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AIS proposes the AWARE effort to research, design and prototype a system that will actually improve, rather than degrade, as faults or perturbations are experienced. Todays computer systems and mission assurance approaches are largely built on a foundation of static configurations and require manual upgrades or lengthy software development phases to increase the security or stability of a system. ...

As space continues to become more congested and contested, our ability to identify and mitigate man-made and natural threats to space assets becomes increasingly difficult.While the number of man-made objects being put into space each year increases, the intelligence community (IC), Department of Defense (DoD), US and International commercial companies are accelerating their monitoring capabilitie ...

The primary objective of this effort is to develop a framework for providing enhanced space situational awareness (SSA) through the ability to project and visualize threats to blue space assets, and assess the impact of those threats to the assets and the missions they support. The Assessing and Projecting Situations In Space (APSIS) framework leverages a domain agnostic TRL 6 capability for reduc ...

ABSTRACT: To address the Air Force need for new information synthesis algorithms to increase the situational awareness of unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) during sense-and-avoid (SAA) activities in the terminal airspace (TA), Physical Optics Corporation (POC) proposes to develop a new All-source Terminal Information Synthesis and Situational Awareness (ATISSA) algorithm, based on all-source informa ...

ABSTRACT: AOSense proposes to design, build, and deliver an atomic inertial measurement unit (IMU) for aircraft navigation. The proposed sensor will be integrated into an 8 liter physics package and delivered with a 3U rack mount controller for laboratory testing and field demonstrations. To guide the sensor design, tests will be performed in Phase I using existing hardware coupled with novel data ...

ABSTRACT: Embedded systems vastly outnumber conventional computing platforms such as enterprise servers and personal computers. Many applications of embedded systems are critical to national security and personal safety. However, the level of security provided by the embedded systems is embarrassingly low: researchers successfully compromised embedded systems that control cars, medical devices, vo ...

ABSTRACT: To address embedded software security challenges found in Cyber Physical Systems, we propose to build a Detecting Embedded Vulnerabilities in Software (DEVIS) toolkit that employs dynamic binary analysis in a manner that (1) better manages the resources of the target system and software being executed, (2) determines and ranks the severity of vulnerabilities found, and (3) targets hardwa ...

ABSTRACT: Various embodiments of deployable booms have been used for decades in space applications but few, if any, have been realizable for the smaller form factors inherent to SmallSat, MicroSat, and NanoSat platforms. With the foregoing in mind, MMA Design proposes to develop the Base Actuated Deployable Astro (BADA) Boom, which is a high-reliability truss boom that deploys from a 1U stowed vol ...

ABSTRACT: Interleaving ADCs and DACs is a common method to achieve high conversion rates. Interleaving is traditioinally accomplished through high speed switching within a single integrated circuit. Using electrical engineering theory and digital signal processing, circuit taps can enable external interleaving to be accomplished in the time domain. This circuit tap approach permits lower speed con ...

ABSTRACT: Detecting and locating Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) jammers is a vital part of navigation warfare (Navwar), comprising the major thrust of Navwar Electronic Support (ES).The objective of this SBIR effort is to develop a ground-based GNSS Jammer Location capability capable of estimating the position of a GNSS jammer within 100 meters, and estimating jammer position within 10 ...