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THE NAVY F-14 FIGHTER CURRENTLY HAS TWO PRIMARY SYSTEMS WHICH CAN BE USED FOR THE IDENTIFICATION OF NON-COOPERATIVE AIR TARGETS: THE TELEVISION CAMERA SET (TCS) AND A RADAR SIGNAL MODULATION (RSM) PROCESSOR COUPLED TO THE AWG-9 FIRE CONTROL RADAR. CURRENTLY, DATA FROM THESE SYSTEMS IS PROCESSED INDEPENDENTLY, AND ANY FUSTION WHICH TAKES PLACE IS PERFORMED BY THE OPERATOR. THE OBJECTIVE OF THIS RES ...

The implementation of new environmental and National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) regulations due to take effect by the year 2000 make it imperative that industrial and manufacturing processing facilities take steps to monitor, characterize, and control stack emissions in accordance with EPA air permit requirements. Inline gas/air monitoring techniques that permit simultane ...

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Brimrose proposes to research and develop, in this SBIR program, a prototype minature, polarization-insensitive, acousto-optically tuned filter. This filter will be capable of high speed, mechanical-free electronic tuning over a broad wavelength region with high resolution, sensitivity and repeatability. The filter will be realized by employing optical waveguides integrated into a LiNbO3 substrate ...

The feasibility of developing a reserve, lithium thionyl chloride battery that combines both high power and high energy is examined. Highly acid electrolytes with halogen catalysts and blended and/or layered carbon cathodes will be studied at current densities up to 250mA/cm and at temperatures from -20 to 60 degrees C. A bipolar reserve cell configuration will be designed to verify that SBIR powe ...

This proposal offers an innovative methodology to measure and improve shipyard productivity. The methodology creates a cooperative reporting environment in which labor and management seek to accomplish identical performance goals. Measures distinguish between two kinds of labor lost due to reasons beyond labor control. Lost time includes suchurs activities as waiting for materials or equipment, cr ...

This proposal presents a system dynamics model of the shipbuilding process that can be used to quantily the cost of shipyard construction delays. The system dynamics methodology models the myriad cause-and-effect relationships that define the shipbuilding process. The model, presented in clear diagramatic form, includes the complex web of feedback linkages responsible for the dynamic behavior of t ...

Two systems are proposed for investigation of potential to solve the problem of premature disposal of hazardous material. The systems employ acoustic technology. One is based on Ultrasonic Pulse-Echo effect (UPE), the other is an Acoustic Resonance Spectroscopy. These systems have been used to externally interrogate chemical warfare materiel and were able to discriminate between chemical agents as ...

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