Award Data

During phase I we created a web-based media analytics platform, Tator, as a foundation for the exploration, enrichment, and evaluation of underwater video and imagery. Tator supports collaborative annotation, customizable metadata, advanced playback features, third-party programming interfaces, and registering and running algorithm workflows. In phase II we will expand the core capabilities of Tat ...

TIAX proposes to continue to demonstrate the feasibility of a quick tack, long pot life, high strength underwater adhesive formulated to be delivered through a caulk gun like application device. Our two-part adhesive that we developed in Phase I is easily dispensed through a static mixing nozzle during application, removing the need for hand-mixing the adhesive prior to use. Our adhesive has demon ...

New satellite constellations will soon be deployed with locational revisit rates of 40 captures/day resulting in an image acquisition volume that quickly exceeds capacity for manual image analysis. This inspires an automated solution for analyzing spatio-temporal imagery that can augment analyst workflow and enhance geospatial investigation of locations over time. Building on System & Technology R ...

Systems & Technology Research (STR) is proposing a low-cost system to monitor activity on the power this through passive means by observing light sources. The proposed prototype will be a self-contained unit, with its own power storage, on board processing and data reduction, which can be deployed in hard-to-reach places. Wide field of view observations will allow us to obtain photometry from mult ...

This project involves demonstration of a 3D nanofabrication platform for manufacturing optical and photonic devices.

We propose to integrate the capabilities we have developed for real-time habitat processing on shipboard with the HabCam towed vehicle, into an autonomous vehicle with 3D reconstruction of seafloor topology, substrate classification, single target identification, hyperspectral imaging for physiological and chemical information, and plankton classification as an index of ecosystem health. Together, ...

Remote operated social engineering (ROSE) attacks account for a surprising share of successful cyberattack. For example, The Verizon Data Breach Incident Response 2019 report found that approximately 94% of all malicious code was introduced into systems via email. Threat actors, illegally, benefit from knowledge gained from repeated massive remote operated social engineering operations. Defensive ...

Radio frequency integrated circuits (RFICs) are key components for wireless communication system. RFIC’s hard-tomodel parasitic effects and poor simulation accuracy require multiple trial-and-error tape-outs (fabrications) to meet product specs. Tape-out is very slow (2 months) and very costly (as high as $2M). In the coming 5G era, this problem gets worse as mmWave frequency parasitic effects a ...

Additive manufacturing is steadily advancing towards fulfilling its promise of customized and on-demand production of functional parts. However, performance of as-manufactured parts can differ significantly from the as-designed parts because the as-manufactured geometry differs from the as-designed geometry and the as-manufactured material properties are unknown. Attempts to predict performance of ...

Small Unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) play a critical and growing role in government, military, commercial, and scientific operations across a range of missions such as weather monitoring, natural disaster assessment, surveillance, and infrastructure inspection. Their versatility, maneuverability, and dependability, coupled with their ability to keep operators out of harm’s way, make them critic ...