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THIS PROJECT WILL RESEARCH MATERIALS AND DEVELOP A DESIGN AND CONCEPT FOR MAKING ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT SHELTERS USING ADVANCED MATERIALS. THE ADVANCED MATERIAL SHELTER WILL BE DESIGNED TO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF A NUMBER OF SIGNIFICANT ADVANCES IN MATERIALS AND PROPRIETARY TECHNOLOGICAL ADVANCES IN MANUFACTURING DEVELOPED BY ADVANCED COMPOSITE TECHNOLOGY, INC. (ACT). ACT HAS DEVELOPED TWO TECHNOLOGIES SI ...

DURING DEVELOPMENT OF COMPLEX, EMBEDDED SYSTEMS QUANTITATIVE TRADEOFFS OF RELIABILITY AND TIMING PERFORMANCE ARE OFTEN NOT CONSIDERED. DEGRADED PERFORMANCE IN ONE OR BOTH OF THESE AREAS CAN RESULT. AN INTEGRATED RELIABILITY AND TIMING ANALYSIS TOOL WILL PROVIDE THE CAPABILITY FOR SIMULTANEOUSLY ASSESSING SYSTEM DESIGNS FOR BOTH CHARACTERISTICS. BY BASING THE TOOL ON AN ICONIC DESIGN REPRESENTATION ...

CURRENTLY SURVIVABILITY ASSESSMENTS DO NOT USE ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCETECHNIQUES. THE GOAL OF THIS PHASE I PROPOSAL IS TO BUILD A DEMONSTRATABLE KNOWLEDGE SUPPORT SYSTEM TO ASSIST SURVIVABILITY ANALYSTS AND SYSTEM ARCHITECTS IN MAKING SURVIVABILITY ASSESSMENTS. SPECIFICALLY, WE WILL BUILD A SYSTEM INCORPORATING A SATELLITE/WEAPON DESCRIPTION AND PROBABILISTIC METHODS THAT WILL PROVE THE FEASIBILIT ...

THIS WORK WILL DEVELOP A PROCEDURE FOR THE ACOE TO ANIMATE THE OUTPUT DATA FROM VARIOUS FINITE ELEMENT/DIFFERENCE CODES WITH STATE-OF-THEART COLOR COMPUTER GRAPHIC ANIMATION TECHNIQUES. PART OF THIS EFFORT WILL BE THE CREATION OF A MOTION PICTURE (MOVIE) OF AN ACTUAL DYNAMIC FINITE ELEMENT CALCULATION. THE SOFTWARE AND HARDWARE REQUIREMENTS WILL BE ADDRESSED ALONG WITH THE INVESTIGATION OF THE USE ...

MOST TYPICAL PROBLEMS IN STRUCTURAL ENGINEERING ARE BEST ANALYZED BY APPROXIMATING AN OBJECT'S GEOMETRY WITH FINITE ELEMENTS. SELECTING AN APPROPRIATE MESHING STRATEGY FOR A GIVEN SOLID REQUIRES KNOWLEDGE ABOUT FINITE ELEMENT THEORY IN GENERAL, AND ABOUT PACKAGE-SPECIFIC DETAILS IN PARTICULAR. THE ADEPT SYSTEM INTEGRATES A TRADITIONAL SOLIDMODELER WITH AN EXPERT SYSTEM EQUIPPED WITH THIS KNOWLEDGE ...

EFFECTIVE INTELLIGENCE PREPARATION OF THE BATTLEFIELD (IPB) MUST INCLUDE WEATHER PREDICTION, ANALYSIS, AND EFFECTS. IT IS WITHIN THE ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (AI) STATE-OF-THE-ART TO DEVELOP AN EXPERT SYSTEM FOR TACTICALLY DEPLOYED COMPUTERS TO ASSIST CORPS AND DIVISION STAFF PLANNERS IN DETERMINING AND INTEGRATING WEATHER EFFECTS INTO TACTICAL PLANNING. CCI WILL COMBINE A STATE-OF-THE-ART KNOWLEDG ...

EFFECTIVE INTELLIGENCE PREPARATION OF THE BATTLEFIELD (IPB) MUST INCLUDE WEATHER PREDICTION, ANALYSIS, AND EFFECTS. IT IS WELL WITHIN THE STATE-OF-THE-ART OF AUTOMATION THAT WEATHER ANALYSIS FOR EFFECTS ON TACTICAL OPERATIONS CAN BE IMPLEMENTED ON MICROCOMPUTERS AND INTEGRATED WITH ONGOING EFFORTS TO APPLY EXPERT SYSTEM TECHNOLOGY TO WEATHER PREDICTION AND USE. CCI WILL COMBINE KNOWLEDGE-ENGINEERI ...

FERROELLECTRIC LIQUID CRYSTALS EXHIBIT LOW VOLTAGE, LOW POWER ELECTRO-OPTIC SWITCHING WITH VERY FAST (MICROSECOND) RESPONSE. FLCS CAN BE EMPLOYED IN A SIMPLE GEOMETRY TO MAKE ARRAYS OF ELECTRO-OPTIC WAVEGUIDE COUPLING SWITCHES, SUITABLE FOR MULTI-INPUT, MULTI-OUTPUT APPLICATIONS. THE PROPOSED WORK WOULD DEVELOP LIQUID CRYSTAL, WAVEGUIDE, AND INTERFACE MATERIALS FOR THIS APPLICATION

NOVEL, HIGH PERFORMANCE SPATIAL LIGHT MODULATORS (SLM) ARE BEING DEVELOPED FROM ARRAYS OF FERROELECTRIC LIQUID CRYSTAL (FLC) LIGHT VALVES. THE FLC TECHNOLOGY ALLOWS SIMPLE, ECONOMICAL FABRICATION OF SLMS WITH A LARGE NUMBER OF ELEMENTS THAT CAN BE EASILY ADDRESSED EITHER ELECTRONICALLY OR OPTICALLY. PERFORMANCE FEATURES INCLUDE SUBMICROSECOND WRITE TIMES, HIGH OPTICAL THROUGHPUT, HIGH CONTRAST, AN ...

PHASE I OF THIS PROPOSAL WILL DESIGN THE METHOD FOR INTENSIFYING AND UPDATING DFAD DATA TO MEET TERRAIN ANALYSIS SPECIFICATIONS THROUGH A UNIQUE DATA FUSION APPROACH. THE APPROACH INVOLVES IMAGE PROCESSING (IP), ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE, TERRAIN ANALYSIS (TA), AND GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEM (GIS) TECHNIQUES. THE DATA FUSION ND ANALYSIS WILL USE A "BLACKBOARD INTERFACE" MENU FOR THE FRONT END, WH ...