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White River Technologies, Inc. (WRT) presents this proposal, "Acoustically/Vibrationally Enhanced High Frequency Electromagnetic Detector for Buried Landmines".The primary goal of the proposed effort is to develop a prototype vibrationally-enhanced detection system capable of landmine and IED detection and discrimination with performance greater than conventional GPR sensors.The main sensing compo ...

The team of Boston Fusion Corp., Arizona State University, and Sophia Speira proposes Phase II of Big Open-Source Social Science, BOSSS, a technology that will provide rapid social-science based awareness of the cultural landscape in a given locality. Based on the twin pillars of mathematical social science and big data, BOSSS searches open-source documents, parses the documents using natural lang ...

Under the proposed effort, PSI will leverage a novel pmmW imaging technology developed under a prior Navy program to realize the low size, weight, and power sensors required for UAV implementation. This technology is based on an optical upconverted distributed aperture technology that can make large effective apertures in low SWaP form factors thereby maximizing achievable resolution. This sensor ...

Social media is transforming the way people around the world share messages, receive information, and come together to act. Unlike most traditional media, social media’s technical foundation enables messages to spread quickly and widely. This technology can also be used to disguise the true source of messages and produce automated messages that may have influential and manipulative effects on po ...

In Phase 2 project, Vuronyx Technologies in collaboration with Georgia Institute of Technology, will further optimize the composite panels using high strength and high modulus carbon fibers synthesized from polyacrylonitrile (PAN) precursors, and utilize them for aerospace related components.Results in Phase 1 demonstrated the high strength and modulus of the fibers, higher than anything available ...

Physical Science Inc., in cooperation with Colorado State University, proposes the development of a low-cost, longwave infrared (LWIR) hyperspectral imaging (HSI) sensor employing compressive sensing (CS) based on single-pixel architecture. It will provide wide-area Early Warning for chemical vapor plumes. The application of CS to LWIR HSI will eliminate the high-cost focal plane array required by ...

Mobile video sensors have become cheap and easy to integrate into cell-phones, UAVs, body cameras, and security cameras. The possibility of dense networks of video sensors enables a wide range of security-related uses for ONR and other government agencies including seaport monitoring, battlefield situational awareness, and forensic crime-scene analysis. The density and overlap of sensors creates t ...

Thin-film, lightweight, large-area flexible inorganic solar cells have shown promise to meet the militarys remote power needs on the battlefield. However, thin film solar cells normally have inferior conversion efficiencies due to limited absorption of sunlight by the thin active layer. Various approaches have been investigated to improve conversion efficiencies of thin film solar cells. Among the ...

Navy talent management must evolve to keep pace with the demands of new technology, new battlefields, and new enemy tactics in the face of budget reductions. It must fully utilize the existing skills of Navy personnel, and it must optimize the detailing and subsequent training of personnel to reduce costs and maximize job effectiveness. Transfer is key to talent management; optimal talent manageme ...

With today's IRLED devices, >99.4% of input electrical power is converted into parasitic/waste heat. Moreover, as the local temperatures of the pixels increase due to the generated heat, IRLED optical efficiency is further reduced. Overall this severely limits the number and intensity of array pixels that can be simultaneously operated at high apparent temperatures. In Phase 2, we focus on develop ...