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With the ever-increasing availability of commercial jamming equipment, the risk to public safety communications has never been higher.While public safety has operational backup plans for communications, jamming has proven problematic to detect in the field.The purpose of this project is to solve this critical problem of detection and characterization simply and seamlessly, for the first responder, ...

Interoperability has been a communications objective for for first responders in the United Stats for many years. The need for digital interoperability brought about the establishment of the Telecommunications Industry Association (TIA) Association of Public Safety Communications Officials (APCO) Project 25 standard in 1989.Today, P25 standards are very mature, and include an Inter-RF Subsystem In ...

The Public Safety Community (Community) would like to share information between jurisdictions, but need to trust with a reasonable certainty that the users viewing this information are who they say they are. Similarly, the Federal government and other organizations need to be reasonably sure that their new users are accessing the right information online. Identity proofing a user, either remotely ...

The purpose of this SBIR project is to solve this critical problem of ensuring in-building emergency communications network coverage for the first. The challenge of in-building public safety communications in emergencies or disasters is well documented, and the advent of FirstNet as an equally critical communications network increases the complexity of this problem.Epiq Solutions intends to develo ...

The Public Safety Community (Community) would like to share information between jurisdictions but needs to trust with reasonable certainty that users viewing this information are who they say they are. Products that conduct ICAM On-the-Fly verify the identity of potential users in near real-time, allow users to bring their own credentials and, in some cases, auto-provision new users into applicati ...

Gun-launched applications currently expose inertial measurement units (IMUs) to harsh acceleration, shock, and vibration environments. Furthermore, as they become smarter, they present tighter constraints on size, weight, power, and cost (SWaP-C), while still requiring high levels of performance. New accelerometer technology must reduce SWaP-C while operating through high-g acceleration environmen ...

Mission times for high velocity projectiles (HVP) are very short and detection and discrimination of targets must happen quickly and decisively. One way to achieve this is through the enhanced contrast resulting from polarized sensing, which tends to highlight manmade objects and suppress natural background clutter. Thermal polarimetric sensing in a small package has been demonstrated already but ...

The capability to reliably and remotely detect and track tactical surface targets in a high-velocity projectile after launch is a critical need. The discrimination of man-made objects can be assisted by the detector technology, with options including two-color detectors and polarimetric filtering in the thermal infrared bands. The level of complexity in the focal plane array affects its survivabil ...

To support the detection and identification of high-value targets in mission-critical applications, specifically those for which there are few or no sample images, ARiA will develop and demonstrate the feasibility of LIFT (Learning Imagery for Few-Shot Training), a training-data augmentation tool for use in few-shot learning scenarios that: (1) intelligently applies image-processing functions to e ...

Protecting the effectiveness of US advanced weapon systems and the technology they rely on is a national priority. Unfortunately, individuals tasked with this mission are met with disjointed guidance, no training, and competing processes to consider. It is no wonder adversaries continue to exploit these weaknesses in the Department of Defense (DOD); stealing our Critical Program Information (CPI) ...