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Future U.S. Information Systems will be subject to increased attacks. These attacks will come from both internal and external threats. As reflected by the budgets for combating these threats, external cyber threats are assumed to be more likely. By comparison, internal threats to cyber networks from U.S. personnel receive little attention; yet, the consequences can be even more devastating. Al ...

In this Phase I SBIR program UES will develop an economic fabrication process to produce high optical quality infrared (IR) windows for reconnaissance window applications. The state-of-the art reconnaissance window are lacking in optical quality and/or durability to withstand operational environments for extended periods of time. Also, the availability of such advanced window materials in large si ...

Nuclear energy is widely held as being the only viable source of abundant, CO2 emissions-free electrical energy meeting projected needs in the near term. The primary challenges associated with emerging Very High Temperature Reactors (VHTR) stem from their extremely high operating temperatures, especially during accident conditions. This environment has necessitated new material systems to be devel ...

Guild Associates, Inc. proposes to develop and evaluate an active electrochemical sensor based residual life indicator (RLI) for adsorptive carbon filters. The sensing system of the RLI will operate by analyzing the electrochemical state of the carbon within the filter and evaluate the remaining adsorptive reactive capacities of the filter. The sensor design will be challenged against an array of ...

United States intelligence analysts of today and tomorrow are faced with a paramount challenge of maintaining situation awareness in the midst of an ever-growing and changing capacity of available data. As the incoming data streams continue to expand, so do the expectations and requests placed on the analysts. Layered Sensing offers a promising solution to meeting the Intelligence, Reconnaissance ...

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A PROGRAM IS PROPOSED TO INVESTIGATE ACOUSTIC AND MECHANICAL PROPERTIES OFF A CLASS OF MATERIALS FOR USE AS ACOUSTIC LENS DEVICES. THE MATERIALS, SYNTACTIC FOAMS, CAN BE COMPOSITIONALLY VARIED OVER WIDE RANGES TO AFFECT THE ACOUSTIC IMPEDENCE, SOUND VELOCITY, AND ATTENUATION. FUTHERMORE, THIS CLASS OF MATERIALS IS RELATIVELY INSENSITIVE TO ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGES, THUS KEEPING LENS ABERRATION TO A M ...

In this program Powdermet will combine controlled particle packing theory, particle interface control through particle coating and improve particle aeration by combining energetic gas formers within the obscurant compact. The end result of the program will be a device that outperforms current burster canisters with existing available obscurant materials and also can be applied to newly developed ...

We propose novel, more compact and inexpensive active sensors designed to operate interactively with passive IR seekers to provide enhanced performance in a number of important missile defense scenarios. We have identified a new approach to laser radar (ladar) design that exploits emerging monolithic laser concepts to produce a highly integrated, easily manufactured ladar components designed for ...

Identifying non-cooperative and potentially hostile vehicles is of the utmost importance to the operators of manned and un-manned surveillance aircraft. Utilizing ISAR imagery has been one method for performing target identification by many organizations. However, the complicated motions of the target vehicle and ISAR platform often prevent a clear 2D image from being recovered. Over the course ...