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As integrated circuit dimensions shrink and U.S. fabrication facilities age, U.S. ASIC developers are increasingly turning to overseas foundries for the latest process nodes in device fabrication.This migration is especially impactful for DoD designers as critical military technology needs to be trusted and offshore fabrication has the potential to expose chips to malice during manufacture.Sensiti ...

Malicious modifications of hardware pose major concern in terms of reliable and trusted field operation of integrated circuits. To ensure security and trust of micro-chips, it is essential to develop efficient, low-cost techniques for detection of such tampering events. Conventional structural/functional testing, coverage metrics, and test generation approaches cannot be readily applied to identif ...

We are proposing to enable automated discovery of machine learning pipelines on graphs using our system of accelerated primitives. While our existing technology greatly reduces the need for users to understand super-computing, it still requires expertis...

Shared Spectrum Company (SSC), Intelligent Software Solutions (ISS), and the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga (UTC) propose to develop and demonstrate an innovative method for a large number (~50) of low altitude UAV to obtain information on spectrum use and activities. Our approach has multiple innovations: (1) ISS’s Seer, a “fuzzy” multi-hypothesis abductive reasoning system that pro ...

Electromagnetic spectrum (EMS) awareness continues to be a critical capability for military dominance in the field. The number, dynamics, and types of sources in an increasingly congested RF spectrum has shifted the focus of DoD research away from large ...

The team of Boston Fusion Corp. and Arizona State University proposes Phase II of Autonomous System Control via Social Insect Models (ASC-SIM). ASC-SIM provides a unified framework that combines: swarm-based scenarios of national interest; predictive soc...

This SBIR Phase I project will develop generalized bio-inspired computational models and enable meta-heuristics for distributed multi-agent systems. We will draw empirical results and models for individual and collective strategies in social insects by f...

Biologically-Inspired Swarm pErception and Control Technology (BISECT) is a decentralized swarm autonomy framework that enables effective management of emergent behaviors amid neutral or adversarial multi-swarm interactions. One key BISECT capability is ...

The proposed project seeks to develop an end-to-end data driven system to estimate the effects of historical and forecast the effects of future deterrent courses of action (COAs) against Gray Zone challengers. US conventional military power regularly deters adversaries from employing large-scale conventional forces against US interests; however, this success often motivates adversaries to pursue G ...

The objective of this proposal is to demonstrate the feasibility of a generalized, high throughput assay platform to characterize the functional performance nucleic acid-encoded monoclonal antibody therapeutics. The assay platform will utilize Printed Droplet Microfluidics (PDM), a new type of microfluidics that enables the construction of tens of thousands of nanoliter-scale experiments with comp ...