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An effective and efficient lossless compression algorithm allows additional telemetry and other data to be sent without using excess bandwidth. The proposed lossless compression approach combines real-time system design principles, traditional optimum lossless encoding, the latest research in multimedia compression methodologies, and advanced streaming technologies into the design architecture of ...

High power pulse weapons have been proposed for decades. Prototype lasers, for example, have had some success in destroying surface and airborne targets. High power, high efficiency laser diodes are now available to pump the lasers but they still need large amounts of energy storage. A convenient way to utilize energy dense aircraft fuel is to tap into the existing electrical generation and distri ...

To address the US Navy's need for an innovative nondestructive evaluation (NDE) and structural health monitoring (SHM) technique for in-situ monitoring of bondline integrity for composite structures, X-wave Innovations, Inc. (XII) and Drexel University (DU) propose a low-cost, hybrid acoustic-ultrasonic technique (HAUT). The enabling NDE/SHM technique will allow the in-situ monitoring of the ...

Emerging portable software defined radio (SDR) technology has great potential to improve the communication capability of dismounted and Special Forces personnel, as it can quickly acquire the operational information in a hostile environment, and adapt to it based on spectrum needs and available resources. The major challenge lies in the following aspects: effectiveness of spectrum sensing, network ...

Intelligent Automation, Inc. proposes Spectrum Efficient Communications and Advanced Networking Technology (SECANT), which integrates dynamic interference management (that adapts among interference avoidance, tolerance, cancellation, and interference alignment) and multiuser detection at the PHY layer. SECANT provides adaptive MAC design that supports PHY layer spectrum efficiency gains to improve ...

Resources available through the System F6 cluster can greatly simplify a participating spacecraft"s design. Our proposal encompasses three innovations: (1) Common Application for Sensorcraft Missions (CASM), an application that will be installed on the System F6 cluster to manage the picosat/cluster interface; (2) Sensorcraft Application INTerface (SAInt), a common interface for connecting picosat ...

In the tactical wireless ad hoc network, all networking nodes are vulnerable to various security attacks. Therefore, the centralized data storage is unable to protect the tactical data once the storage device is compromised by an adversary. Distributed data storage is the alternative that the data are securely and reliably spread on the networking nodes with certain redundancy, offering high data ...

We propose a secure, reliable and efficient data storage and transition system, DataGuard, for wireless ad hoc networks. As a distributed system, DataGuard integrates various coding techniques, data migration protocol and service evaluation model to enable secure data storage and efficient data access in wireless ad hoc networks. We adopt various coding techniques including erasure coding scheme, ...

The proposed effort will yield a Tag, Track, and Locationing (TTL) and Data Exfil system providing the ability to communicate bidirectionally through 40 dB of obstacles, geolocate through 40 dB of obstacles, and provide 10 kbits/s data exfil in clear sky free of airtime charges. Such a system would enable new and unprecedented Techniques, Tactics, and Procedures (TTPs) include operating Tags in tr ...

SURVICE Engineering is proposing an innovative and reliable combination of cutting-edge technologies currently employed in SURVICE"s core business operations for the post-IED hull inspection toolset, which will allow forward-deployed Marines to rapidly collect all relevant data for the assessment of structural damage to combat vehicles. As an industry leader in survivability analysis, SURVICE has ...