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INNOVATIVE TECHNIQUES ARE PROPOSED FOR INVESTIGATION IN A PHASE I EFFORT TO DETERMINE PASSIVE RF SURVEILLANCE AND TARGETING SENSORS AND ASSOCAITED METHODOLOGY FOR PERFORMING RAPID AND ACCURAGE MEASUREMENTS OF RANGE/LOCATION OF THREAT RF EMITTERS. THE ESSENTIAL PHYSICAL CONSTRAINTS TO BE OBSERVED ARE SENSOR COMPATIBILITY WITH, AND PORTABILITY OF THE ASSOCIATED RANGE DETERMINATION/PROCESSING EQUIPME ...

HALON 1301 (CF3BR) IS CURRENTLY IN WIDE SPREAD USE ON NAVAL VESSELSAS AN EFFECTIVE AND NON-TOXIC ACTIVE AGENT IN FIRE SUPPRESSION SYSTEMS. UNFORTUNATELY, FUTURE MANUFACTURE AND USE OF CF3BR MAY BE SEVERELY RESTRICTED DUE TO ITS ROLE AS A POTENT AGENT IN STRATOSPHERIC OZONE DEPLETION CHEMISTRY. ALTERNATIVE FIRE SUPPRESSION CHEMICALS NEED TOBE IDENTIFIED AND ASSESSED TO REPLACE HALON 1301 IN NAVAL S ...

Aerosol particles play an important role in visibility, acid deposition, climate, and human health, although large uncertainties remain in quantifying their impacts which depend on their chemical composition and atmospheric transformations. An innovativeaerosol mass spectrometer has been recently designed to fill a critical need for size-resolved, quantitative chemical composition data on aerosol ...

This program addresses the development of a cutting edge optical switching technology for microchip laser. Leveraged on our industry leading solid-state optical switch commercialization expertise, AGILTRON Inc. is developing and perfecting a uniqueoptoceramic 1x4 switch. This program is focused on achieving desirable attributes of sub-microsecond switching speed, low power consumption, low optic ...

This program addresses the development of a cutting edge optical switching technology for microchip laser. Leveraged on our industry leading solid-state optical switch commercialization expertise, AGILTRON Inc. is developing and perfecting a uniqueoptoceramic 1x4 switch. This program is focused on achieving desirable attributes of sub-microsecond switching speed, low power consumption, low optic ...

The Leaning Airbeam Shipboard Arrestment System (LASARST) is a radically different type of UAV recovery system for shipboard and unprepared land based operations. Although LASARST can also be used with LPD class vessels and small land based recovery areas,it is designed specifically for those vessels that have too small a deck area to capture the UAV in the `conventional' or current method (i.e. S ...

New technology is needed for the nondestructive detection and characterization of defects in aerospace structures, particularly those with complex shapes, that are used in high stress environments that accelerate degradation. Existing nondestructiveevaluation (NDE) techniques, based on ultrasonics, eddy-currents, and x-radiography do not have the capabilities needed for real-time defect detection ...

esign of the IR/RF payloads.

ALPHATECH proposes a novel approach for prognostics, diagnostics, and health management (PHM) of interconnected aircraft subsystems, using hybrid reduced-order prognostic models and extensions to existing diagnostic FMECA analyses. This technology will beapplied at the area reasoner level of the aircraft, and tailored to the Propulsion System. In close collaboration with our partner, Rolls-Royce ...

ALPHATECH proposes, in conjunction with our partners, Rolls-Royce North America, a novel approach to the prognostic modeling of drivetrain clutch systems, combining dynamic modeling of transients with physics-of-failure based hazard modeling. Inparticular, our effort is focused towards the F35B LiftFan clutch, to which our models and techniques will be applied. The goal is to predict clutch prob ...