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High-density cryogenic wiring is a critical component for gate-based quantum computers, quantum annealing devices, superconducting supercomputers, transition edge sensors, Microwave Kinetic Inductance Detectors, nanowire single photon detectors, and a wide range of other applications. Quantum computers will be as important to the next hundred years of technology as the internet, integrated circuit ...

Oceanit proposes to develop a novel, durable concrete for use in various marine structures that incorporates a cementitious material produced from calcium-rich industrial waste streams and the direct capture of CO2. Oceanit will incorporate this carbon-negative cement with post-production or otherwise low-carbon aggregates such as fly ash, glass cullets, and/or blast furnace slag to produce a vari ...

DARPA has a need for a large number of unique simulation models that display a diversity of environment, spatial layout, and mission focus to aid in the evaluation and training of future underwater systems. The underwater mission environment is fraught with communication difficulties, novel scenarios, difficult perception tasks, and huge operational areas. Advanced autonomy could be the solution t ...

As autonomy, duration, and complexity of UUV missions increases, so too does the need for access to higher fidelity simulation and planning tools to ensure mission critical success. Advanced UUV fleets are critical for maintaining future subsea military dominance, and the availability of suitable simulation environments for technology and autonomy development is limited, in part due to the signifi ...

Bioreactors output nucleic acid or protein products that are complex macromolecular fluids. As such, it becomes challenging to discern whether sparse contaminant entities reside within this complex background.  Traditional mechanisms of detecting microbe contamination require time consuming and destructive methods with reagents, assay and plating procedures. The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted ...

Team AIS proposes tRustEd STORage dEvice (RESTORE), a secure microcontroller bootloader and operating system (OS) that will form the foundation of a next-generation secure USB removable storage device.  Our system will provide defense in depth through integration of several defensive techniques. Our system will achieve a secure measurement-based bootloader capability using a new trusted computing ...

Sivananthan Laboratories in collaboration with the University of Illinois at Chicago and the University of Central Florida propose to model absorption in two dimensional materials and develop designs with structured materials for the amplitude modulation of emissivity. The optical simulations—with commercial COMSOL code--will be used in the calculation of the electric field distribution in the s ...

Team AIS proposes Model Annotation eXtension With Exploratory Label Learning (MAXWELL), an applied research effort to develop a semi-automated framework to annotate simulation models for increased utility and efficiency of model composition. MAXWELL will achieve this by combining assistive Natural Language Processing (NLP), automated model modification and behavior analysis, and a guided semi-auto ...

Long wavelength infrared (LWIR) imaging systems, owing to their advantages in adverse environments, are crucial for target-acquisition tasks in DoD missions. Current detection and imaging technologies that cover the LWIR spectral region typically operate at cryogenic temperatures of 77 K or lower, which require expensive and bulky cooling systems that increase the overall size, weight, and power, ...

Thermal imaging is an important tool for information gathering and situational awareness, especially in low light or visibly obscured conditions.  Warm objects that are emissive in the MWIR or LWIR bands can be observed, including the body heat of soldiers, exhaust gases from vehicles, rockets or firearms, residual heat in camouflaged vehicles or airframes, and many other objects critical to thre ...