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THIS PROPOSAL PRESENTS AN APPROACH TO THE DEVELOPMENT AND EXPERIMENTALREFINEMENT OF TECHNIQUES AND INTERFACE COMPONENTS TO FACILITATE USER ACCESS TO PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTION DATA IN THE CONTEXT OF MILITARY DECISION PROBLEMS. WE PROPOSE TO DEVELOP A DESIGN METHODOLOGY FOR DECISION AIDING INTERFACES FOR TIME-STRESSED, MILITARY DECISIONS THAT BEGIN WITH A CHARACTERIZATION OF AVAILABLE INFORMATION AND ...

A SYSTEMS APPROACH IS PRESENTED FOR DEVELOPMENT AND EMPIRICAL VALIDATION OF A HUMAN OPERATOR MODEL FOR SYSTEM EVALUATION (HOMSE). A PLAN IS PROPOSED TO DEVELOP HOMSE PRIMARILY FROM EXISTING TECHNIQUES AND COMPONENTS IN THE DOMAIN OF HUMAN PERFORMANCE MODELS. THE MODEL WILL BE DESIGNED TO PREDICT THE EFFECTS OF INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES IN THE PERCEPTUAL-MOTOR-COGNITIVE PERFORMANCE OF HUMAN OPERTORS U ...

INNOVATIVE RESEARCH IS NEEDED TO ADDRESS THE PROBLEM OF DESIGNING FOR PRODUCIBILITY. KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS NOW OFFER CONSIDERABLE PROMISE IN THIS FIELD. IF THE GROUND DATA FOR THE INFERENCES OF SUCH A SYSTEM CAN BE CAPTURED DIRECTLY FROM A DESIGN DRAWING THEN ANALYSIS CAN BE CONDUCTED WITH THE AID OF AN EXPERT SYSTEM AND RESULTS MADE AVAILABLE AT A CAD WORKSTATION TO PROMPT IMMEDIATE REVISION IF ...

STUDIES WILL BE DIRECTED TOWARD DEVELOPING/IMPROVING CURRENT ABSORBERS USED IN POLYCARBONATE MATERIALS AS WELL AS PROVIDING ADDITIONAL COVERAGE IN OTHER SPECTRAL REGIONS. IN ADDITION TO THE POLYCARBONATE STUDIES, PLASMA SPUTTERING DEPOSITION TECHNIQUES WILL BE EVALUATED TO DETERMINE THEIR POTENTIAL USE FOR DEPOSITING MULTILAYER COATINGS ON ABSORBING POLYCARBONATE OPHTHALMIC MATERIAL.

THE DEGRADATION IN OPTICAL AND MECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF FIBERS CAUSED BY ATMOSPHERIC WATER IS A SERIOUS PROBLEM. LITTLE IS KNOWN, HOWEVER, OF THE TYPES AND QUANTITIES OF WATER ACTUALLY ASSOCIATED WITH OPTICAL FIBERS, AND THE MECHANISM FOR THE DELETERIOUS EFFECT OF THESE STATES OF WATER. THIS PROJECT WILL UTILIZE A NEW METHOD TO STUDY THE WATER ASSOCIATED WITH OPTICAL FIBERS. THE METHOD CONTINUOUSL ...

THIS PROPOSAL DESCRIBES AN APPROACH FOR PROVIDING HIGH ACCELERATION, HIGH FREQUENCY CONTENT, BALLISTIC SHOCK LEVEL MECHANICAL LOADING TO TEST ARTICLES. AN ELECTROMAGNETIC ACCELERATOR CONCEPT IS PROPOSED TO MEET THE REQUIREMENTS. THE ACCELERATOR WILL BE POWERED FROM AN ENERGY DISCHARGE CAPACITIVE STORE. ACCELERATIONS AS HIGH AS ONE MILLION GEE WILL BE GENERATED.

THE GROWTH OF HG(1-X)CD(X)TE LAYERS BY MOLECULAR BEAM EPITAXY (MBE) AND INNOVATIVE IN-SITU WAFER PREPRATION PRIOR TO GROWTH ARE KEY ISSUES IN DEVELOPING SECOND GENERATION HIGH PERFORMANCE IR DETECTORS. THE OBJECTIVE OF THIS WORK IS TO ESTABLISH THE GROWTH OF CD(1-X)MN(X)TE CRYSTALS THAT CAN SERVE AS SUBSTRATES FOR THE GROWTH OF LATTICE-MATCHED HG(1-X)CD(X)TE LAYERS. PHASE I WILL INCLUDE: (1) SCALE ...

CERAMICS ARE BEING WIDELY CONSIDERED FOR REPLACEMENT OF METALS AND POLYMERS IN MANY ENGINEERING APPLICATIONS. THEIR CORROSION RESISTANCE, SMALL COEFFICIENTS OF THERMAL EXPANSION, LIGHT WEIGHT, LOW COST, EXCELLENT MECHANICAL PROPERTIES UNDER HEAVY STRESS, OUTSTANDING ELECTRICAL AND OPTICAL PROPERTIES, AND EXCEPTIONAL RESISTANCE TO HIGH TEMPERATURE, MAKE THEM VERY ATTRACTIVE IN STRUCTURAL, MICROELEC ...

RESEARCH PROGRAM IS DESIGNED TO TAKE CLOSELY ALLIED TECHNOLOGIES IN THE AREA OF FOAM AND INFLATABLES AND FABRICATE TWO AND THREE DIMENSIONAL LIGHT WEIGHT, LOW VOLUME, RAPIDLY DEPLOYABLE DECOYS HAVING REDUCED LOGISTICS BURDEN AND GREATLY IMPROVED FIDELITY AND SURVIVABILITY.

BECAUSE OF ITS WEIGHT REDUCTION POTENTIAL, IT WOULD BE ADVANTAGES TO USE BIMETALLIC STEEL RING/TITANIUM WEB GEARS IN POWER TRANSMISSION ASSEMBLIES. ALTHOUGH SEVERAL TECHNOLOGIES EXIST FOR JOINING TITANIUM TO STEEL, FACTORS SUCH AS COST, SIZE-FLEXIBILITY, RELIABILITY, POSTFABRICATION PROCESSING, JOINT EFFICIENCY, AND EXTREME TEMPERATURE OPERATION RAPIDLY REDUCE THE NUMBER OF REALISTIC JOINING PROCE ...