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This proposal presents A Platform Agnostic Low SWaP-C Chirped LFMCW Radar for counter-UAS application. The radar utilizes IFT’s unique gated radar structure to reduce transmission carrier leakage into the receiver channel and minimize the oscillator phase noise influence on the target signal. In addition, the digital signal processing provides high processing gain. These enable the radar to achi ...

Medical Ultra Sound (US) technology, and associated hardware, software, algorithms, and systems have seen great development over the last decade, and field portable US transducer and imaging systems are readily available. However, key shortcomings remain that limit their application: 1) Need for operator control of wand pose, 2) Need for human expert interpretation of resulting US images, 3) Large ...

Obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) is a common clinical condition that affects close to 30 million Americans. To overcome patient non-compliance and discomfort associated with current OSA treatments, we have developed SONOSA, a wearable device that can remotely diagnose, monitor, and treat OSA using ultrasound alone. As a diagnostic device, SONOSA can eliminate the expensive, in-hospital equipment requ ...

The Defense Advance Research Project Authority (DARPA) is seeking a capability to produce 500 Flying Missile Rails (FMRs) a month. Providing such a capability is challenging because one must simultaneously come up with a design for a FMR that meets mission requirements while being able to be mass produced. The North American Wave Engine Corporation (NAWEC) can provide a solution that will meet the ...

To reach the end user, oil and gas production at the wellhead must be transmitted through the country and distributed to a wide range of customers. This logistical system requires natural gas gathering lines, processing facilities, product storage tanks and lots of other equipment. What results is air pollution caused by industry losses during these operations and the use of continuous or intermit ...

Current seL4 ecosystem is centered on a wiki and github that are maintained by NICTA and Data61 (a commercial spin-off organization of NICTA). Many branches and forks of the seL4 code base that are readily publicly accessible but often orphaned and out dated. Additionally, the major training and education efforts are mainly offered and managed by Data61. However, due to geographical distance from ...

Memory corruption vulnerabilities are the root cause of many modern attacks. Numerous defenses have mainly focused on mitigating control-data attacks, leaving modern systems and programs vulnerable to non-control-data (or data-oriented) attacks. Recently, the full power of non-control-data attacks has been revealed. A new technique called data-flow stitching was developed to systematically constru ...

The proposed effort, RACER, seeks to extend the MACS-B architecture with focus on enhancing the coordinated autonomy between robots. This work takes the proven autonomous capability from MACS-B and extends the high-level distributed coordination capability. Priorities include capturing user intent at a high level and transforming that intent into lower-level commands, visualizing these lower-level ...

To reduce size, weight, power and cost (SWaP-c), military platforms have been evolving towards more integrated platforms that utilize all available space. For radiating systems, this will require exploring innovative design methods, materials and manufacturing approaches to realize cost-effective, customizable and conformal antennas. An attractive solution to this challenge is offered by additive ...

A prototype GPS spoofer detection and localization network will be designed and simulated. GPS spoofing will be detected with a multi-layered set of defenses using a network of receiver-detectors (RD). Each RD will include a tactical data link that includes a GPS-independent time synchronization and relative ranging function. Each RD will detect spoofing by monitoring the GPS signals, GNS-INS Kalm ...