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The company is commercializing a mobile social computing system named Tiramisu (“pick me up” in Italian) that is intended to connect riders and transit service providers. It supports a variety of collaboration mechanisms designed to improve the experience of riders in a transit service and improve the service provided by service operators. The system has been designed using current knowledge i ...

Individual differences in vulnerability to sleep loss and fatigue from extended work hours and night work are a substantial problem in transportation policy making, work schedule development, fatigue risk management strategies, and prediction of performance impairment in real-world operations (Van Dongen et al. 2003; Mollicone et al. 2010). Our group was the first to document the considerable magn ...

ABSTRACT: Accudyne proposes a SBIR program to develop an automated material placement process for aircraft radomes and demonstrate it by forming quartz cynate ester fabric over an existing radome tool. The process employs computer simulations to model the forming process and compute a 2D fabric pattern as well as a four degrees of motion machine to form the fabric over the curved radome tool. T ...

ABSTRACT: A hybrid computational Electromagnetic solution will be developed that combines techniques in order to handle far-field propagation, near-field interactions, and detailed interactions with complex objects, such as human anatomical models, while taking advantage of the computational power of graphics processing units (GPU). The approach will leverage existing, mature physics models with ...

ABSTRACT: Fully Dense Reactive Nanocomposite Materials (FD-RNM) have unique chemical and physical properties and if properly exploited can lead to greater blast effects, chem/bio agent defeat and less collateral damage than conventional steel warhead cases. Whether the FD-RNM are thermite type or metal-metalloid type these benefits are realized through the materials highly exothermic reactions. ...

ABSTRACT: FBS proposes to develop an ultra light-weight ultrasonic guided wave deicing/anti-icing retrofittable system for Remotely Piloted Aircraft (RPA). This system will utilize a focusing/phasing technique to direct and focus energy along specified areas along the leading edge. An anti-icing approach using the actuators will also be explored, never allowing the ice to form would be of value ...

ABSTRACT: Paramount has previously developed thermal controls for the SLS process and documented some of the required in-situ sensing capabilities to achieve full process stability. Paramount"s partners have previously modeled the laser energy density for the process and other composite manufacturing processes. SLS as an out-of-the-box technology does not have the required manufacturing control ...

ABSTRACT: Sheets, or"mats"of EMI protective materials have critical value for many systems of strategic importance for the Department of Defense (DoD). It is of great importance that all such materials that are integrated into fielded systems are fully capable of meeting shielding requirements; however, detecting defects or flaws that compromise performance using current methods is extremely tim ...

ABSTRACT: There is a need for ultra-high performance RADAR absorbing materials (RAM), with performance characteristics superior to that offered by current technology, to be implemented for the testing and evaluation of aircraft level avionic and electronic warfare (EW) systems in an electromagnetically quiet environment at the Benefield Anechoic Facility (BAF). Current RAM implementations for an ...

ABSTRACT: We propose to research a real-time tool for Planning of Intelligent Course of Action with Learning (PICAL). PICAL will reason over the available resources, available maneuvers, current threats and potential future threats and will generate a course of actions to maximize the chances of mission success. This course of actions can then be presented to the pilot for approval and modificati ...