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Very little research and development has been done to address the unique assistive technology needs of individuals with traumatic brain injuries. In response to the immediate need for executive functioning supports for soldiers with TBI/PTST, an all-in-one (Ai1) system is proposed to provide independent access to message recording, personal schedule maintenance and cellular telephones for soldier ...

AON proposal response to SBIR Phase I Navy 08-022 “Miniature Ultra-High Capacity Data Storage (MUHCS) in support of Strike and Mission Planning” will allow to accelerate AON 1000 development. The Phase I proposal baseline (6 months) would enable AON to complete the modeling and design to replace passive components, align, and assemble the passive components and active optical devices. In add ...

A tremendous need exists for intelligent agents that can be created and edited without resorting to intensive knowledge engineering and programming, and which exhibit believable and variable behavior in the training contexts in which they are deployed. This proposal describes a novel method for creating and editing intelligent agents’ behavior based on using instance-based modeling and statisti ...

Development of a general purpose software interface between cognitive models and 3D virtual environments requires innovation and research in cognitive abstractions and interfaces, as well as a thoughtful application of software architecture and engineering principles. We propose to embed these innovative cognitive abstractions in a middleware layer that offers “plug-and-play” operation for ar ...

The objective of this proposal is to demonstrate the feasibility of developing variable speed speech synthesis technology. We plan to use open source TTS systems because they often provide flexibility and interoperability, which is essential for research oriented work. To modify speaking speed, we plan to focus on time domain time-scale modification algorithms, which provide good quality with les ...

Voice transformation is altering one person’s voice into another person’s voice in such a way that the source speaker’s words sound like they are the target speaker’s. In Phase I, we have studied various algorithms for voice transformation. The project has come to grips with the feasible methods for glottal source and vocal tract conversion algorithms; thus laying a good foundation upon wh ...

Early detection of corrosion or the advent of corrosive environments in nominally protected assets, and monitoring its extent can help control corrosion initiated failures and predict the degradation or useful remaining life of utility pipeline infrastructure. Although preventive maintenance and periodic visual inspections are utilized to monitor damage and assess costs of corrosion, an autonomous ...

With the advances in solid-state electronics and optoelectronics, ultra wideband radio frequency receiver designs are now practical. One of the consequences of these large bandwidth waveforms is the very high range resolution that results. Various architectures of receivers have been proposed for the ultra wideband applications, but most popular architectures among them are heterodyne, homodyne, l ...

The objective of the research is to produce a technology that will effectively automate the processes of recognizing security threats to BMDS under the conditions of unpredictable dynamic situations and the periods of heightened alerts. Our method will provide human operators with results in the context of tactical and operational BMDS situations and gives sufficient explanations needed for future ...

The goal of this effort is to develop technologies enabling situational awareness for large-scale cyber network defense, assessing the impact of adversarial action against a network, and predicting future adversary attack strategy. Based on Phase I, we plan to develop, implement, and validate a prototype system. The prototype shall be sufficiently detailed to evaluate scalability, usability, and s ...