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A FEASIBILITY STUDY ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF A STOICHIOMETRIC DIESEL ENGINE IS PROPOSED USING THE THERMAL IGNITION COMBUSTION CHAMBER. THE ADIABATIC DIESEL ENGINE WITHOUT WATER OR AIR COOLING ALLOWS THE THERMAL IGNITION CHAMBER TO STORE HEAT DURING COMBUSTION AND RELEASE THE ENERGY FOR IGNITION IN THE FOLLOWING CYCLE. INJECTION OF FUEL ON TO 1800-2000 DEG. F WALL TEMPERATURE WILL PREPARE THE FUEL FOR ...

THIS PROPOSAL PRESENTS AN APPROACH TO THE DEVELOPMENT AND EXPERIMENTALREFINEMENT OF TECHNIQUES AND INTERFACE COMPONENTS TO FACILITATE USER ACCESS TO PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTION DATA IN THE CONTEXT OF MILITARY DECISION PROBLEMS. WE PROPOSE TO DEVELOP A DESIGN METHODOLOGY FOR DECISION AIDING INTERFACES FOR TIME-STRESSED, MILITARY DECISIONS THAT BEGIN WITH A CHARACTERIZATION OF AVAILABLE INFORMATION AND ...

BRAIDTECH'S PROPRIETARY AUTOMATED, CONTINUOUS PROCESS FOR FABRICATING 3-D BRAIDED COMPOSITE PREFORMS WILL BE THE BASIS FOR THE DESIGN OF A 3-D BRAIDING MACHINE CAPABLE OF FABRICATING NET SHAPE PREFORMS OF INTEREST TO THE TURBINE ENGINE AEROPROPULSION DESIGNER. THE DESIGN THAT EVOLVES WILL BE AN EXTENSION OF BASIC CONCEPTS EVALUATED BY BRAIDTECH FOR THE DESIGN OF AUTOMATED LOOMS FOR FABRICATING SHA ...

A SYSTEMS APPROACH IS PRESENTED FOR DEVELOPMENT AND EMPIRICAL VALIDATION OF A HUMAN OPERATOR MODEL FOR SYSTEM EVALUATION (HOMSE). A PLAN IS PROPOSED TO DEVELOP HOMSE PRIMARILY FROM EXISTING TECHNIQUES AND COMPONENTS IN THE DOMAIN OF HUMAN PERFORMANCE MODELS. THE MODEL WILL BE DESIGNED TO PREDICT THE EFFECTS OF INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES IN THE PERCEPTUAL-MOTOR-COGNITIVE PERFORMANCE OF HUMAN OPERTORS U ...

WE ADDRESS THE NEED TO INTEGRATE ATTRIBUTES INTO ALGORITHMS USED TO TRACK AND CORRELATE TARGET CONTACTS. EXISTING SYSTEMS ARE GENERALLY BASED ON OBSERVATIONS OF TARGET KINETICS. WE PROPOSE TO DEVELOP DURING PHASE I AN ALGORITHM FOR CORRELATION AND CLASSIFICATION OF SURFACE CONTACTS IN WHICH THE TREATMENT OF SELECTED TARGET ATTRIBUTES IS FULLY INTEGRATED WITH THE TREATMENT OF TARGET POSITION AND VE ...

CURRENT NAVY MUNITION CONTAINERS PROVIDE INADEQUATE PROTECTION FROM A WIDE SPECTRUM OF THREATS. THIS LACK OF PROTECTION MAY RESULT IN DETONATION OF THE SHIP'S MAGAZINE. CURRENT MUNITION CONTAINER DESIGNS MUST MEET REQUIREMENTS FOR VIBRATION, ENVIRONMENT, HANDLING, MAINTAINABILITY, SIZE, AND WEIGHT, BUT DO NOT ADDRESS INSENSITIVEMUNITION PROGRAM REQUIREMENTS OF PROTECTION AGAINST FRAGEMENT/BULLET I ...

STUDIES WILL BE DIRECTED TOWARD DEVELOPING/IMPROVING CURRENT ABSORBERS USED IN POLYCARBONATE MATERIALS AS WELL AS PROVIDING ADDITIONAL COVERAGE IN OTHER SPECTRAL REGIONS. IN ADDITION TO THE POLYCARBONATE STUDIES, PLASMA SPUTTERING DEPOSITION TECHNIQUES WILL BE EVALUATED TO DETERMINE THEIR POTENTIAL USE FOR DEPOSITING MULTILAYER COATINGS ON ABSORBING POLYCARBONATE OPHTHALMIC MATERIAL.

THE PROPOSED WORK IS CONCERNED WITH THE DISTRIBUTION OF SIGNALS THROUGH A FIBEROPTIC NETWORK IN LARGE PHASED ARRAY ANTENNAS UTILIZED FOR RADAR AND COMMUNICATION PURPOSES. SPECIFICALLY, SMALL SCALE SUBARRAY CONSISTING OF NINE ELEMENTS WILL BE DESIGNED, FABRICATED, AND TESTED. THE SUBARRAY WILL UTILIZE A FIBEROPTIC DISTRIBUTION NETWORK TO ROUTE VARIOUS CONTROL AND INFORMATION SIGNALS BETWEEN THE CEN ...

A STUDY IS PROPOSED TO DEFINE AND EVALUATE FEASIBILE JAMMER EXPULSION CONCEPTS FOR THE HOMING PRECURSOR JAMMER (HPJ) SYSTEM, AND TO ASSESS THE IMPLICATIONS OF CANDIDATE EXPULSION CONCEPTS ON JAMMER AEROTHERMODYNAMIC PERFORMANCE AND REQUIREMENTS. CONCEPTS WHICH FEATURE THE SEQUENTIAL EXPULSION/EJECTION OF INDIVIDUAL JAMMERS AXIALLY OUT THE REAR OF THE CARRIER VEHICLE WILL BE EMPHASIZED. RELIABLE CO ...

THIS PROPOSAL WOULD ENCOMPASS THE DESIGN AND FABRICATION OF SOLID STATE POWER SWITCHES AS HYBRID CIRCUITS. THE CIRCUITS WOULD CONTAIN PARALLEL OUTPUT TRANSISTORS, ALL REQUIRED CURRENT DRIVE STAGES, HIGHTEMPERATURE AND HIGH-CURRENT PROTECTION. TEMPERATURES ARE MEASURED WITH SCREEN PRINTED OR CHIP THERMISTORS AND CURRENT WILL BE MONITORED AS A VOLTAGE ACROSS A SENSE RESISTOR OR OTHER METHOD YET TO B ...