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When engaging targets at long distance, time matters: enemies may only be visible for a few seconds at a time and snipers need the ability to deliver accurate, lethal fire in those fleeting seconds. The LA-24/PEQ Precision Aiming Laser (PAL) system is a game changing piece of technology that runs the industry-leading Applied Ballistics (AB) solver directly onboard, providing a sniper with a firing ...

A dual/company team, SPEAR LLC and HEAR LLC, with deep R&D experience in hearing protection devices (HPD) and successful DoD contract and SBIR accomplishment, has evidenced strong feasibility for all required subsystems of SOCOM “Canine In/Ear Hearing Protection.” The centerpiece of the team’s ‘K9HPD’ is a dynamic membrane earplug, that unlike expandable foam, flanged/polymer, and custom ...

In this Phase II effort, Cryptic Vector (CV) leverages our successful Phase I feasibility study of the CV LPD Chaotic Sequence Spread-Spectrum (CSSS) waveform and notional prototype SDR design to produce a Technical Readiness Level 6+ prototype system. The system implements terrestrial and satellite communications links to support beyond line-of-sight operation. Cryptic Vector’s LPD CSSS wavefor ...

One million eighty-five thousand five hundred and seven (1,085,507) barrels of hazardous liquids spilled in the US between 2003 and 2022. Accidents involving tankers, barges, pipelines, refineries, drilling rigs, and storage facilities cause these hazardous chemical spills. Careful management of these sites is vital to prevent hazardous materials from causing harm to humans, wildlife, or ecologica ...

Narratives organize and motivate social networks, enabling them to process and interpret complex events and take individual and collective action in response. However, while past work on narrative extraction and analysis provides useful ‘snapshots’ of a narrative at a given point in time, it generally fails to 1) distinguish over-arching, foundational narratives from concrete, focal events tha ...

When engaging targets at long distance, time matters: enemies may only be visible for a few seconds at a time and snipers need the ability to deliver accurate, lethal fire in those fleeting seconds. The LA-24/PEQ Precision Aiming Laser (PAL) system is a game changing piece of technology that runs the industry-leading Applied Ballistics (AB) solver directly onboard, providing a sniper with a firing ...

In the passage of the Fixing America's Surface Transportation Act (Pub. L. No. 114-94), Congress challenged the U.S. DOT and the Federal Coordinating Council on Access and Mobility (CCAM) to develop a cost allocation technology to account for disparate federal reporting requirements and maintain separation of funding sources by trip for non-emergency medical transportation. The U.S. DOT notes the ...

Low Probability of Detection (LPD) is a critical characteristic in modern covert waveform design to protect Soldiers and enable mission success. Increasingly, adversaries are able to detect LPD waveforms designed using traditional methods such as Direct Sequence Spread-Spectrum by using cyclostationary analysis techniques. In this Phase I effort, Cryptic Vector will leverage our existing featurele ...

Many future Level 4 and 5 autonomous vehicles are expected to lack traditional driving controls, presenting a major challenge for regulatory tests that are typically conducted either by manually operating the vehicles or by driving robots physically coupled to the manual controls. Therefore, there is a need for an alternate method allowing automotive test engineers to issue driving commands to veh ...

Operations against near peer adversaries will occur in aggressive electronic warfare (EW) environments. Problematically, widely used GPS signals are inherently weak, and can be easily overwhelmed by malicious, or interfering signals, thus vulnerable to jamming. Current anti-jamming/anti-spoofing systems are of varying degrees of effectiveness, with additional size, weight, power, and cost (SWaP-C) ...