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WE PROPOSE AN EFFICIENT AND COST-EFFECTIVE QUERY PROCESSING COMPONENT FOR AN INFORMATION RETRIEVAL SYSTEM BASED ON THE USE OF NETWORKED MICROCOMPUTERS AS A LOOSELY-COUPLED NETWORK DATABASE. THE QUERY PROCESSSING SYSTEM WILL WORK ON BOTH LOCAL AND WIDE AREA NETWORKS AND CAN BE USED WITH ANY METHOD OF INFORMATION RETRIEVAL. WE PROPOSE TO: 1. MODEL THE EXPECTED PERFORMANCE OF THIS SYSTEM SO THAT IT M ...

AstroPower is developing a two-junction monolithic tandem solar cell composed of (AlxGa1-x)0.51In.49P lattice matched to GaAs for use as the top cell in a three-junction, two-terminal tandem stack. This tunable bandgap material system is capable of current matching, at 2.03eV, in a two-junction monolithic tandem solar cell two terminal design of (AlxGa1-x)0.51In0.49P/GaAs yielding a best case pred ...

ASTROPOWER IS PROPOSING THE DEVELOPMENT OF AN ULTRA-LIGHTWEIGHT, HIGH PERFORMANCE, THIN LIGHT TRAPPING GAAS SOLAR CELL FOR ADVANCED SPACE POWER SYSTEMS. A THIN DEVICE LEADS TO HIGHER PERFORMANCE IN TERMS OF OPEN CIRCUIT VOLTAGE, RADIATION RESISTANCE, AND SPECIFIC POWER. IN A THIN DEVICE, THE INCORPORATION OF LIGHT TRAPPING TO EXTEND THE OPTICAL PATH LENGTH PERMITS GREATER CURRENT GENERATIC THAN CA ...

THE INCREASING SPEED AND COMPLEXITY OF MODERN (AND FUTURE) AIR-VEHICLE SYSTEMS ARE PUSHING THE HUMAN OPERATOR TO HIS LIMITS, ESPECIALLY IN COGNITIVE-RELATED TASKS. IT IS THEREFORE OF PARTICULAR IMPORTANCE TO DEVELOP TECHNIQUES THAT ALLOW THE COMPUTER TO HELP THE HUMAN TO EXTEND THESE LIMITS. AN IMPORTANT CLASS OF SUCH ENABLING TECHNOLOGIES IS AN ACTIVE, MIXED-INITIATIVE MAN-MACHINE INTERFACE (MMI) ...

DHWA PROPOSES TO DEVELOP ALGORITHMS FOR LONG-RANGE, PASSIVE TARGET MOTION ANALYSIS (TMA). THE ALGORITHMS WILL USE EXTENDED FILTERS SIMILAR TO THOSE FOUND IN CURRENT ALGORITHMS (JASA, MPKAST, AND MTST), BUT WILL UNIFY AND EXTEND THESE TECHNIQUES IN IMPORTANT WAYS. WE HOPE TO ELIMINATE MOST OF THE PROBLEMS ASSOCIATED WITH CURRENT METHODS. THE DIFFERENCES AMONG CURRENT ALGORITHMS, AND THEIR LIMITATIO ...

THE PROPOSED PROJECT IS TO DEVELOP AN INFORMATION SYSTEM FOR PROCESSING ECM/ESM CONTACT REPORTS ON BOARD A NAVY SURFACE SHIP. THE SYSTEMWILL COMBINE REPORTS FROM ORGANIC AND REMOTE (0TH) SENSORS WITH OTHER AVAILABLE INFORMATION AND WITH REASONABLE ASSUMPTIONS CONCERNING TARGET TACTICS IN ORDER TO PROVIDE INFORMATION OF VALUE TO THE MISSION COMMANDER. OUR APPROACH IS TO COMBINE TWO EXISTING SYSTEMS ...

OPERATIONS ANALYSIS OF NAVAL ENGAGEMENTS REQUIRES A MODEL FOR THE DETECTION PROCESS, AND IN PARTICULAR, FOR PASSIVE ACOUSTIC SENSORS. SUCH MODELS DEPEND IN TURN ON HAVING A MODEL FOR ACOUSTIC FLUCTUATIONS, A TERM WHICH TYPICALLY DESCRIBES ALL RESIDUAL UNCERTAINTY IN THE SONAR EQUATION COMPONENTS. THIS PROJECT WILL DEVELOP A RATIONALE FOR AN ACOUSTIC FLUCTUATION PROCESS WHICH IS A COMPOSITE OF PROC ...

SYSTEM LEVEL DESIGN DECISIONS ARE KEY TO MULTI-COMPONENT SYNTHESIS: THE DETERMINATION OF WHERE TO SPLIT THE FUNCTIONALITY AMONG COMPONENTS HAS A GREAT EFFECT ON THE SIZE AND PERFORMANCE OF THE DESIGN. BY PARTITIONING A BEHAVIOR ONTO SEPARATE MODULES EARLY IN THE DESIGN PROCESS, THE PHYSICAL IMPLICATIONS CAN BE PROPAGATED TO LATER DESIGN STAGES. DASYS PROPOSES TO DEVELOP A TOOL TO AID IN THE DESIGN ...

THIS DOCUMENT IS A TECHNICAL PROPOSAL TO DETERMINE BANDWIDTH REQUIREMENTS FOR TRANSMITTING VIDEO SIGNALS THAT WILL BE USED FOR TELEOPERATION OF MILITARY VEHICLES. DELTA PROPOSED TO PERFORM EXPERIMENTS, USING A DUAL-CONTROL VEHICLE THAT WILL ESTABLISH FRAME RATE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE REMOTE DRIVING OF VEHICLES. STUDIES WILL ALSO BE MADE OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE ACQUISITION AND TRACKING OF GROUND ...

WE PROPOSE TO DESIGN AN ANTI-ARMOR TANDEM PENETRATOR CONSISTING OF AN EXPLOSIVE-FORMED PENETRATOR (EFP) WARHEAD AND KINETIC ENERGY (KE) ROD. THIS SYSTEM WILL EXPLOIT THE EFP'S PENETRATION EFFICIENCY AGAINST APPLIQUE AND BASE ARMORS, THUS ELIMINATING KE DEFEAT MECHANISMS. EFP WARHEAD, KINETIC ENERGY PENETRATOR, AND TANDEM SYSTEM DESIGNS WILL BE SELECTED TO ADDRESS A WIDE RANGE OF FUTURE ARMOR THREA ...