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ENIG, in collaboration with SRI, proposes to develop a modeling methodology with predictive and inferential capabilities to address the challenges of designing body armor to resist realistic multiple impacts from burst fire events. Our toolkit will provide an end-to-end modeling capability, grounded in the statistics of realistic impacts from small-arms fire, which would address the final material ...

With the ubiquity of mobile devices and the large disparity in screen sizes it is imperative for applications to be able to adapt to a wide variety of devices and platforms easily and transparently. As such, it is required that to do so there must be an intelligent framework that is powerful enough to coordinate and adapt to these ever changing screen size requirements easily and seamlessly. This ...

We propose to investigate the benefits of imaging polarimetry in multiple wavebands with the goal to reduce the workload of the Apache crew, focusing on the task load of the gunner. Imaging polarimetry has shown significant advantages under several conditions to outperform standard broadband radiometric imagers in locating targets and suppressing clutter. Multiple wavebands polarimeters have to da ...

Network protocols, such as link state routing and its variants, used in tactical mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs) face serious problems of robustness and efficiency since the topological information becomes easily stale with fast network dynamics. Consequently, the emerging need to collect and exchange excessive network information increases the overhead and degrades the network performance. Social ...

Some of our nations adversaries possess advanced technologies and equipment necessary for the processing and development of Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD). There is a growing risk that these capabilities and technologies will be used against the United States or our allies. For this reason, an opportunity exists to develop offensive solutions that will enable warfighters to combat WMD at the so ...

To address the needs of the Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA), GSI will perform in three areas during the course of this effort. 1) GSI will evaluate a new formulation, capable of self-propagating reaction with the production of an electrically conductive aerosol, for the purpose of Intrusive Electronic Equipment Defeat. This material will be evaluated against electronic equipment (PC's) and ...

Historically, the porosity associated with ceramic matrix composite structures has been viewed as a detriment for many missile applications. The standard practice is to perform several treatment/retreatment processes to reduce the porosity to an acceptable level while increasing the strength of the structure. The processing methods inherent to the production of many composite materials may provide ...

Oceanit will continue developing and fabricating a low-cost obscurant nanomaterial. The ultimate goal for this material is to make an aerosolized cloud that can be deployed quickly between an incoming threat and the equipment and personnel being protected.

The U.S. Army PEO Ammunition has the mission to develop and procure leap-ahead munitions, improvised explosive device (IED)-defeat products and towed artillery systems to increase combat power to service members. The Army is constantly striving towards improved weapon effectiveness with minimum collateral damage, with constraints on costs. Embedded canard actuation systems are one of the most cost ...

Leveraging our extensive experience in Hardware-in-the-loop, Signal Injection, and All Digital Sim-ulations, the Torch Team proposes developing an innovative approach for assessing and estimating the target and background simulation scene fidelity requirements of smart munitions. The Torch Team will define metrics and an analysis processes which aim to match simulation fidelity require-ments with ...