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With expanded connectivity, the spectrum of devices that are susceptible to cyber-attack is constantly increasing.Beyond this, given the increased processing power and capabilities of everyday IoT/embedded devices, cyber-attacks that previously only targeted endpoints (e.g., botnets, ransomware, DoS, DDoS, etc.) are now broadly applicable.Unfortunately, current cyber-threat detection solutions are ...

Air cargo security is critical to minimizing the overall risk to national security. However, screening air cargo with current state-of-the-art computed tomography (CT) imaging is a complex and challenging task for screeners. To address current complexities and challenges, Charles River Analytics proposes to design and demonstrate Supportive Intelligence and Fusion Technology to Ecologically Repres ...

Physical Sciences Inc. (PSI) proposes to develop an air cargo screening software suite that automatically parses air cargo waybills and detects and localizes the reported cargo contents within X-ray images obtained during screening. The software will utilize state-of-the-art machine-learning (ML) and natural language processing techniques to rapidly analyze and correlate manifests with associated ...

To achieve the goals for the DHS SBIR topic “MCX Server-to-Server Communication, voice communications, 3GPP-Standards” (DHS231-005) to develop a unified process, strategy, and methodology to achieving interoperability of MCX server-to-server communications and to create a test tool for conformance and interoperability testing for MCX server-to-server communications, we will develop the ...

RMD is developing a semiconductor base Spectroscopic Personal Radiation Detector (SPRD). The gamma detection is be based on TlBr and the neutron detection on LiInSe (LIS) semiconductors. These detection technologies have been under development in RMD for several years with the DHS and other government agencies support. The primary technological benefit of semiconductor detectors for gamma detectio ...

Prixarc proposes to develop and commercialize novel terahertz (THz) focal-plane array (FPA) that utilizes 3D microstructures, smart readout integrated circuits, and allows efficient integration with processors that incorporate machine learning to increase the data collection efficiency. We plan to collaborate with University of Miami (UM) and Kansas State University (KSU) for this project. We prop ...

Salient Predictions Inc. proposes to develop new technology for accurate subseasonal to seasonal (S2S) water availability forecasts so that communities may manage water resources in preparation for hazardous events like floods and droughts. Current hydrological models face challenges related to data inputs, as climate change has been presenting weather patterns atypical from historical data. Witho ...

We propose to develop in-situ low cost sensors to support fire meteorology for wildland fire emergency response, by blanketing the fire area with real time measurements. Sensors can be air-deployed to provide vertical atmospheric measurement profiles or hand-emplaced for augmenting existing surface fire weather stations. Each telemeters precision measurements of air temperature, solar radiation, i ...

The long endurance “StratoSonde” lighter-than-air, uncrewed system combines a low-cost, 5day endurance StratoSonde supports up to 10 micro-dropsondes, which when released from the HAB, descend safely through the entire atmospheric column under a ribbon drogue while reporting observations directly back to the HAB. This project will assess the feasibility of integrating a disposable miniature ae ...

Ocean ecosystems are critical to the regulation of Earth’s climate and biodiversity, while also hosting a range of direct and indirect benefits to people, from being a food source to recreation. Coastal ocean systems are dynamic regions especially rich in diverse biological and geochemical interactions. However, major gaps exist in our knowledge of the primary biogeochemical processes and the fa ...