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The Foliage Abstraction RF Multiscale Estimation Rendering (FARMER) modeling and simulation application addresses the complexity of radio frequency (RF) propagation in a high foliage environment with an innovative multiscale calculation approach that has not previously been applied to this problem. It makes the foliage propagation problem tractable by abstracting the computationally intensive inte ...

IST Research has already made significant progress architecting and prototyping such a solution working collaboratively with government and industry partners. The designed platform provides algorithmic computation in real time, not only generating result

The primary objective of the Nano-Optomechanical Massive MEMS Accelerometer (NOMMA) project is to develop a chip-integrated optomechanical Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems (MEMS) accelerometer with 100 ng/Hz1/2 sensitivity and 10 kHz bandwidth using high

Radio spectrum is a scarce and therefore valuable commodity. There is a growing need in both government and commercial sectors to make more efficient use of the available spectrum to serve greater densities of users as well as support higher data rates. Not only has demand for spectrum exponentially increased in recent times, but spectrum currently allocated to DoD users is being reallocated for c ...

An existing binary static analyzer will be enhanced to protect embedded systems binaries by rewriting the binaries with security instrumentation to enforce four separate defenses against various exploit classes. Formal analysis methods will be used to prove correctness of the security instrumentation, as well as to prove which functions in the binary require protections and which functions are saf ...

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 ...

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 order to prevent, deter, and analyze suspicious behavior by individuals in public spaces, this project will develop a commercially viable system for tracking people in various environments using a single camera, or multiple cameras with overlappingfields of view. Single camera tracking of individuals requires algorithms for detecting people and then tracking them. The detection approach will ...