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Numerics-Informed Neural Networks (NINNs)
SBC: KARAGOZIAN & CASE, INC. Topic: DTRA21B002The overall goal is to develop numerics-informed neural networks (NINNs) and DeepOnets for chemical reactions and for PDEs with spatial derivatives improve the computational efficiency of the chemical kinetics models for chemical weapon agents and simulants. Based on the first NINN developed by the Karniadakis’s group in 2018, which blends the multi-step time-stepping with deep neural networks, ...
STTR Phase I 2022 Department of DefenseDefense Threat Reduction Agency -
SAR AI Training dataset generated using Reification
SBC: Arete Associates Topic: DTRA21B001The Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) Image Generation Data Augmentation (SIGDA) system is achieved using SAR simulators and the Arete’s Reification approach. Large, realistic datasets will be generated using the Arete Reification capability. These large Reified datasets are then used to train machine learning or Artificial Intelligence (AI), Automatic Target Recognition (ATR) classification algori ...
STTR Phase I 2022 Department of DefenseDefense Threat Reduction Agency -
Algorithm Performance Evaluation with Low Sample Size
SBC: SIGNATURE RESEARCH, INC. Topic: NGA20C001The team of Signature Research, Inc. and Michigan Technological University will develop and demonstrate methods and metrics to evaluate the performance of machine learning-based computer vision algorithms with low numbers of samples of labeled EO imagery. We will use the existing xView panchromatic dataset to demonstrate a proof-of-concept set of tools. If successful, in Phase II, we will extend t ...
STTR Phase I 2021 Department of DefenseNational Geospatial-Intelligence Agency -
General Purpose Radiation Detector Front End and Digital Processor
SBC: H3D INC Topic: DTRA20B002This project aims to create a general-purpose readout architecture that will allow the rapid deployment of next generation detection systems. The system will be based on the development of a programmable general-purpose integrated circuit (GPIC) that has the front-end electronics required to read out signals from a variety of radiation detectors, especially next generation scintillators and semico ...
STTR Phase I 2021 Department of DefenseDefense Threat Reduction Agency -
Integrated Circuits
SBC: NU-TREK, INC. Topic: DTRA20B002The Nu-Trek team is proposing to develop µDet, a low Size, Weight, and Power (SWaP) read out integrated circuit (IC) for gamma and neuron detectors. µDet offers pulse shape digitization, which in turn enables gamma-neutron discrimination. This is a game changing capability that brings laboratory-level functionality to the field. In Phase I the Nu-Trek Team will develop a baseline design for the ...
STTR Phase I 2021 Department of DefenseDefense Threat Reduction Agency -
Bounding generalization risk for Deep Neural Networks
SBC: Euler Scientific Topic: NGA20A001Deep Neural Networks have become ubiquitous in the modern analysis of voluminous datasets with geometric symmetries. In the field of Particle Physics, experiments such as DUNE require the detection of particle signatures interacting within the detector, with analyses of over a billion 3D event images per channel each year; with typical setups containing over 150,000 different channels. In an ...
STTR Phase I 2020 Department of DefenseNational Geospatial-Intelligence Agency -
Hardened, Optically-Based Temperature Characterization of Detonation Environments
SBC: SA PHOTONICS, LLC Topic: DTRA19B001Improving the effectiveness of counter-WMD operations requires improved understanding of weapon-target interaction. Specifically, time-resolved measurements of temperature and composition are required to allow temporal evolution of a detonation fireball. To address this need, SA Photonics will develop MONITOR, a laser-based temperature diagnostic that will enable wide dynamic range temperature mea ...
STTR Phase I 2020 Department of DefenseDefense Threat Reduction Agency -
Hybrid DNN-based Transfer Learning and CNN-based Supervised Learning for Object Recognition in Multi-modal Infrared Imagery
SBC: TOYON RESEARCH CORPORATION Topic: 1On this effort Toyon Research Corp. and The Pennsylvania State University are developing deep learning-based algorithms for object recognition and new class discovery in look-down infrared (IR) imagery. Our approach involves the development of a hybrid classifier that exploits both transfer learning and semi-supervised paradigms in order to maintain good generalization accuracy, especially when li ...
STTR Phase I 2018 Department of DefenseNational Geospatial-Intelligence Agency -
Algorithms for Look-down Infrared Target Exploitation
SBC: SIGNATURE RESEARCH, INC. Topic: 1Signature Research, Inc. (SGR) and Michigan Technological University (MTU) propose a Phase I STTR effort to develop a learning algorithm which exploits the spatio-spectral characteristics inherent within IR imagery and motion imagery.Our archive of modelled and labeled data sets will allow our team to thoroughly capture the variable elements that will drive machine learning performance.The overall ...
STTR Phase I 2018 Department of DefenseNational Geospatial-Intelligence Agency -
Development of powder bed printing (3DP) for rapid and flexible fabrication of energetic material payloads and munitions
SBC: MAKEL ENGINEERING, INC. Topic: DTRA16A001This program will demonstrate how additive manufacturing technologies can be used with reactive and high energy materials to create rapid and flexible fabrication of payload and munitions. Our primary approach to this problem will be to use powder bed binder printing techniques to print reactive structures. The anticipated feedstock will consist of composite particles containing all reactant spe ...
STTR Phase I 2016 Department of DefenseDefense Threat Reduction Agency