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The SAE smoke number has been an important measurement for prevention of black, sooty plumes in military and commercial aviation. The current method, however, requires the use of a complex extraction system to bring engine exhaust through a filter paper,and then requires a person to remove the soot covered filter and perform a measurement in an optical reflectometer to determine the smoke number. ...

Ceramatec Inc. and Synergy Technologies Corporation have teamed to demonstrate Solid Oxide Fuel Cell (SOFC)operation on JP-8 reformate produced using a cold plasma process. SOFC stacks, installed in a test stand originally designed for use with a thermallyintegrated natural gas steam reformer, will be fueled instead with JP-8 reformate produced through a cold plasma process. The patented SynGen c ...

The Cyber Defense Agency (CDA) has developed a preliminary design for the Automated Testing with Adversarial Knowledge (ATAK) framework. Using the vision of creating an ATAK framework and tools, the CDA proposes to create a virtual

In the military, as in commercial enterprise, effective command and control (C2) is critical to the successful execution of strategies, operations and tactics. The military establishment is currently undergoing transformation to joint-commandnetwork-centric C2 regimes, and commercial enterprises are undergoing transformation to

Today's weapon systems and engagement doctrine are highly complex. Attempting to understand and glean important details from tabular data, end game results, and 2-D graphs is difficult. Providing a 3-D real-time representation consolidates all availablekinematic information into a single presentation. This enables observation of engineering level information in the physical realm by viewing actual ...

Flame resistant lightweight, foam cored composites are needed for many Air Force applications including aircraft structures and portable personnel protective barriers. FMI proposes to fulfill this need by development of an innovative composite structurethat will incorporate fire resistant resin and foam with Kevlar ballistic fabric. This approach is based upon individual materials and production ...

FMI proposes to develop an enabling technology for the Air Force's Common Aero Vehicle. This is comprised of an improved thermal insulation system for the exterior of the vehicle based on the goals of performance, cost, and weight. FMI will integrate theresults of recent and ongoing Air Force contracts to develop CAV insulation and an aeroshell for this proposed effort. This proposed effort wil ...

This proposal is for the development of a fast imaging spectrometer for the measurement of both spatial and spectreal signatures of threat missiles and other targets and backgrounds for improved missile detection and identification. The proposedinnovative snapshot imaging sensor provides both spectral and spatial information at wavelengths appropiate for surface to air missile detection in the mi ...

The US Airforce seeks innovative water filtration systems to reduce arsenic level in drinking water to meet the EPA's new 10ppb limit. This arsenic limit will take effect in 2006, and will not be waived or deferred by EPA, which increases urgency fordeveloping advanced filtration media. Inframat Corporation proposes to demonstrate the feasibility of exploiting a nanofibrous manganese dioxide bir ...

General visual inspection, the current practice of aircraft wire maintenance, is almost entirely dependent on human decision making. An inspector reads/deciphers wire identification markings and sorts through voluminous printed documents to determinerelevant interconnection data. Intangible limitations such as operator skills and tangible issues such as limited access, poor lighting and random or ...