Award Data

The huge growth in mobile industry including smartphones and tablets, wearable devices, and the internet of things, caused an explosion in the number of sensor technologies and sensory data. This growth was accompanied by huge leaps in wireless communication technologies in term of speed and geographical coverage. When a highly-trained first responder arrives at an incident scene, an array of comm ...

Our objective is to develop an intelligent communications hub, or gateway device, capable of interconnecting wearable technologies with an array of wireless local and wide area communications systems like LMR, commercial & public safety 3G/LTE, WiFi, and mesh networking. To address this, MaXentric is proposing a solution capable of not only interconnecting devices to communications networks, but a ...

This proposal explores feature representations for automatic speech processing algorithms with a focus on preserving the clients' privacy. We address two different use cases of privacy: a system that transcribes speech, but is unable to infer the identity of speakers, such as an anonymous tip hotline; and a system that identifies speakers, but is unable to recognize the communicated messages, us ...

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 ...

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is looking for solutions that not only provide enhanced security and safety by leveraging sensors found on the Internet of Things (IoT) but also suppress data that facilitates the accumulation, processing, and characterization of information that make it attributable to individuals. To address these needs, RAM Laboratories proposes to develop Emergency ...

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 ...

We propose research to develop a complementary pair of Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) defense mechanisms, both operating in a collaborative mode between victims and upstream providers or peer networks. For initial detection of possible DDoS attack conditions, we rely on reuse of existing work, but primarily focus on utilization of techniques that are built up on Softward-Defined Networking ( ...

TDoS is a form of DoS that affects government, enterprise, and small business voice systems. It is the most significant threat to voice systems and by far the most likely form of voice-based DoS. TDoS attackers use SIP, free IP-PBXs, call generators, and spoofed calling numbers to cheaply and anonymously flood their victims with calls. The attackers have the advantage, because attacks are easy to ...

PolymerPlus proposes a SBIR program to develop and commercialize multilayered polymer films with shape memory properties, as a tamper-proof low-cost bolt seal and plastic seal anti-tamper device. The technological foundation for this innovation includes using two or more commercial polymers to produce multilayered films with thermal, humidity, or optical shape memory properties capable of undergoi ...

The proposed SBIR Phase I effort initiates the development of a low-cost tamper-proof electronic bolt seal that is easy to install, and provides electronic recording and reporting without increasing the inspection time at the customs and security checkpoints. The proposed e-seal addresses the present gap in seal protecting ALL the air and maritime containers and conveyances to extend protection b ...