Award Data

THE PROJECT WILL REVIEW CURRENT INCENTIVES OFFERED BUSINESS FOR ITS INVOLVEMENT WITH THE TARGET POPULATION. RESEARCH EFFECTIVE METHODS OF PROVIDING INCENTIVES TO BUSINESS. EXAMINE ALTERNATIVES THAT INCREASE PRIVATE SECTOR INVOLVEMENT. STUDY VARIOUS MARKETING TECHNIQUES TO IMPROVE PRESENTATION OF BENEFIT PACKAGES TO THE PRIVATE SECTOR, E.G., SAVINGS, CUTTING-COST, AND PROFIT MARGIN. THE PROJECT WIL ...

N/A

TO SATISFY AIR FORCE REQUIREMENTS TO IMPROVE AVIATION REACTIVE ATMOSPHERES IN A UNIQUE, CONTRACTOR-OWNED ENTRAINED FLOW REACTOR WITH ON-LINE, IN-SITU ANALYSIS OF VOLATILE SPECIES, TEMPERATURE AND RADIATION ABSORPTION CHARACTERISTICS BY FOURTER TRANSFORM INFRARED (FT-IR) SPECTROSCOPY. THESE DATA WILL BE USED TO EVALUATE THE APPLICATION OF EXISTING CONTRACTOR-DEVELOPED MODELS OF VAPORIZATION, PYROLY ...

SIGNIFICANT SAVINGS IN COST AND DISPLACEMENT OF VALUABLE PETROLEUM FUEL CAN BE ACHIEVED BY BURNING COAL WHEN APPROPRIATE FOR DOD POWER GENERATION REQUIREMENTS. THIS PROPOSAL OFFERS A COST EFFECTIVE, PORTABLE, COMPUTER CONTROLLED AND INTEGRATED COAL ANALYSIS SYSTEM FOR ASSESSING A COAL'S COMBUSTION PERFORMANCE. THE PROPOSED SYSTEM FOR COAL ANALYSES IS AN INTEGRATED THERMOGRAVIMETER ANALYZER (TGA), ...

N/A

CURRENT SHOT PEENING TECHNOLOGY DOES NOT OFFER THE CAPABILITY TO ACCURATELY PREDICT FATIGUE LIFE BENIFITS. RECENT TEST RESULTS IDENTIFY A HERETOFORE UNDOCUMENTED SURFACE INTEGRITY PHENOMENOM ASSOCIATED WITH PEENING AT RELATIVELY HIGH INTENSITIES WHICH HAS BEEN LINKED TO PREMATURE SPECIMEN FAILURE AT SPECIMEN FAILURE AT FATIGUE LIFE LOWER THAN THAT OF UNPEENED SPECIMEN. DATA PRESENTED BY SEVERAL AU ...

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 OBJECTIVE OF THIS DEVELOPMENTAL EFFORT IS TO DETERMINE THE FEASIBILITY OF DEVELOPING A COMPUTER INTEGRATED ROBOT WORK CELL GAGING FINISHED PARTS OR OTHER ASSEMBLY/MACHINING OPERATIONS. THE FOCUS OF THE RESEARCH IS TO CONTROL THE ROBOT TOOL CONTROL POINT (TCP) THROUGH AN ADAPTIVE FEEDBACK CONTROL SYSTEM. THE ROLE OF THE FEEDBACK CONTROL SYSTEM IS TO CONTROL AND MODIFY THE PATH OF THE TCP TO WIT ...

THE OBJECTIVE OF THIS DEVELOPMENT IS TO DETERMINE THE TECHNICAL FEASIBILITY OF DEVELOPING A THREE DIMENSIONAL VISION BASED PASSIVE OBJECT RECOGNITION SYSTEM CAPABLE OF GENERATING THREE DIMENSIONAL COORDINATE LOCATION INFORMATION IN REAL TIME AT VIDEO FRAME RATES OF 30 FRAMES PER SECOND. THE SYSTEM CONFIGURATION UNDER INVESTIGATION WILL UTILIZE PARALLEL PROCESSING OF RAW VIDEO INPUT FROM MULTIPLE C ...

IMPROVED PERFORMANCE OF TONPILZ-TYPE TRANSDUCER ELEMENTS CAN RESULT FROM (1) INCREASING THE AREA OF THE RADIATING FACE AND (2) DECREASING THE MASS OF THE RADIATING HEAD. HOWEVER, SUCH IMPROVEMENT IS LIMITED BY THE INTRODUCTION OF A FLEXURE MODE, WITH THE OUTER RING MOVING AT A DIFFERENT VELOCITY AND PHASE FROM THE INNER AREA OF THE HEAD-MASS. THE UNDESIRABLE RESULT IS A BI-MODAL RESPONSE WITH, GEN ...