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Robotic vehicles, unmanned systems, and critical command and control networks rely on systems that need to operate effectively in complex, dynamic, and adversarial environments. Currently fielded systems are not up to par—they can be immobilized by simple component failures. Future operations will not tolerate such brittleness, especially given the interconnectivity demanded by future concepts o ...

U.S. political and military decision makers need to make decisions about extremely large, complex socio-political systems. Our objective is to enable these decision makers to evaluate and plan courses of action (COAs) with the aid of computer-based simulations that predict the possible effects (including second and third-order effects) of COAs being considered. We propose to develop a suite of too ...

Numerous advances have been made to provide the Commander with visualizations of the physical spatio-temporal battlespace, but efforts to visualize Information Operations (IO) concepts are lacking. While physical, kinetic operations map naturally to particular visual elements (e.g., maps, symbols, timelines), the factors (and the relationships among factors) considered in IO do not have such stra ...

DARPA topic SB072-038 initiates development of devices that will employ inductive electromagnetic coupling to efficiently transmit power wirelessly over “short to medium” distances, citing a number of advantages relative to other methods, including (1) no requirement for an unobstructed line-of-sight or precision tracking between the transmitter and receiver, (2) reduced vulnerability to inter ...

Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) has been envisioned to revolutionize the way humans perceive and interact with the surrounding environment. The sensor nodes form a network and collaborate (to compensate for the extremely scarce resources available to each of them: computational power, memory size, communication capabilities) to accomplish the mission. Through collaboration, redundancy and fault tol ...

Hittite proposes to develop a small, light-weight, interlaced AESA to provide ground surveillance radar and COMINT capability from a small UAV. The development will focus initially on the Ka-band radar antenna. This thin (e.g., 85 mil), 256-element (8 x 32) 35 GHz radar array will conform to and be structurally integrated with a 1.35” x 5.4” x 0.06” section of the bottom of the fuselage. ...

The basic goal of this research is to improve the capability to detect, locate, and characterize emerging abnormal activities in cluttered environments based on motion pattern analysis. Parietal Systems, Inc. (PSI) proposes to do this by developing novel closed-loop pattern detection and sensor management algorithms to detect significant motion anomalies in normal background activity and to manage ...

One of the major challenges of developing aircraft is the development of an appropriate energy system. The energy system ideally has a large amount of energy with a very low weight. This equates to a high specific energy (Wh/kg). Lithium-air batteries offer the greatest theoretical specific energy for batteries at 13 kWh/kg. Yardney has extensive experience in requirements for battery power and me ...

In aerial images collected by wide-area sensors, targets of interest such as vehicles and dismounts are extremely small compared to the footprint of the image. The limited information that can be extracted from few pixels on target often means the targets of interest can be easily confused with other objects. Commonly used target detection systems in Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissan ...

The theater of operation for DoD immunoassays typically requires them to be sensitive, stable at temperatures up to 35 oC for up to two years, and be low power or power-free. Although enzyme-based assays are very sensitive, enzymes are usually unstable under such storage conditions. We propose a new photocatalytic nanoparticle-based immunoassay method that provides the amplification associated wit ...