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Artificial intelligence-assisted detection and imaging technology can gather data on underwater, surface, and aerial threats to gain situational awareness over opposing forces, and aids in navigating dangerous marine and terrestrial environments. Successful and efficient use of intel is crucial for strategic information warfare, but many current technologies require active monitoring to identify t ...

Dragoon’s successful Phase I effort resulted in a preliminary design for an Inexpensive Long Endurance Drone (ILED).  The current approach to designing and manufacturing unmanned systems has resulted in exquisite assets which are aren’t economically viable when considering mission sets where attrition is guaranteed.  In order to manufacture a highly capable platform at a low cost, a novel ap ...

Modern lithium ion batteries are known for their poor safety performance, with many reports of battery failure and fire having been reported. One of the major causes of battery fire is from the use of flammable solvents, such as organic carbonates, as the electrolyte. These hazards have long limited the usage of batteries in dangerous conditions, such as on the battlefield. To combat this issue, t ...

The DASH SoC provides efficient, flexible, high-performance processing for sensing and communications edge applications. High-performance processors are primarily limited by inter-chip data transfer and latency, which is further complicated by the inclusion of flexible I/O. Fortunately, the DASH SoC framework overcomes the classical trade between flexibility and efficiency. The ontologically drive ...

Heterogeneous Integrated Circuits (HIC) combine different ICs into a single package. In this DARPA Phase I SBIR, Alphacore and our partner Riscure will conduct a feasibility study to create a method of identifying which ICs are in a package through available side channels, without opening the package. A Grid-Array Side-channel Probe (GASP) system will be studied for possible development, comprisin ...

Intelligent detection and imaging technology hold considerable value for Department of Defense to attain situational awareness and advantage over opposing forces, and for aid in navigating potentially dangerous marine and terrestrial environments. Technologies obtain intelligence on underwater threats and can gather intelligence on approaching surface threats. Current sensor technologies require a ...

Modern lithium ion batteries are known for their poor safety performance, with many reports of battery failure and fire having been reported. One of the major causes of battery fire is from the use of flammable solvents, such as organic carbonates, as the electrolyte. These hazards have long limited the usage of batteries in dangerous conditions, such as on the battlefield. To combat this issue, f ...

The Transportable Blood Storage (TBS) system is designed to transport fresh whole blood and vaccines farther and more reliably than currently available. A prototype will demonstrate the feasibility of a stackable, portable, active refrigeration unit capable of holding up to 40 units of blood without the need for any additional appliances or ice packs. Concept evaluations will be completed with 720 ...

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Rincon Research Corporation (RRC) proposes assessing modern devices and techniques in the art of the possible that satisfy a number of key requirements. To reduce costs and shorten development timeline, RRC will focus on implementing the solution on low-cost, commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) software-defined radios (SDRs) which meet the low probability of interception/detection (LPI/LPD) waveform†...