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We propose a Phase II program to continue the development of a Passive Acoustic Subwavelength Resonator (PASR) intended for deployment in undersea environments. The PASR concept is designed to be deeply subwavelength and passively scatter acoustic fields at resonance within a tunable spectral band, potentially with tailored directivity.  The PASR functional components are stiff compared to water ...

Pressure gain combustion (PGC), such as in a rotating detonation engine (RDE), has the potential to increase combustor efficiency up to 10%. This improvement would be valuable to many DoD systems such as thrusters, engines, and power generation units. In an earlier AFRL funded Phase I effort, GTL designed and modeled conceptual liquid injection rotating detonation engine concepts.  By the end of ...

We propose “EMSCALe: Component Decomposition and Attestation by Leveraging Electromagnetic Side-channels”, a novel approach to accurately identify functions of integrated circuits (ICs) and detect deviation from ordinary activities by monitoring the unintended electromagnetic (EM) signal emanated from heterogeneous ICs (HICs). EMSCALe will collect EM signals using purpose-designed antennas, th ...

Growing amounts of text and visual files are being stored in document archives at organizations' servers, network attached storage devices and cloud storage services. These archives contain valuable information that is not cataloged in a data-driven manner conducive to discovery.  Under an SBIR Phase II effort, Semandex developed Discovery, a cloud-based application that uses Natural Language Pro ...

In the EO (Earth Observation) market, both DoD and commercial customers are increasingly sensitive to “quality of product” (an image) and receiving that image or data in near real-time. Spaceborne SAR (Synthetic Aperture Radar) is a discipline within radar that can be used to create high-resolution 3-D images of landscapes, ships, moving vehicle, walkers, aircraft, etc. Unlike an optical senso ...

By virtue of a Phase I Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Small Business Innovative Research (SBIR) contract, Code 13 Security (doing business as Dark Sky Technology) has developed a Technical Readiness Level (TRL) 5 technology to translate type-unsafe source and binary software into the type-safe language Rust. The design of this system is innovative in its use of machine learning ...

???????PUNCH proposes Replicant, a five-component framework that provides: state-awareness, actuation, behavior modeling, data labeling, and orchestration / management of synthetic users without leaving traces of Replicant itself. Replicant’s Perception, Driver, and Persona components are jump started by our work on the DARPA CHASE program where PUNCH: (1) created (in collaboration with FiveDire ...

Secure systems rely on physical implementation of hardware and software systems, where various information leakage can be observed through various side channels and extracted with advance side channel analysis (SCA) algorithms. Recent advancement in computing, sensors, and SCA techniques have exposed new and more dangerous vulnerabilities. Hence a comprehensive SCA evaluation framework that can gr ...

BlueRISC’s proposed Maritime Sensor Data System (MSDS) solution provides an innovative approach to enabling the collection and storage of sensor data as well as synthesis of analytics. The solution is built on a low-cost hardware platform equipped with software to access a scalable and secure cloud architecture maintaining this information, as well as a cloud-based analytics platform.

In this project, Oceanit will build and demonstrate a powerful solution that can automatically determine the exhaustive set of embedded devices impacted by publicly disclosed vulnerabilities, beyond those enumerated in public disclosures.