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"ACIT has studied a remotely addressed strain detection system consisting of a passive embedded sensor and a handheld detector, used in either a stationary or portable mode. This Proposal will demonstrate the utility of the strain detection system forspecific advanced composite materials used in aerospace vehicles, fulfilling a critical need to assess the mission capability of advanced composites ...

"A study is proposed in which the performance of an underwater acoustic vector sensor (AVS) containing conventional piezoelectric transducers is compared with that of an AVS containing single crystal piezoelectric transducers. An acoustic vector sensor isa device that measures three orthogonal components of the acoustic particle velocity in conjunction with the acoustic pressure at a single point ...

"Acoustech proposes a Phase I study to develop an acoustic dyadic sensor using piezoelectric single crystals. The study combines theoretical and numerical modeling along with experimental data obtained from a pre-prototype unit to assess the feasibility ofdeveloping a full scale unit during Phase II for a surveillance application. Greater sensor directivity in a comparable or smaller sized packag ...

"Agentase has previously developed a nerve agent sensor based upon its proprietary techniques for enzyme-polymer synthesis and their use in a variety of sensing applications. This sensor has many advantages over conventional sensors for chemical weaponsincluding fast responses, simple use protocols, and a great resistance to chemical and environmental interference. This sensor is presently being ...

"The Personal Communications Systems (PCS) Base-station Transceiver Systems (BTS) area of coverage is physically near (within a few km) of the BTS. It is desirable to provide range extension for the BTS, perhaps to 10 km or more. It is also desirable toquickly deploy range extension of the BTS, thereby filling gaps in mobile communications around the Tactical Operations Center (TOC). A solution is ...

"Wireless LAN technology provides freedom and flexibility to the Local Area Network. The current standards based (IEEE 802.11) wireless LAN equipment is intended to provide reliable coverage over a limited range of approximately 100m. However, the wirelessLAN transmissions may be detected and exploited at much greater ranges, and can provide an intruder with the opportunity to attack the network f ...

"This proposal shall outline the process of modifying a standard loom to weave three-dimensional complex shapes for personnel armor. Current manufacturing techniques for textile-based personnel armor focus on constructing complex shapes from orthogonalwoven fabrics with cuts and darts, reducing comfort and performance. The solution to the above problem is to develop a robust technique which weav ...

"Brashear LP proposes to further develop ULE(TM) Lightweight Mirrors. The overallstructural efficiency of primary mirrors, such as the one used in ABL or proposed forSBL, is currently limited by the minimum thickness of the core cell walls, and frontand back face sheets that is achievable with traditional glass manufacturing methods.The technical objectives of this Phase I activity is to establish ...

"Brashear LP proposes to characterize the problem and possible solutions for acousticinduced disturbances. This problem will likely drive the LOS jitter stability of ABLand similar airborne pointing applications. The research will characterize theacoustic disturbance on ABL hardware then use this detailed description to employmore sophisticated methodsof jitter control. Such methods include mechan ...

"This proposal describes a hardware-in-the-loop (HWIL) system for testing millimeter wave radio frequency (RF), multi-mode missile seekers. The system consists of a unique five-axis (three seeker axes plus two target axes) flight motion table (FMT), anoff-axis parabolic RF reflector, RF feeds, and an electronics box for the control of RF phase plane. RF energy of a given target signature is fed ...