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THIS PROPOSAL DESCRIBES AN SBIR PROJECT TO EVALUATE A NEW APPROACH TO DEMILITARIZATION OF RETIRED CHEMICAL WEAPONS USING SUPERCRITICAL WATER OXIDATION (SCWO). THIS NEW TECHNOLOGY HAS BEEN SHOWN TO EFFECTIVELY DESTROY TOXIC AND HAZARDOUS WASTES. THE OXIDATION IS CONDUCTED IN A CLOSED SYSTEM WHICH VIRTUALLY ELIMINATES POLLUTANT EMISSION TO THE ENVIRONMENT. THE EFFLUENTS OF CHEMICAL AGENT DESTRUCTION ...

THIS PROJECT WILL DEMONSTRATE THE EFFECTIVENESS OF A NEW APPROACH TO THE TRANSFER OF TECHNOLOGY IN IMAGE UNDERSTANDING (IU). IT IS BASED UPON THE USE OF A SHARED SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT ENVIRONMENT FOR IU, CALLED THE KBVISION (TM) SYSTEM, WHICH CAN SERVE TO EASE THE TRANSFER OF COMPUTER VISION ALGORITHMS. THE PHASE I PROPOSAL WILL DEMONSTRATE THE FEASIBILITY OF THE TRANSFER OF IU SOFTWARE BY SHARING ...

THE CAPABILITY TO DETECT AND IDENTIFY STRATEGIC RELOCATABLE TARGETS (SRT) IS VITAL TO AN EFFECTIVE STRATEGIC COUNTER FORCE. THE CHALLENGING PROBLEM OF DOING SO IS EXACERBATED BY NATURAL CAMOUFLAGE USING FOLIAGE AND FORESTS WHERE CONVENTIONAL RADAR AND IMAGING TECHNIQUES EXPERIENCE SEVERE PROPAGATION-LOSSES AND CLUTTER CONFUSION. TO OVERCOME THIS DIFFICULT PROBLEM ISL PROPOSES THE USE OF LONGER WAV ...

THE PROPOSED EFFORT WILL INVESTIGATE THE UTILITY OF MULTISENSOR IMAGERY PRODUCTS TO SATISFY REQUIREMENTS FOR DETECTION AND MONITORING OF UNDERGROUND EXPLOSIONS, SUCH AS THOSE PRODUCED AT NUCLEAR TEST SITES. THE RESEARCH WILL INVOLVE AN ANALYSIS OF EXISTING RADAR, THERMAL, MULTISPECTRAL, AND TOPOGRAPHIC PRODUCTS OBTAINED OVER A U.S. TEST SITE. HARDCOPY AND SOFTCOPY ANALYSES WILL YIELD INFORMATION A ...

THIS RESEARCH PROPOSAL IS AIMED AT PRELIMINARY INVESTIGATION AND FEASIBILITY ASSESSMENT OF SIGNAL PROCESSING TECHNIQUES FOR IMPROVING THE SIGNAL-TO-CLUTTER RATIO IN FOLIAGE PENETRATION SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR (SAR) DATA, BASED ON ADAPTIVE CROSS-MODELING OF THE COMPETING CLUTTER THROUGH THE USE OF MULTIPLE RADAR FREQUENCIES. THE ADAPTIVE CROSS-MODELING APPROACH SEEKS TO ESTIMATE THE CLUTTER RETURN ...

A SLAVED TANDEM FREEWING (STF) AIRCRAFT IS A NOVEL, TANDEM WING, V/STOL AIR VEHICLE CONFIGURATION WITH UNIQUE POTENTIAL FOR SELFLAUNCHING AND SELF-RECOVERY FROM BASES WITHOUT FLAT AND EVEN PLATFORMS (ROUGH TERRAIN) DURING PERIODS WHEN WIND VECTORS ARE GUSTY, LARGE AND ALIGNED IN THE MOST ADVERSE DIRECTION (WILD WEATHER). THIS STUDY WILL EVALUATE THE POTENTIAL OF STF AIRFRAMES TO SATISFY THIS ROUGH ...

A NEW OPTICAL RECORDING MEDIUM CONCEPT IS PROPOSED WHICH FEATURES HIGH ACCESSIBILITY AND HIGH DATA RATE CAPABILITY. THE MATERIAL STRUCTURE CONSISTS OF A STACK OF PLANAR DYE-IN-POLYMER LAYERS SUITABLE PHASED TO OBTAIN "VOLUME LIKE" MEDIUM BEHAVIOR. THE PROPOSED MATERIAL WILL BE SUITABLE FOR HOLOGRAPHIC DATA RECORDING AT VERY HIGH DENSITIES, HAS A READ-WRITE-ERASE CAPABILITY, REQUIRES NO WET PROCESS ...

A CONCEPT IS PRESENTED OF A RECOILLESS LAUNCHED ANTI-TANK PROJECTILE CAPABLE OF ENGAGING FRONTAL ARMOR OR OF A MAIN BATTLE TANK. TWO INNOVATIONS ARE BROUGHT TOGETHER IN A UNIQUE CONFIGURATION THAT PROVIDES A VERY LONG ROD PENETRATOR AT AN IMPACT VELOCITY IN EXCESS OF TWO KILOMETERS PER SECOND. THE ESTIMATED WEIGHT OF THE PROJECTILE IS 10 KILOGRAMS, ITS LENGTH IS 88 CENTIMETERS. IT IS EXPECTED THAT ...

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MOCVD IS A UNIVERSALLY ACCEPTED EXPITAXIAL PROCESS FOR THE DEPOSITION OF COMPOUND SEMICONDUCTORS. IN FACT, MANY PRODUCTION FACILITIES ARE IN OPERATION. PRODUCTS INCLUDE MICROWAVE AND MILLIMETER WAVE INTEGRATED CIRCUITS (MMICS), LASER DIODES FOR COMPACT DISC PLAYERS, PHOTOCATHODES FOR NIGHT VISION GOGGLES, AND GALLIUM ARSENIDE AND INDIUM PHOSPHIDE SOLAR CELLS. THE CRITICAL WEAKNESS OF THE MOCVD TEC ...