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"The Personal Communications Systems (PCS) Base-station Transceiver Systems (BTS) area of coverage is physically near (within a few km) of the BTS. It is desirable to provide range extension for the BTS, perhaps to 10 km or more. It is also desirable toquickly deploy range extension of the BTS, thereby filling gaps in mobile communications around the Tactical Operations Center (TOC). A solution is ...

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"This proposal describes a hardware-in-the-loop (HWIL) system for testing millimeter wave radio frequency (RF), multi-mode missile seekers. The system consists of a unique five-axis (three seeker axes plus two target axes) flight motion table (FMT), anoff-axis parabolic RF reflector, RF feeds, and an electronics box for the control of RF phase plane. RF energy of a given target signature is fed ...

"We propose to develop a nondestructive testing instrument with an algorithm that implements a structural life prediction model, which can be used in the field to predict the "remaining life" for concrete structures such as bridges and dams. Our approachrests firmly upon physical principles, and draws heavily upon past successful acoustic NDT projects. This minimizes the risk that the Army will ob ...

Proficiency in high school mathematics is increasingly important in our technological world, but American students have improved only slightly, if at all in recent years. Our nation struggles to attract and retain qualified teacher, but the immediate challenge in mathematics education is to find a program of curriculum, training and support that works with present day teachers and schools. Carnegi ...

We will create Carnegie Speech's NativeAccent Kids beta system that can detect and pinpoint pronunciation errors in children's speech and offer specific correction help. This is important in elementary schools where many of the children enrolled are non-native speakers of Engligh. Although they do get ESL training, the time devoted to actually speaking is short. By having the children practice pro ...

"A key technology hurdle for advanced weapon technology is that of Battle Damage Assessment and Retargeting (BDAR). In a recent experiment involving precision guided missiles, missiles could not distinguish between destroyed targets, and targets stillpresenting a threat. Typically, 6 missiles launched at 5 vehicles all hit the same target, leaving 4 undamaged vehicles. This led to shortages of ...

"In the coming decade, the U.S. military will become increasingly engaged in a variety of activities unlike the conventional military engagements of the past. Such "Operations Other Than War" (OOTW) depend on the ability of U.S. troops to understand andnegotiate a complex of societal and cultural structures that may be entirely different from their own. The limited, textbook-form cultural famili ...

"As Objective Force weapon systems such as Future Combat System (FCS), Multi-Role Armament System (MRAAS), and robotic missile, gun, sensor and reconnaissance systems approach fielding, humans who must control these systems are faced with an extremelydifficult span of control and cognitive awareness problem in controlling these systems. This was amply demonstrated in a recent Future Combat Comman ...

"The extended transient exhaust plume from hypervelocity tactical missiles contains particulates which degrade EM waves used for guidance and/or tracking. Our proposed Phase I effort initiates the development of an efficient parallel architecture frameworkto analyze the complete transient plume, from launch to target, using specialized Navier-Stokes methodology in a dynamic and expanding grid sys ...