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Side channel analysis (SCA) and fault injection (FI) are a solid part of the relevant attack space for any chip that can be physically reached by an attacker. These hardware attacks allow key extraction from cryptographic implementations, and fault injection specifically allows complete takeover of devices. Current commercial chip design tools do not offer integrated analysis to verify resistance ...

The "troop-target" problem of automatic detection, tracking, and prediction of the formations of dismounted ground troops concealed in foliage, using FOPEN-GMTI radars introduces challenges well beyond those encountered in more conventional group-target problems. AD HOC troop formations are considerably more amorphous and unpredictable and they must be deduced from the constituent individuals. Y ...

The Advanced Electronic Development Program (AEDP) will develop prototypes of photonic and digital components. Under AEDP, electronic equipment will be developed and prototyped, with components integrated for a capability demonstration. This work will be performed under the Phase II SBIR program.

Under EAGLE, SSCI will develop use of electric (E) and magnetic (H) field sensors on autonomous small unmanned air vehicles (SUAVs) to perform tactical intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) of electric power grids. This enables new capabilities to efficiently assess adversarial dependences on power distribution networks, find hidden assets, quickly track down grid faults, and perfor ...

HASHTAG is a secure computing stack designed to assure the security of heterogeneous robotics swarms. Based on a formally verified microkernel operating system, a domain specific language is defined for swarm control operations, formally verified by design. A secure distributed communications system is integrated which allows for transparent distribution of shared information among the swarm over ...

The topology of a network is the set of links between nodes. Topology control is the selection and adjustment of controllable parameters in response to uncontrollable factors such as noise and interference to create and maintain a topology with user-desired characteristics. For a typical Mobile Ad-Hoc Network (MANET), the set of parameters that are candidates for control include the transmit powe ...

Physical Science Inc. (PSI) proposes to develop advanced computer vision algorithms to automatically extract relevant contextual information from video captured during chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear and counter explosive (CBRN) detections. PSI produces the PERM-OWL and PERM-Mobile systems which provide a gamma and neutron radiation sensor suite, synchronized contextual video, and stat ...

During recent conflicts, the U.S. has benefited from complete air dominance. Such dominance has allowed us to control or even eliminate many, if not most, sources of uncertainty affecting air missions. The command and control systems that have emerged from these conditions were designed to optimize their performance. However, as shown in [9], such an approach yields high performing but brittle sys ...

Reusable hypersonic aircraft platforms offer the possibility to provide valuable ISR and global strike capabilities to the DoD to bolster national security. Future aircraft powered by Turbine Based Combined Cycle (TBCC) architectures will have the ability to take off from a runway using a traditional turbine propulsion mode and accelerate to hypersonic speed, transitioning from turbine to ramjet ...

Systems engineering (SE) for system of systems (SoS) engineering requires wholly new tools to support conducting SoS analyses, developing SoS architectures, and planning and implementing SoS updates. DARPA’s Strategic Technology Office’s (STO) System of Systems Integration Technology and Experimentation (SoSITE) program is developing a number of new technologies to enable rapid compo ...