. This established optical sensor cladding technology developed at IOS adapts multiple componen ...

Space Micro's uLINK ("micro-LINK") SDR system is a robust missile data link radio inserted in existing Army hardware to satisfy the multi-mission demands of the IFPC-inc2 requirements. Based upon the robust DCT software defined radio, and interfacing existing RF and antennae hardware, we have shown that we can operate and is as a legacy data-link for initial integration, and as a tri-band (S, C, a ...

We are proposing to enable automated discovery of machine learning pipelines on graphs using our system of accelerated primitives. While our existing technology greatly reduces the need for users to understand super-computing, it still requires expertis...

Electromagnetic spectrum (EMS) awareness continues to be a critical capability for military dominance in the field. The number, dynamics, and types of sources in an increasingly congested RF spectrum has shifted the focus of DoD research away from large ...