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The primary objective of this project is to develop a number of classes of novel miniature inertial igniters for thermal batteries that are suitable for gun-fired munitions and mortars. As part of the Phase I efforts, systematic methods have been developed for determining the performance of miniature inertial igniter concepts to all no-fire acceleration profiles, including those due to accidental ...

The primary objective of this project is to develop a class of novel low-cost programmable miniature electrically initiated inertial igniters that operate without any external power for miniature thermal batteries that are suitable for gun-fired munitions, mortars and small missiles. A systematic method is developed for determining the performance of each miniature electrically initiated inertial ...

The U.S. Army has long recognized the need for high mobility power sources to support Future Combat System (FCS) platforms and Global War on Terror (GWOT) activities. Presently, however, the largest conventional Tactical Quiet Generator (TQG) that can be towed behind a High Mobility Multi-Purpose Wheeled Vehicle (HMMWV) is only 15 kW. With the recent advent of commercially available turbodiesel ...

As numerical simulations have grown in size and complexity, it is becoming increasingly difficult to manage the execution of the computational process and the resulting output data. Kitware proposes a co-processing analysis and visualization framework that greatly improves the ability to monitor and control simulation and data acquisition systems. Concurrent analysis enables fine temporal informa ...

DVC will develop a prototype implementation of a platform independent, generic, configurable software library to provide the ability to add sophisticated spatial access methods to an existing IG. This library will spatially group all data registered withit and provide a number of spatial access methods. Spatial access methods include insertion and removal of objects, range queries, and intersect ...

ANP Technologies proposes to integrate a commercially available air sample concentrator from ICx MesoSystems with our automated detection instrument that uses the NIDS® multiplexed assays and NIDS® Auto-Reader (AR) device. A trigger device may also be incorporated into the final system, which might better enable the system to serve as a remote monitor of air streams. The proposed effort will b ...

Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) are an important technology for many DoD and commercial high performance computing applications. A number of supercomputing, workstation, and embedded computing hardware platforms have emerged recently to supply FPGA computing power for these applications. Unfortunately, developing for these platforms is currently a long, difficult and error-prone process. Wh ...

In Phase I of this effort we analyzed the structural response of a BLU 109 during typical penetration events. Based on these finite element results, we proposed and demsonstrated a simple robust concept for a passive penetrator sensor that identifies the material being penetrated and also correlates strongly with its underground trajectory. Such a sensor would obviously provide valuable informatio ...

The following program will develop an advanced Prognostics and Health Management (PHM) system design tool that integrates a model-based FMECA methodology with state-of-the-art PHM system strategies directly linked to downstream Life Cycle Costs (LCC). Anautonomous PHM system optimization will seek out recommended PHM system designs based on a cost function that accurately represents key LCC varia ...

We propose to build a program transformation system called DIRA that can automatically embed into network applications a comprehensive cyber defense against an important class of attacks called control-hijacking attacks, which allow remote attackers to hijack a remote program and eventually its underlying system, and include such attacks as buffer overflow, integer overflow and format string attac ...