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In this effort, SSCI and its sub-contractor SAFRAN Optics 1 will develop OASES-Mini, a low-cost, low-SWAP visual perception and processing capability to enable safe launch and recovery, collision avoidance, and mission autonomy for small Group 3 UAS platforms. The goal is to develop these capabilities through the design and development of new sensors and innovative methods to process sensor data r ...

In order to maintain U.S. military advantages, the U.S. Naval Service must have widespread adoption of autonomous assets such as autonomous UUVs.  However, autonomous UUVs present a variety of challenges in the maritime environment, such as (1) a requirement that the commander can predict, control, and understand an autonomous fleet, even under limited communications, (2) autonomous systems must ...

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 ...

During the proposed Phase I effort NANOIONIX will demonstrate a tough, self-decontaminating antimicrobial surface coating optimized for the inactivation of broad classes of viruses, bacteria, fungi, and chemical warfare agents without external intervention (including light and heat). Coatings are used throughout the US military for corrosion protection and wear resistance, for appearance and signa ...

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 ...