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THE MATE PROGRAM WAS DESIGNED TO PROVIDE HARDWARE AND SOFTWARE STANDARDS TO THE ATE INDUSTRY. IN PARTICULAR, MATE SOFTWARE WAS INTENDED TO USE A STANDARDIZED TEST LANGUAGE - ATLAS - ON A STANDARDIZED TEST EXECUTIVE, THE MTE, ALL RUNNING ON A STANDARD OPERATING SYSTEM, THE MOS. THE MOS WAS DESIGNED TO BE EASILY REHOSTABLE AND HAS, IN FACT, BEEN REHOSTED TO SEVERAL HARDWARE CONFIGURATIONS. HOWEVER, ...

MAJOR IMPROVEMENTS ARE REQUIRED IN SIMULATION TEST SYSTEMS IN ORDER TO TEST INTEGRATED SENSOR SYSTEMS THAT COMBINE RF, INFRARED AND ELECTRO-OPTICAL SENSORS. RF ENVIRONMENT SIMULATORS CAN NOW GENERATE EMISSIONS ASSOCIATED WITH MAJOR COMBAT SCENARIOS. NO EQUIVALENT CAPABILITY EXISTS TO GENERATE LARGE NUMBERS OF IR AND EO TARGET SIGNATURES SO THAT IR AND EO SENSORS CAN BE TESTED IN THESE SAME SCENARI ...

ACCURATE RF ENVIRONMENT CHARACTERIZATION IS REQUIRED TO PRODUCE REALISTIC REQUIREMENTS FOR EW SYSTEMS. THE SUPPRESSOR ENVIRONMENT CHARACTERIZER WILL INTEGRATE THE SUPPRESSOR C3 OPERATION AND DECISION MODEL WITH A STATE-OF-THE-ART PULSE MODEL TO PRODUCE THE DATA NECESSARY TO ANALYZE THE RF ENVIRONMENT.

TRAINING FOR MODERN TACTICAL COMBAT MISSIONS REQUIRES THE REAL TIME SIMULATION OF MULTIPLE AND DIVERSIFIED REACTIVE COORDINATED THREATS. CURRENT THREAT SIMULATION METHODOLOGIES AND SYSTEMS ... TO MEET THIS REQUIREMENT IN FOUR WAYS: 1) LACK OF DIVERSITY IN SIMULATEABLE THREAT TYPES, 2) INADEQUATE DECISION PROCESS MODELING RESULTING IN INACCURATE THREAT ACTIVITY, 3) SUBOPTIMUM ... OF MANPOWER, AND 4 ...

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THE FRANTIC COMPUTER CODE IS THE MOST ADVANCED MODEL FOR ADDRESSING TIME-DEPENDENT RISK EFFECTS ASSOCIATED WITH TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS. IT IS USED BY THE INDUSTRY FOR THE EVALUATION OF UPGRADES AND/OR IMPROVEMENTS IN EXISTING TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS AND BY THE NRC STAFF IN RESPONDING TO THE LICENSEE SUBMITTALS. THE EXISTING METHODOLOGY HAS TWO MAJOR DEFICIENCIES: IT DOES NOT PROVIDE THE BOUNDIN ...

MANY COMMERCIAL, GOVERNMENTAL, AND MILITARY ORGANIZATIONS TODAY MUST DEVELOP LARGE HIGHLY FLEXIBLE AND "INTELLIGENT" DATABASES IN SUCH A WAY THAT COMPLEX SYMBOLIC REASONING AND NUMERICAL COMPUTATION MUST BE CLOSELY INTEGRATED - FOR EXAMPLE, A DATABASE OF THERMODYNAMIC PROPERTIES OF ORGANIC FUELS SUPPORTING ANALYSIS AND SELECTION. THERE WILL BE LARGE VOLUMES OF NUMERIC AND TEXT DATA, WHICH MAY BE U ...

STANDARD TOADS CRYSTALS DO NOT PERFORM CONSISTENTLY AT LOW OVERPRESSURES DUE IN PART TO LOW SIGNAL OUTPUT OF THE PZT CRYSTAL AND ALSO DUE TO ELECTRICAL CROSSTALK. WE PROPOSE TO INVESTIGATE TWO TOA TRANSDUCER TYPES THAT ARE PROVEN CONCEPTS IN OTHER APPLICATIONS. WE WILL DESIGN TECHNICIAN FRIENDLY INTERFACES FOR THESE MEASUREMENT SYSTEMS. THE PHASE I DESIGN WILL INTERFACE WITH STANDARD TOADS III REC ...

A METHOD FOR THE EVALUATION AND OPTIMIZATION OF EXPLOSIVE MATERIAL CHARACTERIZATION IS PROPOSED. DAMAGE OF A RIGID RUNWAY CONCRETE SLAB WILL BE OPTIMIZED FOR VARIOUS EXPLOSIVE ENERGY RELEASE RATES. THE STEPS FOR THE PROGRAM ARE: 1) COLLECTION AND EVALUATION OF RUNWAY TEST DAMAGE RESULTS, 2) PRELIMINARY LITERATURE SEARCH FOR APPROPRIATE HYPERGOLIC ENERGY RELEASE RATE, 3) NUMERICAL SIMULATION OF EXP ...

WE PROPOSE TO INVESTIGATE INTO THE PRODUCTION OF HIGH PERFORMANCE REVERSIBLE OPTICAL DISK, USING THIN FILMS OF AN ALLOY OF NEODYMIUM, DYSPROSIUM AND IRON AS THE RECORDING MATERIALS. THE REVERSIBLE OPTICAL DISKS WOULD HAVE A C/N RATIO OF 55 DB AT 2 MHZ., A CYCLE LIFETIME OF MORE THAN A MILLION, AND A RETENTION TIME OF 10 TO 20 YEARS.