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As we progress towards the network-centric environment envisioned by JV2010 and JV2020, our dependency upon space assets to meet our force enhancement (C4, weather, navigation, intelligence, surveillance, etc.) requirements is expected to growexponentially. This trend is not only for our forces, but the forces of our potential adversaries, as well. With so many mission critical assets parked in v ...

The objective of this effort is to demonstrate a prototype advanced diagnostic system for the T800 turboshaft engine using a hybrid polynomial network and production-rule expert system. The resulting system will demonstrate the feasibility of developing a revolutionary diagnostic capability which can model the engine at a system level, detect failures before they become signficant isolate faults, ...

The goal of this multi-phase project is to develop a trace explosives detection system to reliably locate land mines from a vehicle traveling at walking pace. Under the Phase I program ADA Technologies will apply advanced geochemical techniques, whichhave previously been used to detect oil and gas and base metal mineralization lying beneath tens to thousands of meters of overburden, to the proble ...

The Department of Defense uses specialized incinerators for the disposal of outdated munitions and agents. These units are subject to ever more stringent emissions regulations, especially with respect to lead, cadmium, and mercury. ADA Technologies withfunding from the EPA and U.S. DOE, has developed a new family of specialized sorbents that have been shown to be effective in the capture of merc ...

The Phase I research effort delivered a fully functional wired binaural microphone prototype capable of providing realistic hearing capabilities to a remotely located soldier. Building on the successful completion of Phase I, the Phase II developmenteffort will refine the current design, add enhanced hearing features, and deliver two wireless binaural microphone systems to the Army. The Phase II ...

Automated fiber placement (AFP) of thermoplastic (TP) composite jackets around large caliber gun barrels and railgun cores has enabled a dramatic increase in lethality while meeting aggressive maneuver requirements. Automated Dynamics has played a central role in the development of TP AFP technology and its use for this application. There is a continuing need to improve safety, temperature capab ...

Adroit Systems, Inc. proposes to develop a hand-held , autonomous Satellite Location and Point System (SLAPS). The system will store communication satellites' ephemeris data to calculate and display visibility windows. SLAPS also will use this data to calculate the azimuth and elevation angle to the communication satellite of interest. The system will use interferometry of Global Positioning Syste ...

Improving the quality and intensity of the x-ray beam is an important design goal for every synchrotron installation. Although small, the effects of vacuum windows on x-ray absorption and phase contrast cannot be neglected. Synchrotron x-rays have wavelengths on the order of one Angstrom (1 x 10-10m), the same order of magnitude as inter-atomic distances. These x-rays are used to study many differ ...

Thin film multilayers of nanometer scale thickness are fundamental to the future of electronics and communications technologies. Chemical depth profiling by ion etching techniques are critical to the characterization of these structures. A fundamental problem with current ion etching technologies is that typical ion energies (~1k eV to 20 keV) create extensive damage and intermixing of nanometer t ...

The objective of this proposal is to demonstrate the feasibility of developing compact 1-10 W fuel cell systems based on the novel, revolutionary, concept of planar microfluidic membraneless fluid cell (PM2FC) recently invented and demonstrated by theauthors of this proposal. The PM2FC concept is closely related to microchannel, membraneless fuel cells (MMC's) that have been previously described ...