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Traditional military command & control (C2) usually evokes images of operators in command posts centers. But what about the mounted or dismounted soldier trying to get from A to B without getting blown up? It's C2 as well, just a different scale. The digital battlefield provides an explosion of information to gain a tactical advantage over the adversary but it's challenging. That challenge is ...

Compared to fighting in the open field, military operations in urban terrain (i.e., man-made, built-up areas) is the greater challenge. It is riskier and costlier in manpower, resources, and time. The urban environment easily provides the in-place enemy with settings for ambush, places to hide, civilians as shields for unscrupulous use, and many escape routes - above and below ground. Warfighti ...

The objective of this Phase I effort is to design and simulate an innovative optical architecture for true, interactive-rate holographic video. Our novel technique takes a contrarian approach to existing multi-view and holographic video systems, which are typically crippled by "jailbar" dark regions, limited viewing zones, and image distortions arising from rendering techniques not intended for m ...

Protective helmets anticipated for the next generation Army soldier (Objective Force Warrior) will provide superior ballistic and biological protection by encapsulating the entire head. However, such an encapsulating design will limit the soldier's ability to effectively hear the surrounding acoustic environment, limiting the soldier's effectiveness. The design and development of a fully encap ...

The goal of this proposal is to develop a feed back controlled combustion process for high power density, near stoichiometric air/fuel ratio diesel engines, capable of running on multi-fuels, with superior cold start capability. The company, its advisors and suppliers will introduce new innovative concepts to achieve the goal of delivering power greater than 1 hp/lb. Adrenaline Research has deve ...

The integrated informatics architecture proposed here will facilitate the construction of gene regulatory and other biological pathway models from networks of molecular and phenotypic associations. Current commercial or academic solutions are mostly limited to basic analysis of array data to determine differential expression and do not practically address the advanced analysis of array data to unc ...

As a result of continuing advances in magnetic materials, compression of circuit physical architecture, increase in magnetic component packaging density and faster switching speed, the heat dissipation rate of next generation military power converter systems will require operation at significantly higher heat flux levels than current power converters. The goal of this SBIR Phase I program is the ...

The present invention is a low cost method of mass-producing large size, ultra-fine grain Nd:YAG laser ceramics. Agiltron's approach will potentially lead to a new generation of engineered polycrystalline laser materials exhibiting new performance and cost attributes that are not previously attainable. The proposed technology uses a vacuum hot press sintering process to overcome conventional l ...

The pervasiveness of nanoparticles and nanomaterials is rapidly expanding, and determination of their chemical composition can be achieved by Laser-Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy (LIBS) excited through an optical fiber of nanometer dimensions. We propose to develop a LIBS system for nanomaterials based upon recently demonstrated nanometer silica wires [Nature, Dec 2003] for excitation and an ultr ...

ALPHATECH proposes to design and develop an approach to the identification and prediction of events from the semi-automated fusion and evaluation of information from multiple disparate data sources. The core of this proposal is the semi-automatic, ad hoc, and intelligent assembly of fragments of Bayesian networks to form adaptive belief networks that contain hypotheses about current and future ev ...