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To hijack the execution of a program, an attacker must overwrite the value of a return address or a function pointer (broadly defined). To prevent program hijacking, our product will provide a layered defense of these two targets, including deterministic and randomization defenses, with the ability in many cases to continue execution after a hijacking attempt is prevented. Our product toolkit incl ...

In order to better protect critical infrastructure from cyber attacks, perimeter and passive defenses must be complemented with an active defense mechanism which elevates the risks, or costs, a potential attacker will face. The effectiveness of an active defense mechanism, however, is ultimately limited by its ability to detect threats fast, accurately, and reliably. For this Phase II project, we ...

During Phase I of this research, the Securboration Team prototyped the Adaptive Data Immersion ENvironment (ADIEN) and demonstrated groundbreaking capability in adaptive human machine collaboration one in which the computer learns, adapts, and informs analysts based on their practices, situational context, and data content. ADIEN provides a unique and innovative system that is data centric in ter ...

Existing information extraction technology can only partially address the problem of exploiting unreadably-large amounts text. When discussion of events is limited to simple, past-tense, factual descriptions of events, current NLP-based systems can ident

Deployment of unmanned systems continues to expand across a wide range of missions; for example, logistics and resupply missions, force application and protection, and improving battlespace awareness. Presently these unmanned systems run at the lowest of four possible levels of autonomy, that is, in a teleoperated mode, and each system typically requires multiple operators. To address this proble ...

In DoD systems a large number of software systems are embedded in a single platform. In the proposed research the ability to determine simultaneously the optimal allocation of resources and the associated configurations for multiple hardware/software systems will be developed in the DS Toolkit. The MDO algorithms of the Toolkit enable the new developments due to their abilities to balance decisi ...

The proposed SBIR Phase II effort to develop a Personal Health and Fitness Wizard (PHFW) will, within the first year, year a fully functional Internet-based site the provides individual users with easily accessible, tailored guidance concerning theirpersonal health and fitness. The PHFW will to beyond simply providing health and fitness advice: it will function as a

Certain weapons produce blast waves capable of trauma to gas-filled organs. There is an immediate need for a blast mitigation jacket to prevent lung damage when training with such weapons, and a similar need for combatants. Our first objective in PhaseII is to complete the research and development of fundamental blast mitigation concepts developed during Phase I. During Phase I, we used analyti ...

The purpose of this proposed system is to develop an internet-based system to provide individual service members with easily accessible, tailored guidance concerning their personal fitness for duty and deployment. The system will contain an attractive,balanced, imaginative package of instruction and interactive aids for maintaining personal fitness. The web site will be interactively based on user ...

Sterling Semiconductor (Sterling) has developed an epitaxial growth method that drastically reduces the defect density in off-axis 4H-SiC. In repsonse to the Office of Scientific Development SBIR topic OSD099-03, Sterling proposes a 24-month, $750K PhaseII SBIR program to further develop this technology for use in silicon carbidc (SiC) devices. Laterial vapor-phase epitaxial growth (L-VPE) will ...