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Low power, robust communications protocols such as IEEE 802.15.4/Zigbee have made the concept of smart sensor networks attractive across many applications. These systems promise portable, networked, wireless, sensor suites capable of monitoring and controlling environments as needed. Theseus Logic and MachineTalker will provide NASA with a rapidly deployable, wireless, intelligent, sensor system b ...

Achieving a new military GPS capability based on direct acquisition of P(Y) and M codes requires massive parallel processing with large numbers of correlator channels (>1000) in the receiver searching for a code match. In synchronous systems the extensive clock tree required to support a re-configurable, massively parallel architecture can burn half of the overall power of the processor. Theseus a ...

Software protection continues to evolve rapidly while in the government space, state sponsored reverse engineering teams conduct attacks on binary code. As a result, concern over binary protection has become a matter of national security. This has resulted in a new generation of powerful techniques to secure executable code. Currently, the growth in these defensive technologies has weakened the ve ...

Software protection continues to evolve rapidly while in the government space, state sponsored reverse engineering teams conduct attacks on binary code. As a result, concern over binary protection has become a matter of national security. This has resulted in a new generation of powerful techniques to secure executable code. Currently, the growth in these defensive technologies has weakened the ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The marine environment has proven to be a prolific source of novel bioactive molecules with great potential in a number of therapeutic areas. Currently, marine natural products are in clinical trials for cancer, analgesia, allergy and cognitive diseases. It is clear that research groups will continue to identify new marine natural products which offer great po ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The convergence of biomedicine and computation in the form of biomedical computing has demonstrated gains in the areas of genetic sequences, biomedical images, qualitative descriptors for health and social science and geospatial images and chemical formulae. This provides a unique opportunity to utilize novel image processing techniques to more accurately and o ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Endogenous somatostatin receptors (SSTRs) offer novel targets for treating pain via both peripheral and central mechanisms. Our studies show that peripheral SSTR activation prevents nociceptor sensitization and provides phasic and tonic inhibitory control of nociceptors. This modulation is an important therapeutic goal since sensitization of peripheral nocicept ...

Electronic actuation systems provide many benefits to aircraft such as enhancement of the flexibility of redundancy systems; simplification of power generation and distribution systems; reduction in aircraft weight; and improvement of survivability and maintainability. The high operation temperature of silicon carbide (SiC) electronics allows the power drive electronics (PDE) to be cooled by using ...

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The Army’s mission to provide CONUS and OCONUS harbormaster operations maritime port security is jeopardized by the lack of both integrated C4ISR assets as well as a coherent picture for situational awareness. On top of this, add the complexity of responding to port-specific threats and vulnerabilities. Modus Operandi’s innovative threat driven information integration approach for deploymen ...