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Big data challenges across Department of Defense (DOD) domains are increasingly problematic for tactical level decision making. Data collections in the open source and military channels are growing at such a staggering rate that it exceeds our ability to store and manage, perform computation and analysis, and maintain data security [1, 2]. Indeed, one author refers to the inability to handle big ...

Graphs are an exceptional data structure for representing knowledge and relationships between facts. There are various frameworks for creating, modifying, and traversing graphs in software. These frameworks provide an abstraction over the physical representation of graphs on disk. Usually, the graphs are modeled physically as tables. The schema or layout of these tables significantly impacts the ...

With this project, Skinfrared LLC in conjunction with Duke University, aims to develop a reconfigurable hyperspectral imaging system. Hyperspectral imaging systems (HSI) are important for determining the chemical composition of heterogeneous substances of a given scene. They have many applications in both military and civilian ranging from gas and terrain identification to food inspection. Current ...

Generation Orbit Launch Services, Inc. (GO) proposes a six-month (technical) Phase I SBIR effort to conduct applied research leading to a low cost, high performance commercial upper stage for space launch applications. Two lines of stage improvement will be investigated: 1) high performance composite structures that utilize nanomaterial structures to reduce weight and lower production cost for pre ...

This research effort will develop an OpenCL Shared Virtual Memory (SVM) hardware acceleration Application Programming Interface (API) capable of enabling existing graph analytic APIs (e.g. GraphLab, GraphCT) to leverage a scalable, GPU-based hardware platform to significantly improve the performance of graph analytics including graph traversal and Breadth First Search (BFS). The use of OpenCL pro ...

Florida Turbine Technologies, Inc. of Jupiter, Florida proposes the combination of additive and subtractive manufacturing processes to significantly reduce part count, lead time and cost for development and production of FTTs Advanced Space propulsion Turbopump (FAST) Technology Liquid Oxygen (LOX) pump. The FAST LOX pump technology to be demonstrated signifies a significant leap forward in the u ...

Cyber assets usually support missions with different priorities, and the objective and systematic measurement of their resilience and criticality may play a major role in mission success. One basic requirement for achieving mission success and mitigating the adverse impact of advanced threats is to measure the defense and resilience effectiveness of individual and collective cyber assets. Therefor ...

Distributed visual surveillance has a major role in the future of Unmanned Ground Vehicles (UGVs). Distributed visual surveillance refers to the use of cameras networked over a wide area to continually collect and process sensor data to recognize and classify objects in the environment. Analyzed data will inform unmanned decision-making and fleet management to optimize a transportation system. ...

This effort is to develop a fast responding, light weight, direct injection system to operate within the fuels ignition delay time for UAS/UGS application. These systems must be applicable to engines that are 200 HP or less, either reciprocating or rotary. A technical challenge associated with the conversion of gasoline engines to heavy fuel (JP-8) is the avoidance of knock. An approach used to ...