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As outsourced microelectronic manufacturing grows, the safety and security of U.S. consumers becomes increasingly threatened by potential counterfeit electronics. Current counterfeit inspection techniques are labor intensive, time consuming, and impractical to use by field agents located on remote sites, away from major facilities, and with limited expertise. The proposed work, Fast and Accurate D ...

Broadband Push-to-Talk (PTT) services are offered by a diverse group of vendors and are being used on multiple cellular carriers in the US and internationally. These PTT services provide important communications tools for the first responder community during public safety incidents and events. U.S. State, Local, Tribal, and Territorial (SLTT) governments are using different PTT services which can ...

This SBIR Phase II project proposes development of deep learning-based algorithms and software system that can identify biological and chemical threats at both functional and structural level from portal-based spectral measurements with high specificity and sensitivity. The proposed solution leverages recent advancements in the areas of chemical fingerprinting, latent representation learning, chem ...

With expanded connectivity, the spectrum of devices that are susceptible to cyber-attack is constantly increasing.Beyond this, given the increased processing power and capabilities of everyday IoT/embedded devices, cyber-attacks that previously only targeted endpoints (e.g., botnets, ransomware, DoS, DDoS, etc.) are now broadly applicable.Unfortunately, current cyber-threat detection solutions are ...

The grand vision of the Internet-of-Things (IoT) boasts a fully connected, global network of devices or systems connecting every imaginable thing. Amelioration of miniature embedded computing devices into the consumer and industrial markets with enabled connectivity to the Internet towards smart and intelligent features leads to an upsurge in the size of networks through which they are linked and ...

Cyberattacks are a growing concern in every market with network-connected devices. Attacks such as ransomware, malware, spyware, spoofing, botnets, and more, can result in intellectual property theft, system downtime, reputation damage, and unfortunately loss of life. Most cyberattack detection techniques are limited in scalability and detection efficacy as the cyberattack landscape is constantly ...

Air cargo security is critical to minimizing the overall risk to national security. However, screening air cargo with current state-of-the-art computed tomography (CT) imaging is a complex and challenging task for screeners. To address current complexities and challenges, Charles River Analytics proposes to design and demonstrate Supportive Intelligence and Fusion Technology to Ecologically Repres ...

Physical Sciences Inc. (PSI) proposes to develop an air cargo screening software suite that automatically parses air cargo waybills and detects and localizes the reported cargo contents within X-ray images obtained during screening. The software will utilize state-of-the-art machine-learning (ML) and natural language processing techniques to rapidly analyze and correlate manifests with associated ...

Internet and Web standards play a critical role in the creation of competitive marketplaces by enabling interoperable solutions for digital identity, credentialing, and access management. With respect to first responder organizations, the use of new global identity standards for personnel identity and onsite qualifications when responding to a disaster not only have the power to increase security, ...

The purposes of the work is to determine feasibility of confidently characterizing shape, size and color, product brand name, volume, weight, density, utility (i.e., books, electronics, liquids, food, toiletries, etc.) of alarming objects and composition of their container (i.e., plastic, glass, metal, etc.) from collection and analysis of physical imagery of such objects, product barcode and grav ...