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A radar platform is designed for detecting and tracking multi-sUAS in real time. The platform is composed by the multi-layer radar systems and the back-end hybrid deep learning based online signal processing system. The ground to air radar is the first layer radar for the long range target detection and tracking, while the air radar carried by UAV is the second layer radar for the near field targe ...

Intelligent Automation, Inc. teams with University of Maryland, College Park to develop SLACA, a self-learned agent system for collective human activities and events in aerial videos. Aerial video analytics often faces challenges such as low resolution, shadows, varied spatio-temporal dynamics, etc. The traditional methods depending on the object detection and tracking often fail due to these chal ...

Reliability of power generators, distribution systems and motors are essential in ensuring the efficient and reliable operation of industrial manufacturing systems. However, different types of machine health threats (fault or attack) may occur. There may be direct or inderict attacks and different types of short circuit faults for the electric devices such as single phase faults, phase to phase fa ...

ABSTRACT: Enig Associates, Inc., a small business providing advanced modeling and simulation capabilities to the DoD and DoE, is proposing an innovative and novel electrical approach, using explosive-driven flux compression generators (FCG) to convert explosive chemical energy to electromagnetic energy with very high current output and superb energy conversion efficiency and then Joule heat light ...

Adaptive optics (AO) can compensate for the aberrating effects of atmospheric turbulence which degrade the performance of high energy laser (HEL) weapon systems and, as such, is an enabling technology for effective deployment of HEL weapon systems. A key component in an HEL AO system is the deformable mirror (DM). However, mechanical constraints in currently available DMs limits AO system performa ...

Adaptive optics (AO) can compensate for the aberrating effects of atmospheric turbulence which degrade the performance of high energy laser (HEL) weapon systems and, as such, is an enabling technology for effective deployment of HEL weapon systems. A key component in an HEL AO system is the deformable mirror (DM). However, mechanical constraints in currently available DMs limits AO system performa ...

Access to high-quality technical talent is a growing need in the US Air Force (USAF), the Department of Defense (DoD), and the federal Government as a whole. Competition over high-quality candidates can be fierce, causing Government clients to expend time and energy just filling seats on their software projects, let alone getting the work itself done. To quickly build secure applications and keep ...

We aim to develop data-driven heterogeneous data fusion approaches for unanticipated event/target detection, which will be more robust and immune to model mismatch problems encountered by model-based approaches. Considering the low intrinsic dimensionality of the sensor data, we propose several data-level fusion approaches based on some state-of-the-art dimensionality reduction techniques. For lin ...

Terahertz communication is anticipated to provide ultra-high capacity links up to 1Tbps. Thus, Terahertz communication is promising to support wide varieties of emerging high throughput and low latency applications, including military applications. However, the Terahertz channel suffers from severe path loss and is highly sensitive to obstacles. Hence, novel solutions should be designed to account ...

Naturally occurring periodic nanostructures have long been of interest due to their striking optical effects and potential biological roles. They have been recognized not only as interesting curiosities but potential design inspirations that can lead to improvements in biochemical sensors, laser surgery, photovoltaics, and other mission-critical applications. This work will focus on one such appli ...