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Because Navy Cyber Physical Systems (CPSs) are often not connected to IP networks, yet still may be vulnerable to cyber attack, there is an urgent need for a portable device that can be connected to a variety of non-IP CPSs to assess their security posture. SIFT proposes to develop the CRIMSON Portable Red Team to automatically extract firmware from a target, analyze the firmware to find zero-day ...

Future DoD and Navy missions require advances in current high voltage power electronics technology. In this proposed effort, Agnitron will investigate the limitations of existing MOCVD technology and propose solutions towards an MOCVD system for Gallium Nitride capable of growth rates over 10um per hour at pressures from low to super atmospheric. The goal is to achieve low background concentration ...

The huge growth in mobile industry including smartphones and tablets, wearable devices, and the internet of things, caused an explosion in the number of sensor technologies and sensory data. This growth was accompanied by huge leaps in wireless communication technologies in term of speed and geographical coverage. When a highly-trained first responder arrives at an incident scene, an array of comm ...

Fast Reconfiguring Environment for Electronic Kneeboard (Freeboard) is a novel software solution providing independent application environments (personas) for separate security domains while allowing fast transition between personas, efficient collection and reallocation of memory and persistent storage according to need and priority, and secure management of communication media by smart algorithm ...

The interoperability implied by the Navy and DoD's migration towards IP-enabled tactical radios remains elusive. Though it is technically possible to create a tactical network that is comprised of different IP-enabled radios, such networks are fundamentally ill-suited to the changes in topology and link quality typical of a carrier strike group's networked air-, sea-, and land-based elements. ATCo ...

Effective Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) Command, Control and Communication have long been a high priority need for the Navy and DoD. Communication is essential for enabling UAV applications. A major challenge in a rapidly growing UAV secure command, control, and communications area is ensuring the transmission of critical information in Anti-Access Area-Denial (A2AD) bandwidth-limited environments ...

SUBSTANTIAL IMPROVEMENTS IN TEST EFFICIENCY RESULTING FROM THE USE OF ITEM RESPONSE THEORY AND COMPUTERIZED TESTING MAY BE COMPROMISED IF DUPLICATE OR SUBSTANTIALLY SIMILAR TEST ITEMS APPEAR IN ITEM POOLS. THE PROPOSED PROJECT WILL DESIGN, IMPLEMENT, AND EVALUATE SEVERAL PROCEDURES FOR DETECTING SUBSTANTIALLY SIMILAR ITEMS IN AN ITEM POOL. THESE PROCEDURES WILL RANGE FROM SIMPLE ELEMENT AND TOKEN ...

THIS PROJECT WILL INVESTIGATE DIFFERENT AND UNUSUAL METHODS OF COMBINING OPTICAL POWER WITHIN THE SPLITTER PLATE. SUCH ACCOMPLISHMENTS WOULD SAVE WEIGHT, MINIMIZE VOLUME AND EXTEND A DESIGN DEGREE OF FREEDOM. SEVERAL CONCEPTS HAVE BEEN PROPOSED. THESE WILL BE DESIGNED, FABRICATED AND TESTED. LOW COST METHODS OF PRODUCING SPHERIC SURFACES ON HELMET VISORS WILL ALSO BE INVESTIGATED.

MICROCOMPUTER SYSTEMS HAVE THE POTENTIAL OF AIDING THE OPERATIONS RESEARCH PROFESSIONALS ENGAGED IN LOGISTICS APPLICATION IN THE NAVY AND IN OTHER MILITARY, GOVERNMENT AND COMMERCIAL OPERATIONS. THE COMPLEXITY OF THE PROBLEMS ENCOUNTERED AND THE LIMITATIONS OF MICROCOMPUTER HARDWARE AND SOFTWARE HAVE PREVENTED THEIR USE IN THE PAST. THE PROPOSED EXPLORATORY DEVELOPMENT WILL CONCENTRATE ON THE SOFT ...