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ABSTRACT: Proposed is an approach based on collaborative visual sensemaking that is at the convergence of people, visualization, collaboration and analytics. Working at this apex, our sensemaking methodology seeks to leverage the strengths of each of these four components, while overcoming their deficiencies especially those due to multiple, interacting views. The novel approach enables a recursi ...

ABSTRACT: Air and Space Operations Center (AOC) planners need to consider DIME activities and PMESII effects when constructing or selecting a Course of Action (COA) ,and when sharing their thoughts and knowledge with representatives from others. To construct a visualization tool that leads planners to consider non-kinetic effects and enables knowledge sharing of DIME and PMESII factors, the IAI t ...

ABSTRACT: While being backward compatible with Commercial Off The Shelf (COTS) Operation Systems (OS) and applications, system-level Virtual Machine (VM) only provides a coarse level for current generic compute cloud computation. As a result, current cloud requires a full-blown machine (system) level virtualization in each VM instance. However, many cloud computing requires finer grained resource ...

ABSTRACT: In this proposed effort, we propose a light-weight hypervisor, called SecureVirt for cloud computing. SecureVirt can securely isolate the virtual machines (VMs) concurrently running on the same hardware resources. SecureVirt consists of two components, TinyHype and virtual machine manager. TinyHype performs the most fundamental functions and virtual machine manager emulates I/O devices ...

ABSTRACT: Patch management is one of the main enabling technologies in maintaining a high degree of security for IT systems. Often the patch requires a higher level of privilege to apply, making the patching operation itself a potential target of exploitation. The update or patch might require a reboot or perceivable system downtime, which becomes an issue for level 1 or 2 mission assurance cat ...

ABSTRACT: The proposed IMPACT system provides an automated and adaptive network planning capability that processes the network capacity and communication factors provided by the airborne gateway/relays network in conjunction with resource requirements of a new mission (achieved by mission mapping) and optimally performs flow control, scheduling and allocation of communication resources for specif ...

ABSTRACT: The tracking of identities, online fingerprints, trends, and interests on the web is widespread due in part to the multi-billion dollar online advertising industry. This practice and the resulting technology has significant privacy, intellectual property, and national security implications. Current approaches such as Tor,"private browsing,"and proxies only address parts of the problem ...

ABSTRACT: The current roll control system for the Minuteman III First Stage motor is heavy. A lightweight, easily detachable system would offer considerable advantages. A solid propellant Roll Control System solution is proposed that uses modern propellants, advanced thrusters, and improved control algorithms to offer a propulsion system that is lower weight and more modular than current Minutema ...

ABSTRACT: Safety assessments of software-intensive based systems in the nuclear community cannot be limited to verification and testing of the end product, i.e. computer code, since other factors can have an important effect on safety and integrity. Current standards offer limited guidance and process oriented methods improve the likelihood of a better product but do not provide specific guarant ...

ABSTRACT: This SBIR project focuses on the migration from the Electronic Key Management System (EKMS) to the next generation Key Management Infrastructure (KMI) for management of GPS user equipment (UE) key material worldwide. EKMS has been fielded since the mid-1990s, and is reaching its end of life (EOL). KMI is initially intended to support cryptographic devices in the same manner as the cur ...