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A RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM IS PROPOSED THAT WILL RESULT IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF A THICKNESS GAUGE FOR MEASURING THE THICKNESS OF CONDUCTIVE AND NONCONDUCTIVE COATINGS ON METAL SUBSTRATES. A DETAILED REVIEW AND EVALUATION OF COMMERCIAL SYSTEMS, THE TECHNICAL LITERATURE AND RESEARCH BEING CONDUCTED AT NATIONAL LABORATORIES AND UNIVERSITIES WILL BE CONDUCTED. THE PERFORMANCE OF THE IDENTIFIED C ...

Incorporation of cleavage microcracks on otherwise crack free material is a new approach used in the fabrication of some microelectonics devices. This proposal describes the development of a new computer controlled microindenter system for the farication of microcracks on a crystalline substrate. System capabilities will include the introduction of two simultaneous Vickers indentations at precise ...

Not Available A program to demonstrate the feasibility of a single multi-hyperspectral infrared sensor capable of both missile threat warning and subpixel ground target detection is proposed. The effort will first identify candidate spectral bands/subbands for both missile threat warning and subpixel ground target detection applications. From these results, clutter rejection and subpixel target d ...

Not Available The Aegis Team proposes to join two highly innovative elements to solve the research problem presented in Navy Topic N99-170. We will bring together a unique information warfare (IW) wargame/simulation in use at various DOD organizations (e.g., the U.S. Army War College) called InfoChess(tm), and a leading-edge software design and development process called Cognitive Systems Enginee ...

Not Available Composite tubes for cryogenic cold-to-warm support structures with an isogrid structure will be developed that have lighter weight, lower thermal conductance, and equivalent compressive strength to those currently in use. Previous attempts to produce composite isogrid tubes, using the filament-winding process, have resulted in nonparallel and bent glass tows in the grid elements and ...

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Not Available A program is presented for developing ceramic materials for operation at 3700-4900 F (2038-2704 C) with non-aluminized propellants and at 4900-6200 F (2704-3427 C) with aluminized propellants. At the lower temperature range the promising HfBx-HfCy-SiC-XX compositions will be evaluated where XX are rare earth borides such as YB2. These alloys (without XX) exhibited very good perfor ...

Standard Object Systems, Inc. proposes the adaptati on of its Standard Objects for Phonetic Speech Recognition software to the development of a Software Package for Speaker Independent or Dependent Continuous Speech Recognition. This application supports both speaker independent and dependent connected word recognition with adaptation to multi lingual and multi accent envir ...