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Critical need for a non-toxic, regenerative carbon dioxide (CO2) scrubber material with enhanced scrubbing capacities and safety for rebreather applications. The current state-of-the-art (SOA) scrubber material for rebreather is soda lime. Soda lime is highly toxic, has low CO2 capacity, and is non-regenerative requiring an entire logistics chain. Physical Sciences Inc. (PSI) is developing a novel ...

Spectric Labs and Motorola Solutions (MSI) present, ATHERIS, a novel low probability of intercept/low probability of detection (LPI/LPD) waveform to facilitate high data-rate terrestrial and SATCOM communications on a low Size, Weight, and Power (SWaP) system. Our solution utilizes the proven COTTONMOUTH radio platform (TRL-7) from MSI to host the secure LPI/LPD capability. The COTTONMOUTH radio i ...

In a business where collaboration and rapport is critical, having Hokkien speakers may make or break a relationship with a partner nation. The military has linguists and contract translators, in addition to organic foreign language speakers; however, resources are extremely limited, so it is critical to invest in technologies that can enhance, enable, and complement existing resources. To address ...

Warfighters need batteries capable of operating power hungry devices for longer missions while reducing the weight they must carry. USSOCOM’s 16Ah / 500 Wh/kg goal in a PRC-148 sized pack is ambitious — approximately double the existing options on the market. Thankfully, there are several cell technologies that exist at the lab/prototype level, and a handful that will be mature enough in the s ...

The main objective of this effort is to provide a secure and lightweight framework for real-time analysis of sensory data from wearables. Our goal is to continuously monitor warfighter health and readiness at the edge in real-time while consuming less than 5% of the wearable battery over 10 days. Our system enables the provisioning and instantiation of different edge-deployed algorithms to address ...

While the last decade has seen explosive growth in the number of small satellites being launched into Low Earth Orbit (LEO) for a variety of use-cases, there is a critical need to increase the degree of autonomy through use of “edge intelligence” for data processing and fusion on the collection platform itself (vs. transmitting large amounts of raw information to the ground for “after-the-fa ...

The Phase 1 project developed a new method for real-time robotic motion planning. The Phase 1 system can prevent task-performing (semi)-autonomous agents from colliding with objects in their environment (e.g., navigating a quadcopter while it inspects an object and advises a human in a repair operation).  The new Phase 2 effort will build upon these initial results by extending the developed cap ...

This project aims to develop a super-resolution thermal metrology tool that enables accurate characterization of the thermal resistance of semiconductor materials, heterostructures and devices, particularly wide bandgap and ultra-wide bandgap materials and devices at the nanometer length scale. The tool will be capable of characterizing both epilayers and operating devices with a thermal resolutio ...

The modern information environment (IE) is growing more complex and dynamic. Information technology advances enable adversaries to access and influence audiences globally with increasingly sophisticated tools and at an unprecedented scale. To understand the threat landscape and to respond effectively, there is a need to automatically detect, track, and differentiate the evolution of information na ...

Five Directions is pleased to propose to the SUP direct to Phase II program an end-to-end synthetic data generation and labeling framework featuring our user emulation and data labeling prototypes. The Synthetic User Persona EmulatoR (SUPER) will be researched and developed by a team of security experts with experience in endpoint and network telemetry systems and traffic generation, and a passion ...