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FIVE MILITARY SPACE LASER APPLICATIONS, LOCAL AND GLOBAL WIND MAPPING, ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY MEASUREMENTS, AIR AND SPACE BORNE OBJECT ID AND SURVEILLANCE, SUBMARINE COMMUNICATIONS AND INTERSATELLITE POWER RELAY HAVE BEEN IDENTIFIED. THESE APPLICATIONS ALL REQUIRE 100 TO 1000 WATTS OF CONTINUOUS LASER POWER. THE ONLY PRACTICAL WAY TO ORBIT LASER RESOURCES OF THIS HIGH POWER IS THE SOLAR PUMPED LASE ...

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MODEL BASED VISION IS A PROMISING TECHNIQUE FOR RADAR AUTOMATIC TARGET RECOGNITION. ITS APPLICATION TO INFRARED IMAGERY HAS BEEN STYMIED BY TWO PROBLEMS. FIRST, MOST IR SIGNATURE MODELS WERE DEVELOPED FOR REDESIGN APPLICATIONS AND ARE NOT WELL SUITED FOR USE IN MODEL BASED VISION. SECOND, THERE HAS BEEN INSUFFICIENT OVERLAP BETWEEN THE AI MBV COMMUNITY AND THE IR MODELING COMMUNITY. DCS PROPOSES T ...

MODERN TACTICAL AND STRATEGIC FORCES DEPEND HEAVILY ON THE RELIABILITY AND CAPABILITY OF THEIR SUPPORTING COMMAND, CONTROL AND COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEMS FOR SUCCESSFUL OPERATIONS. AS THE ELECTRONIC BATTLEFIELD HAS MATURED, IT HAS BECOME INCREASINGLY DIFFICULT TO FULFILL ALL THE CRITICAL REQUIREMENTS PLACED ON THE COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM. IN THE PAST SEVERAL YEARS, LASERS, MILLIMETER WAVES AND VARIOUS F ...

THIS PROPOSAL ADDRESSES THE DEVELOPMENT OF AN AUTOMATED ALIGNMENT MEASURING SYSTEM FOR THE HYPERVELOCITY RANGE/TRACK G FACILITY, LOCATED AT ARNOLD ENGINEERING DEVELOPMENT CENTER. THE OBJECTIVES OF THIS RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT EFFORT ARE TO EVALUATE METHODS FOR DEVELOPING A SYSTEM THAT CAN RAPIDLY AND COST-EFFECTIVELY INSPECT THE TEST TRACK. THIS WILL REQUIRE AN IN-DEPTH UNDERSTANDING OF THE ENVIR ...

IT HAS BEEN OBSERVED IN BOTH SMALL-SCALE EXPERIMENTS AND FULL-SCALE FUEL SYSTEM SIMULATORS THAT JET FUELS, WHEN HEATED, UNDERGO CHEMICAL REACTIONS THAT EVENTUALLY RESULT IN SEDIMENT/DEPOSIT FORMATION. THUS, THE THERMAL STABILITY OF JET FUELS HAS THE DELETERIOUS EFFECT OF CAUSING FUEL SYSTEM MALFUNCTIONS. THIS SITUATION IS ALSO POSSIBLE IN SUPERSONIC AIRCRAFT, WHERE AN INCREASE IN THE METAL SKIN TE ...

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MULTISHIP AIR COMBAT TRAINING REPRESENTS THE FIGHTER PILOT'S MOST COMPLEX AND DEMANDING PEACETIME CHALLENGE. MASTERY OF THIS ART IS CRUCIAL TO THIS SUCCESS IN COMBAT. YET, CURRENT PROGRAMS AFFORD THE FIGHTER PILOT LITTLE OPPORTUNITY TO TRAIN FOR MULTISHIP AIR COMBAT. MOST AVAILABLE FLYING TIME IS DEVOTED TO THE ACQUISITION AND MAINTENANCE OF INDIVIDUAL SKILLS WHICH ARE PREREQUISITE TO MULTISHIP TR ...