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Aeromedical evacuation (AE) involves prolonged transport of injured warfighters at risk for clinical deterioration under austere medical conditions. Because of their injuries they have a high potential for progression of recognized and/or occult additional injuries leading to acute instability during Critical Care Air Transport Team (CCATT) transfer. While the CCATTs have a great depth of medica ...

We propose to develop a space-ready instrument that can accurately measure the emissivities, absorptivities, and long term stabilities of several passive and active coatings or thermal structures simultaneously. This technique provides a direct measure of the heat flowing through the surface using heat flux sensors, so the performances of the thermal control materials mounted on these sensors are ...

The Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL), Military Satellite Communication (MILSATCOM), and National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) have a current and future need for advanced commercially available inherently radhard primitive cell libraries to support new designs for satellites and other spacecraft. American Semiconductor Inc. proposes the use of double gated Flexfet technology for ...

ARGTEC is developing a new and innovative technology based on the theory of Attributed Relational Graph (ARG) for automated indexing and retrieval in multi-channel, unstructured environments for the Global Information Grid (GIG). Our system captures the information contents of unstructured (as well as structured or semi-structured) data through the use of a hierarchical ARG representation scheme. ...

The objective of this proposal is to demonstrate the feasibility of developing an extended and more comprehensive MASINT capability using acoustic background signals. Phase 1 will demonstrate the feasibility of identifying the environment of cellular phone conversations from the signature of background noise. The overall concept extends to entail the categorization and identification of engines ...

Reliable design tools are of paramount importance to predict the combustion processes under supersonic conditions, as obtaining ground experimental data under these conditions is difficult and expensive. Combustion Science & Engineering, Inc. (CSE) proposes to develop a global approach for creating and implementing reduced chemical kinetic mechanisms for hydrocarbon fuels in the design process of ...

Detecting and tracking small moving targets is a great challenge for aircraft. Passive Ground Moving Target Indicator (PGMTI) algorithms must carry out the simultaneous tasks of robust platform motion compensation, false alarm suppression, and accurate target tracking, all in real-time. CompuSensor propose using its Lie Transformation Group method of Gabor-type place token matching as the basis of ...

This Phase II research and development effort will build and demonstrate a prototype automated end-to-end sensor-to-weapon environment, within which user-specified rules of engagement will evolve from today’s manual targeting and weapon-target pairing processes to highly automated ‘kill chain’ operations, thereby enabling automated generation and delivery of precision targeting and ...

Spacecraft systems generally contain an array of sensors connected to a central controller via a myriad of electrical interfaces. An interface control document that contains a detailed description of each of the electrical interfaces is required to specify the interconnection of the various subsystem components. Satisfying all the electrical requirements imposed by this document is time consumi ...

Defense Research Technologies, Inc. proposes to analyze, design, simulate, and evaluate the feasibility of a smart hemodynamic monitoring system for the Critical Care Air Transport Teams (CCATTs). Of particular interest is our ability 1) to non-invasively measure bulk density, viscosity, specific heat, and concentrations of CO2, O2, 2) to use these non-invasive measurements in calculating short a ...