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Use of"Smartphones"and cellular networks is becoming an increasing priority for military applications. By placing the source of information directly with the solider on the ground via a Smartphone, the vision of"every soldier a sensor"becomes attainable. mZeal proposes to facilitate this vision with the Adaptive Multi-Media Streaming for Android (AMMSTAR) system. AMMSTAR will capture photographic ...

The objective of this proposal is to demonstrate a mobile application capable of determining the location of a remote target. When a photo is taken with a GPS-enabled camera, the GPS location of the actual camera is appended to the photo in a process known as Geo-Tagging. Remote Geo-Tagging (RGT) differs from this process in that RGT determines the coordinates of a target within the picture as o ...

The objective of this proposal is to establish the feasibility of developing an integrated decision support framework that transforms the current time-consuming and reactive (post completion of final design) sustainability assessment into a proactive CAE approach that enables the ability to revise designs based on performance against selected sustainability targets in the product design process, i ...

This effort will focus on methods to identify, describe, justify, design, and prototype methodologies and mechanisms to detect acts indicative of malicious intent or behavior by trusted individuals and groups with access to sensitive information, systems, and sources in secure environments in time to mitigate potentially serious negative consequences of those acts.

Superhydrophobic nanostructured coating will be developed from transparent ultrastrong materials. The coatings will be scalable, inexpensive, mechanically robust and thermally resilient. We will initially design such coatings using layered nanocomposites. Then it will be optimized for different surfaces. In the final stages of the project we will demonstrated scaled up version of the coatings lead ...

The Electromagnetic Plasmoid Thruster (EMPT) has demonstrated the ability to ionize, electromagnetically accelerate, and eject a broad range of complex and chemically-reactive molecular gases, including monopropellants. EMPT has the potential to dramatically increase the operational range of existing electric propulsion (EP) systems in both power density, power throttling, and propellant choice. P ...

Social network analysis is a powerful method for making sense of an increasingly interconnected world. Developing social network analysis tools requires datasets with which to test them, but sharing datasets is problematic because of privacy issues. Initial attempts to anonymize network datasets proved ineffective due to de-anonymization attacks that leveraged publically available information to i ...

Operations centers for tactical military activities, incident response, and other domains all involve multiple teams of individuals interacting with people and systems within and outside of their organization to enable continuous mission success. In these organizations, effective coordination and collaboration is critical. To improve collaboration, an end-to-end sensor and analysis technology is n ...

To address OSD/DARPA's need for a biometric-based approach to automatically authenticating a user in full Military Oriented Protective Posture (MOPP) Level IV gear to a network/host, HarmonoLogic LLC proposes to develop a new Biometric-based Computer Authentication System during MOPP Scenarios (BioCOPS). BioCOPS is based on high-sensitivity, high-specificity multimodal biometrics for secure a ...

During operations where exposure to chemical and biological threats is expected, warfighters will need to wear Military Oriented Protective Posture (MOPP) suits. To allow the warfighters secure and efficient access to networked workstations, a method of continuously authenticating the warfighter in a MOPP suit is needed. In the proposed program, we will develop a wearable device that continuously ...