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Systems and Technology Research (STR) is developing a preliminary system design and prototype algorithms for mapping the electromagnetic spectrum (EMS) in an urban environment using 50 or greater networked UAVs flying at low altitudes. Urban spectrum utilization will continue to grow with the proliferation of wireless Internet of Things (IoT) devices and communications that will increasingly use s ...

Triton will demonstrate a piezo energy harvesting system (PEH) for a cubesat or similar small satellite platform that complements existing photovoltaic elements, trickle-charging the spacecrafts batteries in periods of eclipse when photovoltaic output is low, thereby reducing the required spacecraft battery capacity.

The objective of this SBIR project is to develop a piezoelectric energy harvesting system using a bistable structure(s). Mid will combine piezoelectric energy harvesters developed from its commercial piezo energy harvesting (PEH) products with Ohio State University and their novel approach and vast experience on piezo energy harvesting with bistable systems. Phase I will demonstrate a proof-of-c ...

To protect marine mammals from ship strikes and sonar exposure, teams of human watchstanders maintain a tedious, costly, and daylight-only visual lookout. However, manned search is impossible on unmanned vessels like DARPAs ACTUV. Automated video search can provide affordable surface detections without human fatigue, and automated acoustic search can provide detections below the surface, but both ...

SSCI, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute and Olin College of Engineering propose to develop, implement and perform initial simulation testing of the ASSIST (Asynchronous Sensor fuSIon SysTem) for near-surface whale detection. ASSIST is an information fusion approach which will integrate and process information from sonar, thermal imaging sensor, radar, and an information service such as the Right ...

STR is teamed with Sercel Incorporated to address the challenge of automated mammal monitoring. Sercel has developed a commercial product, QuietSea, evolved for use by the oil industrys seismic community for mammal monitoring. Sercel complements STRs considerable experience in fielding advanced prototype sonar systems. With this combined experience, the STR team will design and develop a mix of ac ...

X-GRID (Phase I) will investigate the feasibility of generating a reference data set containing at least 1 million military and veteran resumes (including skills), at least 10 million civilian job postings and a sufficient number of correspondences betwe...

Boston Fusion Corp. will research and develop Resource Allocation Consultant with Explainable Recommendations (RACER), a resource allocation tool that uses machine learning to generate and explain allocation decisions. During Phase I, we will perform en...

In this proposal, SSCI will develop the Open Source CAusal Reasoning (OSCAR) framework to help assess the effectiveness of deterrence measures in the Gray Zone. The Gray Zone is defined as adversarial interactions among actors that remain below the thres...

The Mobile Reconfigurable Acoustic Network (MoRAN) and associated Scalable Nested Network Optimization Methodology (SN2OM) will enable reliable underwater acoustic communications over a scalable ocean area with latencies on the order of minutes for criti...