Award Data

The overall goal of this Phase II effort is to provide a computationally efficient software package called the Airborne Doppler Lidar Analyses and Adaptive Targeting System (ADLAATS) that conducts continuous on-board measurement and processing of airborne DWL data, transmits the data (u,v,w, variance, backscatter) down to the surface at least every 5 min, and uploads model data (i.e., WRF, MM5)and ...

It is desirable to make focal plane arrays (or imaging arrays) with reduced pitch; doing so enables smaller, cheaper and lighter camera systems that provide the same image resolution. Currently, the lower limit on pitch is set by electron/hole diffusion and light diffraction that results in crosstalk between neighboring pixels. Since electron hole pairs generated outside the depletion layer can ...

Propagation Research Associates, Inc., (PRA) proposes to develop a software/hardware-in-the-loop (S/HWIL) capability that will implement the PRA Fast Algorithms for State Estimation (FASE) in a real-time environment. PRA developed a maximum likelihood estimator and a smoothed iterated filter to reduce filter transients. The PRA S/HWIL will provide a unique capability to 1) evaluate the performance ...

Impact Technologies, in collaboration Northrop Grumman and Lord Corporation, propose to develop a comprehensive health and usage monitoring system (HUMS) for direct application on the Fire Scout UAV selected as the Class IV UAV for the Army’s FCS. After several meetings between Impact, Boeing and Northrop Grumman, the Fire Scout UAV has been identified as the Army platform with the greatest need ...

Crowd management is an important task for civilian, police, and military groups that can be very difficult on its own, and becomes even more difficult in hostile environments. The difficulty comes from the many levels of granularity that events can happen at. Making such a system automated adds further challenges, due to difficulties with modeling and sensors. Accurate large-scale crowd models are ...

Current situational awareness methods on DoD networks focus on collecting ever-increasing amounts of network generated data while the resources to analyze it remain relatively fixed. The deployment of the Global Information Grid (GIG) will exacerbate this problem in expanding the size of defense networks by orders of magnitude while simultaneously increasing the mission criticality of these netwo ...

21st Century Technologies, in partnership with George Mason University, present Navigator, a system to inspect and analyze network traffic and configurations in order to prevent and detect intrusions. Navigator’s graph-based representation will combine information about configuration (including vulnerabilities, topology, and trust relationships) with real-time input from sensors such as Snort an ...

The United States Army is increasingly dependent on weapons platforms that rely on commercial off the shelf (COTS) hardware coupled with mission critical embedded software. Autonomous weapons platforms such as unmanned aerial reconnaissance vehicles and bomb/mine defusing robots are very effective at assisting the warfighter in countering asymmetric threats. This gives U.S. forces strategic and ta ...

The United States Army is increasingly dependent on weapons platforms that rely on commercial off the shelf (COTS) hardware coupled with mission critical embedded software. Autonomous weapons platforms such as unmanned aerial reconnaissance vehicles and bomb/mine defusing robots are very effective at assisting the warfighter in countering asymmetric threats. This gives U.S. forces strategic and ta ...

THIS PROPOSAL IS TO INVESTIGATE THE FEASIBILITY OF UTILIZING LUMINESCENCE QUENCHING FOR MEASUREMENT OF RELATIVE HUMIDITY AT TEMPERATURES FOUND IN ARCTIC ENVIRONMENTS. IT IS BASED ON THE OBSERVATION THAT CERTAIN FLUORESCENT AND PHOSPHORESCENT COMPOUNDS, IMMOBILIZED ON SPECIFIC SUBSTRATES, SHOW A LUMINESCENT RESPONSE WHOSE INTENSITY IS PROPORTIONAL TO RELATIVE HUMIDITY OR THE PROPORTION OF WATER VAP ...