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To address the performance degradation of fixed scheduling policies used by TDMA-based tactical networks in contested and congested environments, a distributed cognitive TDMA scheduling and anti-jamming protocol is proposed. Technical approach consists of: 1. Developing a deep learning (DL) classifier for jammer/interference identification and automatic detection of network congestion that exchang ...

Current state-of-the-art GPS anti-jam technology relies heavily on multi-element antenna arrays and a processing unit that performs a phase-destructive sum of any intentional and unintentional interference signals in the GPS band. These systems are very effective – but tend to be costly, large, and require high power. Canyon Systems is developing an alternate GPS anti-jam/anti-spoof solution to ...

The team of EpiSys Science (EpiSci) and InterDigital proposes to develop and demonstrate an emulation system capable of deploying a full Long Term Evolution (LTE) Fifth Generation (5G) architecture, including all subcomponents, utilizing open source software tools, specifically OpenAirInterface, CORE, and EMANE, into self-contained commodity personal computer hardware. The team will utilize open s ...

UAS platforms are required to operate within urban canyons and other GPS-denied/degraded environments. Navigation within such denied environments carries with it the potential for large communication and computation overheads. More specifically, the sUAS platforms may need to download full or partial 3D maps over the communication network in real-time, and then utilize these maps for navigation vi ...

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 ...

Anti-tank guided missiles (ATGMs) pose a significant threat to Army combat vehicles but sensors to detect them and pinpoint their origin are not sensitive enough and do not provide precision origin location information. The laser energy that impacts the ground vehicle is very low, making it both difficult to detect and find its origin. Attollo proposed to solve this problem by bringing to bear on ...

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 ...

Coatings provide many critical functions that add billions of dollars of value to DoD warfighter systems. Atmospheric pressure, plasma-enhanced chemical vapor deposition (AP-PECVD) developed by Surfx Technologies shows great promise in advancing the state-of-the-art in multifunctional coatings. Several chemical precursors can be introduced at the same time and converted into a thin film by the pla ...

The U.S. Army seeks to develop a novel systemic therapy for out-of-hospital management of combat-associated, non-compressible traumatic hemorrhage starting at the point-of-injury through en route care. Critical Innovations, Cayuga Biotech, Charles River, and consultants Captain David Tanen MD, FAAEM, FACMT (USN, Ret.), former Commander Denise Whitfield, MD, FACEP, and William David McGuinn, Jr., M ...

The Army requires greater Situational Awareness (SA) for the aircrews of rotorcraft. Currently, there is no system in place to provide the aircrew with visibility into the ‘blind spots’ that exist below and behind the aircraft. OKSI proposes an innovative multi-frame super-resolution (MFSR) solution to address this need by exploiting low-resolution, high-rate imagery from existing Aircraft Sur ...