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In this Phase II effort, Zeteo will further develop over-the-ear and in-ear canine hearing protection device prototypes. These devices will combine passive hearing protection with active noise cancelation. The devices will also have a communication channel to allow the handler to communicate with the dog. Design requirements evolved from Phase I will be used to design over-ear and in-ear configura ...

Airworthiness assessments of software-intensive based systems in aviation cannot be limited to verification and testing of the end product, i.e. computer code, since other factors can have an important effect on safety and integrity. Current methods and tools have limitations that do not adequately address the issues affecting the growth in complexity and cost of system development and certificati ...

The team will develop a prototype of a virtual reality environment for high school students who are learning a foreign language. Students will become active participants in virtual scenarios using the target language of instruction (Russian in Phase I), with listening comprehension, vocabulary acquisition and recall, and grammar development occurring implicitly in simulated real-world context. At ...

Researchers will conduct a pilot study with a socio-economically and diverse sample of at least 500 high school students who will test the prototype ROI tool. The researchers will examine the feasibility and usability of the prototype, whether ROI information increases search and discovery for educational opportunities; whether having ROI information increases the likelihood of click-through rates ...

GRRC proposes a distributed network of RF sensors synchronized by highly stable clocks to share position, navigation, and time (PNT) information over highly secure spread spectrum links. The proposed network would have the ability to augment or replace GPS systems and could be readily linked to other local PNT networks in other areas to expand the coordinate reference frame. The network relies upo ...

Unmanned systems and autonomous capabilities provide an avenue for improving enroute care in situations where medical evacuation assets are either not available or unable to reach the patient. A first step is to explore how intelligent algorithms can be u

The Transport Services Segment (TSS) provides integral capabilities that support system integration, software reuse, and fast fielding. Current implementations of the TSS only cover the basic features from the standard. Tool support and the overall maturity of the TSS solutions are limited. Our vision of the TSS solution is a Transport Services Development Kit (TSDK) that is open and extendible. D ...

SoarTech, Voxel51, and SME Mr. Brent Thornhill propose ForwardObserver, an on-board assistant designed to adapt sensor data processing and output products to current tasking, situational context, and transmission limitations. With the help of former sensor operator and instructor, Mr. Brent Thornhill, we will explore the range of tasks conducted by sensor operators and assess the information requi ...

The Army has identified a need for an autonomous fire control system to better protect its soldiers from enemy combatants. However, the rules of engagement are highly dependent on the tactical situation, requiring an autonomous agent to combine context-based information with traditional sensor inputs to make context appropriate decisions. Fire control systems must have high confidence in their dec ...

J.F. Taylor, Inc. is proposing to research, design, develop, and build a centralized mission computer that employs an Open Systems Computing Hardware Architecture. Our Phase I tasking will research HOST Tier II core technology standards and additional existing standards to develop and recommend the generic product performance attributes to support an advanced mission computer that is interoperable ...