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We propose developing a wide area situation awareness (WASA) application for android mobile phones.

High Power Photodiodes (HPPD) are of significant interest to the military as they are critical components in photonic distribution systems. The key to developing a high performance HPPD is improving its linearity (OIP3>50dBm), RF output power (~5W) and thermal performance while simultaneously maintaining a sufficiently wide bandwidth (~20GHz). These stringent performance criteria require innovatio ...

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 ...

Systima is proposing to develop an end-to-end integrated solution to provide a high velocity, Long Range Ram Accelerator Mobile Field Howitzer (LRRAM-FH) system that will dramatically increase velocity and range capabilities over conventional artillery. The ram accelerator launcher will accelerate the projectiles to velocities greater than 2 km/s, which will extend the capability of modern kinetic ...

The purpose of this topic is to develop a pump that can pump two-phase, liquid and vapor mixtures of common refrigerants and heat transfer fluids, without oil lubrication. The challenges of pumping in this regime are well known: Two-phase, liquid-vapor refrigerant mixtures are a mixture of saturated liquid and saturated vapor, by definition meaning that there is zero net positive suction head. M ...

This proposal is for developing Novel Techniques for the Synthesis of High Fidelity Social Network Data (SHIELD). The objective is to develop scalable methods, tools and techniques to synthesize and validate high fidelity social network data and to provide these to researchers in a modular, easy-to-use system. Our innovative program will integrate a set of social science tools for working with s ...

The goal in this project is to develop GroupPulse, a system that enables decision-makers to gain insights from online communities. To do this, the system will monitor one or more social media streams, identify and track groups and sub-communities, and provide realtime analysis of group dynamics and topics. While current technologies can address some of the key capabilities needed for GroupPulse, ...

DARPA and DOD often make use of intelligent tutoring systems (ITSs) for administering training and education to their employees. Unfortunately, even the most modern electronic tutors cannot capture the student"s emotional states and provide no adjustment accordingly. The most effective learning occurs when the instructor engages students according to their current emotional state. To this end, Uto ...

In Phase I, our research team set forth an innovative design of and enabling techniques for universal plug and play navigation (UPNAV) that reconfigures itself on-the-fly as aiding sensors are connected to and disconnected from the system without the need for system redesign and software recompiling. In Phase II, we propose to develop and prototype the UPNAV technology with field tests and demos. ...

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 ...