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The volume and velocity of digital data collected and used for analysis is growing at an increasing rate and will soon exceed our ability to store and analyze it in a timely fashion.Additionally, much of these data represent changes in behaviors of the underlying networks and entities that they measure such that the rate of development of new analytics to keep up with events and trends, such as ch ...

Theoretical computing speeds have increased dramatically in the last decade with chip advances, including Graphics Processor Units (GPUs).In practice, however, these gains have not been realized, largely due to the accompanying high development costs due to the need for multiple code bases to take advantage of the various chips and their variants.The proposed project addresses these issues from bo ...

ColdQuanta proposes the development, fabrication, testing and demonstration of a free-space microshutter based on MEMS technology. The microshutter head will provide extinction ratios exceeding 70 dB and shutter transition times below 10 us, and it will be smaller than any other free space shutter technology currently available. The proposed shutter leverages prior experience with the successful d ...

ClearMark Systems has developed a sensitive and non-destructive inspection technology for identifying the point of origin of semiconductor chips.We capture the identifying information by analyzing markings on the silicon die or the chip package made by laser marking tools at the fabrication facility.Our Phase I effort has successfully distinguished markings that were made by a target tool versus s ...

Special Operations Forces that are deployed in austere areas in the AFRICOM and PACOM are associated with an increased risk of envenomation. Current treatment uses species-specific or polyvalent antivenins that are generated from the sera of animals immunized with whole venom, necessitating the correct identification of the venomous species and continuous injection of large volume of antibodies at ...

Barron Associates proposes to develop, validate, and demonstrate a cohesive set of probabilistic extensions for the model-based programming environment Simulink, developed by The MathWorks, Inc. These extensions will allow developers to model random variables, vectors, and matrices, as well as both discrete and continuous random processes as first-class objects within the Simulink language. Barron ...

We present the design of a small, portable, microwave cold atomic clock that meets the frequency stability requirement of

Forward deployed units rely on locally sensed data from a variety of sensors to achieve and maintain situational awareness during operations.Due to its size, the bulk of these data are streamed to rear echelon analysis centers for processing in large compute facilities, introducing time delays and loss of detail due to the limited comms available in the field.We propose to eliminate the need for h ...

We propose the Phase II development of a revolutionary flight control actuator system for the full range of power from sub-kW to more than 30 kW.The system encompasses the key elements of the actuator, from motor to inverter energy source and control.Its key features include the absence of a gear box, a major increase in its reliability, and its high power density.Its key application is flight con ...

Our proposal includes the creation of a web-based platform that will benchmarking GPU applications accross numerous GPU cards located in the cloud. This is a useful tool for programmers with limited resources at hand. Further, we will open source the ArrayFire software library - the broadest OpenCL available.In addition to this, we will extend Array with additional functionality for image processi ...