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Laboratory investigations have suggested that acoustically or vibrationally inducing motion in buried targets can aid in improving target detectability through a characteristic response related to differential target motion. This gain is realized by adding an additional degree of freedom, modulation due to motion in the GPR return signal, to use as a discriminating feature. The AKELA team is propo ...

White River Technologies, Inc. (WRT) and University of Vermont (UVM) present this proposal, "Acoustically/Vibrationally Enhanced High Frequency Electromagnetic Detector for Buried Landmines". Among the primary gaps in our current landmine detection technology base is the ability to detect a wide range of buried explosive hazards including emerging low-metal mines and improvised explosive devices ...

In an era of WMD belonging to rogue states and terrorist entities, a speedy response to attack can be too late. Fighting in new and innovative ways requires thinking in new and innovative ways. New wargaming training tools are required to assist friendlyforces to be proactive and enabling potential attacks to be prevented. These tools must be able to swiftly create and assess potential threat and ...

Computer wargames and combat simulation software has reached a very high level of comprehensiveness and sophistication in terms of modeling fidelity and the production of accurate results. However, the development of AI (artificial intelligence) for thesesoftware packages has lagged due to the inherent difficulties in interpreting and managing increasingly complex situations.At the same time, how ...

The Department of the Navy has a need for the development of an additive manufacturing (AM) process for key vacuum electronic device components to meet on-demand, flexible, and affordable manufacturing requirements. The developed manufacturing method has a potential to reduce cost of vacuum electronics by as much as 70% as well as simplify and hence expedite production process of these devices by ...

The team of Physical Sciences Inc. (PSI) and Ohio State University (OSU) proposes to develop and test a novel method for electrical production of singlet molecular oxygen for application to an atomic iodine transfer laser. OSU has developed a supersonic,low pressure discharge and applied it to flows of nitrogen with efficient excitation of the gas. They propose to use this method that tailors th ...

The techniques of linear filtering have contributed tremendously in missile guidance and modern radar technology. However, they can only serve as a first order approximation to the infinite-dimensional nonlinear filtering problem. Solutions to theseproblems are known in theory, and with the explosive growth of high performance computing, they have also increasingly become available in terms of ...

This STTR project will develop and validate a robust, scalable computational capability for the simulation of weapon-target interactions of interest to the Army. The proposed algorithm is based on the FLIP (Fluid Implicit Particle) - MPM (Material PointMethod) - MFM (Multiphase Flow Method) approach and the CartaBlanca nonlinear solver environment developed at Los Alamos National Laboratory. Car ...

The program objective is to develop and evaluate a prototype spectral polarimeter that could be used as an ISR sensor package on organic UAVs. The sensor employs advanced, visible-band technology to support littoral-zone warfare mission products, such asoceanographic characterization in VSW, including the surf; detection and characterization of stealthy or intrinsically low-contrast targets such ...

The objective of the STTR program is to develop and evaluate a prototype ISR sensor package for use on organic UAVs that employs advanced VNIR sensor technology for littoral-zone warfare mission products; detection and characterization of low-contrasttargets; and provides accurate geo-location of these products.The ISC team has conducted an initial design of a prototype ISR sensor package and dete ...