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Obscurants are materials that absorb, scatter, or emit radiation in the visible, infrared (IR), or millimeter wavelength regions of the electromagnetic spectrum to reduce the transmission of radiation. For military applications, this reduction of transmitted radiation interrupts the line of sight between the target and observer to provide a key defensive tool to protect US warfighters from detecti ...

Oxford Defense North Carolina, LLC (ODNC) and the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) will collaborate to develop a beam control metamaterial surface in this Phase II STTR effort. A concern with laser beamed energy systems is the inadvertent exposure of operators and bystanders to inadvertently scattered or reflected laser energy. In an Energy Web, multiple transmitters and receivers w ...

Five Directions is pleased to propose to the SUP direct to Phase II program an end-to-end synthetic data generation and labeling framework featuring our user emulation and data labeling prototypes. The Synthetic User Persona EmulatoR (SUPER) will be researched and developed by a team of security experts with experience in endpoint and network telemetry systems and traffic generation, and a passion ...

This project aims to develop a super-resolution thermal metrology tool that enables accurate characterization of the thermal resistance of semiconductor materials, heterostructures and devices, particularly wide bandgap and ultra-wide bandgap materials and devices at the nanometer length scale. The tool will be capable of characterizing both epilayers and operating devices with a thermal resolutio ...

Non-warhead debris from a typical anti-ship or air-to-air missile can comprise as much as 70% of the total striking mass, which makes it a crucial component of any lethality or survivability assessment and increasingly important as stand-off missile programs are rising in demand.  Many current LVS modeling tools in use by the government do not address residual non-warhead missile debris at all, a ...

The goal of this project is to develop the technology needed for on-wafer characterization of new MMICs and amplifiers across the 110 – 300 GHz frequency range.  This goal requires successful completion of the proposed Phase II effort as well as follow-on research and development to develop commercial systems and further extend the frequency range. The specific goals of this Direct to Phase II ...

Continuous Monitoring of Eminent Threats in 5G Network Systems (COMETS) proposes a Mobile Device Management system able to monitor and detect malicious activity in foreign owned, both trusted and untrusted 5G networks. COMETS can operate on user devices or network edge and uses physical and network layer data to detect anomalous behavior. COMETS uses physical and network layer data collected fro ...

The main objective of this effort is to provide a secure and lightweight framework for real-time analysis of sensory data from wearables. Our goal is to continuously monitor warfighter health and readiness at the edge in real-time while consuming less than 5% of the wearable battery over 10 days. Our system enables the provisioning and instantiation of different edge-deployed algorithms to address ...

Distributed beamforming is an enabling technology building on over a decade of research that has the potential to create novel capabilities in mission areas such as communications, radar, and electronic warfare. However, software and hardware designs are typically application-specific with a limited user base and minimal support for third-party development. This creates a barrier to exploiting the ...

The peer, near-peer operation scenario, with current enemy long-range and/or heavy fire units shielded by a surface-to-air cover, is driving coalition units outside of an ever-increasing stand-off range. Coalition forces need a remote capability to cross enemy fire-covered terrain and provide them time and space to conduct advantageous actions that “place the enemy under the pressures of uncerta ...