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There are major changes in today's business methods. Expensive and time consuming travel for gathering project personnel together will be replaced, in part, by network-centric technology. Management directives of large corporations are increasinglystipulating the use of a collaborative workspace environment for their organizations that are non-collocated. In the defense sector, time-to-market of ...

Most of today's precision guided weapons use Global Positioning System (GPS) signals to gain improved accuracy. But, as Operation Iraqi Freedom recently showed, foreign militaries have equipment to locally jam GPS signals. Another effective method ofautonomous navigation is necessary to ensure mission success. Similar to rudimentary terrain recognition used in early cruise missiles, the matching o ...

The objective of this Phase I effort is to apply concepts in social network analysis to support effects-based plan development at the strategic level for counter-terrorist operations. We will exploit Dr. John Lemmer's CAT (Causal Analysis Tool) tosupport plan assessment. Mr John Beyerle, an EBO expert and Mr. Craig Robinson, a 20 year decorated DIA senior counter-intelligence analyst shall serv ...

In this proposal 21st Century Technologies will (1) conceptually combine multiple social network patterns to provide greater visibility and a deeper understanding of anomalous and possibly terrorist behaviors to support force protection (2) implementthese combined constructs into an social network pattern library usable for military security analysts and (3) integrate the library into TMODS. ...

A coating system is proposed comprised of1. Gradient pigment particles having an iron core encapsulated with a mixed intermetallic-oxide layer and a further silicon-based layer for enhanced bonding to the matrix2. A matrix raw material that is thermally-sprayable using conventional technology that partially cures to an oxide during application and becomes fully cured on first use3. Thermal spray e ...

Publish-subscribe-query systems have been evolving from costly, monolithic, proprietary applications into a client-server model based on web services. More recently, distributed peer-to-peer systems based on undifferentiated end-user systems have beenexplored. All of these approaches tend to suffer from inherent architectural scalability limits.Based on its experience in building business-to-bus ...

This Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I project is to develop a device to deliver therapeutic drugs in a controlled and monitored manner. This device will be used to control delivery of therapeutic doses of drugs, and to monitor blood levels of such drugs continuously, with on-demand administration, in order to minimize the dosage fluctuation that occurs through oral and injection ...

A significant problem for stakeholders in large satellite systems is the difficulty in getting data about these systems when it is most needed - in orbit and during critical anomalous situations. Near-field diagnostic measurements - including visual andinfrared images and close-range RF measurements - would provide the tools necessary to examine the performance, anomalies, and failures of a targe ...

Numerous organization in the US space community have expressed interest in using small satellites to perform space experiments, technology demonstrations, testing of prototype hardware and software, and the fielding of revolutionary systems such assatellite constellations. Unfortunately, the lack of a standardized, low-cost, small satellite bus architecture has and will limit our ability to advan ...

Ground/shore based Range Instrumentation system are constrained by line-of-sight limitations as well as multi-path effects resulting from low angle tracking over a water horizon. A high altitude platform is required to extend line-of-sight range as wellas increase tracking angle required for effective data relay. Existing and legacy systems meeting this requirement are/were either not cost effec ...