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A key design feature affecting the performance and reliability of TDACS is the on-board energy storage system. Current systems utilize thermal batteries to meet their on-board energy storage needs. However, current thermal batteries have several notable limitations that can negatively impact mission assurance. Most notable are their relatively low energy density, their manufacturing complexity, ...

TWO APPROACHES WILL BE EXAMINED TO SIGNIFICANTLY IMPROVE THESENSITIVITY OF LAUNDRY MONITORS TO DETECT AND SPECIFY LOCATION OF HOT PARTICLES ON LAUNDERED GARMENTS. THESE PROPOSED TECNIQUES HAVE HIGH POTENTIAL FOR DETECTING BOTH LOW ENERGY BETA AND ALPHA PARTICLE RADIATION AS WELL AS IMPROVING SENSITIVITY BY REDUCING BACKGROUND COUNT RATE.

State-of-the-art battery power sources cannot adequately meet the combined energy density and long life requirements of existing and emerging military applications such as environmental sensors and other sensitive systems. There is a need for a new battery technology that can provide high-energy and long-life in a small robust form factor. In Phase I, ADA Technologies Inc. (ADA) successfully dem ...

CEI along with teammates NVIDIA and Altera wish to propose the following heterogeneous CPU, GPGPU and GPFPGA system with the following six benefits: 1. CEI proposes extending the existing NVIDIA nvcc preprocessor to optimize selection of computing resources based on profiler information generated by the application. 2. CEI would propose exploring Hybrid Memory Cube (HMC) configurations that al ...

THE FEASIBILITY OF USING GAAS/ALGAAS SUPERLATTICE STRUCTURES IS BEING INVESTIGATED TO FABRICATE HIGH PERFORMANCE INFRARED DETECTORS THAT ARE HARD TO BOTH GAMMA FLUX AND TOTAL IONIZING DOSE ENVIRONMENTS. ANALYSIS IS BEING PERFORMED ON THE HARDNESS OF SEVERAL DESIGN CONCEPTS FOR INFRARED DETECTORS BASED ON THESE STRUCTURES AND EXPERIMENTAL VALIDATION IS BEING CONDUCTED OF THE HARDNESS MODEL FOR THE ...

This proposed phase 2 program builds on the foundations established in the phase 1 effort to demonstrate both a one dimensional close packed removable array for spectrally combined systems, and a two dimensional large collimated array for both diffractive optical element (DOE) coherently combined systems and also for multi aperture systems. This proposed program is well within Optical Engines exp ...

Ballistic missile defense (BMD) systems make use of carbon cloth - phenolic (CCP) resin composite materials, particularly as ablative insulators in the inlets and throats of rocket motor nozzles. However, CCP exhibits aging through increased moisture content, arising from both water uptake in ambient air and endogenous water generation in the resin as it ages. The presence of water in CCP leads ...

THE UNCERTAINTY IN MEASURING NEUTRON DOSE EQUIVALENT RATES RESULTS IN UNCERTAINTY IN ASSIGNMENT OF THE PROPER DOSE TO OCCUPATIONAL RECORDS AND CAN RESULT IN IMPROPER IMPLEMENTATION OF CONTROLS TO LIMIT THE EXPOSURE. A NOVEL PORTABLE NEUTRON SPECTROMETER IS PROPOSED WHICH WILL REDUCE THE UNCERTAINTY OF SUCH MEASUREMENTS TO LESS THAN 20%. MANYCOMPONENTS OF THIS DEVICE ARE COMMERCIALLY AVAILABLE. SYS ...

Numerica proposes an evaluation tool that can assess early-development radar technology concepts, using consistent metrics, so that promising investments can be quickly differentiated from less useful options. In this program Numerica will develop and deliver a BMD radar representative test environment for use in a variety of programs. The tool will provide an open architecture, modular operatin ...

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