Award Data

The purpose of this research is to develop a marine-worn, cost-efficient blast exposure monitoring device (blast dosimeter) that can be easily deployed by Marines and other ground forces in the theater of operations and in training to measure, record, and display overpressure and force acceleration data from varying blast type events to which these warfighters are exposed.

The university and industrial team assembled by MiTi proposes to demonstrate the viability of using an advanced low cost out of autoclave composites manufacturing process for application to high speed composite flywheel energy storage systems. Besides conducting appropriate materials testing of the new process, testing of a high-speed titanium flywheel simulator system weighing over 200 lbs will b ...

Fuzzing techniques will often produce a large enough number of crashing inputs for the program under test that it is important to prioritize them in terms of impact; one natural axis of a bugs impact is whether it can be used in a security exploit. Determining whether a crash is exploitable however is a complex and multi-layered problem. GrammaTech proposes the Chase project, a tool suite for auto ...

ABSTRACT:Cyber operators mentally integrate numerous data sources, many whose native format is difficult to comprehend. Visualizations can help, but the raw data must first be transformed. Designing effective visualizations is also difficult because there is a dearth of empirical research on how various visualizations affect the cyber operators performance. Secure Decisions proposes to systematica ...

ABSTRACT:Trusted platform module(TPM) devices provide the core root of trust for modern computer systems. These devices are used for secure, trusted, and measured boot approaches as well as to secure data for user applications such as Microsoft's Bitlocker technology. However, more and more systems are now virtualized in the cloud. Currently hypervisor technologies either do not provide guests wit ...

ABSTRACT:Mastodon Design will develop and propose a conceptual model of a multi-function, Type-1 radio that will greatly improve the operational effectiveness of the SOF Battlefield Airmen. Mastodon will deliver the results of a feasibility study based on the proposed design. The study will include an analysis of the key technological components and their impact on predicted radio performance. The ...

ABSTRACT:System reconnaissance is the typical first step in a targeted attack; the attacker must learn the services available, software used, and operating system configuration in order to determine how to best infiltrate a given system. Reconnaissance is then best thwarted by providing false or non-reusable information to an attacker. ATC-NY will design and build SWARM, a System-Wide Application ...

ABSTRACT:Current full motion video (FMV) toolchains fall short of supporting semantically meaningful archive search for specific objects or object types. We propose the Hierarchical Dynamic Vision Exploitation system (HiDyVE), an end-to-end system for content-based object location and retrieval in operational FMV. HiDyVE combines convolutional neural networks (CNNs) specifically adapted to FMV's q ...

ABSTRACT:Unmanned Air Vehicle (UAV) developers have limited marketplace options for motor speed controllers. The largest commercial controllers are generally limited to below 12 kW and battery voltages of less than 50 V, Although these are well suited to 800 Class helicopters and Giant scale fixed-wing aircraft, they are not powerful enough for larger UAV development. A few high-power options exis ...

ABSTRACT:In this SBIR Phase I proposal, Kent Optronics (KOI), proposes to develop a two-color compact High Resolution (~4k x 2k) Scene Projector capable of non-flickering independent image generation in both the visible and the short wave infrared (SWIR) (0.9-2.0 m). These new capabilities are intended to be implemented with the large format liquid crystal on silicon (LCoS). Custom designed output ...