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Army defense technologies for high speed, lethal threat intercept increasingly rely on high maneuverability of the kill vehicle through both aerodynamic and thrust augmentation while the threats themselves have relied on equally increasing maneuvering defenses to avoid intercept. Because it is in the interest of defense systems to target the threat as early as possible, intercept locations in high ...

Computer-based training has primarily focused on the acquisition and application of procedural knowledge, emphasizing development of skilled performance of tasks. In many important Naval roles, however, the ability to apply more general concept to specific novel problems is even more important than procedural skills. Sonar operators, who must reason about acoustic oceanography and sensor/s ...

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As underwater threats continue to evolve, active sonar systems and operators must evolve with them, requiring improvements to sources, receivers, signal processing algorithms, and search mission planning applications in order to maintain and improve detection rates. Any improvements in the latter requires a detailed and accurate understanding of the acoustic underwater environment, and the underly ...

Development of air vehicles capable of routine operation and able to achieve hypersonic speeds is paced by the availability of a propulsion system. The vision is to combine improved off-the-shelf turbines for low-speed operation (M=0 to 2+) and dual-mode ramjet (DMSJ) engine technologies for high-speed operation (M=2+ to 5+), with both engines sharing a common air inlet and a common thrust produci ...

The objective of this program is to develop an adaptive lumbar support and alignment system that will serve to reduce spinal injuries to the lower spinal column for aircrew members involved in aircraft ejections or high impact helicopter crashes. Fractures of the lower thoracic and upper lumbar vertebra are identified as the most dominant major type of injury that occurs during the high accelerati ...

MODERN SENSORS PRODUCE VAST AMOUNTS OF SIGNAL INFORMATION WHICH MUST BE PROCESSED QUICKLY AND ACCURATELY TO PERFORM SURVEILLANCE AND TARGET TRACKING FUNCTIONS. PREPROCESSING OF THE SENSOR DATA IS PERFORMED FIRST TO REMOVE BACKGROUND SIGNALS, DETECT SPIKES AND PEAKS, FILTER THE SIGNAL, ENHANCE EDGES AND IMPROVE THE SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIO. FURTHER PROCESSING IS THEN PERFORMED TO IDENTIFY OBJECT DIREC ...

ASRC Federal Astronautics is pleased to present this proposal to demonstrate feasibility of a proportional thruster that is additively manufactured from a high temperature alloy and well-suited for use in a future Trident II D5 post boost control system upgrade. Our proportional valve design is based upon highly successful architectures originally developed by our Orbital ATK commercialization par ...

To reduce size, weight, power and cost (SWaP-c), military platforms have been evolving towards more integrated platforms that utilize all available space. For radiating systems, this will require exploring innovative design methods, materials and manufacturing approaches to realize cost-effective, customizable and conformal antennas. An attractive solution to this challenge is offered by additive ...

Modern aircraft contain more and more lightweight, but easily damaged, composite structures, with no way to detect in-flight composite delimination or impact damage. Innovative Dynamics (IDI) proposes to address this problem by developing a distributed damage detection system based on embedded piezoelectric actuators/sensors. Prior IDI research showed that an embedded piezoceramic actuator/sensor ...