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Current efforts to provide advanced maintenance capabilities can be burdened by legacy documentation and a lack of visibility into the fine-grained status of jobs in progress on the flight line. The Cognitive Observant Assistant for Coaching and Helping (COACH) addresses both of these problems concurrently with an intelligent virtual assistant that goes significantly beyond the state of the art by ...

In Phase I Ceebus demonstrated the feasibility of an underwater, acoustic, direct-sequence spread-spectrum communication architecture, including actual data transfers and decoded message recovery. All of the communication algorithms were post-processed and communication was performed with a single piezo transducer. Prototype development is the next step in delivering a system that offers real-time ...

The goal of this proposal and follow-up development is to apply the Linguistic Geometry (LG) based predictive technology to mission planning and dynamic allocation of operational assets in both Battle Command and Simulation environments. To achieve this goal in Phase II, STILMAN will implement a prototype LG-STRATEGIST enabling the following capabilities with emphasis on integration with FBCB2 and ...

We propose to create a method and supporting automation for model-based supply for specialty and fine chemicals to virtually discover and configure supply chains.  In this SBIR Phase II, we will focus enhancement, verification, and validation of the functional prototype we developed in Phase I to a pre-commercial platform.  A world leader with $486 billion in shipments, the United States is the ...

Crisis decision-making is difficult and error-prone because it involves time-urgency, physical and emotional stress, chaotic conditions, and poor data availability/quality. This SBIR project will investigate, develop, and deploy a web-based software system (called PolARES) that supports key decisions for crisis management and battlefield applications. This system will produce a revolutionary impr ...

Sensitive site exploitation activities are focused on collecting forensic evidence left behind by persons involved in terrorist or other illegal activity, and the biological evidence recovered is often referred to as"touch DNA samples". Touch samples include fingerprints, skin cells found on clothing (e.g. a shirt collar), and oral epithelial cells found on the opening of a soda can or the rim of ...

SOF combat swimmers have a need for the continuous monitoring of each others relative position while diving and for the capability of being able to communicate with each other to help establish a common operational picture (COP).The C3SA system was previously developed under SBIR Topic SOCOM08-001 thru the receipt of both Phase I and Phase II SBIR awards.The C3SA established a stand-alone network ...

Respiratory viruses, such as Influenza A Virus (IAV), present aerosolizable biothreats with mass-casualty potential. Therapeutic Interfering Particles (TIPs) have been proposed as resistance-proof interventions to counteract these threats—given the potential capability of TIPs to adapt and co-evolve with rapidly evolving viral agents. Yet, the majority of extant TIPs are unlikely to control an a ...

Obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) is a shockingly common clinical sleep disorder that has systemic and devastating health consequences. OSA affects nearly 30 million Americans, and is also highly prevalent in active duty military personnel with nearly 225,000 cases diagnosed between 2004 and 2016. Current treatment methods for OSA are cumbersome and often discarded by patients. Untreated OSA has been ...

HASHTAG is a secure computing stack designed to assure the security of heterogeneous robotics swarms. Based on a formally verified microkernel operating system, a domain specific language is defined for swarm control operations, formally verified by design. A secure distributed communications system is integrated which allows for transparent distribution of shared information among the swarm over ...