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A key challenge for battlefield simulation is the estimation of enemy courses of action (COAs). Current adversarial COA development is a manual time-consuming process prone to errors due to limited knowledge about the adversary and its ability to adapt. Development of decision aids that can predict adversary’s intent and range of possible behaviors, as well as automation of such technologies wit ...

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We propose to develop and deploy a fully featured groupware platform for Rapid Expertise Aggregation Supporting Optimal Negotiation (REASON). REASON supports collaborative decision-making in dynamic, time critical situations. It presents a decision as a graph to improve coordination and reduce the amount of necessary communication within a team. Evidence is aggregated to identify the best decision ...

THIS PROJECT IS DESIGNED TO DEVELOP A COMPUTERIZED DATA COLLECTION SYSTEM FOR EARLY INTERVENTION PROGRAMS UTILIZING HARDWARE COMMONLY AVAILABLE WITHIN EACH EARLY INTERVENTION CENTER SITE. PARALLEL DATABASE SYSTEMS WILL BE DEVELOPED FOR THREE HARDWARE PLATFORMS, ALL WITH THE ABILITY TO TRANSFER DATA INTO A CENTRAL MICRO-COMPUTER. THREE HARDWARE PLATFORMS ARE COMMONLY USED IN EARLY INTERVENTION SITE ...

One approach to locating illicit bomb factories in Iraq and Afghanistan is analytical monitoring within the ventilation systems of suspect residential buildings. We are proposing a multiple sensor analyzer that sequentially interrogates individual vents or ducts in such buildings and produces fingerprints characteristic of present target substances. The basic premise of this proposal is to loc ...

Our aim is to develop a nanofluidic-based sensor and instrument platform which will provide direct detection and quantification of analytes approaching molecular concentrations. We anticipate that the method will enable rapid detection and identification of presence or exposure to chemical and bioterror agents in air, water, contaminated surfaces, forensic samples, food and body fluids, as well ex ...

THE PROTECTION OF OPTICAL/IR SENSORS OF HUMAN EYES AGAINST LASER THREATS IS AN IMPORTANT UNSOLVED DEFENSE PROBLEM. THE MOST CHALLENGING NEED IS FOR AN OPTICAL LIMITER WITH PICOSECOND RESPONSE IN A FINITE WAVELENGTH BAND AGAINST SHORT PULSE, FREQUENCY-AGILE LASERS. OUR RESEARCH IS DIRECTED TOWARDS DEVICE APPLICATIONS OF NOVEL NONLINEAR OPTICAL LIQUIDS WITH PRECISE INDEX MATCHING PROPERTIES AND LARG ...

HEAVY, MULTI-PLY, LIMITED LIFE LIGHTER-THAN-AIR (LTA) VEHICLE SKINS COULD BE REPLACED WITH A HIGH STRENGTH/TOUGH, GAS IMPERMEABLE 2-PLY ORDERED POLYMER LAMINATE. THIS WOULD RESULT IN FACTORS OF 3 TO 10 REDUCTION IN LTA VEHICLE OR SKIN WEIGHT, WHICH WOULD TRANSLATE LINEARLY TO GREATER PAYLOAD AND RELATED PERFORMANCE. THE PROPOSED PHASE I PROGRAM WILL DEVELOP AN EFFICIENT, RELIABLE AND SIMPLE-TOFABR ...

THE INNOVATION WE PROPOSE IS A NOVEL PRECERAMIC POLYMER ROUTE TO THIN (< 1U) COATINGS OF NITRIDES AND CARBIDES ON GRAPHITE FIBERS TO BE USED IN TITANIUM ALUMINIDE INTERMETALLIC COMPOSITES. IF SUCCESSFUL, THE COATINGS WILL PROVIDE AN EFFECTIVE BARRIER TO FIBER-MATRIX REACTION AT HIGH PROCESSING AND SERVICE TEMPERATURES - A MAJOR CAUSE OF DEGRADATION IN THESE NEW HIGH TEMPERATURE COMPOSITES. THE COA ...