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The AES International Corporation (AESI) of College Station, Texas, in concert with Texas A&M University personnel, can build an airborne ground-penetrating radar system to detect land mines from an Unmanned Airborne Vehicle (UAV). The radar itself will be a totally new and fully airworthy flight demonstration unit, the principles and characteristics of which will be conceptually similar to two p ...

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AMI utilizes a technique known as the "ribbon wind" approach to manufacture infrared fiber image bundles. The ribbon wind approach provides a unique opportunity to manufacture relatively low cost, large format, medium resolution infrared fiberoptic image bundles for industrial, commercial and military applications. Indeed, this approach has been applied successfully by numerous fiberoptic manufa ...

THE OBJECT OF THIS PROPOSED RESEARCH IS TO PRODUCE MORE RELIABLE ESTIMATES OF EXTREME WINDS IN THE UNITED STATES BY SEPARATELY ANALYZING WINDS DUE TO THUNDERSTORMS AND LARGE SCALE EXTRATROPICAL STORMS. THE PRESENT STATE OF THE ART METHODS FOR ESTIMATING DESIGN WIND SPEEDS IN NON-HURRICANE REGIONS OF THE UNITED STATES DO NOT DISTINGUISH BETWEEN WINDS ORIGINATING FROM THE LARGE SCALE EXTRATROPICAL P ...

THIS PROPOSAL IS TO USE OPTICAL FIBER GRADED-INDEX (GRIN) ROD LENSES TO DEVELOP A WEAPONS SIGHT THAT HAS MAGNIFICATION, A BRIGHT IMAGE, REQUIRES THE EYE TO ONLY FOCUS AT ONE DISTANCE, IS RUGGED, IS ACCURATE, IS SIMPLE, IS SMALL, IS USER FRIENDLY, AND IS COMPATABLE TO BE MOUNTED ON EXISTING WEAPONS. THE PROGRAM INCLUDES VALIDATING THE CONCEPT, FABRICATING A TEST UNIT, AND TESTING THE UNIT ON A M16A ...

The objective of the Phase I effort is to demonstrate an experimental/numerical technique for formulating penetration equations and identifying pertinent material parameters to be used in those equations. Although penetration equations for isotropic metals are well developed, such equations are not readily applicable to anisotropic laminated composites, because composite failure is dominated by br ...

INADEQUATE STUDENT PERFORMANCE AND A LACK OF QUALIFIED TEACHERS HAVE BEEN IDENTIFIED AS PROBLEMS IN SCIENCE AND MATH EDUCATION. MICROCOMPUTER-BASED LABORATORIES (MBLS) WERE DEVELOPED TO GIVE STUDENTS A HANDS-ON LEARNING METHOD AND HAVE BEEN SHOWN TO IMPROVE STUDENT PERFORMANCE. ELECTRONIC ADVANCEMENTS NOW ALLOW FOR THE RESEARCH OF INTEGRATING EXISTING, STATE-OF-THE-ART, LOW-COST, PALM-SIZED, PORTA ...

COMMERCIAL AND GOVERNMENT SPACE TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMS DEPEND ON GROUND SUPPORT FOR NAVIGATION. THE GROUND SOLUTION CAN BE COSTLY AND MAY PROVIDE LESS ACCURACY THAN NEEDED. A GPS-BASED REAL-TIME AUTONOMOUS SPACECRAFT NAVIGATION SYSTEM IS PROPOSED. AN ALGORITHM WILL BE DEVELOPED WHICH COMBINES GPS-DERIVED POINT POSITION ESTIMATES WITH A PROPAGATED A PRIORI POSITION ESTIMATE. THE POINT POSITIONS ARE ...