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Agents, Agent Architectures and Agent-based applications have become a phenomena in recent years with seemingly everyone jumping on the bandwagon. However, as with any truly revolutionary breakthrough technology, Agents have lacked standards and rulingbodies to govern the direction of the bandwagon in its infancy. While inside this wagon train apparent chaos ruled, but with that chaos came many ...

21st Century Technologies and Mr. Valdis Krebs, a social network expert , will (1) combine multiple social network patterns to provide visibility and situational awareness of anomalous and potentially terrorist behaviors (2) implement these combinedpatterns into an social network pattern library and (3) integrate the library into TMODS. 21st Century Technologies', TMODS, (Terrorist Modus Oper ...

The Phraselator, a handheld automatic translation device, currently uses a cardioic microphone as an input for automatic speech recognition (ASR). This microphone is highly vulnerable to performance degradation in typical noisy military environments and,thus, there is a need for an improved transducer for this application. We propose to develop a new directional microphone that is immune to extr ...

Radios are required for every spacecraft mission, yet spacecraft radios truly suited for nanosatellites currently do no exist. AeroAstro's proposed Modular S-Band Radio Suite (MSBRS) will solve this problem and make inexpensive spacecraft in the 1 to 30kgclass feasible. In this SBIR program AeroAstro will develop a set of miniature radio modules specifically intended to allow the spacecraft deve ...

Current methods used for the destruction of CW agents are cumbersome, require extensive capital equipment such as incinerators and water reactors and pose potential environmental problems themselves. A novel approach for the destruction of CW agentsinvolves genetically engineering microorganisms to produce recombinant enzymes that can efficiently degrade CW agents. Such a system would allow thes ...

A widely tunable universal wavelength-division-multiplexed (WDM) transmitter will be a key technology for advanced battlespace platforms requiring the interconnection of a large number of sensors, data processors, and data storage equipment. In such adynamic WDM network, wavelengths are allocated to carry specific signals, adapting continuously to the information traffic conditions and the status ...

The ability to map ocean waves around an unmanned surface craft and provide intelligent feedback control for survival steering in high sea states will enable the use of high speed, inexpensive, commercial watercraft to meet military requirements in thelittoral. Aret¿ Associates brings extensive experience in two key areas of expertise that will be combined to assess the feasibility of a LIDAR so ...

Wideband phased array radars are needed for accurate tracking and object classification. This will require the development of improved true time delay (TTD) technology scalable to thousands of elements and capable of multi-beam formation. CalientNetworks proposes to develop 3D micro electrical mechanical systems (MEMS) to demonstrate a true time delay (TTD) unit with 7 bit accuracy supporting 36 ...

As with military and aerospace applications, high power sources with low mass and volume ar desirable to satisfy miniaturization goals for commercial uses including powering automotive miro-sensors, smart cards, personal digital assistants and hand-heldtelecommunication tools.In this proposed Phase I research, we are going to develop a screen printing process of fabricating thin film Zn-alkaline b ...

Today, there is no unified, cohesive and effective technology/software to allow warfighters the ability to perform operational tasks in a task-centric collaborative manner. The Agent-based Active Methods environment, powered by distributed agenttechnology, utilizes the latest in GUI Component and Design Pattern methods for creating dynamic process-based composable user interfaces operating over a ...