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Trusted identification and provisioning of public safety individuals is extremely difficult during the chaos and time criticality of emergency response operations. Previously unknown individuals must be verified/vetted/provisioned without the benefit of a thorough face-to-face, manual review. The problem is made worse by the lack of a universally accepted system for identity sharing and coordinati ...

Knowledge is empowering! Organizations equipped with timely cyber risk and defense knowledge are in a much better position to properly quantify and react to cyber risks. Surprisingly, many organizations are still poorly prepared with the needed information, experiences, and best practices to effectively combat sophisticated cyber threats.The Cyber Risk Collaboration & Knowledge Tool (CRiCKeT) is a ...

US warfighter safety could be significantly improved by providing an ability to quickly and accurately assess the acoustic impact of rotorcraft operations in the field and reduce the likelihood of detection. Current mission planning tools are empirical in nature, limited to operating conditions for which flight test data exists and challenged in predicting the acoustic impact of maneuvering flight ...

The nature of complex combat operations must now include adversaries that have peer-level capabilities, such as the ability to locate friendly troops by their transmissions and jam their radios so they can’t call for help, setting them up for attack. However, critical to all combat scenarios, regardless of adversary capability levels, is the need to command, control, communicate and exchange inf ...

Paper Spray mass spectrometry (PSMS) has been developed and commercialized for analysis of fluid samples by mass spectrometry. PSMS provides advantages over existing analysis techniques by reducing sample preparation needs and incorporating the sample storage and sample introduction to a single consumable device that is disposed after analysis, thus eliminating cross contamination and/or cleaning ...

To meet the demands of topic A19-009, the MaXentric team proposes the MAESTRO (Millimeter-wave Amplifier under Efficient Switching-mode and Time-multiplexing Operations), which provides a new concept of a power amplifier in millimeter-wave frequency band for commercial and military communication and electronic warfare applications. Using time-multiplexing technique and switching-mode amplifier, hi ...

A major innovative thrust in Army tactical operations is routine use of small Group 1 UAS for surveillance and sensing missions. However, for effective and stealthy use of such assets, low acoustic signature is critical. At present, capabilities for designing such vehicles for minimum noise is extremely limited, especially when combined with the challenge of designing to meet critical mission requ ...

Rotorcraft, both civilian and military, suffer from higher operating costs relative to their fixed-wing brethren due to cyclical loading that limits the useful lifetime of key structural components. Important recent advances in aeromechanics prediction capabilities, coupled with enhanced modeling of fatigue growth on life-limited parts, now allows development of a methodology both to predict real- ...

The objective of this effort is to develop and demonstrate an intelligent, autonomous dc-ac distribution unit based on isolated power conversion technologies to support interconnection of dc sources and energy storage devices with an ac tactical microgrid featuring tactical power generation and load equipment. The unit specifically targets 60 kW, bi-directional power conversion and power/energy ma ...

To meet the demands of the A19-029 SBIR solicitation (“Wideband, Programmable, Multifunctional Transmitter/Receiver (TRX) Module”), we propose a novel approach which leverages our wideband front-end technology and previous experience developing TRX modules. The system will support fast hopping (FHSS) via a novel architecture approach. Furthermore, single frequency full duplex operation will be ...