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To reach the end user, oil and gas production at the wellhead must be transmitted through the country and distributed to a wide range of customers. This logistical system requires natural gas gathering lines, processing facilities, product storage tanks and lots of other equipment. What results is air pollution caused by industry losses during these operations and the use of continuous or intermit ...

The goal of this project is the formulation a rigid, insulating, low-density wood composite, with physical and thermal properties comparable to fossil fuel derived foams. _x000D_ _x000D_ To achieve energy conservation standards mandated by certification agencies such as Passive House and LEED, high performance buildings require multiple shells of insulation – an inner shell that contains electri ...

The ability to authenticate electronic devices is an important step towards modernizing the hardware/software of our Nations communication systems. Protecting these targeted networks and devices from malicious cyber-based attacks is becoming increasingly important as the technological and cyber capabilities of our adversaries continue to advance. In addition to network security, device authenticat ...

Legacy GPS receivers do not make use of the disciplined atomic oscillator flywheel output in GPS Disciplined Oscillator systems. The attached proposal shows how the disciplined oscillator signal can be used to improve GPS carrier and code tracking, mitigate multipath, jamming and spoofing, and to detect GPS receiver and satellite system anomalies. Using the disciplined oscillator as the frequency ...

Recent advances in extremely high frequency (EHF) radiation sources have resulted in ability to extend RF techniques to higher and higher frequencies in the electromagnetic spectrum. While signal strength, and consequently signal to noise ratios (SNR) and signal to clutter ratios (SCR) remain the primary limitation, constantly increasing power levels in these bands result in the accessibility of a ...

The importance of simulation in the missile acquisition process and in development of advanced seeker algorithms has been well established.With the ever increasing fidelity of radar sensors and sensor algorithms for aimpoint accuracy, hit-to-kill, and fuzing techniques and the fact that near-field effects of a target can produce significantly different radar signatures, as compared to the far-fiel ...

High fidelity scene generators utilize radar target models over the entire flight profile of a weapon system or sensor under test.As such, radar signatures generated from these models must encompass the entire simulation flight path to include a continuum of engagement conditions ranging from the far-field to very near-field.Signature Solutions, Inc. proposes a technical approach for dynamic and c ...

This project aims to develop a low-cost millimeter-wave (mmW) imaging system for ground vehicles, to operate in combination with a long-wave infrared (LWIR) camera. Such a system will mitigate the challenges of driving in degraded visual environments (DVE) including night time, fog, dust, or smoke by providing real-time image of the vehicle surrounding independent from the presence of naturally oc ...

The purpose of this effort is to harden U.S. interceptor defense weapon capability with respect to weather in the battlespace. This project will focus on free space electromagnetic propagation loss in realistic volumetric weather to better understand sensor performance bounds in all weather conditions. This approach will provide improved sensor performance information over traditional methods that ...

The proposed effort aims to develop a modular software tool based on data-driven reduced order modeling (ROM) techniques for accurate and rapid load analysis using data from CFD and wind tunnel tests to guide design of experiments (DoE) and expedite air and missile system development. The salient aspects of the proposed solution are: (1) mathematically formal data-driven ROMs to enable efficient d ...