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The project team will develop the EdMod platform for special education practitioners to enter and track information specific to IEPs, such as diagnosis classification, goals, and data collection of those goals. The platform will then generate research-based strategies for teachers to support students with or at risk for disabilities during classroom instruction or in testing. The platform will pre ...

In this project, the team will develop a performance-based lab for the high school level. The Inq-ITS Performance Based Labs for High School Physics and Physical Science will integrate "using mathematics" practices with other science practices to study physics/physical science phenomena. An accompanying teacher dashboard will generate immediate, diagnostic, and actionable alerts driven by algorith ...

The Microbolometer based IRFPA’s are currently in production for defense and Security applications. The microbolometer performance is limited by the TCR and frequency of operation. The proposed Phase II SBIR will allow DARPA to explore the further enhancement in TCR by more than an order of magnitude and higher frequency of operation from current 100 Hz. These improvements will allow use of the ...

The Mobile Reconfigurable Acoustic Network (MoRAN) and associated Scalable Nested Network Optimization Methodology (SN2OM) will enable reliable underwater acoustic communications over a scalable ocean area with latencies on the order of minutes for critical communications messages. The JPAnalytics/BAE/ThayerMahan team combines state- of-the-art communications, environmental and acoustic modeling a ...

With the increasing complexity of the modern semiconductor supply chain and increasing prevalence of the fabless manufacturing model, the hardware security and design integrity of integrated circuits are threatened by untrusted components such as hardware Trojans. BlueRISC proposes an automated toolkit that utilizes existing Design-For-Testability (DFT) structures (e.g. scan-chains) to enable the ...

To meet DARPA’s specified needs, X-Bow (pronounced “Crossbow”) will infuse advanced manufacturing (AM) methods to produce its small launch vehicle. The vehicle will be capable of rapid and affordable on-demand launch of small payloads. There are ample commercially available opportunities to infuse automated and AM techniques into tanks, nozzles, and other mechanical components. However, ther ...

Physical Sciences Inc. (PSI) proposes to develop advanced machine learning (ML) algorithms to perform detection, classification and identification of radioactive sources in near real time based on analysis of data generated by radiation sensors. The algorithms will be packaged as of an integrated Advanced Learning-Enabled Radioactive Threat Search (ALERTS) software suite compatible with new networ ...

There exists a challenge in observing laser designated targets in full daylight conditions for currently fielded near-infrared (NIR) laser designators. The visibility difficulty arises primarily from the significant background signal produced by the sun, which closely mimics the spectral signature of a blackbody . By extending the wavelength region in which laser designators/markers operate into t ...

R3 Logic proposes to develop an openly accessible Design Environment that will incorporate CAD tools needed for the analysis and design of 3D integrated circuits, including schematic capture, VHDL interfaces, 3D physical layout, verification, 3D parasiticextraction, interactive coupled electro-thermal simulations, and thermally-aware place and route methods. We will achieve this goal, first by bui ...

While there have been a number of recent advances in track precision and maintenance via the AMSTE program, long-term track maintenance remains an elusive goal. Track breaks are primarily the result of miss-detections due to micro-obscuration from foliageand buildings and or due to the vehicle dropping below Minimum Detectable Velocity (MDV) because of parking or stopping at intersections and yiel ...