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A semi-active suspension upgrade kit for the SOCOM up-armored HMWWV will be developed that will achieve comparable performance for the entire weight range of a GMV: 8300lbs curb weight to 14,500lbs combat loaded. The baseline performance requirement is equivalent handling, stability and ride quality as an M1113 HMMWV at rated GVW. A dynamic model that incorporates the semi-active suspension into ...

Vidient proposes a computer-aided video/audio surveillance system to detect, monitor, understand and anticipate crowd behavior. Audio and video sensors were selected because they are low cost, portable, passive, and if mounted properly, are difficult to detect visually. A robust crowd detection and interpretation method using a Bayesian fusion framework to integrate multiple video/audio processing ...

The MOCA project will develop a network-enabled DSP+FPGA-enhanced image-intensified embedded system for self-contained low-power monitoring of crowds in open and in complex urban terrain. The Phase I effort will develop new algorithms explicitly for crowd management, rather than building on the traditional intelligent video surveillance algorithms that are focused on isolated targets in motion. P ...

To address the USSOCOM need for modular tactical packaging (MTP) of body-worn signals intelligence system electronics, Physical Optics Corporation (POC) proposes to develop the new DIstributed MOdular Networked Devices (DIMOND) interconnectivity architecture. This proposed electronics packaging and interconnect technology is based on COTS computer components and MOTS radio frequency communication ...

The goal of this project is to eliminate the current base modules and replace them with a distributed modular tactical packaging system. This system will allow for greater flexibility, reduced encumbrance and an easier to use electronics package which will allow both man-mounted and hand-held operation. By designing a wearable unit that is easily reconfigurable, soldiers will have “plug and p ...

This proposal presents a secure, automated, field deployable Networked Sensor Array. Each array consists of many “Miniature Netted Sensors” (MNS). These sensors detect, quantify, encrypt and forward relevant situational information to Command and Control Units (CCU) and/or other designated recipients. Individual MNS units self-organize into a secure network upon deployment. The network is self ...

Data resources available for automatic feature extraction (AFE) have expanded significantly in the last few years. Available sensor data now includes high-resolution multispectral and hyperspectral sensors, synthetic aperture radar (SAR), and accurate height measurement sensors such as LIDAR and interferometric SAR (IFSAR). Current AFE tools are unable to fuse and process all the new types of se ...

The Navy, the academic oceanographic community and the oil industry have embraced the use of underwater acoustic modems to take advantage of the many benefits that wireless operation brings to their applications. In this proposed SBIR effort, HLS Research Inc will take advantage of the resources already present in an acoustic modem, namely the acoustic pressure sensors and the signal processing ca ...

Current methods of transmitting low-frequency RF energy from airborne platforms involve antennas such as blades that are electrically inefficient and a place a large aerodynamic burden on the airframe. SOCOM desires a method of efficiently transmitting low-frequency energy (VHF-UHF) at high power levels from airborne platforms. The desired gain numbers (-2 to 0 dB) at these frequencies would requi ...

Human biometric recognition systems are essential in the automated personal identification and verification applications market. This market spans the commercial and military sectors to include a myriad of identification applications from secure entrance, to time card clocks, to bio-certified delivery systems, to automobiles that recognize their drivers, to money transaction systems, to weapons th ...