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IN A FEW YEARS, THE NATIONAL TRAINING CENTER (NTC) WILL HAVE NEW SIMULATION SYSTEMS AND UPGRADES TO RDMA AND RMCS. GIVEN EFFECTIVE AND EFFICIENT INTEGRATION, TEHSE SYSTEMS WILL INCREASE, SIGNIFICANTLY, THE AMOUNT AND FIDELITY OF DATA AVAILABLE TO THE TRAINING SNALYST. HOW EFFECTIVE THESE IMPROVEMENTS ARE DEPENDS ON HOW EFFICIENTLY THE MAN-MACHINE COMBINAITONS AT TRAINING ANALYST WORK STATIONS ARE ...

AstroPower will develop a two-junction monolithic tandem solar cell composed of (AlxGa1-x)0.51 In(0.49)P, which is lattice matched to GaAs, as the top cell in a three-junction, two-terminal tandem solar cell. This new tunable bandgap Al-Ga-In-P material is capable of current matching in a two-junction monolithic tandem solar cell two-terminal design of the Al-Ga-In-P over GaAs yielding a best case ...

AstroPower is developing a highly sensitive UV detector based on epitaxial AlGaP/GaP heterostructures, a promising new material system for ultraviolet detectors. Detecting ultraviolet light is important to spectrophotometry, astronomy, high-energy physics, medicine, UV curing, photoresist exposure, and chemical processes. The large bandgap and crystalline quality of gallium phosphide will provide ...

A HIGH CELL DENSITY FERMENTATION TECHNOLOGY IS PROPOSED FOR THE PRODUCTION OF MICROBIAL NERVE GAS DEGRADING ENZYMES. THIS TECHNOLOGY WILL RELY ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF AN ULTRA HIGH CELL DENSITY (GREATER THAN 100 G DRY WEIGHT CELLS/L) CONTINUOUS FERMENTATION FOR THE PRODUCTION OF MICROBIAL ENZYMES KNOWN TO DEGRADE NERVE GASES.

The purpose of this project is to develop an Artificial Intelligence (AI)-based Decision Support System (DSS) to support the preparation of the Program Objective Memorandum (POM) by TRADOC and other MACOMS. Phase I includes the development of an operational prototype which proves the worth of the system. Phase II will produce a fully operational system that can be used by action officers and decis ...

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Current Techniques for identifying microbially influenced corrosion (MIC) involve a battery of chemical, electrochemical, metallurgical, and microbiological tests. The most common method for detection and evaluation of microbial activity employs plate or tube culture technique. These methods are expensive and time consuming yielding results that may not be truly representative of the consortia of ...

AstroPower is developing a new process for the growth of large area, thin film 3C-SiC using a proprietary deposition technique followed by liquid phase epitaxy (LPE). Successful development of the growth process will provide high quality, thin film SiC in typical silicon wafer areas, allowing compatibility with existing silicon circuit foundries for devices where SiC is the material of choice. New ...

1 New concepts in optical computing and optical interconnects require hardware developments of generic, compact, multi-element LED source array. A two dementional array of individually-addressable Light-emitting Diode optical emitters will be developed. An innovative CVD/LPE heteropitaxy technique will be employed for the monolithic integration of high-speed-surface-emitting AlGaAs/GaAs LEDs on si ...

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