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Human motion capture devices are in demand in a number of fields. Currently available systems are greatly limited in flexibility and quality. Furthermore, since they depend upon adorning the subject with suits of sensors or targets, the present art is totally unsuited to surveillance or reconnaissance. Without sensors or targets to place on the subject , detection, tracking, and measurement may ...

Ovation is committed to becoming a military supplier of high speed analog-to-digital converters (ADC). In this work, we propose to undertake an extensive research and development effort to demonstrate an advanced 2-4 GHz 6-8 effective bit ADC with a spurious free dynamic range of 60-85dB. We intend to achieve this goal through a comprehensive effort that integrates recent advances in materials g ...

Distributed computing technology is making it possible for information based organizations to realize long promised benefits. But the low degree of security standardization available from distributed and local computing environments inhibits this realization. This proposal is firmly directed toward solving the distributed problem by solving the local problem first. By creating a solid Local Sec ...

TagoSoft, Inc. proposes to investigate and simulate a set of Internet protocols that achieves better throughput by utilizing multi-layer protocol knowledge. This effort will focus in a class of improvements that take advantage of processing capabilities in intermediate network components, and will take into account the software/hardware characteristics of next generation scaleable intermediate ne ...

Development of a tool set to support software system understanding and transformation requires processes for extracting evolvable software components from existing software systems, managing these components, regenerating the original applications using the evolvable components, and synthesizing application extensions by composing and adapting evolvable components to new uses. There is an urgent ...

A "rapidly deployable wireless network" is a collection of wireless mobile nodes forming a temporary local area network without the aid of any established infrastructure of centralized administration and without any user-initiated configuration actions. Examples of situations where such networks are needed include the front lines in a battlefield, autonomous ground and aerial vehicles used in mil ...

Using new low bandgap GaSb photovoltaic cells, JX Crystals has recently demonstrated functional thermophotovoltaic prototype generators. While it is generally believed that the cost of materials makes non-silicon photovoltaic cells prohibitively expensive unless one can develop thin film cells, this thesis is wrong for thermophotovoltaic cells. Specifically for the GaSb cell, the Ga and Sb mater ...

DARPA has identified collaborative computing as a technology not yet adequately developed in the marketplace. This need to share and interactively work with documents and other information objects across separate computer systems is really the underlying human business need that originally drove the creation of network technology, desktop video-teleconferencing, and even the failed earlier indust ...

This SBIR will explore and develop new automated methods for dynamic fault tolerance in defense electronic systems. The research will investigate using the software of digital signal processor operating systems to pro-actively map defective operations to remaining processors. In the past, fault tolerance has relied on passive redundancy to extend operating life. With software, a simple re-start ...

This proposal is to design a standard collaborative tool that will link together geographically separated experts at specialized workstations with disparate data, source materials, algorithms and domain knowledge, for the purpose of creating geospecific virtual worlds. The proposed standard collaborative tools will be based on the proven functionality of the Multi-dimensional, user-oriented Synth ...