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A HIGHLY EFFICIENT CONCEPT IS PROPOSED WHICH WILL SUBSTANTIALLY REDUCE ACOUSTIC SIGNATURES OF HELICOPTERS AND TILT ROTOR AIRCRAFT. THE CONCEPT CAN BE INCORPORATED INTO FUTURE HELICOPTER DESIGNS WITHOUT ANY OBVIOUS, WEIGHT OR PERFORMANCE PENALTIES. THE CONCEPT WILL PRODUCE REDUCTION OF SOUND RADIATION IN ALL DIRECTIONS OVER ALL FLIGHT SPEEDS WITH MINIMAL PROCESSING.

Use of"Smartphones"and cellular networks is becoming an increasing priority for military applications. By placing the source of information directly with the solider on the ground via a Smartphone, the vision of"every soldier a sensor"becomes attainable. mZeal proposes to facilitate this vision with the Adaptive Multi-Media Streaming for Android (AMMSTAR) system. AMMSTAR will capture photographic ...

This project is dedicated to the development of an adaptive network security management tool that is analogous to implementing and incident/response paring mechanism on top of a universal remote control facility for a variety of network and security tools, network types and operating systems. Our proposed approach to accomplishing this is to integrate and agent architecture with a Case-Based Reas ...

Mountain Wave, Inc. proposes to investigate the development of an automated network security management product that would allow personnel within an Information Technology (IT) organization to combine information from heterogeneous sources into an integrated application that captures business processes and automates tasks to "prevent" potential security violations. This product will: be "extensib ...

CURRENT "ALL DIGITAL" CHANNELIZED APPROACHES TO INTERCEPT OF SPREAD SPECTRUM/FREQUENCY HOPPING COMMUNICATIONS SIGNALS CANNOT EFFECTIVELY ADDRESS THE PROBLEMS POSTED BY "FULL BAND: (\200 MHZ) MEDIUM-FAST (> OR - 500 HPS) FREQUENCY HOPPING WAVEFORMS. HYBRID DS/FH COMMUNICATIONS WAVEFORMS POSE EVEN MORE STRINGENT PERFORMANCE REQUIREMENTS, UNSATISFIABLE BY CURRENT OR NEAR-TERM DIGITAL TECHNOLOGY. USE ...

DEVELOPMENT OF SUITABLE REINFORCEMENT FIBERS FOR HIGH TEMPERATURE COMPOSITE MATERIALS IS THE MAJOR TECHNICAL BARRIER LIMITING THE INTRODUCTION OF THESE NEW MATERIALS FOR ADVANCED AIRCRAFT ENGINES. WE PROPOSE TO FABRICATE MONOFILAMENT TIB(2) FIBERS USING A NOVEL CONCEPT. THE CHOICE OF TIB(2) FIBERS IS BASED ON ITS CHEMICAL COMPATIBILITY WITH ALUMINIDE MATRICES, HIGHER COEFFICIENTS OF THERMAL EXPANS ...

This Phase I project will examine the feasibility of utilizing a novel three dimensional culture device, termed Cellfoam to support the in vitro production of red blood cells, white blood cells and platelets from primitive CD34+ hematopoietic progenitor cells (HPCs). The high demand for blood and blood components in the civilian and military populations, coupled with the growing risk of blood-bor ...

In this proposal, Quadrant Engineering seeks SBIR funds to investigate development of an antenna element location measurement system suitable for compensating platform motions in airborne millimeter-wave antenna arrays. During Phase 1 we plan to evaluate three different approaches termed direct, active, and passive. In the direct approach, motion sensors attached to the antenna will be used to d ...

Superhydrophobic nanostructured coating will be developed from transparent ultrastrong materials. The coatings will be scalable, inexpensive, mechanically robust and thermally resilient. We will initially design such coatings using layered nanocomposites. Then it will be optimized for different surfaces. In the final stages of the project we will demonstrated scaled up version of the coatings lead ...

In the defense industry today, high level SysML system models are used by engineers beginning early in the design process to functionally decompose the system being designed and to flow down requirements to sub-systems and components. Despite their usefulness, these system models are by and large descriptive models and not analytical (executable) models. In contrast, domain level engineers (struct ...