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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 ...

The Department of Defense has identified the need to develop aerogel-based Chemical/Biological (CB) protective fabrics with good moisture vapor transmission for use in garment and collective protection systems. Aspen Aerogels proposes to develop aerogel-coated fabrics as a novel protection material against chemical and biological warfare agents. The aerogel component will be based on silica and ...

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 proposal combines two technologies to create an efficient, effective translation device. We propose coupling commercially available cell phone basic technology from Voice Signal with approximate search from the International Computer Science Institute through an API on a portable device to demonstrate multi-lingual approximate phrase searching and translation on COTS devices.

Social network analysis is a powerful method for making sense of an increasingly interconnected world. Developing social network analysis tools requires datasets with which to test them, but sharing datasets is problematic because of privacy issues. Initial attempts to anonymize network datasets proved ineffective due to de-anonymization attacks that leveraged publically available information to i ...

Operations centers for tactical military activities, incident response, and other domains all involve multiple teams of individuals interacting with people and systems within and outside of their organization to enable continuous mission success. In these organizations, effective coordination and collaboration is critical. To improve collaboration, an end-to-end sensor and analysis technology is n ...

The "troop-target" problem of automatic detection, tracking, and prediction of the formations of dismounted ground troops concealed in foliage, using FOPEN-GMTI radars introduces challenges well beyond those encountered in more conventional group-target problems. AD HOC troop formations are considerably more amorphous and unpredictable and they must be deduced from the constituent individuals. Y ...

We propose a new approach to microwave circulator design the employs self biased magnetization-in-plane ferrite materials in a coupled line geometry. In Phase 1 we will identify and optimize concepts based on the self biased ferrite oupled line circulators. Optimization will include simulations based on different line dimensions, line spacings amd coupled meandering line configurations.

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