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THE OBJECTIVES WILL BE: (1) AN ASSESSMENT OF EXISTING ANALYTICAL TOOLS FOR PREDICTING CLOUD-FREE FIELDS-OF-VIEWS (CFFOV) AND (2) A SPECIFICATION OF A NEW MODEL FOR IMPROVING CFFOV FORECASTS. A REVIEW OF EXISTING CLOUD MEASUREMENT AND MODELING EFFORTS WILL BE MADE. AN IMPROVED MODEL (\CFFOV PREDICTOR\) BASED ON GENERALIZED, NONLINEAR TEMPORAL PREDICTION BY NEURAL NETWORKS TRAINED ON CFFOV DATA WILL ...

Without the means for stabilizing the scale factor and bias of MEMS gyroscopes and accelerometers, they cannot become precise and accurate instruments. With stabilization, however, autonomous navigation is possible and GPS reliability can be improved. We propose to introduce active stabilization methods and test devices and carry out the proof-of-concept tests during Phase I. We will make use of e ...

M.S. Sapuppo & Associates will examine VLSI microfabrication technology to make traditional spinning wheel gyros. Unique wheel designs will be studied to manufacture complete miniature gyros. Unique wheel designs will be studied to manufacture complete miniature gyros. The simplicity of this design bypasses operator skill/contamination sensitive procedures which make current gyros costly. The marr ...

Missile defense takes place in an unpredictable, real-time environment and thus requires an adaptive approach to optimization that dynamically allocates sensors and their supporting resources in response to changing goals and constraints. Here, we propose a system of Arbitrage Look-ahead Agents for Market-based Optimization (ALAMO) to meet the challenge of this real-time resource allocation proble ...

WE ARE DEVELOPING A MOLECULAR BEAM EPITAXY APPROACH TO GROW EPITAXIAL DIAMOND THIN FILMS FOR ELECTRONIC DEVICES. WITH HALOGEN ATOMS AND HALOCARBON FREE RADICALS TO CONTROL THE DEPOSITION WE WILL OVERCOME THE PROPENSITY OF TYPICAL DIAMOND DEPOSITION PROCESSES TO GROW 3-DIMENSIONAL MICRO-CRYSTALLINE FILMS. IT THIS PROJECT SUCCEEDS, WE WILL DEVELOP A HIGH-SPEEED AND/OR HIGH POWER ELECTRONIC DEVICE TE ...

The overall objective of this program is to develop methodologies for: automatic removal of the pellets from the press, precise measurement of the pellets (weight, thickness), calculation of density, inspection of pellets for chips and cracks, and segregation of non-compliant pellets. Automation of the above processes will ultimately lead to increased throughput with reduced cycle times. Phase ...

An advanced laser on the battlefield is no ordinary weapon. Nor is it one that is easily defended against. Intense, coherent radiation from lasers can damage delicate sensors, the so-called "eyes of battle" or blind human eyes in a matter of microseconds -- so quickly that targets are destroyed before they know what hit them. An ideal protection for satellite and battlefield optical sensors would ...

The MDA is interested in developing a coherent debris model for ballistic missile debris, and in developing a pre-screener to eliminate debris from classifier consideration. This debris is composed of staging hardware, deployment hardware, and solid rocket motor (SRM) debris. SRM debris is prevalent in missile systems with SRM final stages. At higher frequencies, debris RCS can be higher than r ...

OPTICAL COMPUTING PROMISES TO EXCEED THE CAPABILITY OF PRESENT DAY MACHINES BY SEVERAL ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE. MUCH HIGHER SPEEDS AND HIGH INFORMATION DENSITY MAKE OPTICAL TECHNOLOGY PROMISING FOR LARGER SCALEPARALLEL PROCESSING. NEW DEVELOPMENTS IN NONLINEAR OPTICAL MATERIALS AND DEVICE FABRICATION TECHNOLOGIES ARE NEEDED TO REALIZE THE POTENTIAL. BISTABLE DEVICES ARE ONE APPROACH TO ADDRESS THIS IS ...

Reflection of high energy X-rays from multilayer coatings raises the possibility of building a focussing hard X-ray telescope for interactive discrimination by X-ray spectroscopy. The objective of this project is to evaluate the feasibility of using graded period multilayer coatings to build a broad band hard X-ray concentrator. An optimal multilayer coating design will be generated. A graded mult ...