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Asymmetric proposes to develop software and firmware to optimize data exfil throughout Whisper devices. This includes making the Whisper system have additional, tuneable capabilities to increase LPI/LPD characteristics. The current methods utilized by Special Operations Forces (SOF) personnel to maintain secure, covert and reliable data transmission in hostile environments is difficult and mission ...

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 ...

Ultralight Industries Corporation, working with MIT Lincoln Laboratory proposes to assess the feasibility of an adaptable, scalable and efficient digital phased array that allows intelligent simultaneous RF multitasking and rapid iteration of core and tenant capabilities defined in software at the speed of relevance. Through this project, we will assess what is in the art of the possible for a low ...

The Whisper Next Gen WiGig project plans to evaluate optimization opportunities within the IEEE WiGig (60 GHz) standard for use cases as a potential low size, weight, and power tactical ultra-secure communications capability for Special Operations Command (SOCOM). It has the potential to be a highly secure, covert and reliable data transmission link for soldiers or indigenous allies in hostile env ...

The demand for rechargeable energy storage systems with greater specific energy and improved power density continues to increase to support current and next generation soldier-assisting electronics and unmanned aerial, underwater, and ground vehicles (UAVs, UUVs, UGVs). Insufficient electrical power and energy can directly impede military missions by inhibiting infantry and vehicle performance, sa ...