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The proposed effort investigates the use of smart materials (such as strain actuators and sensors) and modern control theory to suppress unsteady buffet loads encountered by vertical tail aircraft such as the F/A-18. The active smart material system proposed has distinct advantages over traditional passive damping treatments and active articulated control surface techniques. This innovative smart ...

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We propose the development of a remotely powered back lighting for night vision imaging systems. The technology proposed also enables future incorporation of sequential RGB backlighting, that will improve AM-LCD performance by reducing the number of driving circuits by a factor of three, eliminate the spatially distributed RGB filters, triple the resolution for the same pixel size and triple the a ...

COMMUNICATIONS NETWORKS WITHIN THE DEPARTMENT OF THE NAVY (D0N) HAVE DEVELOPED INDEPENDENTLY. THERE EXISTS A NEED TO INTEGRATE NETWORKS AND SYSTEMS TO PROVIDE AN INTEGRATED COMMUNICATIONS NETWORK SUPPORTING VOICE, DATA, IMAGE, MESSAGE, AND VIDEO SERVICES ACCORDING TO USER REQUIREMENTS AND COMMAND PRIORITIES. EXISTING MODELING SOLUTIONS HAVE ADDRESSED SPECIFIC COMMUNICATIONS AREAS, BUT HAVE NOT, AS ...

Nighttime operations are very attractive for the U.S. Armed Forces since these conditions generally maximize their advantage over the opposing forces. The deployment of IR countermeasures to protect aircraft from heat-seeking missiles, however, may remove the advantage of nighttime conditions and expose the aircraft to anti-aircraft artillery and small arms fire. Therefore, a need exists for an IR ...

The objectiwe of this proposal is to develop a versatile, inexpensive, and portable spectroscopic probe to quantify the atmospheric corrosion of metal surfaces on aircraft. Since many metals form insoluble salts as products of corrosion reactions, it should be possible to monitor the extent of metal corrosion by measuring the surface coverage of these products. For example, aluminum, which is a ma ...

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DESCRIBED IS A NEW LOW-COST DISPOSABLE BIOREACTOR FOR THE COMMERCIAL PRODUCTION OF PLANT CELL SUSPENSIONS IN VITRO. DETERMINATION OF THE TECHNICAL AND ECONOMIC POTENTIAL OF OUR NEW TECHNOLGY IS PROPOSED. DEVELOPED BY AGRESEARCH INTERNATIONAL, INC. AND BASED ON PRELIMINARY EXPERIMENTS, OUR NEW LOWER COST BIOREACTOR AND PRODUCTION TECHNOLOGY SHOULD PRODUCE GREATER SAVINGS AND ALLOW A WIDER RANGE OF ...

The advanced materials and sophisticated designs of metal matrix composite components are being used in modern aircraft designs. To detect flaws and other integrity-reducing anomalies in these new materials and to assure the component reliability and accurate failure rate predictions, nondestructive evaluation (NDE) using X-ray inspection is becoming indispensable. Currently used X-ray imaging sen ...