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THE INNOVATIVE PROPOSED HEREIN CONCERNS THE DEVELOPMENT OF A HOLOGRAPHIC DIAGNOSTIC TECHNIQUE FOR THE MEASUREMENT OF ELECTRON DENSITY PROFILES IN THE FLOWS OVER A RV BALLISTIC RANGE MODEL. AN EXPERIMENT IS IDENTIFIED IN WHICH HOLOGRAPHIC PLASMA MEASUREMENTS WILL BE USED FOR REFINEMENT AND VALIDATION OF COMPUTATIONAL FLOW/CHEMISTRY ANALYSIS. THE TECHNICAL APPROACH IS BASED ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF A T ...

ACCELERATED SMALL SPECIMEN SCREENING TESTS FOR SCC RESISTANCE ARE NECESSARY FOR COST/TIME EFFICIENT EVALUATION OF WELD/BASE METAL FORMULATIONS IN WELD OR ALLOY DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMS AND FOR QUALITY CONTROL OF WELDED HY-130 STEELS. TEST DATA THAT IS CAPABLE OF MEASURING THE STRESS INTENSITY FOR CRACK INITIATION IN CATHODICALLY PROTECTED VESSELS IN NATURAL SEA WATER IS NECESSARY FROM DESIGN CONSIDERA ...

THIS PROPOSAL DESCRIBES A PROGRAM TO DEVELOP A COMPACT, RUGGED, AND AUTONOMOUS PROGRAMMABLE LASER DOPPLER VELOCIMETER (LDV) FOR MARINE APPLICATIONS. THE SYSTEM WILL INCLUDE TWO MAJOR INNOVATIONS IN LDV TECHNOLOGY: A PROGRAMMABLE DIGITAL SIGNAL PROCESSOR (DSP), AND A PULSED LASER DIODE. THE DSP PROVIDES THE HIGHEST COMPUTATIONAL POWER AND PROGRAMMABILITY IN A COMPACT SIZE ALLOWING THE IMPLEMENTATIO ...

BECAUSE OF RECENTLY DEFINED TACTICAL THREATS IT IS DESIRABLE TO IMPROVE THE MANEUVERABILITY AND TAKE-OFF/LANDING ASPECTS OF AIRCRAFT PERFORMANCE. IT HAS BEEN DETERMINED THAT SUCH IMPROVEMENTS CAN BE ACCOMPLISHED BY THE USE OF THRUST REVERSERS OR VECTORED JETS. IN ORDER TO DESIGN AIRCRAFT SATISFACTORILY IT IS NECESSARY TO HAVE A PREDICTION METHOD THAT IS SUFFICIENTLY ACCURATE. THE MOST DIFFICULT FL ...

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ACTIVATED STEEL FOIL FABRICATED INTO ELEMENTS TO BE PACKAGED AS EXPENDABLE DECOYS HAS SHOWN GOOD PERFORMANCE IN LOW IR SIGNATURE APPLICATIONS. THE PRESENT BATCH PRODUCTION PROCESS FOR THESE FOILS ENTAILS, IN PART, TWENTY HOURS OF FURNACE TREATMENT. A COMBINATION OF NINE SEPARATE OPERATIONS, LOW PRODUCTION RATES AND HIGH LABOR COSTS YIELDS A UNIT MANUFACTURING COST OF MORE THAN $250.00. WE PROPOSE ...

One of the most frustrating and vexing problems for the warfighter is the fogging of eyewear.In Phase I, Tanner Research demonstrated its Active Droplet Transport (ADT) technology to move condensed droplets off surfaces.This technique, coupled with innovative electrodes and waveform shaping has tremendous advantages over conventional surface or heating anti-fogging methods.Although an electronic m ...

We propose here a low-SWAP, multi-sensor system to exploit a variety of complementary signal phenomena to meet the complex missile defense mission. In the proposed effort, the system will be designed, fabricated, and tested in a mission-relevant field demonstration. A technical development road map will also be developed under this effort to chart a course from the initial prototype system to an ...

Additive manufacturing (AM) technologies covering a broad range of technologies and processes have been under continuous and accelerating development since the 80s. While there are still fundamental hurdles such as low production rates and small sizes, AM holds tremendous promise in terms of revolutionizing manufacturing. Recent trends include direct-printing and incorporating sensors and electr ...

This proposal is to develop our innovative Adaptive Feature Oriented Recommender Engine (AFORE).AFORE will enable recommender systems to take advantage of domains where the set of available features changes over time.There is a critical DoD need for ...