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Low Altitude Sensing Helmet -(LASH) is to provide for pilot night vision when using small non-military planes to operate using unimproved landing areas around the globe. LASH will use SWIR (Short Wave IR) and LWIR (Long Wave IR) technology sensors to provide improved night vision in specified conditions.

Ibis’ baseline design balances the competing demands of low cost and high performance. The proposed baseline allows for the incorporation of high-rate production technologies which also provide the most functional shapes, minimizing cost and maximizing performance. Ibis’ layout features a streamlined fuselage, high aspect ratio swept wings and non-foldable tail-planes which sum up to ...

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With growing regulatory concern over the release of waterborne industrial pollutants, the US Environmental Protection Agency has identified metal finishing as an industrial operation whose pollutant discharge poses a significant threat to public health and the environment. Currently, the US Department of Defense (DoD) weapon system operations rely on metal hydroxide precipitation to treat metal fi ...

In this effort, powered upper extremity (two arms and modular, unpowered, application-specific end effectors) of a wearable exoskeleton robot used to augment human performance while performing logistical tasks will be developed, tested and demonstrated. The new exoskeleton, referred to as XO-MAX(UE)-L exoskeleton, will be integrated with the Lower Extremity, XO-MAX(LE)-L exoskeleton, developed und ...

In an x-ray free-electron lasers (XFEL), a high quality relativistic electron beam from a linear accelerator traverses an array of undulator magnets to generate a high power x-ray beam by allowing the FEL to reach saturation. In many XFELs, phase shifters haven’t been commonly used or included in their designs. The importance of the phase shifter was recognized only recently. A phase shifter can ...

Finite element analysis (FEA) is severely underutilized in the mining industry. The complexity of the physics and the geometry of mining problems is not suitably handled by the faceted mesh descriptions commonly used in other industries, such as automotive and aerospace. Furthermore, the time required to convert computer-aided design (CAD) files and geologic survey data to FEA is prohibitively lon ...

The production from oil and gas wells is strongly affected by the network of fractures made in the reservoir by hydraulic fracturing and pre-existing natural fractures. Hydraulic and other boundary conditions often favor the predominant growth of one fracture at the expense of growing a number of fractures. This biasing worsens due to erosion of the perforations in the casing and surrounding mater ...

As an industry, agriculture is rapidly adopting modern data collection and analysis procedures to help guide farming practices. Despite the increasing amounts of data in agriculture and almost universal adoption rates of major seed, synthetic fertilizer, and chemical innovations, worldwide crop yield growth rates have plateaued to less than 1% annually. This increased data on multiple aspects of c ...

Existing thermodynamic cycles used for electricity generation from fossil fuels are based on the steam-based Rankine cycle. The additional costs of carbon capture (i.e. CO2 capture), associated with add-on equipment to these existing generators, are significant and will ultimately limit the utilization of our nations’ vast resources of fossil fuels for future production of zero carbon emissions ...