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Catastrophic failures in aircraft electrical power systems can compromise the readiness, safety, and capabilities of the war-fighter. In this effort, a multi-physics suite of tools will be developed based upon the successful Phase I research to provide a comprehensive prognostics and health management system (PHM) for aircraft generators and associated electrical systems. The PHM will be based upo ...

USSOCOM has a need to provide high-resolution video imagery to the sensor operators of current and future gunships, other unmanned aircraft systems, and similar platforms, while supporting missions above an area of interest. The key factors driving this need are the ability to see beyond visual range of the main platform, assist sensors on the main platform to see through weather and to aid in mo ...

In both the commercial and military electronics markets, there is a continuing trend to reduce size, weight, and overall equipment costs, while at the same time increasing functionality and improving reliability of the electronic circuitry. Integrated circuit manufacturers have addressed this need by integrating greater functionality directly onto the silicon chips, thus yielding the System-on-Chi ...

The SHOT Automated Shipboard Dishwashing System will provide users an automatic dishwashing and sortation system. The SHOT ASDS solution is a robust, modular drop-in solution that can either interface with existing dishwashing systems or can include a dishwasher/dryer tailored for the specific application. The SHOT ASDS will provide friendly system interfaces for the user to tailor the automation ...

SHOT’s innovative design for a deeply buried hardened target fuze incorporates the use of a non-inertial proximity sensor as a solution to the shortcomings of existing accelerometer –based smart fuze designs. The proposed sensor is compact, relatively low power, and can easily be adapted to a wide variety of proximity sensing problems in retrofit adaptable form factors. SHOT’s proposed desi ...

The primary objective of the proposed work is to develop a directed energy system analysis and design environment. This analysis and design environment will be based upon Distributed Heterogeneous Simulation (DHS) and Distributed Heterogeneous Optimization (DHO) technology. DHS allows the interconnection of models developed in different simulation languages running on different computing platfor ...

Viscosity and low temperature lubricant characteristics determine turbine engine starting capability, and lubricant motion with respect to the contact surfaces at low ambient temperature. Such low ambient temperatures influence the oil viscosity and also the variation of its curve shape versus the temperature. According to the aforementioned research method, the requirements for accuracy and rel ...

Unable to read or interpret written text can pose major problems for people in many circumstances, and Rosetta Phone is a system that will aid in interpreting this written text. The objective of this research project is to develop a complete system investigating both hardware platforms and software programming environments capable of real-time, autonomous, visual interpretation of written text. ...

This Phase II proposal extends the technique developed during Phase I for protecting CPI into a commercially viable and generally applicable source-to-source transformation engine. In addition, we expand the Phase I approach to support high-performance secure computation through careful division of tasks, between a slower secured processor, and multiple high-performance general-purpose COTS proce ...

The primary objective of the proposed work is to investigate design techniques to improve torque density, power density, and efficiency in wound-rotor synchronous machines. The underlying principle of the proposed design technique is to alter the flux paths in the machine to increase torque production. This will be achieved through optimally altering the stator tooth geometry, rotor tooth geomet ...