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Crossfield intends to show an anti-reverse engineering methodology that encompasses several innovative features to thwart reverse engineering attempts by third parties. This anti-reverse engineering methodology exploits doped resistive paths (DRPs) in the substrate and/or at the poly-silicon transistor gate levels. They can be formed by overlaying dopant fields implanted with multiple energies an ...

Luna Innovations Incorporated proposes to develop a tamper resistant, multiprocessor, embedded computer system architecture consisting of a microprocessor, a digital signal processor (DSP), a field programmable gate array (FPGA), and a graphics processing unit (GPU). During Phase I, Luna will define the components and communications interfaces of the embedded architecture along with tamper prote ...

In the modern process of integrated circuit (IC) development, the actual design and fabrication of an IC typically is distributed between a number of different companies and/ or individuals. This requires a degree of trust between the designers and the fabricators. Ultimately, the original designer wants to be able to assure that the final device performs only those functions for which it was desi ...

The necessity of Trust has been pressed upon the United States Department of Defense as a consequence of the globalization of microelectronics development and manufacturing. Many of the microelectronic devices used in DOD systems and much of the software used in the design of such systems are either manufactured overseas or otherwise have foreign influence on their development. Even when devices ...

Auxiliary power units (APU) offer potential to improve operational efficiency and provide significant tactical advantage for surveillance missions conducted from land vehicle platforms. Current installations have resulted in higher than acceptable noise levels, adversely impacting the ability to perform a"silent"watch. In particular, noise created by the combustion process presents a problem due ...

General Magnetic Sciences, Inc has invented a method for making physically small antennas that can perform as electrically-large antennas - i.e. transmitting with high efficiency, as if the antenna were physically as large as half-wavelength or more. Usi

The objective of this proposal is to develop a re-deployable solar combined heat and power (RSCHP) system based on an innovative system design that will produce electricity with an expected efficiency of 30% and that will provide an additional 30+% of the collected energy as usable heat. More specifically, this proposal seeks to provide a detailed system configuration and design, to validate antic ...

Knowledge Based Systems, Inc. (KBSI) proposes to develop, build and validate a Multi-Source Network Pulse Analyzer and Correlator (MiNPAC) that is capable of: (a) sensing emerging themes, trends and patterns of beliefs, sentiments, rhetoric, etc., from multi-source data covering large social networks, and (b) correlating it with structural and behavioral dynamics within the same or related social ...

Tactical Warfighters demand rapid information fusion capabilities to develop and maintain accurate situational awareness and understanding of dynamic enemy threats in asymmetric military operations. The ability to extract meaning in relationships between people, objects, and locations from a variety of text and multi-source datasets is critical to proactive decision making at the Brigade and below ...

We propose an innovative physical vapor deposition process for in vacuo passivation of high aspect ratio HgCdTe surfaces that is capable of conformal coverage of high aspect ratio trench sidewall surfaces. The propose method uses a combination of atomic layer deposition (ALD) and force convection mass transport to circumvent low vapor pressure from low temperature requirement and the associated hi ...