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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 ...

PRELIMINARY RESEARCH HAS SHOWN THAT A NEURAL NETWORK CAN SOLVE THE WEAPON-TO-TARGET ASSIGNMENT (WTA) PROBLEM -A COMPUTATIONALLY INTRACTABLE PROBLEM. THE NETWORK, SIMULATED ON A LOW COST PARALLEL PROCESSOR IN A PC HOST, HAS PRODUCED THE BEST QUALITY AND FASTEST SOLUTIONS TO A REALISTIC THREAT SCENARIO PUBLISHED TO DATE. THIS APPLICATION, EMPLOYING MORE THAN 46,000 NEURONS HAVING MORE THAN 49 MILLIO ...

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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