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DENTAL ILLNESSES AND INJURIES OCCURRING IN THE FIELD ARE DIFFICULT TO TREAT WITHOUT A DENTAL CHAIR. WE HAVE DESIGNED A FIELD EXPEDIENT DENTAL CHAIR MADE OF COMPOSITE (PRIMARILY HONEYCOMB AND CARBONGRAPHITE FIBER) MATERIALS. THE CHAIR ALLOWS BOTH STAND-UP AND SIT DOWN DENTISTRY. THE CHAIR WEIGHS LESS THAN TEN LB., FOLDS TO A SMALL VOLUME, IS EASILY CLEANED AND IS RUGGED. ADDITIONALLY, THE DEVICE AL ...

A PLAN FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF A MESOSCALE WEATHER NOWCASTING SYSTEM IS PROPOSED. THAT SYSTEM WOULD BE USED AS A TACTICAL DECISION AID FOR SUPPORT OF TACTICAL ARMY OPERATIONS. THE SYSTEM WOULD BE COMPOSED OF MODULAR SENSOR PACKAGES, A TELEMETRY SYSTEM, A FLEXIBLE SYSTEM OF SENSOR DEPLOYMENT, AND A MICROPROCESSOR BASED TACTICAL COMPUTER SYSTEM FOR THE ANALYSIS AND DISPLAY OF DATA COLLECTED. THE PROP ...

AEROMET PROPOSES TO DEVELOP A SENSOR SYSTEM FOR THE PURPOSE OF MONITORING RF FIELD STRENGTH ENERGY. PHASE I WILL CONCENTRATE ON THE DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT OF A UNIQUE PROGRAMMABLE SENSOR THAT CAN SENSE THE ENERGY IN VARIOUS FREQUENCY BANDS. THE SENSOR WILL ACT AS A STAND ALONE UNIT AND BE POWERED BY SOLAR CHARGED BATTERIES. THE SENSOR WILL BE DESIGNED SO THAT MANY OF THEM CAN BE OPERATED IN CONJUN ...

THIS PROPOSAL DESCRIBES A NEW DECEPTION COUNTERMEASURE TECHNIQUE TO COUNTER ADVANCED GUIDED WEAPON SYSTEMS. PRIOR EXPERIMENTATION PERFORMED AT ARC DEMONSTRATED THE INTERACTIONS OF THE LFAD ANGULAR DECEPTION TECHNIQUE, SUPERIMPOSED ON TARGET LINE-OF-SIGHT RATE, AND THE IMPACT UPON MICROWAVE WEAPON SYSTEM PERFORMANCE. THESE PROJECTS EXPLORED SEVERAL OPERATIONAL SITUATIONS AND IDENTIFIED POTENTIAL WE ...

THE PROPOSED CONCEPT IS A REFLECTOR-EXPENDABLE DESIGNED TO COUNTER WEAPONS SYSTEMS THAT UTILIZE INTEGRATED RF/EO/IR TARGET ACQUISITION AND TRACKING SYSTEMS THREAT FIRE CONTROL SENSORS OVER THE ENTIRE FREQUENCY. THIS PHASE I EFFORT IS CONCERNED WITH PROVING PRELIMINARY FEASIBILITY OF THE BASIC CONCEPT ANALYTICALLY FOR APPLICATIONS ON SEMA AIRCRAFT, AND TO PERFORM SUFFICIENT PACKAGING ANALYSIS TO ES ...

A NEW GENERATION OF ENGINEERING AND MANUFACTURING AUTOMATION DESIGNTOOLS ARE NOW EMERGING AS A RESULT OF THE PIONEERING WORK THAT HAS BEEN DONE IN OBJECTORIENTED PROGRAMMING TECHNOLOGY. UNLIKE CONVENTIONAL PROCEDURAL LANGUAGE APPROACHES, THE OBJECT-ORIENTED PROGRAMMING APPROACH ALLOWS DATA STRUCTURES AND PROCEDURES TO BE DEFINED FOR GENERIC CLASSES OF OBJECTS. SYSTEM PERFORMANCE, RNA, AND COST DAT ...

IN SUPPORT OF THE IDENTIFIED NEED FOR A FULL SCALE FEED SYSTEM FOR COMVAT WHICH WILL BE COMPATIBLE WITH FUTURE AND PRESENT RESUPPLY VEHICLES AND REQUIRE LITTLE EFFORT FROM THE CREW, THIS SIX MONTH TRADE STUDY WILL CREATE, AND ANALYZE A MINIMUM OF THREE FEED SYSTEM CONCEPTS VIA A SYSTEMS APPROACH. SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS WILL BE ESTABLISHED, WEIGHTED AND APPROVED BY THE SPONSORING AGENCY PRIOR TO THE C ...

THE OBJECTIVE OF THIS PROPOSED RESEARCH IS TO DEVELOP NEW ANALYTIC METHODS FOR CHARACTERIZING MINE WARFARE EFFECTIVENESS. IT WILL USE A COMBINATION OF A PRIOR KNOWLEDGE OF SEQUENTIAL CHOICE OUTCOMES AND UNCERTAINTY IN SEQUENTIAL OUTCOMES. THE APPROACH WILL BE TO DEVELOP A SEQUENTIAL DESIGN ANALYSIS OF PERFORMANCE FOR INDIVIDUAL MINE FIELDS WHICH FULLY CHARACTERIZES SYSTEM PERFORMANCE LINKED TO OBJ ...

THE INTENTION IS TO INVESTIGATE THE SHIP MOTION EFFECTS ON ROBOT DYNAMICS AND EQUIPMENT LIFE. THE ON-BOARD ROBOT IS EQUIVALENT TO A STATIONARY ROBOT WITH BASE EXCITATION DUE TO SHIP MOTION. THE EXCITA-TION AT THE ROBOT BASE WILL BE MONITORED EITHER BY PLACING GYROSCOPES AND ACCELEROMETERS AT THAT POSITION, OR BY ASSUMING THE SHIP IS A RIGID BODY AND PLACING GYROSCOPES AND ACCELEROMETERS ON THE SHI ...

ULTRASONIC NONDESTRUCTIVE TESTING HAS BECOME THE METHOD OF CHOICE FOR THE QUALITY ASSURANCE OF ADVANCED COMPOSITE MATERIALS. THE PROPOSED RESEARCH PROGRAM COVERS THE DEVELOPMENT OF A COMPUTER-BASED NDT METHOD FOR DETERMINING LOCAL FIBER VOLUME FRACTION AND RESIN POROSITY IN PRACTICAL LAMINATED COMPOSITES. THE COMPUTER ALGORITHMS WILL BE BASED ON EARLIER STUDIES THAT HAVE BEEN SUCCESSFUL FOR UNIDIR ...