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One of the most frustrating and vexing problems for the warfighter is the fogging of eyewear.In Phase I, Tanner Research demonstrated its Active Droplet Transport (ADT) technology to move condensed droplets off surfaces.This technique, coupled with innovative electrodes and waveform shaping has tremendous advantages over conventional surface or heating anti-fogging methods.Although an electronic m ...

MULTIAXIS VIBRATION TESTING CONTRIBUTES SUBSTANTIALLY TO ENVIRONMENTTEST ECONOMICS AND IMPROVED PRODUCTS. THE EFFECTIVENESS OF STATE-OFTHE-ART MULTI-EXCITER CONTROL SYSTEMS IS LIMITED BY CERTAIN UNAVOIDABLE NONIDEAL DYNAMIC-RESPONSE BEHAVIORS. IT IS PROPOSED THAT THESE TROUBLESOME PHENOMENA BE IDENTIFIED AND QUANTIFIED. IT IS ALSO PROPOSED TO STUDY EXTENSION IF CONTROL CAPABILITIES BY INNOVATIVE R ...

To address the Armys need for sensor technology to collect tactical imagery for Intelligence Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR), Physical Optics Corporation (POC) proposes, in Phase II, to advance development of the new Adaptive Plenoptic for Passive Ranging and Imaging Surveillance (APPRISE) system proven feasible in Phase I. APPRISE is based on POCs unique tunable liquid crystal microlens arr ...

Interaction aerodynamics impacts various aspects of rotorcraft, including performance, loads, stability, acoustics, and vibration. Unfortunately, it has long been and still remains a challenging aspect of rotorcraft design and development. Due to their unique configuration, rotorcraft experience inherently complex aerodynamic interactions between the rotors, wings, fuselage, and empennage. To over ...

In an effort to development more robust optical system coatings DTRA, in collaboration with Sandia National Labs, is working to characterize the degradation of optical materials for space systems when exposed to high intensely EUV/ cold x-rays. The experiments utilizes the Double Eagle z-pinch facility which generates high current, high voltage arc pinch plasma to produce an intense EUV and cold x ...

As the warfighter is increasingly using more highly integrated instruments, e.g. a laser rangefinder (LRF) combined with a laser designator and an imager, the need to decrease the size of these components becomes more important.Compact small munition applications of rangefinders particularly place an emphasis on size of the optical front end.In order to make the transceiver more compact, special a ...

There is a significant and continuous need for safe water, effective sanitation and hygiene equipment to be used by US military forces who must operate around the world, often in locations that do not have infrastructure to sustain those forces. Likewise, there is a need to provide this same equipment during emergency and disaster relief operations, especially in remote locations or in the develop ...

Advanced technologies in high pulse rate fiber lasers operating in the eye safe SWIR spectral region, large linear focal plane array geometries, fast sampling Read Out Integrated Electronics (ROICs), and agile beam steering enable the Agile Navigation and Guidance Enabled by LIDAR (ANGEL) active sensor system to substantially meet the requirements for Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) to have an eff ...

THIS PROPOSAL IS FOR RESEARCH TOWARDS THE DEVELOPMENT OF A TERRAIN ANALYST'S WORKSTATION, WHICH WILL PERFORM TERRAIN REASONING TASKS IN SUPPORT OF DIVERSE USERS DURING ARMY TACTICAL MISSION PLANNING AND OPERATIONS. IN SPECIFIC, THE GOAL IS TO BUILD ARTIFICAL INTELLIGENCE BASED SYSTEM WITH A MIXED INITIATIVE INTERFACE FORMAT THAT IS ABLE TO IDENTIFY FEATURES OF MILITARY INTEREST FROM DIGITIZED MAP ...

To address the Armys need for developing a sensor system capable of modeling helicopter locality in three dimensions (3D) to support pilotage/hazard avoidance, Physical Optics Corporation (POC) proposes, in Phase II, to advance development of the Airborne Scanning Transmit and Receive Assembly (ASTRA) system proven feasible in Phase I. ASTRA is based on an integration of optoelectronic and radiofr ...