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Diode-laser arrays operating in the visible region of the spectrum offer advantages for illuminator applications, particularly for night and water penetration capability. Recent developments in diode-laser materials allow operation throughout the visiblespectrum. At this time, red diode-laser technology is more mature than the existing blue-green or violet diode-laser technology. The novel aspe ...

We will develop a vapor phase detector of the chemicals/explosives associated with nuclear weaponry. Radioactivity detection allows accurate weapons verification, but provides too much information on the weaponry design. An alternative is to detect otherchemicals associated with nuclear weaponry. EIC Laboratories has successfully developed vapor phase Surface Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy (SERS) ...

Today's commercial video surveillance and monitoring (VSAM) systems are capable of producing enormous video streams that are over-whelming for human operators to review. But with automated intelligent interpretation of the imagery we can track and classifymoving objects of interest, collect spatial and temporal motion statistics, and detect anomalous behaviors. We propose to transition image under ...

For SAR, spatial and temporal adaptive processing (STAP) uses samples local to the cell being processed to estimate local clutter and noise statistics. If these samples are corrupted by returns from other unknown targets, the statistics are invalid and theperformance of the algorithms can be degraded. We propose to conduct a range of experiments to evaluate signal detection, statistical, multi-loo ...

The LINCRS-SARS system builds on the Army investment in GPS technology, including GPS anti-jam technology, and offers a new capability consisting of a two-way, LPD, jam-resistant datalink to support situation awareness, rendezvous and collision avoidancewhile maintaining

Active noise and vibration control (ANVC) has not lived up to its promise. Attempts in the 1930's had little success because of inability to control the phase in electronics and transducers. Digital processing appeared to offer a solution for dealingwith phase and arriving at algorithms of a complexity that could not be realized by analog systems. There are applications where ANVC has achieved ...

Rapid deployment of Force Protection teams throughout the world requires trained personnel prepared to manage all threats and employ all contingencies. The Ontar Corporation has developed a unique approach that leverages off internet technology forAdvanced Distributed Learning, called TENOR, for anytime-anywhere, multimedia training.TENOR is: Platform independent, it will simultaneously format ...

Rapid deployment of Force Protection teams throughout the world requires trained personnel prepared to manage all threats and employ all contingencies. The Ontar Corporation has developed a unique approach that leverages off internet technology forAdvanced Distributed Learning, called TENOR, for anytime-anywhere, multimedia training.TENOR is: Platform independent, it will simultaneously format ...

Physical Sciences Inc. (PSI) proposes to investigate and demonstrate the feasibility of two enabling technologies to radically improve the chemical efficiency of chemical oxygen iodine lasers (COILs). We propose to examine three potential methods forproducing flows of atomic iodine that would reduce or eliminate the amount of singlet delta oxygen required to dissociate the molecular iodine in cur ...

High speed x-ray imaging is extremely important for several military and civilian applications such as imaging exploding land mines, high speed computed tomography for medical imaging, time resolved x-ray diffraction of biological systems, and drugdevelopment research. The advent of high flux, micro-focused, flash x-ray sources have now facilitated high-speed x-ray imaging in laboratory environme ...