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TIAX will build, characterize and abuse test high energy 18650-size lithium-ion cells employing Fe-substituted LiCoPO4 high voltage cathode material developed by the Army Research Laboratory and compare their performance to control LiCoO2-based lithium-ion cells. TIAX will perform overcharge, external short circuit, uniform heating and crush tests to the specification of the UL1642 standard and wi ...

Anti-access Area Denial (A2AD) capabilities from peer threats render many aspects of current CONOPS inadequate.For example, our manned aircraft are projected to experience unacceptable attrition against peer IADS forces.The overall system concept of collaborative teams of smaller UAVs and manned-unmanned teams shows great promise for counteracting the A2AD threats and improving the cost-exchange r ...

ABSTRACT:Missile test events provide the ability to evaluate the lethality of weapons systems in real-world conditions. While often immediately obvious whether the main goal of a test has succeeded/failed, it is much harder to analyze and understand the specific causes of success/failure. Current practices require arduous physical analysis of the target and its surroundings after the test is compl ...

Although great strides have been made in the development of simulators for training technical and teamwork skills, substantially less progress has been made with regard to their assessment. Typically, skills and performance are assessed by an expert observer using a Likert-type rating scale with anchors ranging from low to high. However, such methods are extremely coarse, and often provide little ...

In this Phase II SBIR proposal Physical Sciences Inc. (PSI) outlines the development of a third generation (Gen-3) prototype of its electronic infrared (IR) flare illuminator technology that meets the Armys specifications for the M-278 IR flare while ove

ABSTRACT:Goals of this Autofoveation Sensor Technology (AFOST) small camera/algorithm effort are to continue to optimize on FPA automated tiling/autofoveation processing merge closed loop processing performance with the aid of near sensor processors. We will provide a path toward larger format sensors for small platforms.The potential for high resolution compact sensors on small platforms along wi ...

ABSTRACT:Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) havebeen the most dynamic growth sector of the aerospace industry this decade and it is projected to double overthe next decade. The most significant catalyst has been the enormous growth of interest in UAVs by the US military, tied to operations in Iraq and Afghanistan as well as the general trend towards information warfare and net-centric systems. UAVs ar ...

Dexterous arms, despite the promise they bring of significant enhancements to current technology, are subordinate to the socket that interfaces with the user. The numerous and distinct challenges present at this level of amputation together with the dearth of clinicians with upper limb expertise capable of creating a functionally superior socket present a formidable threat to user acceptance and t ...

To address the Navys need for tow point surge mitigation of unmanned surface vehicles (USVs), Physical Optics Corporation (POC) has developed an Adaptive Disturbance Mitigation System (ADiMiS) that is based on dynamic control methodology. ADiMiS uses the real-time motions of the tow system to compute control actions for current and near-future time steps to mitigate tow point disturbance. In Phase ...

In our Adaptive Management and Mitigation of Uncertainty in Fusion (AMMUF) project, we will model the entire multi-sensor fusion process as a probabilistic model and reason about the different design and algorithmic decisions that can be made by system engineers. This fusion model will use standard fusion system representations and ideas from statistical relational learning field to create flexibl ...