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SIFT, along with Drs. Julie Adams and Ramesh Sagili of Oregon State University (OSU), propose to develop Resilient Emergent Properties for Autonomous Agent InteRactions (REPAIR). Building upon recent innovative work in swarm control and optimization, and applying new observations of specific defensive and adaptive characteristics of honeybee colonies, REPAIR will provide biologically inspired meta ...

This proposal leverages our expertise in genetic engineering in general, our success in multiplex gene editing, and nanoparticle-based gene delivery to achieve targeted base editing of hepatitis B virus (HBV) genomes in infected cells. Not only will this...

The pace of warfare is increasing rapidly with the emergence of numerous asymmetrical threats exhibiting complex interdependencies and shifting alliances. Never has it been more essential to acquire detailed tactical intelligence in time scales in hours ...

SIFT will identify a set of linguistic events or strategies, occurring in on-line discourse and dialogues (such as email, tweets, blog discussions, etc.) that are expected to alter trust, affiliation, and/or regard on the recipients. The Brown and Levinson model suggests several of these such as "bullying", "buttering up", "discrediting", etc. A politeness-based linguistic analysis approach, augme ...

This Phase 1 SBIR project will establish the technical and commercial benefits of using previous task executions to augment model-based route planning for military applications. On this project, we will integrate a prototype route planner using ``Implicit Semantic Knowledge'' (ISK) derived from previous executions, with an existing model-based route planner, called ``Ground Guidance.'' Model-bas ...

In order to maintain our nation’s technological superiority on air, sea and land, we must respond quicker to emerging threats and reduce the cost of major sensing platforms. Every DoD platform developed nowadays contains at least one sensor, whether it be RF, EO/IR, or acoustic. In fact, in a lot of recent developments, the platform is built around the sensor and exists only to support the senso ...

ATEI’s unique partnership with the University of Minnesota plans to exploits applied and fundamental research, respectively, to achieve unprecedented levels of integration for highly complex RF microwave, mm-wave and analog/digital/mixed-signal modules using Silicon Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor (CMOS) technology to support emerging DoD-critical applications such as wafer-scale phase a ...

This program proposes to demonstrate an ultra-low power design methodology and circuits for digital logic employing advanced dynamic voltage scaling (DVS) for asynchronous NULL Convention Logic (NCL) circuits operating in sub-threshold to super-threshold voltage regimes. The power supply voltages of logic block partitions will be independently set by on-chip voltage controllers based on the data p ...

SIFT proposes the PARCEL technology to establish a knowledge economy for solving hard problems that require thousands of participants. PARCEL rewards participants with a combination of altruism, recognition, competition and monetary rewards. PARCEL provides a collaboration environment that integrates many existing open source and social networking tools to ensure efficient use of participant's ...

On-board autonomy for satellite defense poses significant challenges to today’s planning and execution technology, including mission-critical performance, hard real-time deadlines, and limited computational resources. To meet these challenges, SIFT proposes to build SAT-CIRCA: an integrated, verifiable architecture for real-time satellite response planning and execution. In previous research, we ...