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DoD has a critical need for protecting sensitive data to make sure that only the intended, trusted programs or parts of programs can access the data. This protection must be also effective when data is loaded into memory while being processed by software. Lately, the side-channel attacks which are based on information gained from the implementation of a computer system rather than exploiting algor ...

The multidisciplinary area of GEOINT is changing and becoming more complex. A major driver of innovation in GEOINT collection and processing is artificial intelligence (AI). AI is being leveraged to help accomplish spatial analysis, change detection, and image or video triage tasks where filtering objects of interest from large volumes of data is critical. NGA is confronting the changing GEOINT l ...

Clearly demonstrate that a sub-sea methane harvesting power station can be developed, deployed, and operated to produce power at the 1kW level. Show that no major hurdles remain to produce a fully functional prototype system. Such a system will harvest methane from a productive methane ocean seep and operate autonomously for several years.

Rapidly expanding Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellite constellations force traditional ground-based tracking methods to adapt as the current ground sensor networks can no longer provide a data rich tracking environment. Accurate tracking information is continually consumed by the Government and private sector to varying degrees of accuracy throughout satellites’ mission lifecycles to provide and uti ...

Opterus Research and Development, Inc. (Opterus) and Colorado State University (CSU) have combined the best features of high strain composites (HSC), continuum robots, and tendon actuated robots to develop a new concept called Continuum Actuated Redundant Tendon (CART) Robot to enable self-reconfigurable modular robots that can perform various tasks (e.g., walking, crawling, wheeling, and grasping ...

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is seeking to utilize small reconfigurable robotic system to operate independently in unknown highly complex environments. We propose a modular reconfigurable robot, which presents several locomotion modality to handle different type of off-road environments. We proposed several configurations for the robot, which are well-suited to the type of ...

Netrias, the Texas A&M Health Science Center (TAMHSC) and the Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station (TEES), and expert consultants will expand and extend the capabilities of PathEngine, an advanced computational platform that ingests and integrates a corpus of bacterial phenotype measurements suitable for the training of a pathogenicity machine learning algorithm. We will enhance the data integ ...

Until now,much of theresearch usingfunctional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) has focused on tailoringasystem to detect onlyafew cognitivestatesand theapplication of theseapproaches outsidethe laboratory is not well tested. This solution provides severely limited coverage of thespacethat this technology could beapplied to,and is notarealistic path for developing neuroimagingasan operational ass ...

This Phase II project aims to assemble the key set of sensor modalities that are needed to reliably view the key process anomalies and properties of laser powder bed fusion. The research team will down-select from the Phase I sensors investigated and integrate the sensors into a sensor fusion software package that facilitates data collection and synchronization, and eventually feedback control of ...

Nanoscale, material sensitive, imaging techniques are critical for progress in many disciplines as we learn to master science and technology at the smallest dimensions — on the nanometer to atomic-scale. However, progress in both science and technology is becoming increasingly limited by the constraints of current imaging techniques and metrologies. Fortunately, by combining coherent extreme UV ...