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AIRBORNE MINE FIELD DETECTION IS DIFFICULT BECAUSE IN MOST CASES, THE FEATURES WHICH INDICATE THE PRESENCE OF THE MINE FIELD ARE VAGUE AND IRREGULAR. THE COMPUTATION EFFORT TO SEARCH THROUGH THE FILMS FOR INFORMATION SUGGESTING THE PRESENCE OF A MINE FIELD IS ENORMOUS. DUE TO THE ADVANCEMENT OF MICROELECTRONICS AND ROBOT VISION TECHNOLOGY, AN INEXPENSIVE AIR-BORNE MINE FIELD DETECTOR WITH ARTIFICA ...

THIS RESEARCH WILL ANALYSE THE USE OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE TECHNOLOGY TO HELP ITHE AUTOMATION OF TACTICALLINTELLIGENCE DATA ANALYSIS. THIS INVOLVES ACCOMPLISHING AUTOMATED SCENE ANALYSIS AND SITUATION ASSESSMENT THROUGH THE USE OF MESSAGE-LEVEL DATA ANALYSIS AND MULTI-SOURCE INFORMATION CORRELATION AND FUSION. THE PHASE I EFFORT WILLCONCENTRATE ON TECHNIQUE DEVELOPMENT AND ANALYSIS, FEASABILITY ...

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CORROSION OF EQUIPMENT AND MATERIAL IS AN UNBIQUITOUS NATIONAL PROBLEM COSTING THE U.S. ECONOMY OVER $70 BILLIONS ANNUALLY. REALTIME RADIOGRAPHY HAS BEEN IDENTIFIED AS ONE OF SEVERAL PROMISING NEW NDE TECHNOLOGIES BECAUSE OF ITS POTENTIAL ABILITY TO SOLVE A SIGNIFICANT NUMBER OF EXISTING CORROSION INSPECTION PROBLEMS. YET, IN SPITE OF ITS POTENTIALL ADVANTAGES, REAL-TIME RADIOGRAPHY HAS NOT YET DE ...

THE KEY TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF NEW HIGH-TEMPERATURE, HIGHER-PERFORMANCE, LIGHTER-WEIGHT MATERIALS IS AN UNDERSTANDING OF THE PROPERTIES AND BEHAVIOR OF THESE ADVANCED MATERIALS AS A FUNCTION OF THEIR MICROSTRUCTURE. AN X-RAY TOMOSCOPE, BASED ON COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY (CT) PRINCIPLES, IS CAPABLE OF SPATIALLY LOCATING AND SIZING MATERIAL FEATURES TO A RESOLUTION OF 25 MICRONS OR BETTER, WHILE PROVIDING ...

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HARDENED, RELIABLE, QUICK OPENING/CLOSING CLOSURES FOR THE TUNNELS IN A DEEP BASE ARE ESSENTIAL TO THE SURVIVAL AND OPERATION OF THE DEEP BASE. IT IS PROPOSED TO (1) GENERATE A NUMBER OF CONCEPTS FOR SUCH CLOSURES, (2) SCREEN THOSE CONCEPTS ON THE BASIS OF THEIR OPERABILITY, SIMPLICITY, CONSTRUCTIBILITY, OBVIOUS COST IMPACTS, AND THEIR ADAPTABILITY TO BEING HARDENED, (3) TO REFINE SELECTED CONCEPT ...

A DEEP BASED SYSTEM WOULD PROBABLY BE LOCATED BELOW THE WATER TABLE. IT WOULD THEREFORE BE SUBJECT TO SOME WATER INFLOW IN ALL PHASES OF CONSTRUCTION AND OPERATION, ALTHOUGH THE RATE OF INFLOW WOULD BE A FUNCTION OF THE GEOLOGIC FORMATION IN WHICH THE BASE IS SITED. THE MANAGEMENT, CONTROL, AND REMOVAL OF THIS WATER IS ESSENTIAL TO THE SURVIVAL AND THE COMPLETION OF THE BASE. THE DEVELOPMENT OF SY ...