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Imaging sensors are a crucial component of modern defense. The ideal sensor has acute visual sensing capabilities and communicates instantly when threats are identified. It should also have night vision capabilities and cover a broadband spectral range including near ultraviolet and infrared. A robotic broadband night vision camera is highly desirable. Such a robotic broadband low-light-level came ...

The significance of the innovation in this Phase I SBIR is the development of a technology which will enable the manufacture of a light weight, low cost cost , multi-band gap compound semiconductor material containing high efficiency compound semiconductor multijunction solar cells suitable for deployment for in very high altitude, very long endurance (HALE) solar solar aircraft. This will be ac ...

Distributed logistics problems cannot be solved using traditional centralized optimization techniques because of the autonomous nature of the entities involved. We propose to design and demonstrate a decentralized automated negotiation based approach. This game theoretic approach is implemented as a generic agent toolkit that can be customized by the domain-expert.

Many DOD systems require advanced digital signal processing and image processing functions that cannot be efficiently implemented on conventional micro-processors, hence designers have started mapping these applications onto FPGAs. However, most FPGA implementations are manually designed and highly coupled to the hardware, often taking advantage of special hardware features of the target FPGA. T ...

AstroPower proposes to develop gallium phosphide (GaP) ultraviolet (UV) sensors for engine combustion control. The UV spectra from the free radial combustion components correlates with combustion effectivity in terms of predetonation, and provides a real time basis for central control of excess air ratio, internal combustion temperatures, and other fuel injector parameters. A system for the engine ...

Computer and engine studies demonstrated a 100% increase in diesel engine power with the use of 31% oxygen enriched air (OEA) versus standard 21% oxygen air. Additional benefits from OEA include: (1) improved fuel efficiency, (2) compatible with lower grade (volatility) fuels, (3) reduced CO and hydrocarbon emissions, (4) enhanced lean burn capability, (5) smoother less noisy operation, (6) better ...

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PAVEMENT DISTRESS DATA ARE UTILIZED DURING PAVEMENT EVALUATION, DESIGN, REHABILITATION, MAINTENANCE, MANAGEMENT, AND RESEARCH. CURRENTLY, THE MANUAL SURVEY METHOD, UTILIZING PAPER AND PENCIL, IS USED EXTENSIVELY IN COLLECTING THE DISTRESS DATA, BUT THIS PROCESS IS SLOW, TEDIOUS, EXPENSIVE, AND PRONE TO HUMAN ERROR. THE OBJECTIVE OF THIS RESEARCH IS TO DEVELOP A COMPUTERIZED PAVEMENT DISTRESS DATA ...