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Substitution of standard military tires for low rolling resistance tires have yielded 7% fuel costs savings on Army demonstrator vehicles. However, tire changes to improve rolling resistance affect other areas of tire performance. A tire is a composite structure made up of different rubber compounds that contain reinforcing fillers, and the fillers have important effect on the tires final perfor ...

This research considers combinations of emerging technologies to provide an advanced warhead to be used in a C-RAM role. The warhead is used as a counter measure to attack and detonate incoming mortar rounds at safe distance from friendly troops. The warhead produces enhanced blast waves of such level that incapacitates the mortar during its flight. Highly energetic blast waves are generated from ...

Fuel is the second-highest battlefield throughput commodity behind water. In fact, ~65% of the fuel consumed in the theatre is for fuel transportation to the battlefield. To improve the fuel consumption and the quantity of forward-deployed fuel, Techno-Sciences, Inc. (TSi) proposes innovative, open architecture software that implements optimal hybrid control algorithms for intelligent power manage ...

Design, analysis, and assessment of multiple alternatives is important to ensuring the development and fielding of DoD systems that face increasingly dynamic and rapid changes in missions. New methods and tools are needed that compensate and recover from disruptions, adapt to dynamic environments, and rapidly deliver new solutions. A key goal is ensuring that engineering programs maximize utility ...

Modern position and navigation systems rely heavily on the Global Positioning System (GPS). However, position information may not be accurate or available when soldiers are operating in environments where GPS is denied, degraded, or unavailable. On the other hand, Smartphones have various powerful features such as low cost, maturity, familiarity of use, and readiness for advanced commercial commun ...

Intelligent Automation, Inc. proposes a novel state of the art Programmable Disassembler and Reassembler (PDR) system. The PDR enables utilization of unused spectral bandwidth by distributing bandwidth over multiple frequencies/paths and then reassembling at the destination with little bandwidth cost. A multilayered protection in reassembly process stops incorrectly reassembling data in the pres ...

TSC is developing a intra-missile datalink that allows for high bandwidth (>2Gb/s) multi-mode, missile sensor data to be passed to the sensor data processor to minimize the use of cabling. This removes the issues caused by the cabling, such as integration time, cable volume and weight and gimbal sticktion. The developed concept will be ruggedized for missile applications and designed with low size ...

The ability to detect IEDs is important because they pose a significant threat to ground forces, and are becoming a common tactical weapon around the world. According to the Joint Improvised Explosive Device Defeat Organization (JIEDDO) in its 2010 Annual Report,"IEDs continued to be the main threat to coalition forces (CF) in both Afghanistan and Iraq.IEDs increased as the weapon of choice for gl ...

Phase IV systems has worked on a variety of radar systems that have relied on Doppler processing to perform their function. Recently this approach has been applied to radar fuzes and seekers meant for missile applications. This work has made various commonalities apparent and opened the door to the development of a common processing architecture that would allow for these powerful techniques to be ...

LSA Autonomy purposes a ground vehicle mounted LIDAR-based methodology that employs advanced sensor processing algorithms to reliably detect partially obscured objects, such as roadside hazards, beneath light and medium vegetation. Our approach leverages both sensor domain and point cloud analysis. By employing our proven sensor domain analysis techniques, we are able to accurately pre-classify la ...