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GPS-denial in a Degraded Visual Environment has significant impact on military aircraft missions. In Phase I, TSC successfully demonstrated techniques to correlate onboard radar imagery with previously collected measured SAR images and base maps, and estimated the platform location accuracy that was obtained. TSC generated simulated real-beam images using high fidelity SAR data for testing and rev ...

Tactical networks face congested and contested environments characterized by intermittent connectivity due to severe jamming and interference conditions. In addition, tactical radios are limited by different levels of resources such as energy, computation, and communication. Effective coordination and cooperation between agents (namely, network nodes) is necessary to manage information flows and s ...

Tactical networking environments present many challenges in terms of demands and limitations regarding bandwidth, latency, reliability, stability, and connectivity. With the exponential growth in mobile sensing technology, embedded sensors increasingly generate large amount of content (e.g., images and videos) that exceed the ability of tactical networks to transfer and disseminate them reliably a ...

This work details the proposed single antenna eigen decomposition (SAED) algorithm to providing anti-jam protection to single antenna GPS users. The focus of this work was for dismounted soldiers and small size platforms which cannot use more common anti-jam technology, e.g. CRPA antennas, to position in the presence of radio frequency interference. The process in which the proposed algorithm remo ...

This proposal presents a plan to perform a technology demonstration of an advanced next generation readout integrated circuit (ROIC) to be used for low-power, compressive sensing, and high dynamic range (HDR) imaging applications. Once fabricated, the advanced ROIC will be hybridized with an InGaAs short wave infrared (SWIR) detector focal plane array (FPA) to demonstrate the ROICs capabilities in ...

Global Position System (GPS) spoofing, where malicious signals are used to manipulate GPS receivers into producing erroneous position, navigation and timing (PNT), is a real tactical threat in current military operations. There is a need to protect assured PNT (APNT) by detecting and localizing the sources of such spoofing. Such protection is needed, not only for fixed-site installations, but also ...

We will conduct a detailed experimental study toward the development of a manufacturable delineation process for dual band mid-wave and long-wave infrared (MWIR/LWIR) focal plane arrays (FPA) based on nBn, InAs/InAsSb, Type II Superlattice (T2SL) structures. We will build on the successful Phase I effort where we demonstrated an 8.65 µm deep etch with a high aspect ratio (3:1 to 4:1) and a V-groo ...

Dignitas’ overall objective for Phase II is to enhance Cyber training capabilities by developing the Intelligent Cyber Adversaries Tool Suite (ICATS), a capable and flexible intelligent cyber adversary as a training tool for a target system such as OneSAF while looking forward to plans for next generation training system. ICATS provides automated cyber adversaries that conduct OPFOR defensive an ...

To meet the demands of the A17-017 SBIR solicitation (“Same Frequency Simultaneous Transmit and Receive Radio for Military and Commercial Applications”), the MaXentric / FIU team proposes the STaRwAARS (Simultaneous Transmit and Receive with Agile Adjustable Response System), which realize >70 dB transmitter-to-receiver isolation cleverly combining dual-polarization antenna and a custom IC wit ...

he objective of this SBIR program is to design and demonstrate an unobtrusive sensor system that measures the strain and force transferred through parachute riser fabric during a paratrooper jump. This instrumentation will provide a means to measure and record the force experienced by the risers of static line and free fall personnel parachutes. It will increase parachute safety and reduce the tim ...