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AN INTEGRATED LOGISTICS SUPPORT CONCENT NEEDS TO BE DEVELOPED WHICH WILL DESCRIBE HOW NUCLEAR HARDNESS AND SURVIVABILITY INFORMATION CAN BE PROPERLY INCORPORATED INTO THE ILS. THIS PROPOSAL DESCRIBES THE TECHNICAL CONSIDERATIONS REQUIRED TO FORMULATE THIS TYPE OF CONCEPT. IN ADDITION, WE HAVE ADDRESSED RECENT DEVELOPMENTS BY OTHER AGENCIES INVOLVED IN SIMILAR ACTIVITY. INTEGRATION OF HARDNESS INFO ...

A RESEARCH EFFORT COMPLETED RECENTLY FOR THE AIR FORCE IDENTIFIED NEW TECHNOLOGIES FOR ANGULAR MOTION MEASUREMENT. TWO CONCEPTS WERE FOUND WHICH APPEAR TO OFFER POTENTIAL FOR AN EXCELLENT COMBINATION OF SMALL SIZE, WIDE DYNAMIC RANGE, WIDE BANDWIDTH AND EASE OF FABRICATION AND UTILIZATION. ONE DEVICE, CALLED A FLUID-FILLED BENDER BEAM, USES PIEZOCERAMICELEMENTS TO PRODUCE A SIGNAL PROPORTIONAL TO ...

THE PURPOSE OF THIS RESEARCH IS TO STUDY THE FEASIBILITY OF QUANTIFYING THE EFFECTS OF IREASED AUTOMATION ON THE WORKLOAD AND PERFORMANCE OF THE FEDERAL AVIATION ADMINISTRA-TION'S AIR TRAFFIC CONTROLLER. IN PHASE I, RESEARCH WILL FOCUS ON ADAPTRING OUR CURRENT HUMAN PERFORMANCE MODEL TO REPRESENT THE JOB CHARACTERISTICS OR ATTRIBUTES THAT WILL DETERMINE LEVELS OF WORKLOAD AND PERFORMANCE IN THE AD ...

THE RECOGNIZED LOW LEVEL WIND SHEAR PHENOMENON KNOWN AS A MICROBURST POSES A SERIOUS AIR SAFETY THREAT TO COMMERCIAL AVIATION WHILE IN A LANDING OR POSES A SERIOUS COMMERCIAL AVIATION WHILE IN A LANDING OR TAKEOFF PATTERN. THIS LOW LEVEL WIND SHEAR HAS BEEN DEMONSTRATED TO DE A THIS LOW LEVEL WIND SHEAR HAS BEEN DEMONSTRATED TO BE A MAJOR CONTRIBUTING FACTOR TO SEVERAL CRASHES OF COMMERCIAL AIRLIN ...

WE PROPOSE TO STUDY THE FEASIBILITY, AND SUBSEQUENTLY BUILD A PROTOTYPE, OF A SYSTEM FOR AUTOMATED MATCHING OF IMAGES AND MAP DATA BASES. THIS WILL BE BASED ON AN EVALUATION OF APPROPRIATE MAP DATA BASE STRUCTURES TO ADDRESS, SEARCH FOR AND RANK OBJECTS THAT ARE CANDIDATE GROUND CONTROL. IT WILL FURTHER BE BASED ON USING NOT ONLY POINT-TYPE CONTROL, BUT ALSO LINEAR AND AREAL FEATURES FROM THE DATA ...

THERE IS AN ESTABLISHED NEED FOR A SIMPLE ROBUST TRANSDUCER TO MEASURE PARTICLE VELOCITY IN SEVERE BLAST AND SHOCK ENVIRONMENTS SUCH AS NUCLEAR AND HIGH EXPLOSIVE TESTS. A GAGE CONCEPT IS PROPOSED FOR DEVELOPMENT, BASED ON THE PROVEN MEASUREMENT PRINCIPLES USED IN THE HIGHLY SUCCESSFUL DX GAGE, BUT RECONFIGURED MECHANICALLY AND ELECTRICALLY TO WITHSTAND THE HARSH SHOCK ENVIRONMENTS. THE CONCEPT RE ...

THE PRIMARY OBJECTIVE OF THIS RESEARCH IS TO DEVELOP A METHOD THAT WILL IMPROVE BOTH THE RELIABILITY AND PREDICTABILITY OF WELDING AGE HARDENING ALUMINUM ALLOYS. THIS MAY BE ACCOMPLISHED BY USING AN IMPROVED VASR (VIBRATORY AGING AND STRESS RELIEF) SYSTEM, SQUARE WAVE PULSED ARC WELDING, AND POSSIBLY A COMBINATION OF BOTH TECHNIQUES. VASR TECHNIQUES INCLUDE TESTING IN BOTH THE SUBRESONANT AND RESO ...

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CONTRACTOR WILL DEVELOP A LAGRANGIAN FORMULATION FOR THE ELECTROMAGNETIC RESPONSE OF A METALLIC ENCLOSURE WITH THIN, SLIGHTLY DIFFUSIVE WALLS AND A WIRE SPANNING THE ENCLOSURE. CONTRACTOR WILL FIRST DERIVE A LAGRANGIAN OPERATOR ON THE FIELDS WHICH IS STATIONARY WHEN MAXWELL'S EQUATIONS ARE SATISFIED. THE LAGRANGIAN WILL THEN BE USED TO DETERMINE THE ENCLOSURE EIGENMODES (WIRE INCLUDED) AND THE AMP ...