Gun violence and the reckless use of firearms have been a pervasive and growing problem in the United States, especially in low-income communities and communities of underrepresented minorities. The problem has only become exacerbated by increasingly permissive gun control laws, easy access to firearms, and an increasing mistrust of law enforcement that often inhibits reporting by the community.

The Future Airborne Capability Environment (FACE®) Standard is an Open Architecture approach to creating reusable, interoperable software for DoD Platforms (https://www.opengroup.org/face). The FACE Consortium was formed in 2010 to define an open avionics environment for all military airborne platform types. Vanderbilt has been an Academia team member supporting the FACE standard development effort since its inception in 2009 assisting in the formative concepts and continues to provide key technical

WIPER is a novel wireless animal-borne anti-poaching device that provides an immediate alert with a GPS location to authorities once a shot is detected near the protected animals. WIPER is based on a low-power acoustic shot detector integrated into existing GPS tracking collars currently being used to study a wide variety of animals. As opposed to muzzle blast-based detectors, WIPER detects the ballistic shockwave generated by the bullet that cannot be muffled by suppressors commonly used by poachers.

Cyber-physical systems (CPS) are engineered systems created as networks of interacting physical and computational processes. Most modern products in major industrial sectors, such as automotive, avionics, medical devices, and power systems already are or rapidly becoming CPS driven by new requirements and competitive pressures.