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The trend over the last several years is fewer businesses supplying manufactured products. Thus, by supply and demand, the cost of military hardware has increased with less competition. Furthermore, amortized cost of the qualifying a new product becomes cost prohibited resulting in non-competitive bids compared to historical averages. DLAs Replenishment Parts Purchase or Borrow program supports re ...

GEOST has teamed with the University of Arizona to create a one-person mobile telescope, mount, and camera able to track nearly all cataloged space debris.In Phase II of the ISCAD effort also called RoboScope, GEOST and the University of Arizona will implement the Phase I design in functional hardware and software, and then demonstrate the mobile observatory at the customer site.GEOST brings the O ...

In many DoD intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) scenarios, the data streams not only have a high dimensionality, but also belong to different sensing modalities. Current ISR surveillance typically employs stove-piped exploitation systems. Based on a single sensing modality, a stove-piped system senses, captures, and processes only one kind of target signal or signature. IFT propos ...

TSC will develop Human, Vehicle, Animal and Clutter (HVAC) discrimination algorithms for use in GMTI radars by leveraging research performed on previous DARPA efforts and an ongoing Army program. TSC will focus on the challenging UHF radar problem and develop multiple-CPI processing algorithms in Phase I for application to Army airborne foliage penetration surveillance systems and ground-based UHF ...

NadirSAR offers high-resolution imaging of targets, lines of communication, and buildings in urban canyons, rough terrain and light foliage areas. This capability can bridge the gap between down-looking LIDAR sensors and side-looking microwave and foliage penetrating UHF SAR systems such as TRACER. In a previous effort for RRTO, TSC and SDL experimentally demonstrated the feasibility of X-band Nad ...

Noisy cockpits lead to higher workload during flight, compromised radio communications and excessive fatigue in pilots post flight. Excessive noise in cockpit also results in a temporary shift of the auditory threshold known as a Temporary Threshold Shift(TTS). At low frequencies, the helmet itself starts resonating at the characteristic frequency of the helmet close to the excitation source frequ ...

Intelligent Automation, Inc. proposes to build an ecosystem of analytics via a common platform. The technological foundation is a massive multi-analyst multi-domain analytics laboratory (M3AL) that models analyst interactions as an ecosystem platform beyond just an aggregator tool. The ecosystem of analytics is a unified, cross-domain experimentation platform for multiple analytics that will be us ...

Measurement of coordination and performance in team training environments is essential for accurately evaluating training effectiveness and progress. Coordination and performance are tightly coupled. As coordination improves, team performance improves. As command and control systems become larger and more complex, measurement of performance and coordination becomes increasingly difficult. This Pha ...

Alphacore will develop and characterize a new digital readout integrated circuit (DROIC) with a novel capacitor counter-based in-pixel analog to digital converter (ADC) that uses significantly less layout area than a digital logic counter-based in-pixel ADC and thus allows fabricating the DROICs in reasonably priced 130nm and 180nm fabrication processes. Moving back from the 65nm node to 180nm nod ...

Intelligent Automation, Inc. (IAI) proposes to develop AiMNET, a User-Configurable Autonomous Establishing and Management of Secure Networks solution that automates network establishment and maintenance. The end result of this effort will significantly improve reliable network access to support automated and repeated simulation and tests, and reduce the cost and risks for networking.In Phase I, we ...