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The proposed research effort recognizes the growing importance of open-source intelligence for evolving military operations, and is designed to enhance the capability of intelligence analysts to develop inferences from open information sources that can be acted on with confidence in the face of future military challenges. Specifically, the objective of the proposed research is to design and devel ...

In order to overcome the limitations of conventional rigorous time-consuming, off-line NDE for large area structures, Intelligent Optical Systems (IOS), in collaboration with Professor Ajit Mal of the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at the UCLA School of Engineering, proposes in this Phase II to develop a novel diagnostic/prognostic ultrasound imaging system for determining the ...

The Holloman High Speed Test Track (HSTT) requires the ability to accurately predict the amount of wear occurring on rocket sled slippers during testing. The sliding interface speeds and pressures experienced by slipper materials on the HSTT rail far exceeds any phenomena studied and documented to date. During the Phase I effort, a math model was developed to predict slipper wear using the free ...

Based on our success in developing the world first commercial 100 micro Joule 25 mJ and >1000 W) fiber laser system to meet with the requirement of the solicitation AF071-005. It is a specialty fiber based MOPA incorporating our proprietary technology of pulse shaping, spectral shaping and polarization shaping. These will make the fiber laser transmitter system superior in terms of wall plug effic ...

An image processing methodology for the automatic analysis of digital X-Ray images of aircraft structures is proposed. The technical approach employs the Active Contours image segmentation algorithm. This algorithm utilizes a region, rather than edge based techniques. It has the advantage of being resistant to noise effects and being able to segment objects that do not have sharp edged contours. ...

The overarching objective of the proposed Phase II is to increase the technology readiness level to enable technology insertion at the conclusion of the Phase II effort. During Phase II, efforts will focus on the optimization of novel adaptive materials enabling future morphing aircraft applications. Composite Technology Development Inc. (CTD) will work with Raytheon Missile Systems and The United ...

Information Dominance is the key metric in today’s battlefield. Reliance on data and management of data and the accuracy and integrity of that data are paramount to mission success. Metadata enables solutions to many problems of integrity of data. As the data becomes more distributed, virtual, and ubiquitous, current methods of centralized metadata and version control are not responsive to mi ...

Rapid and reliable identification or discrimination of friendly and hostile targets at beyond visual ranges remains a major technical challenge that may be best served by advances in ladar technology. Next-generation intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) ladar systems will tackle the difficult problem of detecting and identifying targets masked by foliage and/or camouflage. Ladar bas ...

Modern radars are increasingly expanding their instantaneous bandwidths to improve resolution for imaging and targeting. This proposal details an FPGA implementable, advanced wideband algorithm that truly models the entire frequency spectrum and linearly tracks statistical source covariance changes over frequency. This is achieved by using a technique called derivative based updating (DBU). The no ...

Accurate models for the atmosphere are critical to the performance of signature-based hyperspectral target-detection algorithms. The problem of recovering atmospheric properties from a hyperspectral image is ill-posed in the sense that significantly different atmospheres can generate similar radiance spectra at the sensor for the same ground material. In this project we will develop a software p ...