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THIS PROPOSAL DESCRIBES A FEASIBILITY STUDY FOR IMPLEMENTING A REALTIME, THREE-DIMENSIONAL CLOUD MODEL TO SUPPORT REENTRY VEHICLE TEST OPERATIONS. AN EXISTING RESEARCH CLOUD MODEL WOULD BE INTERFACED TO A MESOSCALE ATMOSPHERIC MODEL. THE COMBINED MODELING SYSTEM WOULD BE ADAPTED FOR USE AT THE KWAJALEIN MISSILE RANGE (KMR). FORECASTS OF DETAILED CLOUD FEATURES SUCH AS WATER CONTENT, RADAR REFLECTI ...

A PLAN FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF A MESOSCALE WEATHER NOWCASTING SYSTEM IS PROPOSED. THAT SYSTEM WOULD BE USED AS A TACTICAL DECISION AID FOR SUPPORT OF TACTICAL ARMY OPERATIONS. THE SYSTEM WOULD BE COMPOSED OF MODULAR SENSOR PACKAGES, A TELEMETRY SYSTEM, A FLEXIBLE SYSTEM OF SENSOR DEPLOYMENT, AND A MICROPROCESSOR BASED TACTICAL COMPUTER SYSTEM FOR THE ANALYSIS AND DISPLAY OF DATA COLLECTED. THE PROP ...

TO DEFINE, DESIGN, AND BUILD PROTOTYPE HARDWARE AND SOFTWARE TO ENABLE A PILOT OR GUNNER TO USE HUMAN VOICE TO RECEIVE AUTOMATIC STATUS REPORTS, GIVE COMMANDS TO, AND QUERY ARMAMENT, AIRCRAFT, AND FLIGHT INSTRUMENT FUNCTIONS. HARDWARE WILL BE CONSTRUCTED ON A MODULAR BASIS CONSISTING OF A SPEECH OUTPUT ADVISOR AND A LOW MEMORY REQUIREMENT (LMR) VOICE/UTTERANCE RECOGNIZER. THE LMR VOICE/UTTERANCERE ...

OPTOELECTRONIC SOURCES, INTEGRATED AS MONOLITHIC ELEMENTS ON SILICON VLSI CHIPS, OFFER IMPORTANT ADVANTAGES IN THE TRANSMISSION OF INFORMATION WITHIN THE CHIP OR BETWEEN CHIPS IN ADVANCED COMPUTER SYSTEMS. THE SPEED OF OPTICAL-INTEGRATED VLSI DEVICES IS EXPECTED TO BE CONSIDERABLY HIGHER THAN EQUIVALENT VLSI WITH METALLIC INTERCONNECTS, DUE TO ABSENCE OF THE RC DELAY INHERENT IN THE METALLIC CONDU ...

THE ULTIMATE HIGH-EFFICIENCY CRYSTALLINE SILICON SOLAR CELL DESIGN CONSISTS OF A THIN FILM OF ELECTRICALLY-ACTIVE SILICON EPITAXIALLY GROWN ON AN OXIDE-OVERCOATED, INFRARED-TRANSPARENT GALLIUM PHOSPHIDE (GAP) SUBSTRATE. IN ADDITION TO HIGH CONVERSION EFFICIENCY AND INTRINSIC RADIATION RESISTANCE DUE TO THE THIN ACTIVE LAYERS, THIS NOVEL DESIGN HAS SEVERAL UNIQUE PERFORMANCE ENHANCING FEATURES. THE ...

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ULTRASONIC NONDESTRUCTIVE TESTING HAS BECOME THE METHOD OF CHOICE FOR THE QUALITY ASSURANCE OF ADVANCED COMPOSITE MATERIALS. THE PROPOSED RESEARCH PROGRAM COVERS THE DEVELOPMENT OF A COMPUTER-BASED NDT METHOD FOR DETERMINING LOCAL FIBER VOLUME FRACTION AND RESIN POROSITY IN PRACTICAL LAMINATED COMPOSITES. THE COMPUTER ALGORITHMS WILL BE BASED ON EARLIER STUDIES THAT HAVE BEEN SUCCESSFUL FOR UNIDIR ...

THE PROGRAM GOALS FOR THE EGRESS BORING MACHINE REQUIRE A ROCK BORING SYSTEM WHICH WILL PRODUCE PENETRATION RATES OVER TEN TIMES GREATER THAN THOSE PRODUCED TO DATE UNDER SIMILAR CONDITIONS. THIS PROPOSAL IS TO DEVELOP A CUTTER SYSTEM WHICH USES THE CONCEPT OF AN INTERRUPTED DISC CUTTER. IT WILL TAKE FULL ADVANTAGE OF INDEXING BETWEEN CRATERS TO MAXIMIZE ROCK REMOVAL WHILE MINIMIZING THRUST REQUIR ...

THIS PHASE I PROPOSAL IS FOR THE DESIGN OF THE GENERAL PURPOSE CASE SYSTEM THAT WILL AID IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF FIRMWARE AND SOFTWARE FOR GENERAL PURPOSE CONTROLLERS. THE LONG-TERM OBJECTIVE OF THE PROPOSED RESEARCH IS THE DEVELOPMENT OF A PERSONAL COMPUTER, PC, BASED SYSTEM THAT WILL ALLOW KNOWLEDGEABLE APPLICATION ENGINEERS TO CREATE THE FIRMWARE FOR A GENERAL PURPOSE CONTROLLER.

CURRENT BEST TELEMETRY SOURCE COMBINER SYSTEMS USED AT WEAPONS TEST RANGES ARE CAPABLE OF SELECTING THE "BEST" SIGNAL FROM SEVERAL REDUNDANT SOURCES. HIGHER DATA RATES AND DETERIORATION OF TEST RANGE SNRS HAVE PRECIPITATED A REQUIREMENT FOR AN AUTOMATED TELEMETRY SIGNAL PROCESSING SYSTEM CAPABLE OF COMBINING AVAILABLE SOURCES INTO AN ENHANCED "BEST SIGNAL."