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This effort will focus on the development and demonstration of new paint replacement applique technology that will operate throughout a broad band range in order to protect DOD shelter structures from Electromagnetic Interference. In addition, our team will investigate the use of novel frequency selective materials to the extent that a lab top prototype and design will be demonstrated for future ...

ABSTRACT:Kitware and the DIRS Lab at RIT propose an open, extensible software framework and demonstration system with automated change detection, tipping and cueing for exploitation of commercial satellite imagery and video. A small satellite revolution is underway in the venture-funded, commercial market. Our proposed open system will tap into this world, engage key providers, and evolve with the ...

Thermal spray process has many inherent complexities within each sub-process including feedstock manufacturing, component surface preparation and masking, torch parameter selection, robot trajectory and laboratory coating evaluation. Each sub-process is governed by rigid specifications that provide thermal spray applicators with procedural and process guidelines throughout the application. Current ...

The ALCHEMIST effort will expand upon the work performed under the Phase I CHEMIST effort by improving the software framework and fabricating the EMI detection sensor. Specifically, the effort will focus on develop new sensing capabilities, improving usability of the interface, the development of more reliable anomaly detection techniques, and the integration of the EMI detection sensor. ALCHEMIST ...

Cyber operations research typically focuses on technology solutions, with little regard for perceptual and cognitive capabilities of human operators. In our Phase I, we analyzed cyber operator tasks within the DoDs Cyber Incident Handling Life Cycle (CIHLC), including information and data sources needed to perform those tasks. Integrating Goal Directed Task Analysis (GDTA) methods with CIHLC task ...

System reconnaissance is the typical first step in a targeted attack; the attacker must learn the services available, software used, and operating system configuration in order to determine how to best infiltrate a given system.Reconnaissance is then best thwarted by providing false or non-reusable information to an attacker.Based on a successful SBIR Phase I prototype, ATC-NY will design and buil ...

LWIR is well suited for free space communications because of its atmospheric window and low scattering by dust, precipitation, and fog. Due to recent developments of QCLs, the technology is poised to provide the high speed LWIR transmitter for such a free space communication system. However, a corresponding advance in LWIR detectors for the high-speed receiver is needed. The specifics of the LWIR ...

Infrared devices fabricated using III-V strained-layer superlattice (SLS) materials have many advantages over present state-of-the-art HgCdTe detectors, e.g., cost, manufacturability, operability, and theoretically lower Auger generation rates. However, due to the presence of inherent growth related defects the SLS materials have not achieved full potential. While growth improvements are anticipat ...

Military analysts contended that the United States must maintain and enhance its long-range strike capability so that it can strike anywhere in the world with forces that are either based in the U.S. or overseas, using hypersonic weapons. For such high speed platforms, environmental sensors will be needed to reliably sense the transition to sustained hypersonic flight, with the objective of making ...

Elimination of the cold chain is of vital importance for the ability to treat injured warfighters in the field and behind enemy lines. The application of an already FDA approved reagent for the stabilization of labile reagents will allow for minimal development time delaying the fielding of a new technology to fill this role. Protein polymers have been used extensively since the 1980s as an appr ...