Award Data

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 ...

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...

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 focus of this STTR phase I component is on proof-of-concept studies demonstrating applicability of technical approaches for identificationof circulatory diagnostic markers for infectious disease. Therefore, the primary objective of this project is to determine feasibility of one suchtechnical approach called Proteomics-based Expression Library Screening (PELS), for identification of pathogen-d ...

The unique scale, population density, complexity, and connectedness of megacities requires new tools for detecting and assessing risks related to civil unrest, rule of law, terrorism, and other sources of instability, and for understanding the underlying dynamics. In addition, gray zone operations pose a new and strategically important class of threats to the stability of nation states and cities ...

Boston Fusion Corp. and Arizona State University will research and develop REsilience & Stability in DENse Terrains (RESIDENT), a multi-model, multi-scale framework for assessing indicators of stability and resilience in dense urban environments. Our team consists of subject matter experts in the Social and Computer Sciences providing the bedrock on which to build accurate mathematical models of u ...

Volatile organic compounds (VOCs) in air, especially in closed environments pose a major health threat. There is a critical need to remove these pollutant, and biofiltration is a promising solution to this need. This is a Phase II STTR proposal is to develop a novel, modular and scalable approach to biofiltration for effective management of air pollutants in closed environments. We propose a novel ...

In the next generation of photonic systems, U.S. civilian and defense industries look towards new plasmonic, nonlinear photonic devices, network-compatible for unprecedented functionalities in high bandwidth data handling, switching and signal processing, beam steering, biophotonic sensors and quantum computers. In this Phase I SBIR Triton Systems will demonstrate the use of phase change materials ...

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 EDA toolkit that utilizes existing Design-For-Testability (DFT) structures (e.g. scan-chains) to enable ...

Antimicrobials typically have narrow windows of safe and effective concentrations. To maintain the correct dose in a patient over time, the level of antimicrobial in the patient’s blood must be monitored, but there is currently no portable point-of-care device for this purpose. In this Phase II proposal, Nano Terra proposes to further develop and scale up a point-of-care antimicrobial sensor pla ...