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Piezoelectric ceramics in sensors have achieved substantial market penetration. These parts are used widely for heat and climate control, hydrophones, flow sensors, medical and industrial sensing and accelerometers but they have been unsuccessful in gaining significant use in actuators. It generally is felt that material restrictions, precluding development of actuator-sized displacement strokes ...

The purpose of the proposed R&D is to develop and demonstrate an innovative lagacy engineering methodology which supports the development and maintenance of complex, heterogeneous systems employing COTS and legacy components.

It is the purpose of this work to investigate all feasible hydrogen-based fuel cell forms capable of being used in military applications. Current support equipment found on naval and marine ships are being powered by diesel generators or batteries. These power sources are plagued with noise, pollution, refueling and corrosion problems. A fuel cell provides an alternative to these power sour ...

We propose to develop inexpensive, self-adapting, anomaly detection algorithms and to apply them to critical monitoring tasks. Specifically in Phase I we focus on mechanical failure of pumps which are used in key Navy systems, for example, for ship board fire pumps. Prior experience with data sets from Helicopter transmissions and induction motors suggest that similar such anomaly detection ...

This Small Business Innovation Research Project will determine the advantages and disad-vantages of fibrous/polymeric composite materials over traditional material (steel) for retrofitting key civilian facilities against terrorist bomb attack. Retrofit techniques we will evaluate are: strengthening fully and partially exposed columns with composite wraps or shells, masonry walls with bonded comp ...

Secure broadcasting mechanisms play an important role in satellite-based communications networks. In this Phase I SBIR project, Artery Communication Technology Inc. proposes a scalable secure data broadcasting architecture that is both bandwidth efficient and as secure as state of the art public key cryptosystems. The major emphasis of this project is to analyze the detailed performance behavior ...

Modeling and simulation (M&S) provides the potential of serving as a cost-effective expedient for developing, acquiring, testing, and fielding new technologies for the future battlefield-provided the limitations of existing tools and techniques can be overcome. As the Army focal point for communications M&S, the U.S. Army Communications-Electronic Command (CECOM) has the lead for performing M&S t ...

SOLICITATION ON THE SUBJECT OF DENTAL ANESTHESIA. THE MAIN OBEJECTIVE IS TO INVESTIGATE THE FEASIBILITY OF USING A PORTABLE, SELF-CONTAINED BATTERY OPERATED LASER BIOSTIMULATOR (LSB) TO ALLEVIATE DENTAL PAIN BY SEMI SKILLED DENTAL AUXILLARY PERSONNEL ESPECIALLY IN THE BATTLEFIELD. THE PROPOSED EFFORT ENCOMPASSES THREE TASKS: 1) DESIGN, BUILD AND CHECK OUT THE ELECTRICAL AND SAFETY FEATURES ON THE ...

OF AUTOMATING THE USE OF THE UNDERLYING LEARNING CURVE (ULC)APPROACH FOR USE BY CONTACT ADMINISTATION ORGANIZATIONS. THEUNDERLYING LEARNING CURVE (ULC) TECHNIQUE COMBINES BOTH ENGINEERING AND PARAMETRIC ESTIMATING APPROACHES TO PROVIDE A "SHOULD COST" ESTIMATE OF DIRECT LABOR. ULC ALLOWS THE DISCIPLINED INTEGRATION OF THE DATA FOUND IN THE CONTRACTOR'S WORK MEASUREMENT AND COST ACCOUNTING SYSTEMS ...

To develop faster and larger pulse-coupled neural networks (PCNN) for image processing, Bosonics will design and simulate a 64 by 64 neuron chip with optical inputs and outputs. PCNN have been shown to be effective at fast analog pre-processing of detector data, image transforms, and automatic target recognition. In Phase I Bosonics will 1) define the image processing application specifications ...