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The Army as well as other branches of the Department of Defense (DoD) have made a substantial investment in synthetic scene generation for the development and testing of sensor and weapon systems. The synthetic scenes have been developed for programs concerning: 1) missile system and unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) sensor system performance assessment; 2) pre-flight predictions to identify or corre ...

Atmospheric effects, such as those due to turbulence, severely degrade the performance of long-range imaging systems. As sensor costs continue to drop and spatial resolution continues to increase, future imaging systems will be severely limited by these atmospheric effects, not the limits of resolution defined by the sensor. Therefore, there is currently a great need to develop advanced image rest ...

REL has demonstrated that Squeeze Casting a is viable process for encapsulation of ceramic tiles for Warfighter protection systems. The SBIR Phase 1 has demonstrated that squeeze cast encapsulation can offer the following process attributes: a. Use of low tolerance as-pressed tiles, b. Control of gap sizes between tiles in cast panels, c. Ability to use multiple matrix light metal alloys for the e ...

Development of Equal Channel Angular Extrusion (ECAE) protoytpe tooling and processing tehnology for large metallurgical scale and acceptable for typical production floor and ordinary manufacturing environment. Processing of large billets, 250-350 kg, of ultra-fined/nano grain structure suitaable for rolling into comercially sized plate and sheet product. This product is expected to find numerous ...

Exhaust systems have a significant impact on performance of the vehicle, from the automotive perspective, to its acoustic signature. The soldier wants all the power available for mobility, yet has to pay attention to the noise signature that can be detected by human and sensor devices. Military exhaust systems are largely influenced by program signature and or detectability requirements, and man ...

Control of both manned and unmanned (i.e. autonomous or teleoperated) military vehicles is difficult for many reasons. As a result, vehicle accidents (most notably rollover) are one of the leading causes of casualty in Army operations (in manned vehicles) and disabling (in UGVs). While many advances have been made in the commercial passenger vehicle domain to improve vehicle safetyincluding tec ...

Auxiliary power units (APU) offer potential to improve operational efficiency and provide significant tactical advantage for surveillance missions conducted from land vehicle platforms. Current installations have resulted in higher than acceptable noise levels, adversely impacting the ability to perform a"silent"watch. In particular, noise created by the combustion process presents a problem due t ...

Existing security technologies fail or have a significant capability gap in detecting and stopping malicious traffic. Based on the new insight that traffic by malware is not directly initiated by user activities on a computer, Security Axioms has developed a new solution called Gyrus. Based on virtual machine monitoring techniques, Gyrus uses hardware events combined with memory analysis to author ...

Mobile Intelligence Corporation (MIC) and Wayne State University propose a virtual teleoperation and visual landmark navigation system for UGV teleoperation in buildings, tunnels and caves. The challenge is search and navigation in complex structures with sparse visual cues, high-latency low-bandwidth communications, UGVs with low-cost vision sensors, and only intermittent static 2D visual feedba ...

ABSTRACT: In today"s warfare, accurate payload placement is necessary to maintain the tactical advantage we have been fostering throughout our history. Continuing evolution in air to ground mission objectives has brought new opportunities to technologically evolve the state of the art in accurate air drop capabilities. The CPADS effort is a significant opportunity to develop a new solution for ...