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Military systems operate in complex, adversarial environments where their initial planned operations are often overcome by events, but soldiers use those systems in creative ways to achieve their mission objectives. For example, complex ground robotic systems that were initially deployed for surveillance and explosive ordinance disposal have instead been used as decoys, ammunition carriers, and ot ...

SIFT, along with Drs. Julie Adams and Ramesh Sagili of Oregon State University (OSU), propose to develop “Resilient Emergent Properties for Autonomous Agent InteRactions” (REPAIR). Building upon recent innovative work in swarm control and optimization, and applying new observations of specific defensive and adaptive characteristics of honeybee colonies, REPAIR will provide biologically inspire ...

Trusted Semiconductor Solutions will demonstrate how high-reliability substrate material, leading-edge commercial memories, advanced manufacturing processing, and our radiation circumvention and recovery approach enables high density electronic payloads needed for next generation guided missile and space applications. We will develop a prototype system-in-package (SiP) that utilizes commercial mem ...

SIFT proposes Community of Measured Peers (COMPEER) an integrated collaboration environment that addresses the security and reputation requirements of the Intelligence Community (IC) for discovering new resources within the IC and on the Internet.The word compeer, means a person of equal rank.In COMPEER all source start out with the same reputation, regardless of type; person report, software, or ...

To more quickly analyze sensor and other data near the tactical edge, allowing faster reaction and ensuring mission success, the Air Force has expressed the need for an agile tactical cloud capable of in-mission data processing and storage.Architecture Technology Corporation proposes Mission-Optimized Aerial Cloud Environment (MACE), managing resources distributed across multiple aerial vehicles t ...

Fast Authentication for Tactical Interfaces (FATI) provides continuous EUD authentication through the use of multiple biometric identifiers.FATI eliminates the need for intentional user input to keep the EUD unlocked so long as the EUD remains under the direct control of the authorized user.When positive biometric identification cannot be made, FATI locks the EUD to preclude unauthorized access.Th ...

Adventium has created a trust-driven engineering solution that will enable assured deployment and control of million-plus scalable lightweight cybercraft to help maintain US freedom of action, and deny freedom of action to our adversaries. Our constraint-based approach reduces uncertainty by identifying robust architectures and configurations that can satisfy mission requirements for large-scale d ...

In an information warfare scenario, the enemy will deploy an attack that has never been seen before. This attack will completely debilitate both defensive and offensive software capabilities. We have designed and developed a system that will defend against such attacks. The project's major innovation has been a comprehensive approach for tolerating security violations in mission/safety critical ...

The overall objective of the proposed research is to develop a comprehensive, efficient, and well-validated computational method for the prediction of thermodynamic and hydrodynamic performance of various types of two-phase cooling systems for next generation electronics. The proposed computational method will use a novel two-level approach that involves a system-level solution with an embedded co ...

This Small Business Innovation Research Phase II proposal describes a latching anti-tamper (AT) stress sensor (LATSS) for volumetric protection of military systems. LATSS devices are intended to passively detect and remember if a change in some mechanical aspect of the shield enclosing a protected volume has occurred and provide a signal that can be queried to report the change. They are based o ...