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Tactical scenarios are being combined with evolving multimedia display technologies and high performance simulators to enhance training opportunities throughout the military. To date, with the exception of the SDV-simulator, no high performance simulationtool has been developed to train Naval Special Warfare operators.This proposal demonstrates the feasibility of developing a SEAL Tactical Simula ...

Tactical data communications for military ground operations require multi-band and multi-channel operations. The constraints imposed by electromagnetic and survivability considerations dictate that the communication antenna be as low profile as possible,without severely compromising the ability of the warfighter to communicate even when operating under marginal propagation conditions. In this eff ...

The proliferation of nuclear, biological, and chemical weapons continues to pose a threat to U.S. national security. The threat to armed forces can be reduced by early detection of deleterious agents prior to any human contact. The probability of usingsuch weapons by a hostile force increases as they become more prevalent. This further emphasizes the need for field deployable systems that are c ...

Development of single use, freeze-dried PCR reagents for use with the Idaho Technology Ruggedized Advanced Pathogen Identification Device (RAPIDT system) or other commercially available real-time PCR devices is proposed. These reagents will have extendedstability at ambient temperature thus allowing sensitive PCR methods to be used in non-laboratory environments for the rapid detection of biologi ...

Intelligent Optical Systems (IOS), in collaboration with Tetracore LLC (Rockville, MD), proposes to design, construct, and demonstrate a novel, portable, self-contained, imaging microarray reader (referred to here as Biomapper) to rapidly identify theexposure of Army personnel to biological warfare agents, chemical agents, physical stress, infectious diseases, and other medical conditions that wou ...

The service member currently has no visual means to determine the residual service life of his or her respirator. Early pioneers recognized the acute need for an ESLI in the 1920's and later several authors addressed different ESLI construction conceptsand designs. However, due to the instability of the selected colorimetric chemistries and/or the suspected poor mechanical properties of the sup ...

Present Naval Special Warfare (NSW) craft are generally powered by diesel engines, which are relatively large, heavy and complex with many moving parts. And, while gas turbine engines have been examined as a compact, high-power, low-maintenancealternative, they tend to be relatively noisy and discharge large volumes of hot exhaust. Both of these characteristics are less than desirable from a det ...

This proposal describes a new automated precision polymer coating technology based onsupercritical fluid processing. Highly uniform and reproducible polymer films and coatingsare produced using a simple spray-on method known as Rapid Expansion of SupercriticalSolutions or (RESS). The deposition process is automated through the use of a rotarystage and mechanical shutter and the entire process is ...

The objective of the proposed program is to develop and demonstrate a robust andefficient optical parametric oscillator for converting the output of a solid state,1.06 micron laser to the 8-12 mmicron band for application to laser standoff chemicalsensors. The converter will be based on nonlinear crystals that have much higherdamage threshold than the conventional AgGaSe2 type and efficiency will ...

The effectiveness of team-oriented tactical operations by SOF is greatly enhancedby the ability to tightly coordinate the actions of team members. In particular,advances in miniature commercial computer display technologies show promise forproviding a powerful tool for disseminating information to team members. Thisdisplay capability, coupled with advances in personal digital assistants (PDAs) f ...