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Vadum proposes to create a novel telemetry data compression/decompression system, SCoCD (Sparse Compression on Complete Dictionaries) with very low latency, very high compression rate, and very low distortion. The system will allow lossless compression, and can be tuned for each type of data stream with particular emphasis on imagery. Vadum has demonstrated x59 compression of Aegis test-fire ima ...

NanoSonic has recently developed non-conventional metal-free, ultra-high pressure (burst strength > 33,000 psi) hydrogen (H2) dispensing hoses via additive manufacturing (AM) techniques for use at ultra-high pressures (> 875 bar) and over an extremely harsh service temperature range. We have since scaled our AM technique to demonstrate a 26-L leak-proof cryotank (the Chill Pill) for use with ...

Knowledge Based Systems, Inc. (KBSI) will design and demonstrate an Advanced Cyber Threat Intelligence and Vulnerability Analysis Training Environment (ACTIVATE) framework that directly targets the need for advanced cyber network defense training. The proposed new enabling capability will support cyber training against an intelligent red team to enhance cyber operator trainee cyber-attack recognit ...

Big data analysis is a critical component of product and process evaluation in the commercial sphere. The explosion of online advertising, social networks, and streaming media has led to the need for analysis techniques suited to generating insights from extremely large quantities of data. The object of this research project is to adapt data mining techniques, including machine learning, which hav ...

Preliminary definition and analysis of Ballistic Missile Defense System (BMDS) requirements in an isolated, manual, and loosely controlled change environment shows significant overlap in effort, resulting in a major increase to cost, schedule, mission classification, subsystem propagation, and trace of system impacts. To assist MDA with movement of BMDS mission objectives to mission requirements, ...

The goal of medical simulation-based training such as high-fidelity manikin simulators, part task trainers, and screen-based virtual patients, is to approximate real-life treatment experiences without risk to live patients. While the use of sensors has ma

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This proposal details inventive ways for developing affordable reinforced polymer structures with embedded electrical interfaces. Recent developments in the use of advanced composites for rapidly fabricating cylindrical missile shells have shown that it is possible to incorporate complex circuitry into the missile skins. Illustrations are provided that demonstrate significant increases in the stre ...

We will develop automatic ontology-aligning software, leveraging the enormous existing Cyc AI system to drive the formulation and ranking (pro/con argumentation) of hypotheses about term-term relationships, especially where the relationship is not simple 1-to-1 correspondence. Multiple Cyc micro-theories (contexts) will be created, to hold incommensurate alternative mappings, and logical conseque ...

In this project, Parabon NanoLabs will employ its Essemblix(tm) Drug Development Platform, a combination of computer-aided design (CAD) software and DNA nano-fabrication technology, to produce artificial vaccines against the biothreat agent ricin on DNA origami decorated first with natural epitopes and ultimately with artificial epitotopes (hereafter"mimotope") constructed from a predefined set of ...