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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 ...

Tactical networks face congested and contested environments characterized by intermittent connectivity due to severe jamming and interference conditions. In addition, tactical radios are limited by different levels of resources such as energy, computation, and communication. Effective coordination and cooperation between agents (namely, network nodes) is necessary to manage information flows and s ...

Tactical networking environments present many challenges in terms of demands and limitations regarding bandwidth, latency, reliability, stability, and connectivity. With the exponential growth in mobile sensing technology, embedded sensors increasingly generate large amount of content (e.g., images and videos) that exceed the ability of tactical networks to transfer and disseminate them reliably a ...

Global Position System (GPS) spoofing, where malicious signals are used to manipulate GPS receivers into producing erroneous position, navigation and timing (PNT), is a real tactical threat in current military operations. There is a need to protect assured PNT (APNT) by detecting and localizing the sources of such spoofing. Such protection is needed, not only for fixed-site installations, but also ...

A critical design challenge in Armored Vehicle Launched Bridge (AVLB) is the connection parts. The critical structural robustness requirements lead to a large amount of wasted material in design, and small production volume using traditional manufacturing approaches is often time-consuming and cost-ineffective. It is imperative to find an alternative effective manufacturing approach that can addre ...

Additive Manufacturing (AM) often produces components with unique irregularities, which may have decisive impact on their mechanical properties. Current certification process for safety-critical AM part involving extensive experimental efforts is not practical and efficient. It is highly desired to develop a comprehensive modeling framework that can predict the mechanical performance of additively ...

In order to develop a SATCOM diverse terminal Fairwinds has identified the key technologies required to support the performance and cost goals for simultaneous beams to multiple geosynchronous and other satellites. Fairwinds proposes to leverage commercial phased array technology and standard Digital architectures to enable this capability. During Phase I we will develop system requirements, syste ...

An automatic, on-demand software solution is desired that is capable of generating large scale image/video training datasets for downstream analytic algorithms such as object classification or target tracking, with user selected attributes such as types of foreground objects, background scenes, weather conditions, camera view angles, etc., given a small labeled seed dataset or even no seed data at ...

It is of the utmost importance that all the information exchanged are legit and unmodified. As attackers are becoming more sophisticated, however, traditional methods are losing their effectiveness. The emerging blockchain technology provides a secure and decentralized way to maintain a global view of information, and has been used in many encrypted currencies. The blockchain technology has many s ...

While, significant progress has been made in GPS denied position, navigation, and timing (PNT) over the last few years, acquiring reliable PNT for extended periods when GPS is jammed or spoofed often relies on radio frequency (RF) signals for ranging to support collaborative navigation and time transfer. These additional PNT signals can also be jammed during operations - both inadvertently by frie ...