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The Outerlink IRIS system is a commercially successful, real-time flight data processing system that includes a satellite-based data link. The system records voice, video, and aircraft flight data while at the same time Interrogating the data for informat

Bifrost Biosystems – a recently formed biotech spin-out from Harvard University – here presents a platform for ultra-high throughput and ultra-high information screening of cell lineages. The basic platform involves individual lineages growing and dividing in narrow dead-end trenches that open into a feeding channel with flowing media. The media feeds the cells diffusively, and also washes awa ...

Behavior change through the use of messages is a common objective across the Defense community. The ability for analysts to craft effective messages is a challenge, and there are many features of messages that can be varied and that have moderating effects on sharing messages and creating effective behavior change. However, current research has not established definitive causal relationships betwe ...

BlueRISC’s proposed solution provides a new, fundamental approach to enabling the validation of COTS software with respect to a set of defined requirements. The solution is built on a generic program analytic framework for processing and validating against requirements. The proposed solution operates strictly at the binary-level and does so in a processor/ISA-agnostic manner. The solution automa ...

In this Direct to Phase II project, we propose to develop the first concealable and persistent IR sensors that meet all stringent requirements on size (< 2 cm3), battery lifetime (> 5 years), accuracy (Probability of Detection > 95%, False Alarm Rate < 1/month) for wireless people presence detection in defense and intelligence applications. In particular, this effort will aggressively enhance the ...

Complex military missions have failed in the past due to poor planning, wherein critical contextual elements of the mission environment, team, equipment, and/or contingencies were missed. Furthermore, important information is often lost in transition from planning to action stages in teamwork due to memory leaks and communication errors. The ultimate success of a mission relies on gathering and ca ...

Triton Systems is developing a hardened portable dry EEG system integrated into flight system helmets to record and analyze physiological measurements of aircrew in flight without interference from environmental signals such as motion, vibration, and EMI reliably and interpretably. The device is lightweight, comfortable for long durations, and will meet requirements for flight certification.

Lasers can have disorienting and vision impairing effects when directed at the human eye—when directed at an aircraft, the effects can be mission- and even life-threatening. Immediate symptoms can include disorientation, blurred and double vision, headach

Metasurfaces have advanced the field of optics and ushered novel "flat optics” technologies. Making metasurfaces reconfigurable add versatility and tunability to optical technology, enabling programmable photonic integrated circuits (PICs)- the cornerston

Physical Sciences Inc. (PSI), in collaboration with Wayne State University (WSU), proposes to develop a low-cost blast surrogate testing device that can be used to evaluate next generation personal protective equipment (PPE). Although new material advancements could be used to mitigate the blast wave through improved PPE design, a more advanced test surrogate is needed to inform PPE design decisio ...