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KVH Industries proposes to design and demonstrate a low cost short range acoustic buoy release system designed to locate and retrieve underwater instruments. The proposed design effort will address the problems of search rate, identification, homing, slant range measurement, localization and buoy acknowledgement. The focus of the Phase I effort will be optimization of correct response to address a ...

An electrolyte reformation technique for use in the aluminum-silver oxide battery system is proposed. Successful implementation of this technique will reduce the weight of the energy section of a high power aluminum-silver oxide battery by more than 100 pounds. The technique is based on the fact that while sodium aluminate is soluble in hot aqueous solutions of sodium hydroxide, lithium aluminate ...

THR PRIORITIZATION OF THREATS AND THE PRIORITIZATION OF TARGETS REPRESENT A CRUCIAL ASPECT OF CURRENT AIR FORCE PLANNING. IN A WORLD WHERE THE POTENTIAL THREATS ARE INCREASING WHILE THE AVAILABLE RESOURCES ARE DECREASING , A MODES IS REQUIRED WHICH WILL INABLE THE QUANTITATIVE COMPARISON OF ALL LEVELS OF POSSIBLE TACTICAL AND STATEGIC DECISIONS. WE WILL BEGIN THE DEVELOPMENT OF SUCH A MODEL DURING ...

Sapphire, and other hard brittle materials, are highly regarded as missile domes because of their high mechanical strength and thermal characteristics. Conventional finishing processes used to provide for the final configuration of the domes can be as much as 50 percent or more of the total cost. A new fabrication process for sapphire domes is proposed to reduce the cost of grinding from a scooped ...

We propose to develop an Environmental Monitoring System by integrating various technologies to create a hybrid artificial neural network system. By functionally decomposing the requirements of environmental monitoring we can apply emerging technologies to fulfill these modularized requirements. Ten (10) years of experience indicate that the technologies directly applicable to specific requirement ...

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This project is based on a novel computer graphics technology for man/machine interfaces that relies on machine learning techniques, neural-like networks, and object recognition IU techniques. The key idea is to use a few "example" views of an object or person, to teach the computer to generate other views, under user control. WIth our technology we will develop an interactive (multimedia) interfa ...

An investigation of nickel coating processes to provide corrosion protection for 6061-T6 aluminum alloy in a marine environment is proposed. The effects of aluminum preparation and pretreatment steps will be investigated. Additionally, strategies which utilize multiple layers of nickel of different compositions will also be explored.

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REVERSE ENGINEERING DERIVES THE SPECIFICATION OFA SOFTWARE SYSTEM FROM ITS IMPLEMENTATION. IT REQUIRES BOTH A SPECIFICATION LANGUAGE AND A SET OF TOOLS. AS OUR SPECIFICATION LANGUAGE WEUSE SEDL; AS OUR INPUT LANGUAGE WE USE C; AND AS OUR PROTOTYPE WORKING ENVIRONMENT WE USE ARCADIA. SEDL, A SOFTWARE ENGINEERING DESIGN LANGUAGE DEVELOPED AT IBM, IS AN EXTENSION TO ADA THAT PROVIDES HIGH-LEVEL DICTI ...