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The Army's CERDEC has identified the need for enhancements to network intrusion tolerance/survivability capabilities of systems currently being developed under the Tactical Wireless Network Assurance (TWNA) program. To address the needs of CERDEC, Architecture Technology Corporation (ATC) brings over 4 years of directly related technology development experience in the areas of intrusion tolerance ...

The FCS (Future Combat Systems), WIN-T (Warfighter Information Network-Tactical), and JTRS (Joint Tactical Radio System) programs have all identified the need for secure and survivable ad hoc wireless tactical networks to support the network centric battlefield environment of the future. To address this need, Architecture Technology Corporation (ATC) will build and demonstrate STAMINA (Survivable ...

The use of Net-Centric Enterprise Services (NCES) to provide ubiquitous access to information within the Department of Defense presents challenges in both the design and implementation of these systems. The need to provide information to the war-fighter in a timely manner while maintaining the security of the system in challenging environments far exceeds the capabilities of present day enterpris ...

The US Army has identified the need for intrusion-resistant and survivable ad hoc networks for tactical mobile environments. Architecture Technology Corporation (ATC) brings over 6 years of directly related technology development experience in the areas of ad hoc networks, intrusion tolerance, and network survivability and a proven track record delivering high quality products on these R&D efforts ...

A lot of work has been done to develop security and QoS techniques for IP networks. However, existing work doesn't provide a complete solution for addressing security and end-to-end QoS provisioning for multimedia flows traversing heterogeneous networks. Thus, there is a need for a system that can provide end-to-end guarantees to flows in IP networks consisting of wireline and wireless links. The ...

Architecture Technology Corp. (ATC) proposes a reverse-engineering toolset named AfterShock. This toolset will use dynamic analysis and will build one work done for ATC's static reverse-engineering tool, Earthquake. AfterShock will use Valgrind, an open-source dynamic code modifying tool, to gather data from execution traces of the target program. AfterShock will then analyze and convert thos ...

We describe an approach to protect programs from differential analysis that is free of some of the drawbacks of traditional techniques. The approach does not rely on program analysis to determine applicability, so it can be uniformly applied to any program. Polymorphic variation in binary software arises from the details of the transformation itself, an not any inherent property of the protected ...

Architecture Technology Corporation (ATC) proposes an attack model based on attack paths. An attack path is any sequence of steps in an attack tree that will lead to a successful attack. The model then computes the safety of the program as the minimum cost attack path, "the path of least resistance". That is, the attack path where every other attack path would be more expensive. As part of ...

THIS PROJECT WILL PREPARE FOR EVALUATION A MATERIAL WHICH SHOULD DEMONSTRATE SUPERIOR PERFORMANCE IN ABSORBING AND DISSIPATING EXPLOSION SHOCK ENERGY. THE COMPOSITION PROPOSED AND ITS BASIS FOR PERFORMANCE ARE EXPLAINED. SHOCK WAVE TESTING WILL BE UNDERTAKEN; AND BASED ON THE RESULTS, RECOMMENDATIONS WILL BE MADE FOR FUTURE PROJECT DIRECTION.

THE RESEARCH FOR AN ALTERNATE MEANS TO CRT TECHNOLOGY OF GENERATING VISUAL DISPLAY HAS BEEN UNDERWAY FOR YEARS. THE PROGRAM PROPOSED WILL DEFINE A METHOD OF PRODUCING A "CRT" TYPE OF VISUAL DISPLAY USING A LASER SCANNING CONCEPT PREVIOUSLY BASED ON WORK AT APA OPTICS, INC. THE PREVIOUS WORK DEFINED A METHOD OF GENERATING A NONMOVING PART SINGLE AXIS LASER SCAN GENERATOR. THIS PROGRAM WILL INVESTIG ...