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Degradation and failure prognostics in electronic systems is a growing requirement for both military and civilian sectors of 21st century. US Army's FCS will extensively use complex electronic systems. To enhance functionality, survivality, and mission success probability of FCS platforms while limiting the logistic footprint, efficient prognostic health management is essential. Qualtech Systems, ...

Electrodeposited chromium films have played a key role in the advancement of industrial technology over the past century. Unfortunately, such coatings have a critical problem, namely, the electroplating solution involves hexavalent Cr, which is a severe occupational and environmental hazard. We have produced a proprietary refractory amorphous metallic film that has a nanoindentation hardness app ...

The objective of this proposed program is the design, development and demonstration of novel semiconductor quantum barrier/well devices that utilize spin-control mechanisms available in diluted magnetic materials (DMS) for achieving higher-level functionality (e.g., transistor action) at very high switching speeds and frequencies. The potential simplicity of DMS devices compared to standard thre ...

Future Army operations will employ small (i.e. sub-500 kg) autonomous or semi-autonomous UGVs in both cross-country and urban environments. A fundamental requirement of these UGVs is to quickly and robustly predict their ability to successfully negotiate terrain regions and surmount obstacles. This mobility prediction capability is critical to successful deployment of UGVs that can operate effec ...

Unmanned ground vehicles (UGVs) will play an important role in the nation's next-generation ground forces. One key limitation of autonomous UGVs arises from current approaches to sensor data analysis and interpretation. Most current approaches to sensor data analysis rely on classification: that is, analyzing remotely observable "features" to assign a terrain region as a member of a pre-specifie ...

Qualtech Systems, Inc., in cooperation with the University of Connecticut, proposes to develop a model-based system reliability and availability analysis methodology which considers the impact of different factors, including interactions between the hardware and software components, hardware and software architecture, failure severities, repair parameters, system architecture, and redundancy and f ...

The Phase I effort will develop an easily understood and usable application/tool for U.S. military planners and their U.S. Government Interagency partners to rapidly enter data from framework documentation. Sonalysts will organize and store the data in a relational database that allows the rapid establishment of strategies and moreover supports the development of plans to achieve those goals. To ...