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The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) grapples with vast and diverse datasets collected daily, ranging from personal property scans to Stream of Commerce (SoC) data. To analyze and improve algorithms for detecting explosives and prohibited items, efficient curation and labeling are essential. However, DHS faces challenges, including data processing inefficiencies, dependency on human labeling, ...

SecureLogix’s proposed R&D initiative targets crucial challenges in VoIP-based emergency communications within the U.S. 9-1-1 system. This research focuses on addressing issues related to the accuracy and real-time positioning of VoIP callers during emergencies. Challenges include inaccurate location information, mobile nature complexities, indoor location challenges, limited standardizatio ...

First Responders require a robust wireless communication capability that must work in emergency situations where the communications infrastructure may be degraded or unavailable.First Responders rely heavily on voice communications but also need access to data applications that are readily available via commercial cellular networks.The current solution requires first responders to carry both a Lan ...

To address the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) need for a software-defined radio for public safety, Intellisense Systems, Inc. (Intellisense) proposes to develop a new Safety-Attuned Liaison Using Software-Defined Radio (SALUS) device. This proposed radio device is based on a reconfigurable and interoperable modular open systems approach that integrates custom analog hardware, commercial mic ...

This purpose of this work is to determine the feasibility of a software defined radio (SDR) platform that can support both legacy (e.g., analog FM and P25), current (LTE and 5G) and future standards.The compute processing requirements will be evaluated by running legacy and current protocols on modern processors with instrumented software, to measure the computational requirements so that a future ...

Toyon is proposing an SDR architecture that emphasizes a low-cost, modular design approach using a fully software controlled, multi-channel, wideband RF Front-End (RFFE) board. Toyon’s software define radio for public safety (SDR-PS) will be capable of hosting multiple open-source wireless communications software through reconfiguration of the radios’ personality via over-the-air rep ...

Sky Park Labs proposes SeaAlert, a video event detection tool that automatically detects anomalous events and identifies specific activities of interest. SeaAlert learns spatial and temporal patterns in a video to establish common objects and behaviors in a scene. The system detects and tracks objects of interest in the scene and analyzes the objects to extract a set of characteristic features tha ...

Physical Sciences Inc. endeavors to create a video anomaly detection system that maintains constant surveillance of video footage while offering operators an interactive interface for obtaining detailed information on detected anomalies.The software will utilize state-of the art machine learning techniques to rapidly identify drug or human smuggling activities of interest with as little as one exa ...

To address the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) need for automated video analysis capabilities that monitor shore-based video cameras and alert operators on maritime activities of interest and anomalous activities, Intellisense Systems, Inc. (Intellisense) proposes to develop a new Maritime Activity Recognition through Video Analytics and Human Adjudicated Learning (MARVAL) system. The innova ...

Vadum will develop Alert Handling for Anomalous Behavior (AHAB), a pioneering machine learning (ML) system for automatic analysis of maritime video surveillance feeds to detect and flag multifaceted behaviors associated with drug smuggling. AHAB will utilize a novel multi-scale spatial and temporal analytics engine to detect salient, complex, and evolving behaviors of interest. By providing timely ...