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Agents, Agent Architectures and Agent-based applications have become a phenomena in recent years with seemingly everyone jumping on the bandwagon. However, as with any truly revolutionary breakthrough technology, Agents have lacked standards and rulingbodies to govern the direction of the bandwagon in its infancy. While inside this wagon train apparent chaos ruled, but with that chaos came many ...

21st Century Technologies and Mr. Valdis Krebs, a social network expert , will (1) combine multiple social network patterns to provide visibility and situational awareness of anomalous and potentially terrorist behaviors (2) implement these combinedpatterns into an social network pattern library and (3) integrate the library into TMODS. 21st Century Technologies', TMODS, (Terrorist Modus Oper ...

Radios are required for every spacecraft mission, yet spacecraft radios truly suited for nanosatellites currently do no exist. AeroAstro's proposed Modular S-Band Radio Suite (MSBRS) will solve this problem and make inexpensive spacecraft in the 1 to 30kgclass feasible. In this SBIR program AeroAstro will develop a set of miniature radio modules specifically intended to allow the spacecraft deve ...

Current methods used for the destruction of CW agents are cumbersome, require extensive capital equipment such as incinerators and water reactors and pose potential environmental problems themselves. A novel approach for the destruction of CW agentsinvolves genetically engineering microorganisms to produce recombinant enzymes that can efficiently degrade CW agents. Such a system would allow thes ...

Off-axis illumination, optical proximity correction, phase shift masks, interferometric techniques, and pupil plane phase masks have been used to increase lithographic resolution. Further progress requires new techniques and methodologies. The optimalcombination of aspheric optics and signal processing which we term Wavefront Coding has been effective in dramatically increasing the imaging perfo ...

Today, there is no unified, cohesive and effective technology/software to allow warfighters the ability to perform operational tasks in a task-centric collaborative manner. The Agent-based Active Methods environment, powered by distributed agenttechnology, utilizes the latest in GUI Component and Design Pattern methods for creating dynamic process-based composable user interfaces operating over a ...

Existing signal processing algorithms for remote sensing were typically derived, first, by formulating the problem in the context of one of the following: inverse theory (e.g. integral equations, integral transforms, deconvolution), singular valueddecomposition,filter theory, estimation theory, information theory, detection theory, or beamforming; and then, second, by deriving a solution thatmee ...

Poly-Dicyclopentadiene (Poly-DCPD) is a polymer that offers potential as a material of construction for defense and non-defense items. An adhesive system that would have similar or greater strength than the poly-DCPD polymer substrate would enable theconstruction of complex items from simple low cost shapes. Currently, only conventional mechanical means such as fasteners may be employed for such a ...

ObjectVideo and Prof. Jianbo Shi from the University of Pennsylvania propose an automated activity recognition system for video surveillance at night. The deliverable is software that performs real-time threat analysis on incoming video streams and alertssecurity personnel of impending danger. The software will operate on legacy camera systems, including thermal, near-IR, and visible wavelength c ...

This Phase II SBIR effort will develop a compact high pulse energy eyesafe laser transmitter with a pulse width of 1ns and a repetition rate of 30Hz. This source will be compatible with multi-function operation (imaging, rangefinding and designation) anddesigned for compact packaging. The end product will be a fieldable brassboard laser.