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Vehicle rollovers continue to be one of the most hazardous and costliest types of crashes among both military and civilian vehicles in the U.S. While rollover crashes only constitute 2.2% of civilian crashes, they make up 33% of the total cost of civilian crashes. An analysis of military mishap data showed that rollovers occur less frequently than frontal and rear impacts, but have the highest r ...

Body wearable antenna systems designed for Land Warrior/Ground Soldiers are vulnerable to signal cancellations due to multipath and higher losses . Diversity and MIMO techniques integrated with these antennas can mitigate multipath and shadowing effects to increase the overall link system gain. Under this effort, we propose several methods (switching among antennas with better reception ...

A reduced-order signature propagation model, with comparable full scale finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) accuracy is proposed. The reduced-order model achieves reductions in computational resources and time. Existing FDTD acoustic and seismic sensor models require supercomputing / multiprocessor level resources, which are impractical in a real time military / battlefield environment. The pr ...

Uncooled focal plane array (FPA) technology has evolved such that high performance is achieved in the long wavelength infrared (LWIR) with small pixel pitch and fast time constant. Small pitch allows high resolution with reduction in optics size and weight. Black Forest Engineering (BFE) has demonstrated 1024x768 a-Si:H FPAs with 20 um pixel pitch, noise equivalent temperature difference (NETD) < ...

Information is one of the key warfighting resources of the 21st century as evidenced by the emphasis placed on ubiquitous communication strategies such as the Global Information Grid (GIG) initiated in 2004. However, the equipment, applications and networks comprising the Department of Defense’s information systems has been evolving without direct coordination for a half century, resulting in p ...

Brushfire proposes to adapt our revolutionary FireBreak architecture to include Network Probe capabilities to assist Army network operations personnel who must detect, trouble-shoot, and resolve network issues. These capabilities defined in the Phase I research project will enhance all network support operations to ensure maximum network readiness and availability. The key features that will be ...

CRS has pioneered magnetic array technology (U.S. Patent 4,675,606; 1985). The use of magnetic arrays for detection and characterization of IEDs is proposed. Magnetic array will enable: 1. attain high sensitivities by cross-correlating the ambient noise fields 2. detect and map clutter through change detection 3. characterize or classify the residual targets through inversion from different look ...

Colorado Engineering, Inc (CEI) is a small woman owned business with a wealth of engineering expertise in the development of software and hardware systems for DOD combat, weapon and sensor systems. The measuring and mapping of community development in order to adjust tactics, as well insert stimuli to direct future change, is a purely systemic problem. Community development and maximization of a ...

Reconstruction and Stabilization (R/S) is a trans-disciplinary challenge that must be met through the establishment of an enterprise-wide planning culture that dynamically assembles and maintains an R/S community of interest (COI), which encompasses U.S. Government agencies, allies, international and non-governmental organizations. USJFCOM and the US Department of State's Office of the Coordinator ...

A data transformation interface based upon a standards-based data architecture will enable AHLTA (and eventually VistA) to receive, store, and view patient health records of TRICARE beneficiaries from civilian medical providers who utilize a variety of electronic health record (EHR) solutions. This will solve the problem of moving unstructured and structured data into the structured format of AHL ...