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ACTA INC., USING KARAGOZIAN AND CASE AS A SUBCONTRACTOR, PROPOSES TO DEVELOP SPECIFICATIONS AND A COMPUTER PROGRAM WHICH CAN BE USED IN THE EVALUATION OF THE SYSTEM EFFECTIVENESS OF VARIOUS CANDIDATE ADVANCED BASING CONCEPTS. ACTA WILL MAKE USE OF SOFTWARE (ASTEP) WHICH IT HAS ALREADY DEVELOPED AS A BASIS FOR A PROGRAM WHICH CAN BE DELIVERED AT THE END OF PHASE I. THE PROGRAM CONCEPT WILL BE MODUL ...

SPACE BASED RADARS WITH LENS OR REFLECTOR ANTENNAS CAN READILY PROVIDE MULTIPLE BEAM OUTPUTS. OTHER SBR DESIGNED TO DETECT AND TRACK AIRCRAFT, INCLUDING SYSTEMS WITH CORPORATE FED ARRAY ANTENNAS, MAY PROVIDE MONOPULSE SUM AND DIFFERENCE OUTPUTS FOR ANGLE MEASUREMENT. A METHOD IS DESCRIBED FOR EXPLOITING THESE MULTIPLE BEAM OR MONOPULSE ANTENNA OUTPUTS FOR THE DETECTION OF SLOW-MOVING TARGETS WITH ...

NEW VERIFICATION AND VALIDATION (V&V) TECHNIQUES ARE NEEDED FOR USE WITH AI SOFTWARE. FORTUNATELY, AI SYSTEMS HAVE SEVERAL FEATURES THAT CAN BE USED IN NEW WAYS TO SUPPORT VERIFICATION AND VALIDATION; IN PARTICULAR, AUTOMATIC REASONING ABOUT DECLARATIVE REPRESENTATION CAN CHECK FOR CONSISTENCY AND OTHER PROPERTIES OF RULES, REASONING ABOUT UNCERTAINTY CAN BE USED TO ACHIEVE ROBUTNESS IN THE FACE O ...

COMPLEX AIR FORCE COMMAND AND CONTROL PROBLEMS REQUIRE ADVANCED DECISION AIDING TECHNOLOGY TO GUIDE THE USERS THROUGH PROBLEM FORMULATION, SOLUTION, AND EXPLANATION PROCESS. SUCH PROBLEM AREAS AS TARGET PRIORITIZATION, RESOURCE ASSIGNMENT, PATH PLANNING, ETC., DO NOT ALWAYS HAVE NEAT, EASILY DEFINABLE PROBLEM STRUCTURES. IN THE PAST, DECISION ANALYSIS TECHNIQUES HAVE BEEN APPLIED TO VARIOUS PROBLE ...

THERE IS A MILITARY REQUIREMENT FOR LIGHTWEIGHT RAPID DEPLOYABLE, EASILY TRANSPORTABLE, AND RUGGED UNGUYED TOWERS FOR C3 SYSTEMS. FOR LOS MM RADIO SYSTEMS, WIND INDUCED ANGULAR DEFLECTIONS AT THE TOP ARE SEVERELY RESTRICTED BY PRECISION SIGHTING REQUIREMENTS. A FUNDAMENTAL ANALYSIS OF STRESS REQUIREMENTS INDICATES THAT WEIGHT IS PROPORTIONAL TO MATERIAL DENSITY AND THE FOURTH POWER OF THE HEIGHT, ...

AUTOMATIC TARGET RECOGNIZER (ATR) COMPUTERS ARE CAUSING A REVOLUTION IN THE DESIGN OF FORWARD LOOKING INFRARED (FLIR) SENSORS. HISTORICALLY, FLIRS HAVE UNDER-SAMPLED BECAUSE OF THE SMALL NUMBER OF DETECTORS AVAILABLE ON THE FOCAL PLANE ARRAYS IMAGERY. HOWEVER, FPA DETECTOR DENSITIES HAVE IMPROVED AND ATRS ARE SENSITIVE TO ALIASING. AS A RESULT, SAMPLING RATE IS NOW CONSIDERED TO BE A CRITICAL DESI ...

THIS PROPOSAL ADDRESSES THE DEVELOPMENT OF AN INNOVATIVE STRAPDOWN GYRO, THE HEMISPHERICAL RESONATOR GYRO (HRG). THE HRG OFFERS IMPROVED ROTATION SENSING WITH SIMPLIFIED SYSTEM MECHANIZATION, HIGHER RELIABILITY AND IMPROVE LIFE CYCLE COST FOR INERTIAL NAVIGATION SYSTEMS FOR BALLISTIC MISSILES, RE-ENTRY VEHICLES, AND INTERCEPTORS. PROTOTYPE HRGS HAVE DEMONSTRATED OVERALL DRIFT RATES OF 0.003 DEG/HR ...

THERE IS A NEED FOR A BATTLE MANAGEMENT 3-D DISPLAY SYSTEM TO DISPLAY BATTLE SITUATIONS IN TERMS OF TERRAIN, AIR AND GROUND FORCES FOR RAPID SITUATION ASSESSMENT. AN INNOVATIVE REAL TIME STEREOSCOPIC LARGE AREA 3-D DISPLAY SYSTEM IS PROPOSED. THE PROPOSED SYSTEM HAS A DISPLAY VOLUME OF 3'X3'X3' AND IS CAPABLE OF MULTI-COLOR OPERATION WITH HIGH BRIGHTNESS. AN INNOVATIVE VARIABLE FOCAL LENGTH FRESNE ...

AN INNOVATIVE AND EFFICIENT APPROACH TO DETERMINING THE FRACTAL PROPERTIES OF SOIL MICROSTRUCTURE IS DEFINED WHICH EMPLOYS INTEGRATED DATABASE AND IMAGE PROCESSING TECHNIQUES. PHASE I ASPECTS OF THIS SBIR RESEARCH ARE PRIMARILY CONCERNED WITH DETERMINING WHETHER SOIL MICROSTRUCTURE CAN BE SUCCESSFULLY CHARACTERIZED USING FRACTALS. THE INTEGRATED DIGITAL IMAGE DATABASE APPROACH DESCRIBED IN THE PRO ...

ACHIEVING THE HYPERVELOCITY POTENTIAL OF ELECTROMAGNETIC RAILGUNS IS IMPAIRED BY ABLATION OF BORE MATERIALS AND A LACK OF WELL VALIDATED UNDERSTANDING OF PLASMA ARMATURE PERFORMANCE. DEVELOPMENT OF BORE MATERIALS AND MODELING OF PLASMA ARMATURES IS HAMPERED BY THE LACK OF DIAGNOSTICS WHICH CAN ACCURATELY MEASURE THE IN-BORE ENVIRONMENT. A KEY DIAGNOSTIC WHICH WOULD BE EXTREMELY USEFUL FOR BOTH MAT ...