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A very capable team composed of a small business, ThermoAnalytics, with support from a major aerospacecompany, Boeing, and a long time TACOM contractor, MTU/KRC, will develop a Hybrid Electric Vehicle design tool. This team will pursue the research required to develop a practical and useful design tool for the HEV designer. The development of the prototype software will begin in Phase I resulting ...

This proposal describes a computational model of human observers, DYTA(dynamic Target analysis), for dynamic target detection, depth and velocity estimation DYTA will be developed based on human perception knowledge as well as physics of moving vehicles. The computational model consists of two levels of processes, early and cognitive visual processes. At the early visual processes level, DYTA has ...

The military has a strong need for telerobotic fire fighting equipment because the current operating procedure for combating fires in hazardous areas is to deploy humans, but once the fire exceeds a predefined level, the people are removed from the scene and the fire is left to burn its course. There arc two problems with this procedure: first, people are put at risk since the fire fighters might ...

THE OBJECTIVE OF THIS EFFORT IS TO DEMONSTRATE THE FEASIBILITY OF USING A "HYBRID YARN" CONSISTING OF A MIXTURE OF GRAPHITE AND THERMOPLASTIC FILAMENTS TO FABRICATE A PRIMARY STRUCTURAL COMPONENT TYPICAL OF CURRENT AND FUTURE ARMY COMPOSITE AIRFRAME STRUCTURES. THE RESULTING THERMOPLASTIC MATRIX COMPOSITE MATERIAL IS ANTICIPATED TO HAVE THE SAME IMPROVEMENTS IN TOUGHNESS AND REPAIRABILITY THAT CHA ...

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AN ALGORITHM IS DEVELOPED FOR APPLICATION IN A RAY TRACING PROGRAM TO PROVIDE THE AMPLITUDE, POLARIZATION, AND PHASE OF AN ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE REFLECTED FROM A DIELECTRIC BODY. TWO DIFFERENT CONFIGURATIONS ARE USED. THE FIRST CONSISTS OF AN ABSORPTIVE DIELECTRIC BODY AND THE SECOND OF A DIELECTRIC BODY COATED WITH A ABSORPTIVE LAYER. THE ALGORITHM IS BASED ON AN EXACT SOLUTION TO THE BOUNDARY VAL ...

The United States military's current doctrine calls for the ability to quickly deploy small units to any place on the globe. The two biggest challenges of this new doctrine are providing the airlift capability for the military's vehicles and overcoming the infrastructure that is incapable of supporting the military's vehicle that is found in many Third-World nations. A new vehicular technology, ba ...

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A NEW TECHNIQUE TO JOIN THE SMALL (0.05-2 MM DIAMETER) VEIN AND ARTERIES USING A DISSOLVABLE STENT AND PROPRIETARY SEMI-AUTOMATIC WRAPPING DEVICE THAT SETS AND COMPLETES A COJOINING IN LESS THAN 1 MINUTE. NO STAPLES ARE USED AND NO VESSEL EVERSION IS REQUIRED. PHASE I OF THE SBIR PROGRAM WILL TEST THE CONCEPT IN SMALL ANIMALS AND CONDUCT TESTS TO OPTIMIZE THE WRAPPING DEVICE. THE NEW TECHNIQUES IS ...

Not Available SEA CON proposes a Fleet requirements driven modification and re-design project for submarine outboard connectors. Fleet failure modes are reviewed in early taksing to establish the priority and direction of the Phase I engineering design effort. Methods are propoesed to integrate historical Fleet connector failure mode information and current Fleet data into a summary of outboard c ...