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The pace of remotely sensed data collection is increasing exponentially while the skilled workforce that is available to analyze and interpret the data is not. Artificial Intelligence (AI) offers a technology pathway to automation which promises to rapidly reduce the gap between data and information products and services. However, AI techniques require massive quantities of labeled data to train m ...

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 ...

Existing THz devices have not yet provided all the imaging functionalities required to fulfill non-destructive imaging and remote sensing applications. Most of the THz imaging and spectroscopy systems utilize single-pixel detectors, which results in a severe trade-off between the measurement time and field-of-view.   Lack of large-format (many-pixel) sensor arrays is one of the major hurdles for ...

Detect and Identify Automated Labeler for Radar (DIALR)  Prime Solutions Group, Inc. (PSG) proposes Detect and Identify Automated Labeler for Radar (DIALR) for Research and Development (R&D) and demonstration of an algorithm framework for automated labeling of target classes in radar imagery. This provides a baseline for automatically labeling multiple target classes in Synthetic Aperture Radar ...

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 ...

Rincon Research Corporation (RRC) proposes assessing modern devices and techniques in the art of the possible that satisfy a number of key requirements. To reduce costs and shorten development timeline, RRC will focus on implementing the solution on low-cost, commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) software-defined radios (SDRs) which meet the low probability of interception/detection (LPI/LPD) waveform� ...

PHMSA reports a total of 5,745 pipeline incidents with 282 deaths and 1,193 injuries in the 20-year period from 2000 through 2019. Moreover, these incidents cost $10,419,311,449 in damages. Most oil and gas (O&G) transmission pipes are repaired externally by excavating around a damaged or leak site, preparing the pipe surface, and mechanically installing a repair product such as a clamp or wrap on ...

RF Viper is a novel next generation system to stop wrong-way drivers (WWD) on ramps. It is the “vehicle-to- infrastructure” missing component of the current Alert & Warning systems installed in many states. Like a true viper that uses its fangs to inject venom and incapacitate its prey, the RF Viper emits energy that interrupts vehicle engine electronics, stops the engine, incapacitating the v ...

SOCOM is seeking to develop a capability to connect Radio Frequency (RF) transmitters/receivers to any antennas in the distribution system quickly and efficiently. The general requirement for this topic is to enable a series of receivers/transmitters to access various antennas, each designed to operate most efficiently in a specific section of the RF spectrum, using control software. There may be ...

Satellite and airborne platforms provide timely, detailed, and readily available still and full-motion imagery to support U.S. national security. A constant requirement for this type of data is automated object detection and recognition, helping analysts to quickly locate and correctly identify targets of interest from vast quantities of image data. This requirement is made more challenging when a ...