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Type 1 Diabetes (T1D) affects an ever growing population. While this disease typically has been associated with juveniles, the disease in adult populations is rapidly increasing. The defining clinical component is insulin loss, which occurs because of sustained inflammation in the islets. At present there is no means to prevent or reverse insulin loss. A major inflammatory pathway in T1D that cont ...

Ransomware is terrorizing the Internet, running rampant in consumer, business, and government systems. So far, ransomware-specific defenses have had minimal impact or success. We propose a new technology called RAM Journaling, a selective recording of RAM over time. The primary purpose of the journal is the recovery of locked data. Specifically, the journal is searched for the symmetric cryptograp ...

Legacy satellite command and control capabilities and their related telemetry operate in a largely stove piped framework. Satellites are still commanded, controlled, and communicated with their ground station in a specific constellation structure. Each ground station is unique to a given constellation and the communications and telemetry are aligned to the specific constellation, underscoring an o ...

There is a need for easy-to-use, versatile alloys for additive manufacturing that print consistently regardless of the specific process or machine, or the metallurgical and manufacturing knowledge of the user. Such capability is especially critical for soldiers to be able to make every day items on demand in the theater of war. Toward meeting this need, recent successes developing high performance ...

Leveraging existing multi-frequency antenna arrays for purposes they were not originally designed would greatly improve the benefits of such systems. For example, the use of arrays of small antennas with novel waveforms may produce low frequency signals in the far field that are not possible using single antennas and classical waveforms. In particular, we propose to investigate the formation of lo ...

Ransomware is an international crime operation that strikes commercial, public and government organizations. It is estimated that ransomware has cost nearly $5 billion in damages worldwide in 2017 alone, and if left unmitigated, by 2019 will hit an enterprise every 14 seconds causing a projected total loss of $11.5 billion. The IAI team proposes to take advantage of the intrinsic flash properties ...

Metal Additive Manufacturing (AM) research has typically addressed understanding how to maximize performance for an AM material, taking into account microstructural anisotropy, residual stress, defects (such as pores and lack of fusion defects), and surface finish. Optimizing a part then requires significant post processing such as hot isostatic pressing (HIP), heat treatment and surface finishing ...

The most critical component of any modern enterprise is effective use of its human resources. The rise of productivity-boosting applications and wearable sensors has provided individual users with data-driven insights into their own effectiveness. Despite these advancements there has not been a corresponding rise in tools for evaluating and improving the effectiveness of teams as a whole. New wear ...

The goal is to develop a volatile odor detector using mammalian olfactory receptors (ORs) integrated with metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS) nanoelectronic circuits. The Army has urgent need for cost-effective odor sensing for novel biological materials integrated with inorganic devices to sense chemical and biological agents. However, e-noses still do not possess the dynamic range and selectivity o ...

We propose the development of a membraneless water purification system using continuous, self-contained, vacuum-assisted diffusiophoresis. Using diffusiophoresis allows the system to clean water contaminated with particulates and bacteria without membranes or filters, while producing a stream of fresh, drinkable water. The system will operate using only electricity supplied by portable batteries/s ...