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Goodman Technologies (GT) in partnership with the University of Hawaii (UHM, a Minority Serving Institution, MSI) and supported by Lockheed Martin propose to demonstrate a Moldable Labyrinth Nanocomposite High-Energy Electromagnetic Shielding and perform Gamma-Ray validation testing with the USSF. In space ionizing Gamma rays are produced by neutron stars, pulsars, supernova explosions, and regio ...

The overall vision of the CAMDEN project is to explore the use of mechanism design as a solution to incentivize the creation of collaborative API designs for the DoD.  APIs are not merely software interfaces: they enable a decentralized marketplace of services. It would be highly desirable to apply this decentralized API-driven approach to DoD missions. We believe the barriers to this vision are ...

Non-compressible torso hemorrhage (NCTH) is a leading cause of death when immediate access to surgical intervention is not feasible. Resuscitative endovascular balloon occlusion of the aorta (REBOA), is an emerging and promising lifesaving procedure that involves placement and inflation of a small balloon catheter inside the aorta to control torso bleeding and to maintain blood pressure. However, ...

The Department of Defense is seeking the next generation of personnel transportations systems to maintain the cutting edge on the battlefield.  An innovative personal air mobility system could fulfill a variety of military missions, including responsive movement of personnel, urban augmented combat, CSAR, spotting for fire support, maritime interdiction and rapid infiltration and exfiltration.  ...

The Generating Requirements Evidence with Analysis and System-level Enforcement (GREASE) project will develop a static binary verifier with an optional human-in-the-loop testing facility that generates evidence that COTS software components satisfy their requirements. The GREASE tool will reduce the time required for both (1) the safe and high-assurance integration of COTS components into systems, ...

Radiant Technologies will team with the University of New Mexico (UNM) and the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) to characterize Radiant’s PZT-based piezoMEMS process on 6-inch wafers. Radiant’s unique I-Beam piezoMEMS process uses a single Deep RIE step to release integrated circuit thin-PZT-film capacitors as piezoelectric strings, membranes, and cantilevers on a silicon wafer. The ...

Texas A&M University (TAMU) and Applied Technology Associates (ATA) propose to develop and characterize a set of orbit determination and estimation algorithms for closely-spaced objects in low Earth orbit. The algorithms will span existing state-of-the-art-in-practice and possible state-of-the-art-in-research approaches. These algorithms will seek to extract maximal information out of existing spa ...

The current Space Surveillance Network (SSN) is projected to soon be unable to track all manmade Low Earth Orbit (LEO) objects at the current rate of observation. Very large constellations of satellites will exponentially grow the number of LEO objects, and simply adding more sensors to the SSN to keep pace with the proliferation in LEO is a cost-prohibitive proposition. This research proposes to ...

Seafloor methane is an abundant resource that can be exploited to produce power. Developing a power system for this application is challenging because suitable oxidizers are not readily available on the seafloor. In response, Creare proposes to develop a Buoyancy-Driven Turboalternator Energy System to produce electric power from seafloor methane without oxidation reactions. This innovative system ...

Galois and Dan Boneh of Stanford offer Talaria, a research project and prototype architecture of a secure, decentralized messaging and transaction platform. Talaria addresses four concerns for such platforms: resilience, scalability, security, and transparency.Talaria uses a decentralized, redundant, and distributed server-side architecture to provide resiliency. Talaria provides scalability by us ...