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ABSTRACT: The annual cost of corrosion for Air Force aircraft and missiles is estimated to $5.4 billion with corrosion accounting for 32.2% of the maintenance budget. Besides these costs, corrosion also adversely impacts safety and readiness. In large part, corrosion control is achieved through materials selection based on accelerated laboratory corrosion and service environment testing. Altho ...

ABSTRACT: A robust back-up navigation alternative is needed to continue to provide accurate PVT data when GPS is denied. Navigation solutions can be enhanced by utilizing existing networked communications for dismounted forces operating in small platoons. When some of the forces lose their GPS signals, traditional GPS-denied network positioning techniques such as Time of Arrival (TOA) or Time D ...

ABSTRACT:The concept of fully adaptive radar (FAR) seeks to exploit all available degrees of freedom on transmit and receive in order to maximize radar system performance. Of key importance is the concept of closed loop radar operation via feedback from the receiver to transmitter for guiding the next illumination.The first goal of this project is to develop a cognitive radar system definition tha ...

Progeny System proposes a Personally Identifiable Information (PII) Guard architecture solution that acts as a gateway for organizations that desire to access Social Internet of Things (SIoT) while needing to adhere to privacy protection policy with minimal loss of actionable information. Addressing SIoT is forward thinking of the evolutionary trend towards a ubiquitous computing paradigm where th ...

Our approach will be to design and develop a BGP extension called the DDoS Alert Extension (DDoS-AE) and a web-based central service (CS) that will leverage existing infrastructure and established protocols to enable real-time distribution of DDoS alert messages. A prototype unit running the DDoS-AE will be designed using innovative new hardware such as FPGAs and GPUs to aid in the detection and m ...

ASI will leverage its recent work in small form factor HF, VHF and UHF RF direction finding to accelerate and risk reduce Navys Spectrum Monitoring payload. In this Phase I SBIR, ASI will deliver analysis and system descriptions for the antenna subsystem and its calibration, the RF and digital processing subsystems and ScanEagle integration. For the antenna subsystem, ASI will leverage its RF prop ...

The Tonpilz design for SONAR transducers is widely used in large arrays in acoustic systems for undersea threat detection, weapons guidance, communication and the like. Exploiting single crystal piezoelectrics in Tonpilz transducers has led to single transducer elements with enhanced bandwidth, sensitivity, and source level in a smaller, lighter package when compared with legacy piezoceramic eleme ...

n this SBIR project, Shared Spectrum Company (SSC) defines and develops a concept by which high fidelity knowledge of the shipboard electromagnetic wave propagation environment can be predicted. This system is used to measure signals of opportunity such as broadcast TV/radio, aircraft transponders, maritime radars, GPS and other signals that have known transmitter locations (via databases, informa ...

Military and open-source data contain a wealth of information about entities of interest to US and coalition forces. This information is in the form of unstructured text, audio, imagery, video, SIGINT, and structured data. Intelligence analysts have access to these distributed, disparate data sources but are severely limited in exploiting the information. The success of military and security opera ...

ABSTRACT: The biggest demand on a military receiver has been from the time required to search and acquire for the military signals when an accurate internal time reference is not available. Prior research by NAVSYS into network assisted GPS approaches used the JTRS network itself to transfer time from another GPS receiver to reduce the initial time uncertainty and speed the acquisition time. This ...