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Ensemble intends to develop a proof-of concept Neutral Density Monitoring and Alert Service. To establish an innovative and accurate space weather analytics service, Ensemble has partnered with CU Boulder's SWx-TREC, who offer leading space weather research-to-operations support. Ensemble will create the foundational architecture for Neutral Density Alerts and Notifications for commercial satellit ...

Anthropogenic Radio-Frequency Interference (RFI), or interference from human-generated sources, continues to plague spaceborne microwave radiometer and sounder instruments. Unmitigated RFI adversely affects the quality and reliability of Earth remote sensing data used for determining water availability, quality, and risk. Proliferation of wireless technologies, Earth-orbiting commercial satellite ...

There are two main focus areas in this proposal. The first is to transition a number of successful DARPA projects into the Open Group Sensor (Open System Architecture) SOSA™ Consortium. The second is to develop a system that can evaluate current and future key management architectures.

Secure systems rely on physical implementation of hardware and software systems, where various information leakage can be observed through various side channels and extracted with advance side channel analysis (SCA) algorithms. Recent advancement in computing, sensors, and SCA techniques have exposed new and more dangerous vulnerabilities. Hence a comprehensive SCA evaluation framework that can gr ...

Knowledge handoff in institutions with complex dynamic processes that span across multiple staff and personnel often fail with catastrophic consequences.  Knowledge gaps, inaccuracies, and latencies in communication between the incumbent and replacement personnel are the principal reasons for such failures.  To address this problem, a team lead by Knexus Research Corp. (KRC) proposes to develop ...

Current efforts to provide advanced maintenance capabilities can be burdened by legacy documentation and a lack of visibility into the fine-grained status of jobs in progress on the flight line. The Cognitive Observant Assistant for Coaching and Helping (COACH) addresses both of these problems concurrently with an intelligent virtual assistant that goes significantly beyond the state of the art by ...

The goal of the U.S. Army, Air Force, Navy, Marines, commercial aviation and industrial power plants to develop gas turbines capable of reliable operation at turbine inlet temperatures up to 3100oF. Consequently, there is a driving need to extend the capability of SiC CMCs and/or related Ceramic CMCs and associated thermal—environmental barrier coatings (T-EBCs) to resist degradation in harsh mo ...

While increases in maritime shipping traffic continue on an exponential trend, marine mammals, especially the critically endangered Right whale, is experiencing ever increasing injuries and deaths due to ship strikes and fishing gear entanglements. This SBIR seeks to combine two fielded prototype technologies- a parafoil built for the US Navy (TALONS), and a whale detection sensor system that woul ...

Atmospheric Rivers (AR) transport large volumes of water vapor outside the tropics and, when making landfall, produce large quantities of rain that replenish aquifers, contribute to beneficial increases in snowpack, yet can cause flooding and significant damage to property and lives. Accurate forecasts of precipitation during landfalling ARs are critical because of their large role in water supply ...

A USB device is one of the most common mass storage devices. However, a UAS device is known to be vulnerable to many cyber threats.  The proposed effort is to develop a Highly Assured Secure (HAS) Data Storage Device.  HAS device is a mass storage solution to provide highly assured, trustworthy, and detectable data storage.