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THEATER-LEVEL MISSION ANALYSIS COMPUTER MODELS ARE GENERALLY RUNTIME EFFICIENT, YET LACK THE CAPABILITY OF MODELING EVENTS IN DETAIL. IN MOST SCENARIOS, CERTAIN EVENT OUTCOMES ARE HIGHLY SENSITIVE TO DETAILED MODELING PARAMETERS NOT AVAILABLE IN THE THEATHER-LEVEL MODEL. A SOLUTION TO THIS PROBLEM IS TO INTERFACE THE THEATER-LEVEL MODEL TO A LOWER-LEVEL MODEL THAT CAN SIMULATE PARTICULAR EVENTS IN ...

THE ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSARY (ELISA) IS A MAJOR TOOL FOR DETECTING INFECTIOUS AGENTS, PROTEINS, AND DRUGS IN BIOLOGICAL FLUIDS, OR CONTAMINANTS IN ENVIRONMENTAL SAMPLES. THE MAJORITY OF ELISA'S ARE DESIGNED TO DETECT A SINGLE ANALYTE. WE PROPOSE HERE TO DEVELOP A THREE-ENZYME ELISA SYSTEM IN WHICH THREE ANALYTES CAN BE QUANTITATED CONCURRENTLY FROM A SINGLE SAMPLE. WE HAVE IDENTIFIED THR ...

AN INTEGRATED GROUND-WATER/SOIL-GAS MONITORING SYSTEM WILL BE DESIGNED, CONSTRUCTED AND TESTED. THE BASIS OF THE INTEGRATED SYSTEM WILL BE TO PLACE THE VOLATILE ORGANIC CHEMICALS (VOCS) INTO THE SAME SAMPLE FORM, I.E. VOCS IN AN INERT GAS SUCH AS NITROGEN, FOR ANALYSIS. TO ACCOMPLISH THIS A GROUND-WATER SAMPLER WILL BE DESIGNED WHICH WILL COLLECT A GROUND-WATER SAMPLE WITHOUT PURGING THE WELLS. TH ...

ADVANCES IN ARMOR TECHNOLOGY HAVE PROGRESSED BEYOND THE PERFORMANCE OF CURRENT CHEMICAL ENERGY WEAPONS SYSTEMS. SYSTEMS INCORPORATING TANDEM WARHEADS HAVE SHOWN PROMISE IN DEFEATING PROPOSED ARMOR THREATS. THE KEY TO A TANDEM WARHEAD SYSTEM'S PERFORMANCE IS THE FRONT STAGE. SUCCESSFUL FRONT STAGE DESIGNS WILL SOFTEN THE TARGET, ALLOWING THE REAR STAGE TO PENETRATE DEEP INTO THE TARGET. FRONT STAGE ...

THIN FILMS, TODAY WIDELY USED IN NUMEROUS APPLICATIONS INCLUDING OPTICS, ELECTRONICS, AND SURFACE PROTECTION, ARE COMMONLY DEPOSITED BY A VARIETY OF PHYSICAL VAPOR DEPOSITION (PVD) METHODS. STANDARD PVD TECHNIQUES PRODUCE FILMS WITH INHERENT WEAKNESS OF THEIR OPTICAL AND MECHANICAL PROPERTIES BECAUSE OF THEIR TYPICAL COLUMNAR MICROSTRUCTURE, WHICH IS A RESULT OF THE LOW MOBILITY OF THE CONDENSED A ...

THE DEVELOPMENT OF A COMPUTER CODE TO SOLVE FOR THREE DIMENSIONAL FLOW OVER HELICOPTER ROTORS, INCLUDING CLOSE BLADE-VORTEX INTERACTIONS IS PROPOSED. THE METHOD INVOLVES A PREVIOUSLY DEVELOPED GRID-BASED FREE WAKE "VORTEX EMBEDDING" TECHNIQUE FOR TREATING VORTICITY TRANSPORT THROUGH MOST OF THE FLOW, AND A MODIFIED FINITE DIFFERENCE NAVIER-STOKES METHOD FOR THE REGION CLOSE TO THE BLADES. THE TWO ...

PRELIMINARY STUDIES HAVE REVEALED THE TECHNICAL FEASIBILITY TO MAKE A LIGHT SOURCE, FOR FULL COLOR, DOT MATRIX COCKPIT DISPLAYS, THAT OVERCOMES MOST LIMITATIONS OF SYSTEMS PRESENTLY IN USE. THIS LIGHT SOURCE IS BASED UPON AN INNOVATIVE ADAPTATION OF EXISTIG TECHNOLOGY AND IS READILY AVAILABLE FOR USE WITH MODIFICATION. THESE MODIFICATIONS WILL BEGIN BY ENHANCING THE PROGRAMMING OF AN INTERACTIVE E ...

THE ARMY'S FUTURE TACTICAL TELEPHONE SYSTEM AT CORPS AND LOWER ECHELONS IS BASED UPON THE MOBILE SUBSCRIBER EQUIPMENT (MSE). MSE WILL PROVIDE A TOTAL TELEPHONE CAPABILITY TO INCLUDE: 16 KBPS TRUCKS, TRI-TAC, DSC AND NATO INTERFACES, DIGITAL SWITCHING, DIGITAL FACSIMILE, SECURE AND NON-SECURE SERVICE, CELLULAR MOBILITY, INTERFACE WITH SINGGRARS SNR. THE MSE ARCHITECTURE WITHIN THE CORPS CONSISTS OF ...

CARBON-CARBON (C-C) COMPOSITES ARE AN ATTRACTIVE CLASS OF MATERIALS FOR SPACE SYSTEM COMPONENTS. THEY POSSES HIGH STIFFNESS AND STRENGTH TO DENSITY RATIOS, HIGH THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY, NEAR ZERO THERMAL EXPANSIONS, AND EXCELLENT THERMAL SHOCK RESISTANCE. THESE MATERIALS, HOWEVER, DUE TO THE NATURE OF THEIR FABRICATION AND PROCESSING, INEVITABLY CONTAIN DEFECTS. THE DEFECTS CONSIST OF BROKEN AND MISA ...

BINARY OPTICS PROVIDES THE KEY TECHNOLOGY FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF STATE-OF-THE-ART MULTI-CHANNEL OPTICAL CORRELATORS. THE KEY COMPONENTS FOR THE CORRELATOR ARE: A LARGE APERTURE, WIDE-FIELD DIFFRACTIVE FOURIER TRANSFORM LEN; A BINARY PHASE GRATING THAT DIFFRACTS LIGHT INTO EQUAL INTENSITY ORDERS; AND A TWO-DIMENSIONAL ARRAY OF DIFFRACTIVE MICROLENSES. IN THIS EFFORT, THE EMPHASIS IS PLACED ON THE C ...