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THIS PROJECT IS TO EXAMINE THE STRUCTURAL REQUIREMENTS OF A MUNITIONS DISPENSER, AND IDENTIFY COMPOSITE MATERIALS AND THEIR APPLICATION TO DESIGNS THAT WOULD REDUCE PARASITIC STRUCTURAL WEIGHT BY 30%. THERE ARE A VARIETY OF FIBERS, RESINS, AND MANUFACTURING PROCESSES THAT HAVE THE POTENTIAL FOR ACHIEVING SIGNIFICANT WEIGHT REDUCTION. AS THE PROPERTIES AND COSTS OF COMPLETED COMPONENTS VARYWITH MAN ...

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ADVANCES IN ELECTRONIC COMBAT APPLICATIONS WILL SIGNIFICANTLY INCREASE THE ABILITY OF PILOTS TO OUTPERFORM A LARGE NUMBER OF ADVERSARIES IN ENVIRONMENTS WHERE THERE IS AN EXTREME INFORMATION PROCESSING BURDEN. THE NUMBER OF FACTORS PILOTS MUST CONSIDER IN MAKING ELECTRONIC COMBAT RELATED DECISIONS IS VERY HIGH AND OFTEN INVOLVE UNKNOWN RELATIONSHIPS THAT MUST BE LEARNED FROM EXPERIENCE. IN ADDITIO ...

Active Signal Technologies, in collaboration with Novacap and Alfred University, will advance the development of two bismuth sodium titanate (NBT) ceramic materials with very promising dielectric properties across the temperature range -55°C to 300°C. The work will include enhanced formulation variants and improved processing techniques to optimize for permittivity, loss, breakdown voltage and ...

Many software defenses against reverse engineering, piracy, and tampering rely on disabling the software when such attacks are detected. The proposed research makes innovative use of proces-level software virtualization on a per-application basis to defeat such attacks without disabling the software. The virtualization technology keeps normal operational run time overhead low, invoking more expens ...

In this proposal, Alphasense, Inc. details the development of a novel microwave NDE sensor for defect inspections in silicon nitride bearing balls. The key innovations of this proposal include the following: a) the use of the spherical bearing ball as a dielectric resonator, thus enabling us to correlate the resonance characteristics of the bearing ball with various defects; b) the measurements in ...

Currently, there are two types of antenna configurations which are used with GPS receivers, fixed reception pattern antenna (FRPA) and controlled reception pattern antenna (CRPA). FRPA is a single element antenna and can not use angle of arrival as a discriminator to suppress interfering or jamming signals. CRPA is an array of antenna elements with the ability to reject interference signals. Many ...

THIS PROJECT WILL EXAMINE THE PROCESS OF WAVE EROSION OF FROZEN OR PARTIALLY FROZEN SLOPES. THE SPECIFIC APPLICATION IS THE EROSION OF UNPROTECTED CAUSEWAY BERMS BEING CONSTRUCTED IN THE ARCTIC. THE RATE EROSION, THE NEED FOR SLOPE PROTECTION (OR NON-NEED), AND THE TYPE OF SLOPE PROTECTION REQUIRED WILL BE IDENTIFIED. THE TEST WILL BE CONDUCTED AT PROTOTYPE SCALE TO CORRECTLY MODEL THE THERMAL ERO ...

THE REAL-TIME DETERMINATION OF PILOT MENTAL STATUS IS A CRITICAL FEATURE OF THE WORKLOAD MONITORING AND MINDWARE SUBSYSTEMS THAT HAVE BEEN ENVISIONED FOR FUTURE FIGHTER AIRCRAFT, INCLUDING THE VIRTUALWORLD SUPER-COCKPIT. RECENT LABORATORY AND SIMULATOR STUDIES, SOME CONDUCTED BY ARD, HAVE SUGGESTED THE VALUE OF VARIOUS BEHAVIORAL AND PHYSIOLOGICAL INDICES FOR REFLECTING OPERATIONALLY RELEVANT MENT ...

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