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Many technical challenges will need to be surmounted to create practical cybercraft: assurance, control, rules of engagement, representation and discovery of the target environment, among others. However a serious challenge lurks behind all of these: scaling solutions to fleets of up to a million craft. New approaches are needed to deploy and control the craft at this scale. Failure to come to gr ...

Wireless sensors are becoming very popular in industrial processes for process measurement and control, condition monitoring, predictive maintenance, and management of accidents and mishaps. Over the next few years, these wireless sensors are targeted for full implementation in nuclear power plants, for equipment health and condition monitoring applications. However, to date, little work has bee ...

The nuclear power industry continues to depend largely on hands-on antiquated methods for maintenance of its equipment, for plant-aging management, and for health monitoring. As such, advanced maintenance technologies are needed for current and next generation nuclear power plants. This project will develop technology to establish the accuracy and reliability of nuclear power plant instrumentati ...

Due to the phasing out of TNT usage in explosives due to safety and environmental concerns, insensitive explosives utilizing wax binders instead of TNT have gradually replaced TNT in bombs and other explosive shells. The wax material that has been the most utilized in this application has been carnauba wax, but due to its non-domestic production and its dependence on natural growth and harvest me ...

The activity of an OS kernel may be monitored dynamically in real time. As the kernel executes, the transition among the constituent components of the kernel will follow a predictable pattern representing the normal operation of the kernel. An attack on the operating system will induce a significant and immediately recognizable disturbance in this pattern of normal activity. The Attack Recognit ...

Identification of the key human factor skill set involved in Situational Awareness, Task Management and Decision Making for focused alternative training. Alternative training that focuses on the practice and improvement those key human factor skills. CTI has received the commitment of three groups to conduct this investigation. The UAV squadron located at Creech AFB, the A-10 squadron located a ...

Military applications of high power millimeter-wave directed energy weapons technologies require high field superconducting magnets that are incorporated in gyrotron devices. The magnets must be cooled to cryogenic temperatures to operate, giving rise to several technical challenges. Gyrotron magnets have traditionally required a relatively long time to cool-down (typically at least 24 hours) an ...

The objective of this proposal is to conduct research to address problems of inadequate logistics support planning during the contingency or crisis action planning process. The current deployment planning process primarily focuses on the flow of forces into theater and sustainment planning is regulated to a secondary effort, or worse, as an afterthought. The Global Channel Analysis for Logistic ...

Effective management of electricity distribution systems requires analysis tools that can estimate the state of the system (the operating condition). Although state estimation algorithms recently have arisen from research activities, they have yet to be adopted in practice. Utilities need an easier way to implement these new algorithms, along with tools that can pull together all the data needed ...

Instead of being sent to flare which contributes to energy loses and greenhouse gas emissions, many refinery off-gases could be converted into valuable chemicals such as hydrogen. However, the refinery off-gases contain large concentrations of sulfur that must be removed to prevent the poisoning of the nickel-based steam reforming catalyst used in hydrogen production. Traditionally, deep desulfuri ...