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BakerRisk proposes to use their extensive experience with shock testing, pressure transducers, and accelerometers, along with expertise in animal testing and the study of traumatic brain injury provided by their collaborator, Dr. David Cook, to produce a biomechanical surrogate of a rat. This device will stand in for the animal specimen in a variety of laboratory and in the field tests, recording ...

In Phase II of JOLTER, we will develop several extensions and improvements upon the probabilistic graphical models developed in Phase I for discovering topics, entities, and relations jointly. The system will be able to (1) Discover and extend hierarchies of topics, entities, and relations; (2) Discover categories for events, multiway relations, and their roles; (3) Conditionalize the topics, ent ...

For dynamic protection of LWIR sensors from laser dazzler threats, Nanohmics, Inc., proposes to develop a thin, light-weight, high-transmittance, electrically tunable notch filter based on microfabricated metasurfaces. One or more 200 nm filter notches can be electrically activated and tuned to reject >90% of incident threats. The metasurfaces comprise an engineered array of resonant microstructur ...

Our approach to this Phase II program will address the four Vs of big data and the four pillars, or principles, of ABI.It includes multi-INT data association and fusion through a graph framework and is inclusive of images/objects and activities extracted from FMV streams.To address velocity and veracity of multi-INT data sources we propose to develop a scalable graph-based analytic approach which ...

Additive Manufacturing (commonly known as 3D printing) is fast growing technology that reaches the point of increased adoption in various production environments. This unique technology allows fabrication of complex parts rapidly and cost effectively.Additive Manufacturing (AM) of plastic parts is well developed and several methods exist to fabricate components such as Filament Extrusion, Vat Phot ...

A shared objective in Combat Casualty Care and in Prolonged Field care is to overcome the different challenges posed by conducting of operations under austere conditions. This can be achieved in part by providing capable and functional diagnostic and treatment methods for use at the point of injury. The research described in this proposal addresses the urgent need for an improved blood analysis ...

The primary objective is to provide a prototype system for enhancing space situational awareness (SSA) through the ability to project and visualize threats to blue space assets, and assess the impact of those threats to the assets and the missions they support. The Assessing and Projecting Situations In Space (APSIS) program leverages a domain agnostic TRL 6 capability for reducing multi-INT data ...

Electric wires and cables constitute by far the largest weight portion of aircraft electrical power systems, as well as a large fraction of the entire aircraft weight. For example, a modern transport aircraft contains over 200 miles of wire, and an F-22 aircraft has about 20 miles of wiring. The increased emphasis and reliance on fly-by-wire technology and avionics for modern aircraft has resulted ...

Automatic high-value target trackers have a number of uses, including real-time sensor slewing on user-nominated targets, offline forensic investigations into where a specific target traveled, and assisting with automated missions running on remote platforms. Instead of automatically tracking all targets within a scene, it can be beneficial to focus on a single or small number of critical targets ...

The main objective for Knowledge Based Systems, Inc. (KBSI) for this project is to develop the Training Environment for Design of Resilient Systems (TENSILITY) method and supporting framework to enable Platform Information Technology (PIT) and PIT systems designers, systems designers, systems integrators, systems test and evaluation (T&E) engineers, and hardware, firmware and software developers t ...