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FireSky/CHATTIN (Cyber Hardening and Agility Technology for Tactical IP Networks) provides cyber defense, agility, and real-time threat intelligence for aerial tactical IP networks. FireSky/CHATTIN drops into existing IP based aerial networks and provides cyber defense. This work involves enhancing FireSky/CHATTIN to provide the capabilities required for deployment to Battlefield Airborne Communic ...

Today, urban underground spaces are shared by multiple utility companies for laying power lines, gas lines, water supply/sewage pipes, fiber-optic cables, etc. The recordings of such buried utilities are often erroneous, inadequate, or outdated (if they ever exist) due to insufficient surveying methodologies and as-built recording practices. Ability to accurately locate and provide awareness of bu ...

Planned or unplanned traffic events, such as work zones, collision accidents, sporting games and stormy/snowy weather, arise along our roadway systems and affect normal traffic operations. These anomaly events cause various magnitude of traffic congestion and safety impact to road users. Thus, local or regional Traffic Management Centers (TMCs) have spent tremendous amount of resources responding ...

To keep drivers and passengers of vehicles safe, especially in rural areas with limited access to Information and Communications Technology (ICT), the DOT and the commercial automotive industry are keenly interested in machine vision based V2I and CAV technology to perform functions such as navigating assistance in areas where GPS or detailed maps are unavailable, caution and warning systems capab ...

Knowledge Based Systems, Inc. (KBSI) is pleased to propose the further design and development of MySidewalk mobile application facilitating the crowd-sourced collection of sidewalk inventory and condition data. The MySidewalk application utilizes advances in social networks and data mining to provide integrated sidewalk datasets. Phase I and II research was facilitated by inputs from City of Colle ...

In this SBIR Phase II program, the MP team will develop novel integrable modulators that enable high spurious free dynamic range (SFDR) analog photonic systems, based on silicon photonics CMOS foundry fabricated, photonic integrated circuit (PIC) devices. Modulators will be designed for highly linear and efficient modulation response, high optical power capability with low optical loss, and high-s ...

Particle imaging velocimetry (PIV) is crucial to high-speed aerodynamic development and testing. Measurement of the flow field around an object enables accurate capture of dynamic flow phenomena for validation of computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulations in wind tunnels. Nanohmics, Inc., teaming with the University of Texas (UT) Flowfield Imaging Laboratory, has developed the first-ever engin ...

Optical characterization of materials has remained an active area of research for many decades. With advancements in light sources, detectors, microscopy, or compact spectroscopic analysis, a renewed effort is made to apply these technologies to biological tissue characterization. There is a current need to characterize the details of the interaction of electromagnetic radiation with different mat ...

Inspection of turbine engine components is an essential part of standard maintenance procedures to ensure the long-term health of aircraft engines. Existing techniques are time-consuming and labor-intensive because they require point-by-point scanning and/or extensive data processing. As a result, these inspections are not cost-effective to conduct, despite being a critical part of long-term susta ...

The call for increased situational awareness has led to the development of a sea-of-sensors, designed to provide real-time data from the battlefield. However, innovation in battlefield data management has been slow to catch up and is now on the verge of being crippled by a contested electromagnetic spectrum. To this end, Dr. Hamed Dalir from Omega Optics Inc. in collaboration with Prof. Ray T. Che ...