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Leveraging existing multi-frequency antenna arrays for purposes they were not originally designed would greatly improve the benefits of such systems. For example, the use of arrays of small antennas with novel waveforms may produce low frequency signals in the far field that are not possible using single antennas and classical waveforms. In particular, we propose to investigate the formation of lo ...

Ransomware is an international crime operation that strikes commercial, public and government organizations. It is estimated that ransomware has cost nearly $5 billion in damages worldwide in 2017 alone, and if left unmitigated, by 2019 will hit an enterprise every 14 seconds causing a projected total loss of $11.5 billion. The IAI team proposes to take advantage of the intrinsic flash properties ...

Ransomware is terrorizing the Internet, running rampant in consumer, business, and government systems. So far, ransomware-specific defenses have had minimal impact or success. We propose a new technology called RAM Journaling, a selective recording of RAM over time. The primary purpose of the journal is the recovery of locked data. Specifically, the journal is searched for the symmetric cryptograp ...

Recent advances in 3D structure printing and 3D direct printed electronics have widened the scope of possibilities for the Internet of Things (IoT). New near room temperature 3D direct ink writing (DIW) additive manufacturing (AM) printing processes allow many different type of sensors and they can be embedded anywhere in a structure, which offers several benefits. 1. Protection: sensors face degr ...

To further accelerate the commercialization process of our supercapactior yarns, we plan to further lower the production cost, enhance our yearn performance and optimize customer experience via materials and process engineering and innovative platform development. The major deliverable of this sequential Phase II project is to demonstrate the throughput capacity of a large area supercapactior fabr ...

Obscurant materials are used by the Army to protect both the soldier as well as military physical assets. Several obscuration systems have been developed over the years to defeat threats in all areas of the electromagnetic spectrum. Current obscurant materials typically consist of off-the-shelf or processed metal particles or flakes in which key properties such as particle size and aspect ratio ...

The Department of Defense (DOD) accounts for over 21 million barrels of oil usage per day, with a majority of the fuel being appropriated to JP-8. Among the military"s various armed forces, the Army alone spends over $4.1 billion for energy, with a major portion of this also attributed to JP-8 jet fuel consumption for maintaining operational capability on a daily basis. Diesel generators are curre ...

Methanol crossover of commercial Nafion membranes is a major issue that results in lowering of the efficiency of direct methanol fuel cells (DMFCs). A biomimetic approach for the membrane design using either proton conducting nanochannels and/or nanothin barrier layer can produce DMFC membranes with highly selective and fast proton transfer. In the Phase I project, Lynntech demonstrated the feasib ...

Local water production for troops using standard membrane filtration processes presents a significant logistics burden because of high energy consumption for removing particles based on size-exclusion methods and the constant need to replace fouled membranes. A membraneless filtration method using dissolved CO2 has been demonstrated to separate charged particles through the mechanism of diffusioph ...

The rapid ascent and adoption of social media as the dominant form of communication has led to significant analysis challenges. In particular, there is a gap in theoretically informed methods to analyze data mined and collected from social media. One primary cause of this gap is the lack of fusing structural sources of information (e.g. social network topology) with non-structural sources (message ...