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"AeroAstro proposes to develop a scaleable architecture for a low cost, rapid response Smart Escort Microsatellite inspection and servicing system that will support the needs of the United States military's current and planned space assets, while workingwithin the constraints of the RASCAL program. Instead of competing with other, large infrastructure on orbit servicing programs, this effort will ...

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

"Military command posts of the future are increasingly likely to be located in or near densely populated urban environments. Due to occluding building and trees, these environments make it impossible for a single sensor to monitor potentially threateningevents over an extended period of time. Therefore, the command post must deploy and efficiently monitor a large number of video cameras in order ...

"The interface between human and machine has classically been one-sided. Humans command machines with little assistance offered by the machine besides feedback regarding current status of the command execution. With recent advances in computational powerand analytical techniques, a more collaborative relationship between the machine and its user can occur. This relationship would be particularly h ...

"The objective of the proposed SBIR Phase II proposal is to provide a major advance in the development of polymer thin film ferroelectrics for microwave device applications. In the Phase I program, we have demonstrated a 50% change in the dielectricconstant at 1.0 V bias voltage applied, a significant improvement in device performance compared to competing barium strontium titanate based devices ...

"To develop a revolutionary approach to how textiles and electronics are used and integrated into large area military applications, it is imperative to develop and characterize techniques for incorporating sensors, actuators, logic, and power sources intotextile fabrics. With ten years of advanced materials, electronics and fiber optic sensor experience Luna Innovation's is uniquely qualified for ...

"We propose to build on IET's existing product line of probabilistic and relational knowledge representation and reasoning tools to develop a knowledge elicitation environment that can be used by subject matter experts (SMEs) to generate knowledge bases ofprobabilistic relations for tactical battlespace applications such as Level II/III information fusion systems. An agent-behavior based "tactical ...

"The problem of detecting intentionally misleading information in open sources requires accurate classification of the consistency of that information. Consistency can be measured internally to the information as well as by reference to backgroundknowledge. IET proposes a combination of natural language processing techniques and Bayesian classification to identify the fundamental characteristics ...

"Management Communications and Control, Inc. (MCCI) proposes specification of applications for high performance scalable, distributed computing systems as "virtual circuits", data flow graph based software architectures. The mathematical properties of dataflow, which are similar to physical current flow, enable application of circuit theory based synthesis and design methods to create highly effi ...

"The Phase 1 SBIR project aims at developing novel approaches for controlling the so-called "non-compressible hemorrhage." The approach would involve formulating a biocompatible magnetic fluid, which would undergo a reversible liquid-solid transition at thesite of injury and seal off the broken blood vessel. This would improve the immediate management in the field of combat casualties with serious ...