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The key innovation proposed in this Phase II effort is a set of tools and framework that enforces a new powerful approach to developing agent-based scheduling engines by designing the basic components, identifying agents, and designing interaction protocols and behavior to meet the system requirement. We propose to extend Generic Scheduling Engine Builder (GenSEB) tool developed in the Phase I eff ...

Innovative and beneficial, commercial, scientific, educational, meteorological, and military space systems are suffering from a lack of technology insertion because their projects cannot afford the high costs and long delays prevalent in modern satellite production. Responsive Space access for small satellites and payloads remains an illusive goal embraced mainly by those who need the access. Curr ...

The objective for this Phase II SBIR is the construction of a Vulnerability Analysis Toolkit with the principle goal of expediting the development of inputs required to support vulnerability simulations. It's foundation includes a generic, open, and cross-platform XML-based database specification. The software will implement two unique and specific techniques for increasing the speed at which an ...

Data Fusion has emerged as a critical technology to be developed and deployed for military projects encompassing Space Situational Awareness, and Offensive/Defensive Counterspace to increase the warfighter's ability to identify, characterize, geo-locate and assess attacks. Fusion has also been identified as a major risk to be mitigated for the NASA/Air Force Joint Space Launch Initiative (SLI) Re ...

Develop a payload for use by Navy/Joint/Coalition tactical manned/unmanned aircraft and provide an offensive Information Operations (IO) Military Deception (MILDEC) capability. It will also contribute to satisfying the Sea Strike fleet requirements for IO targeting and Time Sensitive Targeting and the Sea Shield requirement of force protection for reconnaissance/ tactical aircraft against enemy a ...

One of the critical capabilities to enhance the availability and performance of C4I systems for Homeland Defense and other major Air Force initiatives (e.g., JWID, DMFE, TAS, DICE, Broadsword, JBI, SSW and BP) is indexing and retrieval of large multi-source information. Most current indexing and retrieval techniques in these systems are based on limited sets of keywords and simple lookup tables. A ...

The need exists for a technology that creates an "information-centric" security architecture that augments the current "network-centric" security posture moving protection to what is really important, the INFORMATION. The purpose of this project is to: (1) develop a prototype that will achieve persistent role-based access control of an information object resident on a LAN within a protected env ...

Ship defense requires 100 kW-1MW near diffraction-limited lasers with optimal wavelength and temporal format. Laser efficiency, beam quality, atmospheric transmission, thermal-blooming, and target interactions must be taken into account. Navy efforts to date have focused principally on the free electron laser (FEL) to fulfill this need due to the wide wavelength tuning range and projected high e ...

In this three Phase program, ADA Technologies proposes to develop and demonstrate a novel, active trace explosives sampling system/method that will be easily adapted for use with existing commercially available explosive detection sensors. This will lead to a generic-interface sampling device that will directly couple with currently deployed trace explosives detection sensors. The active samplin ...

The combat load for today's individual Special Operations Forces warfighter is 100 pounds or more, which is unacceptably high. Lighter loads will reduce SOF operator fatigue, and increase his ability to move greater distances in a shorter time than is possible today. As a solution to this problem, we propose to manufacture a self-mobile trailer, a robotic "mule" capable of carrying loads up to 1 ...