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The fabrication of microelectronic components is a critical capability for both the national defense and economic security of the United States. Inspection processes are crucial in the fabrication of these components, assuring the economical production of high quality, state-of-the-art components. Current inspection processes for subminiature electronic assemblies typically rely on a single sens ...

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 ...

This Phase II Small Business Innovation Research project develops the scale of lithium-ion direct recycling technologies applied to gain efficiencies in materials management from original manufacturing to end-of-life. The scrap materials are from Defense Logistics Agency manufacturing activities. A successful effort moves direct recycle TRL from 4 to 6, increases process throughput, qualifies mate ...

Parallel computers have been available for several years but have yet to fulfill their promise despite the potential for greater scalability and lower cost/performance. While interest in parallel computing systems remains high, widespread proliferation of these systems has not occurred. The basic problem facing MPP users is lack of portable and scalable programming systems and libraries and portab ...

Parallel computers have been widely available for several years but have yet to fulfill their promise despite the potential for greater scalability and lower cost/performance. While interest in parallel computing systems remains high, widespread proliferation and acceptance of these systems has not occurred. The basic problem facing MPP users is a lack of portable and scalable programming systems, ...

This project will investigate the use of offensive binary analysis techniques to extract data from program binaries for use by a runtime diagnostic engine capable of malware detection and response. The open-source Angr framework provides the basis for the tools used to collect the analysis data needed to support a diagnostic engine. A diagnostic engine capable of using these collected results will ...

Traditional active 3D imaging systems, such as airborne and terrestrial lidar scanners, use a transmitter and receiver typically co-located on the same platform and connected in synchronous communications. However, recent advances in laser, detector, and airborne systems technology have opened the door to smaller, higher-performance and significantly lower-cost airborne lidar systems in which it i ...

We propose the definition and development of a low cost, highly compact coastal zone hyperspectral imager, the Sea-DASI, for quantitative, few meter resolution remote sensing of the ocean coastal zone via robotic( high altitude) or light aircraft. The instrument is based on a Digital Array Scanned Interferometer(DASI) invented and patented by the PI. Sea-DASI will Observe in the-visible-near infra ...

NLP pipelines available today are getting robust for general language modeling purposes. But domain-specific data, abbreviations and lingos, and text about time or space still need a lot of tuning and training that are well beyond application of standard tool sets. Deep learning for recommendation engines is quite new, and all recommender systems, in particular for specially trained users, tend to ...