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In the commercial world, corporate"road-warriors"connect to their home office servers using the RFC-2401 IPSec protocol client software installed on their PCs. Many mobile handsets have these IPSec clients built-in. The Suite B mode of HAIPE v4.2 has been closely aligned with commercial IPSec. We propose, therefore, using this client-server paradigm to develop a Suite B HAIPE client that will s ...

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 ...

This proposal investigates methods for graphene synthesis on Si (001) orientated substrates to enable high-volume production of graphene transistors and circuits. The proposed approach to generate a surface with the proper symmetry for graphene epitaxy is to deposit symmetry transformation layers (STL) of hexagonal-symmetry materials onto Si (001) substrates that will either facilitate the direct ...

Hydraulic actuation systems for mobile robotics are characterized by high bandwidth, high power density, robust operation, flexible power transmission but also by low efficiency, high rejected heat, and high noise levels. The undesirable characteristics of hydraulic power systems are not inherent to fluid power transmission; they are the result of the highly inefficient techniques used to control ...

This proposal is to grow complex alloys on flexible electronics (polymer) substrates that can be layered upon one-another to form agile and dexterous millirobots with excellent power to weight ratios. The process includes CAD modeling of the robots, folded panel extraction of the polymer, simulation and then fabrication in state of the art hitherto unavailable electroforming equipment. The end ...

Robots deployed by the DoD and in industry increasingly demand complex electro-mechanical systems that utilize high levels of integration within small packages. In addition, the cost of these devices needs to be an order-of-magnitude lower than current levels to effectively augment today"s warfighter on the battlefield it is surely more effective to deploy ten $10K robotic arms instead of a singl ...

A design environment for communications system is proposed that enables rapid design and analysis of high-performance communications systems.

SB103-008 has the objective to develop a high speed, semi-autonomous, naval surface munition designed to travel in water at speeds in excess of 100 knots to acoustically track and engage swarms of enemy boats up to 3 miles from the munition launch point. The munition is designed to fit within the footprint of an"A-size"sonobuoy. The proposed CONOPS results in multiple operating regimes: Sub- ...

Underwater, high-speed vehicles present several design challenges. Along with the many cavity/hydrodynamic issues are included: propulsion, control, energy density, and navigation. In addition to an underwater high-speed vehicle design, this proposal describes the development of an air phase high-speed munition concept (HSM) that employs a single watery entry event. For relative shallow depth a ...

The accelerating prevalence of antibiotic-resistant bacterial strains is an increasing public health problem. While the emergence of resistant strains is unavoidable, it is exacerbated by the widespread use, inappropriate prescription and misuse of antibiotics. Development of new antibiotics is slow and costly. One alternative to antibiotics is the development of antimicrobials that target the bac ...