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Satellite platforms play a critical role in the modern defense and intelligence infrastructure, providing timely, detailed, and readily available imagery to support U.S. national security. An ever present and fundamental requirement for this type of data is automated target detection and recognition, helping to quickly locate and correctly identify targets from vast quantities of image data. Despi ...

CBC’s HIPS solution is a low-profile, omni-directional wind turbine that can be rapidly deployed and safely emplaced anywhere on an Agile Combat Employment (ACE) airfield without risking aircraft collisions, disrupting radar, nor requiring re-deployment t

Scene simulation is an integral component of weapon system research & development, allowing researchers to evaluate new sensor concepts entirely in the digital space as well as drive scene projection during hardware-in-the-loop testing. Unfortunately, research scientists are limited to a small set of available background environments that cover only a few geographic locations.  VSI proposes GEOSI ...

The national imperative to field hypersonic weapon systems has increased the demand for robust, lightweight, and affordable high temperature materials for thermal protection systems.  Refractory composites such as carbon-carbon (C/C) or carbon/SiC (C/SiC) offer enormous promise, but wider-scale acceptance continues to be hindered by certain technical and affordability limitations.  Key among the ...

The goal of this Phase II SBIR is to extract latent or unexploited information from existing submarine acoustic sensors through a highly innovative inter- and intra-sensor correlation algorithm, in order to provide U.S. submarines with increased acoustic superiority over increasingly quiet adversaries.  U.S. adversaries are continuously improving their acoustic quieting technologies through effor ...

Estimating pose of missiles in flight from ground-based imagery presents a variety of challenges, such as low-resolution imagery, varying lighting conditions, cluttered background, and poor contrast between target and background. 3D models of the target object can simplify the problem by providing a strong constraint on the space of possible target poses. VSI proposes SkyLock, a robust and efficie ...

Satellite platforms play a critical role in the modern defense and intelligence infrastructure, providing timely, detailed, and readily available imagery to support U.S. national security. A fundamental requirement for this type of data is automated target detection and recognition, helping analysts to quickly locate and correctly identify targets of interest from vast quantities of image data. De ...

Propel proposes to conduct research in order to determine the performance level of a seamless cold weather mesh undershirt and drawers as compared to the existing undershirt and drawers.  Propel shall develop initial concepts and evaluate their technical feasibility.  Comparison to conventionally sewn seams using internationally recognized standards and test methods, as well as novel test method ...

Despite a large and growing set of available data sources across many domains, identifying and tracking developing threats in operational domains remains a critical unsolved problem. Extraction of relevant threat information and correlation across multiple modalities is required to take full advantage of the data available. VSI proposes TALON, a system for leveraging natural language descriptions ...

The MAI team is developing a solution for a portable expeditionary AN/UYQ-100 USW-DSS unit that will have standalone and integrated Consolidated Afloat Network Enterprise Services (CANES) capabilities to further enhance individual unit and watchteam team ASW & ASUW capabilities. The MAI team will incorporate a robust embedded interactive training curriculum applicable to operators and supervisors. ...