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A self-pumping water heater is proposed wherein a small portion of the water to be pumped is evaporated in a boiler and used to pressurize and heat the main stream of water. Unlike early slow direct-acting steam pumps, the proposed approach operates at moderate frequencies and is extremely compact. In Phase I, an analytical model describing the dynamics of the process would be formulated, and a pr ...

AN INNOVATIVE ADVANCEMENT IN SCANNING IMPULSE RADAR ARRAY TECHNOLOGY OFFERS A NEW CAPABILITY TO DETECT BURIED METALLIC AND NONMETALLIC MINES. THE SCANNING IMPULSE RADAR ARRAY SYSTEM WILL INCORPORATE ACTIVE CANCELLATION AND POLARIZATION CONTROL TO ENHANCE THE MINE-SOIL INTERFACE TO PERMIT DETECTION. IN PHASE I OF THIS PROGRAM, A CONCEPT FEASIBILITY DEMONSTRATION WILL BE CONDUCTED. ADVANCED SIGNAL P ...

FUTURE COMBAT VEHICLES WILL EMPLOY MODULAR ARMOR PROTECTION SYSTEMS THAT CAN BE CHANGED TO MEET DIFFERENT THREAT LEVELS. THESE ADVANCED ARMOR UNITS WILL BE MOUNTED AND DISMOUNTED FROM THE BASIC VEHICLE STRUCTURE, AS NEEDED TO MEET PROTECTION REQUIREMENTS. THE OBJECTIVE OF THIS EFFORT IS TO DEVELOP INNOVATIVE ATTACHMENT CONCEPTS AND METHODS FOR MOUNTING THE MODULAR ARMOR PROTECTION UNITS TO THE BAS ...

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There is a need for a reliable High Energy Laser Wavefront Analyzer (HELWA) to be used for beam quality testing at the Army's High Energy Laser Systems Test Facility (HELSTF). Accurate HEL wavefront measurements are critical to HEL device performance evaluation. Current devices are inflexible and difficult to maintain due to size, complexity, and a dependence of high precision moving parts. This e ...

THE PROLIFERATION OF GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACES (GUIS) IN PERSONAL COMPUTERS, SUCH AS MICROSOFT WINDOWS AND MACINTOSH, IS A THREAT TO VISUALLY IMPAIRED PERSONS' ABILITY TO USE COMPUTERS BECAUSE GUIS REPRESENT INFORMATION ICONICLY AND SPATIALLY, AS WELL AS TEXTUALLY. THE GUIS VISUAL ORIENTATION MAKES GUIS DIFFICULT FOR THE VISUALLY IMPAIRED TO ACCESS THROUGH TRADITIONAL ASSISTIVE TECHNOLOGIES. WE PR ...

IT IS PROPOSED TO APPLY AN INNOVATIVE AND REVOLUTIONARY CLASS OF SIGNAL PROCESSING TECHNIQUES TO THE PROBLEM OF FRONTEND PROCESSING FOR IR-BASED ATR SYSTEMS. THESE TECHNIQUES OFFER THE POTENTIAL FOR SUBSTANTIAL REDUCTION IN COMPUTATIONAL REQUIREMENTS AND HARDWARE SIZE AND WEIGHT FOR REAL-TIME TARGET DETECTION AND CLASSIFICATION. THE PROPOSED APPROACH IS BASED ON EXTENSIVE USE OF MORPHOLOGICAL FILT ...

It is proposed to develop and demonstrate a new signal processing approach for acquiring low contrast military targets in multi-band IR imagery. This new computationally efficient processing methodology has been shown to provide significant better detection/discrimination results in single-band long wave FLIR imagery as well as in the acoustic, SAR and visible optics domains. Atlantic Aerospace ha ...

The objective of this program is to develop non-contact vision sensing and processing schemes that can be used for ceramic and powder metallurgy process monitoring and control. Proposed applications include monitoring of overall shrinkage or differential shrinkage rates during drying of slurries, monitoring dimensional changes,shrinkage and control to final dimensions during sintering, and detecti ...

The objective of this program is to develop advanced image processing/analysis technology for the automatic determination of smoke and obscurant cloud spatial extent and the extraction of relevent features from video images produced by multiple visible and infrared sensors viewing a cloud from different angles. The 2D information is used to quantify the dimensions, volume, centroid, and location o ...