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This proposal has three main efforts:1. Extension of the ATM Forum ABR protocol to allocate bandwidth according to quality of service (QoS) and priority level of the individual connection. This project will utilize the informational bits provided by the fields to support QoS and priority level acknowledgment.2. Design of an ATM application that utilizes the ABR service via an application programme ...

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Situation awareness has been recognized as an important contributor to aviation performance. Pilot training should therefore highlight the role of situation awareness in the operational environment. This should focus on timely, critical, information seeking and processing behaviors needed for acquiring and maintaining situation awareness. Such training may be accomplished by exposing the studen ...

A novel, adaptive waveform coherent LADAR concept is proposed to provide a robust sensor capability to meet Air Force objectives. The LADAR operates at an eyesafe solid-state wavelength in order to achieve a compact, rugged design capable of stand-off ranges of 20 km or more. Simultaneous precision range, Doppler and micro-Doppler target signatures are extracted with an extremely efficient proc ...

General aviation and commuter aircraft generally do not have adequate deicing equipment to operate safely in all types of icing conditions. Since icing forecasts are not yet sufficiently reliable for pilots to avoid icing conditions, an airborne system that remotely detects icing conditions ahead of the aircraft could prevent serious accidents. The National Oceanic and Atrmospheric Administratio ...

The opportunity exists to apply evolving technology for nonlinear adaptive control to autopilot design for precision guided munitions. The approach employs artificial neural networks to represent errors made in inverting the nonlinearities in a feedback inverting controller. Using an on-line method for weight adaptation results in a highly effective local approximator to the inversion error. Re ...

This Phase I Small Business Innovation Research proposal describes a means to develop a new epitaxial growth technique which as far-reaching use for increasing semiconductor laser performances in terms of power, temperature stability, and emission wavelength. The technique is most beneficial to semiconductors lasers, both edge-emitters and vertical-cavity surface emitting lasers (VCSELs), but it a ...

This exploratory development program is devoted to the development of an automated electromagnetic field probe to measure the electromagnetic fields in an anechoic chamber. The approach is based on the use of SATIMO's innovative rapid electromagnetic field measurement technique that scans large test areas or volumes in a few seconds or minutes, compared to the hours of measurement time required f ...

34 Advanced Multilayer Braze Foil for Si3N4 Joining--Eltron Research, Inc., 5660 Airport Boulevard, Boulder, CO 80301-2340; (303) 440-8008 Dr. William J. Donahue, Principal Investigator Ms. Eileen E. Sammells, Business Official DOE Grant No. DE-FG03-97ER82364 Amount: $74,997 Silicon nitride is an important lightweight structural ceramic due to its hardness, wear resistance, high-temperature o ...

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