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Hemp-based clothing are excellent for outdoor active wear, due to high strength, UV-protective qualities, mold resistance, and excellent moisture absorption and desorption. While academic research on hemp-based textiles in the US is increasing, it has naturally also become an area of interest to competing countries. Specifically, China is outperforming the US in hemp fiber technological advancemen ...

The US Marine Corps needs a portable, hydroelectric generator to provide electrical energy to recharge batteries and power equipment. Electrical energy used in the field today is primarily generated using diesel generators. Having the option to use an energy source present in the environment, such as a river or stream, reduces the need to transport and store fuel. In order to meet the Marine Corps ...

Stottler Henke proposes Secure and Efficient Architecture and Protocol via Ledger based Algorithms on decentralized NEtworks (SEAPLANE). SEAPLANE is a certificate-based authentication system which makes use of a hierarchical certificate authentication model. A node will represent a platform and each node will have a CRYSTALS-Dilithium public-private key pair that will be used when signing and vali ...

Boston Fusion Corp. and the Cyber-Physical Systems Laboratory at Rutgers University propose Autonomous Swarming Hierarchies (ASH), a platform-agnostic multi-robot system (MRS) design software suite with three components: 1) a coordination module (CASH) that uses artificial intelligence/machine learning to automatically generate control policies for the robots comprising the system, 2) a networking ...

In this Phase I effort, Tiami, LLC, aims to develop and demonstrate a hardware proof of concept for a collaborative multi-robot system (MRS) that leverages imitative augmented deep reinforcement learning (IADRL) amongst heterogeneous uncrewed systems (robots) to achieve a common task. Collaboration is based on low-latency machine-to-machine wireless links between robots that use both RF and optica ...

Ad Hoc Swarm Modulation and Adaptation focuses on the ability to enable secure cyber communications, data, and distributed AI processing for any robotic swarm in any condition.  The system incorporates a range of multi-robotic system functionality to allow for coordination, cooperation, and reconfigurable methods of robotic teams, flocks, and swarms.  The system further includes methods for swar ...

Different classes of Naval weapon systems have historically employed either radiofrequency (RF) or infrared (IR) seekers for target acquisition and tracking, with IR seekers typically being employed on shorter-range weapon systems and RF seekers on longer range weapons. As technical and tactical countermeasures are developed and employed, missile seeker systems must be responsive to remain effecti ...

Passive sensor countermeasures development requires a full electromagnetic spectrum defense (RF, EO, and IR), defending against single mode, multimode, and multi-band threats. Threat weapon systems are evolving at a rate faster than the development/test community’s typical acquisition cycle. Therefore, to reduce the number of acquisition cycles, a modern, open, flexible, and modular dual mode se ...

A passive multimode IR and RF sensor fusion platform in a missile seeker guidance system would greatly benefit a missile’s capabilities in tracking and locking to a target. The strengths of RF and IR somewhat complement each other and the use of both can greatly increase the system’s ability to react to current countermeasures by independently selecting a disaffected sensor’s data to follow. ...

Type II superlattices (T2SL) represent a promising material system capable of delivering very producible, large-format broadband MWIR and LWIR focal plane arrays (FPAs). High temperature operation of current MCT based FPAs is limited by inherent defects in the II-VI material and strong Auger recombination. T2SLs are based upon mature III-V materials and would provide high material quality, lower s ...