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to High speed x-ray imaging is extremely important for several military and civilian applications such as analyzing ballistic impacts, imaging exploding land mines, medical computed tomography, and non-destructive testing. A lack of high-resolutiondetection systems with large active imaging areas and a microsecond time resolution is currently the major limiting factor in these important applicati ...

The primary objective of this SBIR is to implement a proof-of-concept interoperability gateway based on a layered architectural design developed in Phase One. The goal is to demonstrate the viability of a layered translation architecture for developinginter-exchange gateways that must perform data translation from one medium to another and/or among several mediums. For example, with the mandated p ...

Effects-based operations must determine how the enemy might respond to air strikes. Current approaches to predicting enemy response to target damage suffer from serious limitations: they typically do not consider how the enemy might repair or modify thestructure of a target system, they typically reason only about a single type of target system, they cannot adequately represent action duration, c ...

High-accuracy standoff missile targeting systems such as JASSM require prominent geometric features for automatic target correlation. Three-dimensional wireframe models can precisely describe object boundaries (edges and corners) and are thus well-suitedrepresentations of fixed targets. The past two decades of computer vision research have seen considerable advances in wireframe construction from ...

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Information operations and information warfare (IO/IW) are critical capabilities for 21st century warfare. Because the skills of IO/IW are primarily cognitive, they are difficult to observe, measure, and train reliably. Aptima and its teammates will buildscenario-based assessment and training technology to help the 39th IOS assess and train the analytic skills of its students. We call this system ...

Simulation-based training is becoming an increasingly dominant mode of performance development in the broad spectrum of instructional, educational, and mission rehearsal media. In Phase I, we prototyped a Training Scenario Generator (TSG) to advance thetraining scenario development process from art to science. The TSG is envisioned as the front-end to an integrated team training system. In Phas ...

The fast pace of technological change has pushed military procurement into a design environment in which traditional evolutionary design methods no longer satisfy the need to take advantage of the new functionality that is now emerging. No aspect of thisnew demand is more taxing than the design for human participation. A more systematic, human-oriented approach is needed to elicit and define the c ...