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A PROTOTYPE GUIDANCE AND CONTROL SYSTEM SENSOR FOR DIRECTED ENERGY WEAPONS IS PROPOSED. THIS GUIDANCE SUBSYSTEM SENSOR WILL USE THE GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM (GPS) SATELLITE CONSTELLATION FOR BOTH POSITION AND ATTITUDE DETERMINATION OF THE DEW. THIS GPS ATTITUDE DETERMINATION SYSTEM CAN BE CAN BE APPLIED FOR POINTING AND ATTITUDE CONTROL OF MANY TYPES OF DEWS, INCLUDING GROUND, AIR, AND SPACE BASE ...

DMS (DILUTED MAGNETIC SEMICONDUCTOR) CRYSTAL WILL MEASURE MAGNETIC FIELD STRENGTHS OF A HYPERVELOCITY GUN (HVG), WITH UNIQUELY HIGH DIRECTIVITY AND SPATIAL RESOLUTION, UNDER A HARSH ELECTRO-MAGNETIC INTERFERENCE (EMI) CONDITION. KNOWLEDGE OF THE MAGNETIC FIELD STRUCTURE BEHIND AND AHEAD OF A PROJECTILE IS ESSENTIAL FOR DESIGNING AN EFFICIENT HVG OF SDI INTEREST, ALTHOUGH EMI MAKES SUCH A MEASUREME ...

THE NEXT GENERATION SPACECRAFT WILL BE MADE OF NEW STRONG, LIGHTWEIGHT MATERIALS WITH LITTLE DAMPING SO THAT ACTIVE VIBRATION SUPPRESSION IS ESSENTIAL. THESE SPACECRAFT, FUNCTIONING IN A REMOTE HOSTILE ENVIRONMENT WHERE IMMEDIATE REPAIR IS PRECLUDED, MAY SUSTAIN DAMAGE FROM EXTERNAL DISTURBANCES AND AGING. TO ADDRESS THE OPERATIONAL REQUIREMENTS OF FUTURE SPACECRAFT, THIS PROGRAM IS DEVELOPING AN ...

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OPTICS, DUE TO ITS INHERENT PARALLELISM, HIGH TEMPORAL-SPATIAL BANDWIDTH AND NON-INTERFERING COMMUNICATIONS, HAS THE POTENTIAL OF BREAKING THROUGH THE PERFORMANCE BARRIERS FACED BY CONVENTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES AND IS THEREFORE A CANDIDATE FOR FUTURE PARALLEL COMPUTERS. ONE OF THE MAIN NEEDS IS EFFICIENT, LOW ENERGY, OPTICAL GATES AND/OR ELECTRO-OPTIC CONVERTORS WHICH CAN BE MANUFACTURED IN LARGE QUAN ...

THE PURPOSE OF THIS RESEARCH PROJECT IS TO IDENTIFY AND/OR FORMULATE EFFICIENT METHODS AND ASSOCIATED COMPUTATIONAL ALGORITHMS FOR PREDICTING THE DYNAMIC PERFORMANCE AND STABILITY CHARACTERISTICS OF CONTROL AUGMENTED, DAMPING ENHANCED, LARGE SPACE STRUCTURES IN A MASSIVE DATA PARALLEL ENVIRONMENT. IT IS ASSUMED THAT THE STRUCTURES ARE TO ACT IN CONCERT WITH ON-BOARD DISTRIBUTED CONTROLLERS AS WELL ...

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MANUFACTURING REQUIRES REAL-TIME EVALUATION OF MATERIALS TO DETERMINE STRUCTURAL PROPERTIES, INCLUDING INSPECTION FOR LATENT DEFECTS. CURRENT OFF-LINE EVALUATION TECHNIQUES UTILIZE SPECIAL FACILITIES AND INCREASE COSTS. THIS PROJECT DEVELOPS A MULTI-FUNCTION ROBOTIC SONOSCOPE (MFRS) FOR ON-LINE INSPECTION. MFRS IS A GENERAL PURPOSE NDE TOOL. IT USES A SCANNING LASER BEAM FOR INSPECTING SURFACE ANO ...

In order to provide the required simulation frame rates we propose to decouple the incident flux calculations from a simple thermal response model. We propose to develop a table-lookup methodology based on high fidelity precomputed environmental and eventually aerothermal fluxes which can be draw in real time to drive the thermal response model. A simple 1-D thermal calculation based on an analyt ...