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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 ...

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS (CFD) CODES HAVE BECOME IMPORTANT DESIGN AND ANALYSIS TOOLS FOR ENGINEERS, PARTICULARLY IN THE AEROSPACE INDUSTRY. CFD CODES, HOWEVER, ARE SEVERELY LIMITED BY THE COMPUTING RESOURCES OF PRESENT-DAY SUPERCOMPUTERS. IT IS ESTIMATED THAT A THREE ORDER-OF-MAGNITUDE INCREASE IN COMPUTER SPEED IS NECESSARY FOR PERFORMING PRACTICAL ENGINEERING VISCOUS-FLOW ANALYSES OF FULL AI ...

THE RECENT DISCOVERY OF HIGH TEMPERATURE METAL OXIDE SUPERCONDUCTORS SUGGESTS THAT YET ANOTHER NEW CLASS OF SUPERCONDUCTING MATERIALS MAY BE FOUND. THE NEW CATEGORY OF MATERIALS WILL BE INEXPENSIVE TO MANUFACTURE AND EASILY FORMED INTO WIRES AND BANDS. THESE MATERIALS WILL BE MECHANICALLY TOUGH AND MAY HAVE HIGH CRITICAL TEMPERATURES. THE PHASE I GOAL IS TO ESTABLISH THE SUPERCONDUCTING CHARACTERI ...

The objective of this proposal is to demonstrate a mobile application capable of determining the location of a remote target. When a photo is taken with a GPS-enabled camera, the GPS location of the actual camera is appended to the photo in a process known as Geo-Tagging. Remote Geo-Tagging (RGT) differs from this process in that RGT determines the coordinates of a target within the picture as o ...

THE TECHNOLOGY OF INFRARED AND OPTICAL SURVEILLANCE IS AN EXCELLENT CANDIDATE FOR PARALLEL PROCESSING. INCREASED SENSITIVITY AND GREATER COVERAGE HAS GREATLY MAGNIFIED THE OVERALL PROCESSING PROBLEM. TRA WITH MRJ PROPOSES TO UTILIZE A STATE-OF-THE-ART PARALLEL PROCESSOR, THE CONNECTION MACHINE, TO DEVELOP AND EVALUATE ALGORITHMS FOR TARGET DETECTION. TRA AND MRJ FEEL THAT THE APPLICATION OF PARALL ...

THIS PROPOSAL PRESENTS A PLAN FOR DEVELOPING A LOW-COST, SIMPLE ACTIVE OPTICAL DETONATION SENSOR FOR ADVANCED MINE AND BARRIER SYSTEMS. DUBBED THE ACTIVE RANGING, TRACKING AND SIGNATURE SENSOR (ARTS), THE PROPOSED SYSTEM IS CAPABLE OF DETERMINING THE RANGE, VECTOR VELOCITY, AND GEOMETRIC PROFILE OF OBJECTS PASSING THROUGH ITS FIELD OF VIEW. IT TAKES ADVANTAGE OF RECENT ADVANCES IN OFF-THESHELF OPT ...

THE ABILITY TO OPTIMIZE THE DESIGN OF V/STOL AIRCRAFT AND TO PREDICT THEIR PERFORMANCE REQUIRES A GOOD UNDERSTANDING OF THE COMPLEX JET-INDUCED PHENOMENA ASSOCIATED WITH THESE AIRCRAFT. PRESENTLY, EXPERIMENTAL WORK IS THE MAIN AVENUE FOLLOWED TO GAIN AN UNDERSTANDING OF V/STOL FLOWS. NUMERICAL SIMULATION HAS MANY ADVANTAGES NOT SHARED BY EXPERIMENTAL TOOLS. IT, THEREFORE, CAN COMPLEMENT EXPERIMENT ...

This effort will focus on methods to identify, describe, justify, design, and prototype methodologies and mechanisms to detect acts indicative of malicious intent or behavior by trusted individuals and groups with access to sensitive information, systems, and sources in secure environments in time to mitigate potentially serious negative consequences of those acts.

THE DARPA ADAPT PROCESSOR IS A NEURAL NETWORK SIMULATION THAT CAN IMPLEMENT MUTUAL INTERACTIONS BETWEEN A LARGE NUMBER OF PROCESSING ELEMENT VIA ADAPTIVE, PROGRAMMABLE WEIGHTING FUNCTIONS. THE PROCESSOR WAS DESIGNED PRIMARILY AS A MEANS TO SIMULTANEOUSLY CORRELATE MANY DIFFERENT TEMPLATES WITH A SET OF FEATURES EXTRACTED FROM DATA. IT WOULD SEEM, HOWEVER, THAT THE SAME ARCHITECTURE CAN BE USED FOR ...

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