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Multi-purpose canines (MPCs) attached to Army Special Operational Forces (ARSOF) units play pivotal roles in small unit tactics as a force multiplier. The ARSOF canine handler’s inability to effectively communicate with the MPC in non-line of sight (non-LOS) scenarios limit ARSOF Soldier maneuverability, survivability, lethality and unit tactical advantage. Current techniques for off-leash direc ...

To date, Simultaneous Transmit and Receive (STAR) solutions have primarily relied on a circulator in the RF frontend, paired with digital signal processing (DSP) to suppress the approximately known transmitted signal. These techniques have demonstrated only limited isolation and bandwidth and struggle to remove non-linear harmonics and transmit noise. Moreover, the limited isolation of circulators ...

We propose to research and develop Flexible and Live Adaptive Training Tools (FLATT) as a flexible user interface capability within a generalized framework that can be applied to a wide variety of training instances. We plan to leverage our Generalized Intelligent Framework for Tutoring (GIFT) toolset because it is a flexible, expandable, service-oriented architecture (SOA)-based system that provi ...

An innovative modeling utility is proposed for designing rotor blades for Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS) with reduced acoustic signatures. Emphasis will be placed on modeling the performance and noise characteristics of small propellers and rotors operating at low tip speeds and low Reynolds numbers; typical of the platforms that fall under the Group 1 UAS category defined by the US Department of D ...

Additive Manufacturing (AM) often produces components with unique irregularities, which may have decisive impact on their mechanical properties. Current certification process for safety-critical AM part involving extensive experimental efforts is not practical and efficient. It is highly desired to develop a comprehensive modeling framework that can predict the mechanical performance of additively ...

Hydrogen gas (H2) has many benefits as an alternative energy source for fossil fuels, including environmental and energy supply benefits. Hydrogen can be used to produce electricity in fuel cells and hydrogen internal combustion engines (hydrogen energy density: ~140 MJ/kg). Producing H2 at the point-of-need is especially attractive to mobile Military operations. The cost of JP-8 when fully burden ...

In order to develop a SATCOM diverse terminal Fairwinds has identified the key technologies required to support the performance and cost goals for simultaneous beams to multiple geosynchronous and other satellites. Fairwinds proposes to leverage commercial phased array technology and standard Digital architectures to enable this capability. During Phase I we will develop system requirements, syste ...

An automatic, on-demand software solution is desired that is capable of generating large scale image/video training datasets for downstream analytic algorithms such as object classification or target tracking, with user selected attributes such as types of foreground objects, background scenes, weather conditions, camera view angles, etc., given a small labeled seed dataset or even no seed data at ...

It is of the utmost importance that all the information exchanged are legit and unmodified. As attackers are becoming more sophisticated, however, traditional methods are losing their effectiveness. The emerging blockchain technology provides a secure and decentralized way to maintain a global view of information, and has been used in many encrypted currencies. The blockchain technology has many s ...

For deployment scenarios where the primary communication bands are disrupted, the Army requires High Frequency (HF) antenna systems for backup communications. These HF systems must be transported, typically in man-pack fashion, to the battlefield. Current state-of-the art portable HF antennas used by the Army are heavy and time consuming to erect. Most available commercial architectures that reduc ...