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For mission critical data storage on systems operating in natural space and nuclear weapons environments, the use of radiation hardened (RH) non-volatile memory (NVM) is imperative. Today's complex computer controlled electronic systems use NVM to store critical data for proper operation. This typically includes configuration parameters which allow the system to return to a known configuration a ...

In Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF) 61% of soldiers injured in explosion blast events experienced Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI). The current incomplete understanding of TBI mechanisms limits the development of protection and therapeutic measures. Animal testing, in vitro study, and analysis of clinical data, while useful and necessary, are slow, expensive, and often inconclusive. Anatomy and physiolog ...

In today's Urban-Warfare Command and Control, Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (C2ISR) environment, current sensor platforms have a limited operational capability due to power consumption and recharge times. Many times these sensor packages are found to be unsuitable for many battlefield environments due strictly to their endurance limitations. Much of the research done to date has co ...

Phased array antenna systems are growing in use within military systems. These arrays of thousands of elements need precise control of the aperture distributions to meet requirements for gain, sidelobes, etc. Errors in these phase and amplitude distributions over time will degrade the performance of these apertures. FIRST RF favors simple concepts with little or no hardware impact that fully ch ...

Currently large capacity cryostats, capable of hosting experiments for many qubits, require expensive and hard to obtain liquid cryogens. A few small cryo-free systems exist but they are non-ideal for this use. An opportunity exists for a large scale, c

OptTek proposes to create a new methodology and tool set, "OptDef," to provide MDA a capability to optimize Ballistic Missile Defense systems-a capability that will enable MDA to answer credibly not only "what if?", but also "what's best?" and "why this and not that?" OptDef will build on proven OptTek-proprietary technologies in simulation optimization that will leverage MDA's investment in su ...

An eye-safe optically pumped laser based on a gas-filled hollow optical fiber will be demonstrated to lase at both near infrared (IR) and mid IR wavelengths. These lasers will be the first in a new class of IR lasers, based on the combination of hollow-f

CURRENT TESTING OF MILLIMETER WAVE SEEKERS AND DATA ACQUISTION INVOLVE EXTENSIVE FLIGHT TESTING WITH VIDEO AND MAGNETIC TAPE USED TO RECORD DATA. A VIDEO DISPLAY WITH BORESIGHTED CROSSHAIR IS USED FOR OPERATOR DISPLAY. THIS PROPOSAL IS TO PROVIDE A REAL TIME READOUT OF CALIBRATED BACKGROUND OR TARGET CROSS SECTION ON THE VIDEO DISPLAY TO ENABLE BETTER USE OF FLIGHT TIME. THE READOUT WOULD ALSO BE ...

THE PROPOSED CONCEPT IS A REFLECTOR-EXPENDABLE CONCEPT DE- SIGNED TO PROVIDE FALSE TARGETS INTO THREAT FIRE CONTROL FUSE, DRAW FIRE AND ULTIMATELY SAVE ARMY AIRCRAFT AND IN TURN ENHANCE MISSION SUCESS. THIS PHASE I EFFORT IS CONCERNED WITH IDENTIFYING PRELIMINARY FEASABILITY OF THE BASIC CONCEPT ANALYTICALLY, AND TO PERFORM SUFFICIENT ANALYSIS TO ESTABLISH DESIGN REQUIREMENTS FOR A PHSE II MODEL D ...

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