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TAC PROPOSES TO CONDUCT A STUDY TO EVALUATE THE COMPARATIVE EFFECTIVENESS OF VARIOUS FORWARD-LOOKING AUTONOMOUS SENSORS AND ALGORITHMS FOR TLAM-C. THE CURRENT TLAM-C USES A TERRAIN MAPPING RADAR ALTIMETER AND CORRELATES THE SENSED AREA AT KEY WAYPOINTS WITH A STORED DIGITAL REPRESENTATION OF THE TERRAIN AREA AT THE WAYPOINTS TO PROVIDE MID-COURSE AND TERMINAL GUIDANCE CORRECTION TO THE INERTIAL NA ...

THE ARRHENIUS METHODOLOGY IS CURRENTLY ACCEPTED AS STATE-OF-THE-ART IN THE REALM OF PREDICTING THERMAL LIFE ON NON-METALLIC MATERIALS. APPLICATION OF THE ARRHENIUS METHODOLOGY REQUIRES THE AVAILABILITY OF EMPIRICAL LIFE TESTING DATA, WHICH MAY BE GENERATED FOR A VARIETY OF PHYSICAL/ELECTRICAL PROPERTIES FOR ANY GIVEN MATERIAL. A LARGE QUANTITY OF SUCH DATA HAS BEEN GENERATED BY A MULTITUDE OF SOUR ...

A LARGE PERCENTAGE OF THE ELECTRONIC INSTRUMENTS IN USE TODAY HAVE AN OSCILLATOR OR WAVEFORM GENERATOR OF SOME SORT. AN OSCILLATOR MAY BE USED SIMPLY AS A SOURCE OR REGULARLY SPACED PULSES, A CLOCK, OR AS THE LOCAL OSCILLATOR IN A RECEIVER. NO MATTER HOW THE OSCILLATOR IS USED IT MUST MAINTAIN ITS FREQUENCY OF OSCILLATION TO A SPECIFIC DEGREE OF ACCURACY. IN A GROWING NUMBER OF APPLICATIONS THESE ...

FOR NONDESTRUCTIVE EVALUATION TO REMAIN A VERSATILE TOOL, NOT LIMITED BY COMPLEX GEOMETRIES OR MATERIAL TYPES, INDUSTRY MUST REFINE THE EXISTING NONDESTRUCTIVE EVALUATION TECHNIQUES OR DEVELOP NEWER ONES. BECAUSE OF THE RECENT ADVANCES IN HIGHER SENSITIVITY INFRARED DETECTORS, THE AVAILABILITY OF A WIDER SPECTRUM OF OPTICAL MATERIALS, IMPROVEMENTS INFILTERING AND DATA PROCESSING TECHNIQUES, AND TH ...