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The current state of practice for maritime Mine Countermeasures (MCM) involves cumbersome, expensive, and slow processes, often involving manned assets in the vicinity of potentially mined waters. Expendable UUV’s enable the delivery of MCM capabilities at a closer proximity to a mine than traditional sweeping systems, potentially allowing lower power output, significant reductions in cost, and ...

Microrobots offer the potential for dramatically improved capability in a wide variety of fields, such as search and rescue, manufacturing, and medicine. Key to the performance of microrobots are the actuators that convert energy into mechanical motion. Dielectric elastomer actuators (DEAs) are particularly promising as they offer a strong combination of large maximum strain, maximum pressure, goo ...

Systems & Technology Research (STR) proposes to design a nanosatellite payload in support of Warfighter ISR via Distributed Satellites (WISRDS), a radio frequency (RF) signals intelligence (SIGINT) solution to rapidly provide actionable information to special operations forces in the tactical theater from satellites in low Earth orbit. The payload consists of a wideband, tunable, miniature antenna ...

Metamagnetics proposes to develop prototype bolt-on Auto-tune Filter (AtF) modules that reject strong signals at two tactically-relevant frequency bands.

Systems engineering (SE) for system of systems (SoS) engineering requires wholly new tools to support conducting SoS analyses, developing SoS architectures, and planning and implementing SoS updates. DARPA’s Strategic Technology Office’s (STO) System of Systems Integration Technology and Experimentation (SoSITE) program is developing a number of new technologies to enable rapid compo ...

Under EAGLE, SSCI will develop use of electric (E) and magnetic (H) field sensors on autonomous small unmanned air vehicles (SUAVs) to perform tactical intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) of electric power grids. This enables new capabilities to efficiently assess adversarial dependences on power distribution networks, find hidden assets, quickly track down grid faults, and perfor ...

The project team will develop the EdMod platform for special education practitioners to enter and track information specific to IEPs, such as diagnosis classification, goals, and data collection of those goals. The platform will then generate research-based strategies for teachers to support students with or at risk for disabilities during classroom instruction or in testing. The platform will pre ...

In this project, the team will develop a performance-based lab for the high school level. The Inq-ITS Performance Based Labs for High School Physics and Physical Science will integrate "using mathematics" practices with other science practices to study physics/physical science phenomena. An accompanying teacher dashboard will generate immediate, diagnostic, and actionable alerts driven by algorith ...

The Microbolometer based IRFPA’s are currently in production for defense and Security applications. The microbolometer performance is limited by the TCR and frequency of operation. The proposed Phase II SBIR will allow DARPA to explore the further enhancement in TCR by more than an order of magnitude and higher frequency of operation from current 100 Hz. These improvements will allow use of the ...

The Mobile Reconfigurable Acoustic Network (MoRAN) and associated Scalable Nested Network Optimization Methodology (SN2OM) will enable reliable underwater acoustic communications over a scalable ocean area with latencies on the order of minutes for critical communications messages. The JPAnalytics/BAE/ThayerMahan team combines state- of-the-art communications, environmental and acoustic modeling a ...