Award Data

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 ...

ONE OF THE MOST OUTSTANDING FABRICS FOR THE PROTECTION OF PERSONNEL WITH RESPECT TO EXPOSURE TO DIRECT FLAME AND YET HAS THE FEEL OF A SOFT TEXTILE IS COMPOSED OF OXIDIZED POLYACRYLONITRILE FIBER (OPF). HOWEVER OPF FABRICS HAVE LACKED SUFFICIENT ABRASION RESISTANCE FOR USE IN PROTECTIVE CLOTHING. THE NAVY CLOTHING AND TEXTILE RESEARCH CENTER (Z. KUPFERMAN AND M. ROY) HAS DEMONSTRATED THE OPF FABRI ...

INTERMEDIATE MAINTENANCE IS NORMALLY ACCOMPLISHED BY HIGHLY TRAINED, HIGHLY SKILLED TECHNICANS. THE ABILITY TO PLACE SUCH SKILLED PERSONNEL IN "REMOTE-FIELD POSITIONS" HAS BECOME ECONOMICALLY IMPRACTICAL BASED ON THE NUMBER OF FAILURES THAT OCCUR AND THE HIGH COST OF TRAINING. THIS BEING THE CASE, WE MUST LOOK TO STATE-OF-THE-ART ADVANCES IN ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE TO BRING THE EXPERTISE OF THESE ...

LIQUIDS RELEASED INTO SPACE OFFER HIGH POTENTIAL AS COUNTERMEASURE AGAINST SDI DEFENSIVE SYSTEMS DESIGNED TO ENGAGE BALLISTIC MISSILES DURING THEIR EXOATMOSPHERIC FLIGHT PHASES. THE COUNTERMEASURE POTENTIAL INCLUDES THE ABILITY TO THWART DETECTION AND DISCRIMINATION SYSTEMS, REDUCE DEW EFFECTIVENESS, AND DEFEAT KEW ATTACK. STREAMS AND SPRAYS OF SELECT LIQUIDS WOULD BE USED TO MASK THE DEPLOYMENT O ...

THE OBJECTIVE OF THIS PROPOSAL IS TO CONDUCT PRELIMINARY TESTS ON A NOVEL CHEMISTRY WHICH COULD RESULT IN THE PRODUCTION OF A LOW COST WAFER WHICH CHANGES COLOR UPON EXPOSURE TO WARFARE GASES (WG). SIMILAR WAFERS WHICH WE DEVELOPED FOR OTHER GASES ARE ABOUT 2" X 1" X 1/16" AND WEIGH ABOUT 2.3 GM. THESE CHROMOSENSE (TM) WAFERS CAN DETECT HYDROGEN SULFIDE, ETC. IN 10-30 SEC. AT CONCENTRATIONS OF THE ...

THE FIRST PROJECT OBJECTIVE IS TO IDENTIFY THE PRODUCTIVITY ADVANTAGES OF A NEW APPROACH TO THE "KEYBOARD" PROBLEM OF TYPEWRITERS AND COMPUTERS, AND, MOST IMPORTANT, A COMPUTERIZED METHOD OF TEACHING THIS SYSTEM. TWO HANDGRIPS WITH FIVE FINGER ACTUATED SWITCHES ARE USED. THUS, 1,024 (2(10) INDIVIDUAL BINARY COMMANDS ARE AVAILABLE WITHOUT THE HAND MOVEMENTS NEEDED WITH STANDARD KEYBOARD SYSTEMS WHI ...

RECENTLY, TO AVOID THE DIFFICULTIES OF FRONTAL ATTACK OF MODERN ARMOR VEHICLES, FLY-OVER-SHOOT-DOWN MISSILES HAVE BEEN PROPOSED. HOWEVER, TESTS HAVE SHOWN THAT THE RESULTING CROSSING VELOCITY CAN REDUCE THE PENETRATION OF CONVENTIONAL SHAPED-CHARGE WARHEADS BY UP TO 60%. THEREFORE, A PROGRAM IS PROPOSED TO DEVELOP AN IMPROVED WARHEAD FOR TOP-ATTACK APPLICATION. FIRST, THE FEASIBILITY OF TWO NOVEL ...

THE LETHALITY OF ANY DIRECTED-ENERGY WARHEAD IS MEASURED BY ITS ABILITY TO CAUSE IRREPARABLE DAMAGE TO THE VULNERABLE COMPONENTS THAT EXIST BEHIND THE PROTECTIVE ARMOR. THIS DAMAGE IS INCURRED BY THE IMPACT OF THESE COMPONENTS BY EITHER THE PENETRATOR MATERIAL ITSELF OR BY TARGET SPALL MATERIAL GENERATED BY THE INTERACTION OF THE PENETRATOR AND PROTECTIVE ARMOR. SIGNIFICANT IMPROVEMENT IN LETHALIT ...

RECENT IMPROVEMENTS IN ADVANCED ARMOR TECHNOLOGY, INCLUDING THE INTRODUCTION OF EFFECTIVE APPLIQUE ARMOR, PRESENT A SPECIAL CHALLENGE FOR THE ANTI-TANK MISSILE WARHEAD DESIGNER. TWO GENERAL APPROACHES TO MEET THIS CHALLENGE APPEAR FEASIBLE: IMPROVEMENTS IN UNITARY WARHEADS AND THE INCORPORATION OF MULTISTAGE WARHEATS. MULTISTAGE WARHEAD SYSTEMS CURRENTLY UNDER DEVELOPMENT APPEAR TO OFFER SIGNIFICA ...

STUDIES WILL BE DIRECTED TOWARD THE FEASIBILITY OF PROVIDING A MULTILINE LASER REJECTION PLASTIC FILTER. A HYBRID SYSTEM COMPOSED OF A LASER ABSORBING MATERIAL (DYE) EMBEDED IN PLASTIC AND A MULTILAYER REFLECTION REJECTION COATING DEPOSITED ON THE PLASTIC SURFACE CAN PROVIDE THE REJECTION MECHANISM FOR LASER EMISSIONS. HOST PLASTIC MATERIALS SUCH AS ACRYLIC, CR-39 AND POLYCARBONATE ARE CANDIDATE M ...