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In this DARPA SBIR Phase II program, Metamagnetic Inc., in collaboration with Northrop Grumman, proposes to leverage multiple recent breakthroughs in magnetostatic wave (MSW) devices (e.g., auto-tune filters), self-biased hexaferrites, and monolithically integrated circulators to achieve a compact thin-film based MSW resonator utilizing hexaferrites for operation up to 110 GHz. This proposed effor ...

Current AI systems are brittle to novel changes in the world. This limits their applicability, leads to large engineering efforts to create robustness in spite of the brittleness, and is a cause of unpredictable failures. Both knowledge-based, first-wave AI and data-driven, second-wave AI techniques have been unable to overcome this brittleness. Charles River Analytics and MIT’s Computational Co ...

Artificial intelligence (AI) is approaching a turning point in which it briskly evolves from a tool for information lookup and processing in knowledge-based tasks to a teammate that monitors the team and its members; and accurately infers beliefs, predicts actions, and executes cognitive work with humans. This will transform individual taskwork, teamwork, and human-machine dynamics on a wide varie ...

In response to the growing need for a fast, reliable method for de novo production of long DNA molecules on demand, Triton Systems, Inc., in collaboration of Raytheon BBN Technologies, will develop a device and process for integrated DNA oligonucleotide synthesis and gene assembly that is time- and resource-efficient, high-fidelity, easily scalable, and fully automatable.  Our device will perform ...

Triton Systems proposes to develop a portable personal air mobility system to enable a revolutionary new individual transport capability for single soldiers.  The approach makes use of the Triton team’s expertise in the field of air mobility systems, leveraging unique solutions designed and tested for military and recreational applications.  The proposed approach is a superior solution to alte ...

Physical Sciences Inc. (PSI) proposes to develop an underwater optically-based sensor for spatially continuous determination of sound velocity profiles. The sensor leverages multiple technology advances, including a light detection and ranging (LIDAR) technique applicable for depth-resolved measurements over a large range of water columns, Raman scattering spectroscopy for remote measurement of wa ...

Side channel analysis (SCA) and fault injection (FI) are a solid part of the relevant attack space for any chip that can be physically reached by an attacker. These hardware attacks allow key extraction from cryptographic implementations, and fault injection specifically allows complete takeover of devices. Current commercial chip design tools do not offer integrated analysis to verify resistance ...

Pressure-triggered mines are technologically simple and inexpensive to build, but represent a significant asymmetric threat to Navy assets because they are very difficult to safely disarm. The current state of practice for maritime Mine Countermeasures (MCM) involves cumbersome, expensive, and slow processes, often involving large, manned assets in the vicinity of potentially mined waters. Expend ...

The Integrated Reconfigurable Intercommunication and Sensing (IRIS) platform will create a paradigm shift in underwater acoustic communications systems and open up a new era of innovation and performance flexibility for the developer and end-user communities. The current model of proprietary and incompatible computational platforms, networking protocols, acoustic signal modulation formats and freq ...

Commercial technologies to create wireless networks of underwater unmanned vehicles (UUV) or static sensing devices are limited to a few proprietary solutions that fall short of providing the flexibility, performance, and ability to adapt their networking capabilities to the time-varying environments that characterize underwater missions in the military and commercial domains. In stark contrast, t ...