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THE OBJECTIVE OF THIS EFFORT IS TO DEMONSTRATE A PROTOTYPE CONTROLLER FOR A HOWITZER USING A HYBRID NETWORK AND PRODUCTION RULE SYSTEM. THE RESULTING ADAPTIVE CONTROLLER WILL DEMONSTRATE THE FEASIBILITY OF DEVELOPING A REVOLUTIONARY CONTROLLER CAPABLE OF ADAPTING IN A DYNAMIC ENVIRONMENT, MONITORING AND DIAGNOSING BEHAVIOR, AND PREDICTING FUTURE FAULTS AND MAINTENANCE REQUIREMENTS. ABTECH HAS DEVE ...

In Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF) 61% of soldiers injured in explosion blast events experienced Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI). The current incomplete understanding of TBI mechanisms limits the development of protection and therapeutic measures. Animal testing, in vitro study, and analysis of clinical data, while useful and necessary, are slow, expensive, and often inconclusive. Anatomy and physiolog ...

In Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF) 61% of soldiers injured in explosion blast events experienced Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI). The current incomplete understanding of TBI mechanisms limits the development of protection and therapeutic measures. Animal testing, in vitro study, and analysis of clinical data, while useful and necessary, are slow, expensive, and often inconclusive. Anatomy and physiolog ...

The gas turbine engine in the Army Abrams tank, the Honeywell AGT-1500, is currently experiencing stall and surge related failures of the fourth stage Low Pressure Compressor (LPC). These failures require the removal and overhaul of the tank’s powerpack costing the Army up to $200,000 per event. While all gas turbine compressors run the risk of stalling under non-ideal inlet or operational condi ...

There is a growing need to accurately characterize nuclear materials not only for nuclear safeguards and nonproliferation treaty verification but also for forensics and provenance. At present, nuclear material identification requires samples to be collected and sent to laboratories for analysis using large and expensive equipment, such as inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometers (ICP-MS) or s ...

The OneTESS program is the U.S. Army next generation system for conducting live training exercises of simulated force-on-force/target engagements. The existing weapon orientation system for the OneTESS program uses magnetometers to obtain the weapon heading information. Unfortunately, the magnetometer measurements are highly susceptible to many random error sources such as sun spot activity, powe ...

EnerQuest Systems, LLC's Phase II technical approach focuses on the development of a prototype system that post-processes LIDAR data within a database management, image processing, and GIS environment. The development of the EnerQuest prototype system isdue to the culmination of knowledge gained through Phase I investigations and testing, coupled to the vast experienced gained by EnerQuest during ...

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TIAX will build, characterize and abuse test high energy 18650-size lithium-ion cells employing Fe-substituted LiCoPO4 high voltage cathode material developed by the Army Research Laboratory and compare their performance to control LiCoO2-based lithium-ion cells. TIAX will perform overcharge, external short circuit, uniform heating and crush tests to the specification of the UL1642 standard and wi ...

This proposal describes a complete vehicle corrosion simulation and modeling tool called ACES (Accelerated Corrosion Expert Simulator) that has a high degree of correlation to actual accelerated corrosion durability test (ACDT) data. The system imports existing 3-D geometric models of full vehicles. An integrity check is conducted to determine if there are missing or improper entities or propertie ...