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Existing security technologies such as firewalls, anti-virus, intrusion detection and prevention systems, and botnet detection systems fail or have a significant capability gap in detecting and stopping malicious traffic, particularly where it is disguise

For this Phase I effort, Orbit Logic Incorporated will design, develop, and test a mobile handheld application (app) that can task an imaging satellite. Orbit Logic will utilize portions of its operationally proven, high fidelity Collection Planning System (CPS) software during this Phase I effort. The Satellite Tasking app will allow users to define an area of interest (AOI) and submit a reques ...

For soldiers communication applications that require long life, light weight and very low self-discharge, Li/(CFx)n lithium primary chemistry is considered to be a superior choice. The high cost of current carbon monofluoride materials, however, will add significantly to the total cost of the battery. Physical Sciences Inc. (PSI) proposes to develop a low cost process to produce CFx materials wi ...

Scene understanding is incredibly difficult, as it requires the recreation of a 3D environment from noisy 2D image data. Greedy approaches to estimating scene attributes are computationally expensive and are not sufficient for solving many real-world problems (e.g., detecting a suspect moving through a scene). Further complicating matters, is that different levels of detail/description are require ...

The army requires substantial improvements in battery energy density compared to current lithium-ion and lead acid batteries. The lightweight lithium-air battery has the potential to meet these needs, provided certain material characteristics can be improved, including extended lithium rechargeability, electrolyte stability, decreased air cathode polarization and stable performance at elevated ce ...

When the United States military commits to operations in foreign territories, it is important for soldiers to have the ability to understand textual information they encounter accurately and in a timely manner. For this SBIR Limaging proposes to develop a document and sign translation system that can be operated by a novice user to obtain and interpret documents and signs in foreign languages, ...

We propose to develop topological robust dimensionality reduction algorithms for massive data sets. The algorithm will be wrapped in an agent-based modular infrastructure and will support decentralized and parallel data processing. Our algorithms are based on Mapper, a method that discovers the data topology by constructing lower-dimensional simplicial complexes. Our goal is to reduce the role of ...

Intelligent Automation, Inc. proposes a computational framework of Scene Perception, Understanding, and Reasoning (SPUR). Our approach consists of three aspects: First, a grammar-based method is used to infer image scene structure and track moving objects in the scene. Second, an integrated knowledge representation framework will be developed to describe different types of data, relations between ...

We propose developing a wide area situation awareness (WASA) application for android mobile phones.

Recent advances in electrically small antennas have been proposed for a range of communications applications. In general these antennas have wide impedance bandwidths, but low efficiency and power handling capabilities. Recently members of our team at the University of Arizona have developed a class of efficient electrically small antennas (EESAs) that we call the EZ antenna that gets around the ...