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A SOLID STATE SWITCH FOR OPERATION AT CRYOGENIC TEMPERATURE IS BEING DEVELOPED THAT WILL PROVIDE MULTI-MEGAWATT POWER CONDITIONING IN THE RAPIDLY EXPANDING FIELD OF LOW TEMPERATURE ELECTRONICS. SINCE EXISTING CONTROLLED SWITCHES ARE NOT DIRECTLY SUITABLE FOR CRYOGENIC OPERATION, ONLY A FUNDAMENTAL APPROACH CAN DEVELOP STRUCTURES CAPABLE OF LOW LOSS AND RELIABLE OPERATION IN THE TEMPERATURE RANGE B ...

INFRARED SYSTEMS ARE NEEDED FOR A VARIETY OF DEFENSE RELATED APPLICATIONS, SUCH AS: SURVEILLANCE, TARGET DETECTION, ACQUISITION AND TRACKING, MISSILE GUIDANCE, ETC. FOR MANY APPLICATIONS SUCH AS THOSE INVOLVING COLD-DIM TARGETS, THESE SYSTEMS NEED TO OPERATE IN THE VERY LONG WAVELENGTH REGION OF THE INFRARED SPECTRUM, E.G. 15-35 MICRONS CUTOFF. IN THIS WAVELENGTH REGION, THE AVAILABILITY OF SUITAB ...

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A PIPELINE STRATEGY FOR MAN-MACHINE DECISION MODULES HAS BEEN DEVELOPED. IT HAS HIGHER OVERALL DECISION PERFORMANCE THAN THE SINGLE DECISION MODULE STRATEGY, AND IS MORE COMPUTATIONALLY EFFICIENT THAN THE MULTIPLE MODULE APPROACH. IT PROVIDES A FRAMEWORK FOR CONTROLLED CONSTRUCTION OF ORTHOGONAL DECISION MODULES, AND DIFFERS FROM THE MULTIPLE MODULE APPROACH BECAUSE EACH MODULE ONLY OPERATES ON DA ...