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A successful WMD terrorist attack against the United States would have profound and potentially catastrophic impact on our nation. Quick, efficient, and effective localization of radiological threats in unstructured environments is imperative to mitigate and deny such an event. Man-portable devices are used to localize radiological materials in unstructured environments, but manned detection is bo ...

Metamagnetics proposes to develop prototype bolt-on Auto-tune Filter (AtF) modules that reject strong signals at two tactically-relevant frequency bands.

Development of a desktop 3D visualization and editing software environment specifically focused on interoperability between Modeling and Simulation (M&S) and Operational (Mission Command/C2I/etc.) domains will be developed to support several consensus and community geospatial standards. The developed software will provide a capability to simultaneously visualize 3D content despite differences in e ...

Cognitics, Inc. and CAE USA propose a solution that integrates crowdsourced and publicly available street-level imagery into a 3D baseline of Human Geography content. The approach leverages existing NGA and SOCOM software architectures developed by CAE, Cognitics, and Lockheed Martin to avoid duplication of software development effort for processing and dissemination of geospatial content, while a ...

Phase I project will be the investigation and specification of the necessary algorithms and platform for detection and mitigation of spoofing attacksand compromised sensing in sensor networks. The solution addresses the three main areas of sensing security: (a) detection and mitigation with corresponding customization; (b) support for collaborative, distributed detection across Ndes; and (c) hardw ...

Physical Sciences Inc. (PSI) proposes to develop a deep learning based spectral target detection algorithm for identification and classification of opioids and explosives that will be executed on a portable hardware solution. The proposed algorithm is designed to be spectrometer agNstic and allows for rapid training on previously untrained spectrometer platforms. The proposed hardware solution is ...

Systems & Technology Research (STR) proposes to design a nanosatellite payload in support of Warfighter ISR via Distributed Satellites (WISRDS), a radio frequency (RF) signals intelligence (SIGINT) solution to rapidly provide actionable information to special operations forces in the tactical theater from satellites in low Earth orbit. The payload consists of a wideband, tunable, miniature antenna ...

A Neutron detection device is an indispensable tool for power, medical, and defense applications. Proliferation of weapons of mass destruction such as nuclear weapons is a serious threat in today`s world. Low cost, low power, high performance, rugged and portable neutron detection devices are highly desirable for these applications. Agiltron proposes an unprecedented fabrication and integration ap ...

Decision makers responding to homeland security incidents must rapidly integrate and manage dynamic, time-sensitive information from many heterogeneous and multimodal information sources. Responders access this information through numerous software applications, all while attempting to collaborate in real-time. Based on the results of our Phase I design effort, we propose to develop and evaluate a ...

The proposed work details a molecular recognition based explosives pre-concentration and sampling system which can be coupled to a wide variety of current and future commercially available sensors. The system works by initially isolating and concentrating specific explosives from a sample stream through a novel, robust and tunable molecular recognition system. The concentrated molecules are rele ...