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During the phase I effort, Semandex Networks and its team designed and implemented a proof-of-concept cloud-based application for knowledge navigation and document discovery that combines powerful text analytics with an intuitive UI. The prototype capability is poised to transform current data archival systems into meaningful connected information. The proof-of-concept prototype developed during t ...

Development of air vehicles capable of routine operation and able to achieve hypersonic speeds is paced by the availability of a propulsion system. The vision is to combine improved off-the-shelf turbines for low-speed operation (M=0 to 2+) and dual-mode ramjet (DMSJ) engine technologies for high-speed operation (M=2+ to 5+), with both engines sharing a common air inlet and a common thrust produci ...

Unlike conventional computers, the embedded computers found in vehicles, routers and other Internet of Things devices lack the capability to have their software remotely updated. Vulnerabilities discovered in such devices remain unpatched, creating a large and growing attack surface. We propose to address this limitation in our Identification and Modification of Features in Embedded Devices (IMFED ...

From HIV to metastatic cancer, state-of-the-art therapeutics are static biological or pharmaceutical compounds—whose efficacy is inevitably lost once their evolving disease targets sufficiently mutate. We engineered the first adaptive therapeutics designed to co-adapt with adapting disease agents—to provide ‘resistance-proof’ disease control. Known as Therapeutic Interfering Particles (‘ ...

Third-party software dependencies have proliferated modern software development. Many of these dependencies are available only as binaries, and have lurking known vulnerabilities in them, making them easy targets for cyber-attacks and unleashing malware ...

The Constructable Platform effort will define a modular, reconfigurable, and expandable architecture for a platform in GEO to provide persistent support infrastructure for multiple, diverse payloads. The platform’s reusability will enable the infrastru...

The OrbWeaver effort addresses DoD needs for affordable, resilient SATCOM capabilities by developing a system for recycling an unmodified ESPA ring on-orbit to form a large aperture phased array capable of providing high-bandwidth SATCOM services to K-ba...

GrammaTech proposes Bug-Injector, a tool for generating cyber defense evaluation benchmarks through the injection of vulnerable code into existing host software. Bug-Injector is highly configurable, providing users the transparency required of a tool used to compare commercial products and perform security audits, and the customizability to enable focused evaluation of specific defensive tools, ho ...

In this seed effort, we will utilize our existing CMOS integrated power inductor process to develop a custom IPD that includes an array of power inductors designed to face-to-face bond with a reference digital-polar power amplifier design exploiting both GaN and CMOS. Building on an existing hybrid GaN/CMOS digital-polar power amplifier (PA) design, a custom CMOS chip will be designed to enable ...

In Phase I of this effort we analyzed the structural response of a BLU 109 during typical penetration events. Based on these finite element results, we proposed and demsonstrated a simple robust concept for a passive penetrator sensor that identifies the material being penetrated and also correlates strongly with its underground trajectory. Such a sensor would obviously provide valuable informatio ...