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BRILLIANT GUIDANCE SYSTEMS FOR ICBMS WILL RELY ON ADVANCED THERMAL PROTECTION AND PROCESSING TECHNOLOGIES TO PRESERVE SENSOR PERFORMANCE IN SEVERE REENTRY ENVIRONMENTS. IN THIS STUDY REENTRY EFFECTS ON SENSORS WILL BE ASSESSED, AND PASSIVE AND ACTIVE THERMAL PROTECTION SYSTEMS WILL BE EVALUATED. MEANS OF USING ADVANCED SIGNAL PROCESSING METHODS TO REDUCE REENTRY-INDUCED ERRORS WILL BE EXPLORED. TH ...

THE EVER INCREASING NEED FOR HIGHER PERFORMANCE MICROCOMPUTER COMPONENTS CAPABLE OF SATISFYING REAL TIME COMPUTATIONAL REQUIREMENTS IN CURRENT AND FUTURE MISSILE, RE-ENTRY, AND POST-BOOST VEHICLE APPLICATIONS ARE REAL AND DEMANDING NECESSITIES. CURRENTLY AVAILABLE TECHNOLOGY IS BEING TAXED TO THE LIMITS OF ITS PERFORMANCE CAPABILITIES ESPECIALLY IN THE AREA OF NUCLEAR HARDNESS. ESTIMATES OF FUTURE ...

TRANSIENT THREE-DIMENSIONAL ANALYSIS METHODS SHALL BE ADDED TO THE COUPLE CODE (A CURRENT AIR FORCE ANTENNA WINDOW ABLATION ANALYSIS METHOD) TO PREDICT ANTENNA WINDOW/HEATSHIELD SHAPE CHANGE FOR MANEUVERING REENTRY VEHICLES. THE ANALYSIS METHOD SHALL CONSIDER BOTH MONOLITHIC AND BUTTON ARRAY ANTENNA WINDOW DESIGNS. ANGLE-OFATTACK EFFECTS INDUCED BY MANEUVERING FUNCTIONS SHALL BE INCLUDED IN THE FL ...

THE PROJECT WILL DEVELOP AND TEST A HARDENED GUNN VOLTAGE CONTROLLED OSCILLATOR (VCO) CAPABLE OF SURVIVAL TO A LEVEL OF AT LEAST 50,000 G WITH A GOAL OF 100,000 G. SUCH AN OSCILLATOR HAS POTENTIAL APPLICATIONS TO PROJECTILES OR MISSILES WHICH EXPERIENCE VERY HIGH SHOCK DURING FIRING (LAUNCH). THE DESIGN INVOLVES USE OF A RIGID CHOKE STRUCTURE WHICH PREVENTS TOP LOADING ON THE GUNN AND VARACTOR DIO ...

A STUDY OF THE USE OF A MULTI-STAGE SOUNDING ROCKET AS A LOW COST ALTERNATE LAUNCH SYSTEM FOR FLIGHT TESTING OF SMALL REENTRY VEHICLES AT THE KWAJALEIN MISSILE RANGE (KMR) WILL BE PERFORMED. A COMBINATION OF GUIDED AND UNGUIDED STAGES IS CONTEMPLATED. A RELATIVELY LOW-COST, HIGH-PERFORMANCE SOLID MOTOR IS REQUIRED FOR THE FINAL VELOCITY STAGE. SELECTION OF A LAUNCH SITE IN THE NEAR VICINITY OF KMR ...

THE MISSION OF THIS PHASE I PROJECT IS COMPLETION OF A TRULY INNOVATIVE STUDY TO UPGRADE EXISTING PNS CODES FOR COMPUTING HIGHSPEED, THREE-DIMENSIONAL RE-ENTRY FLOWFIELDS. THE PLAN OF ACTION ENCOMPASSES A THOROUGH EXAMINATION OF THE RANGE OF ADMISSABLE CFD THEORIES, TO UNEQUIVACALLY COMPARE STRONG AND WEAK POINTS FOR APPLICATION TO THE REYNOLDS-AVERAGED NAVIER-STOKES EQUATIONS WITH DIFFERENTIAL EQ ...

IN ORDER TO ASSESS PERFORMANCE CHARACTERISTICS AND CONCEPT DEFINITION OF VARIOUS LAND-BASING MODES FOR ICBMS THE SYSTEM EFFECTIVENESS, SURVIVABILITY, AND OPERATIONAL EFFECTIVENESS MUST BE DETERMINED. THIS PROJECT INVOLVES THE DEVELOPMENT OF AN INTERACTIVE COMPUTER PACKAGE (USING SOME EXISTING CODE) TO COMPUTE THESE MEASURES OF EFFECTIVENESS. THIS WILL INVOLVE THE DEVELOPMENT OF AN OPTIMAL ALLOCATI ...

THE PROPOSED WORK INVOLVES APPLICATION OF SUPPORTED MOLTEN SALT CATALYSIS TO THE CATALYTIC ENDOTHERMIC DEHYDROGENATION OF METHANOL. THE CATALYSTS OF INTEREST INCLUDE EUTECTICS COMPOSED OF CU(+1) SALTS WITH HOMOGENEOUSLY DISPERSED ZN(+2) SALTS OR HETEROGENEOUSLY DISPERSED ZNO. IN ADDITION, THE STUDY WILL INCLUDE EVALUATION OF HETEROGENEOUS DISPERSIONS OF METALLIC PALLADIUM IN BINARY AND TERNARY EUT ...

ORDERED POLYMER FILMS PROCESSED FROM POLYPHENYLENE BENZOBISTHIAZOLE WILL BE MADE, TESTED AND EVALUATED FOR USE IN LIGHTWEIGHT HIGH PERFORMANCE CAPACITORS FOR AIRBORNE AND SPACEBORNE APPLICATIONS WITH ENERGY STORAGE OVER 3000 JOULES PER KILOGRAM. SPACE CHARGE SHIELDING NEAR THE ELECTRODES WILL BE USE TO PREVENT DIELECTRIC BREAKDOWN AT THE ELECTRODE INTERFACE.

THE SPONTANEOUS MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAM (MEG) SIGNALS THAT ARE UNRELATED TO A STIMULUS OR A TASK, REPRESENT A FUNDAMENTAL BARRIER TO CONTINUING BRAIN RESEARCH. THIS BACKGROUND ACTIVITY CONSTITUTES A FORM OF INTERFERENCE, OR "BRAIN NOISE", THAT MASKS THE DESIRED WEAKER MEG SIGNALS EVOKED BY THE STIMULUS. PRESENT TECHNIQUES FOR ENHANCING THE EVOKED RESPONSE OF THE MEG SUCH AS SIGNAL AVERAGING, ARE NOT ...