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Cornerstone Research Group, Inc., proposes to develop and demonstrate a full scale, operationally relevant prototype covert marking system based on dust-sized micro-reflector tags. Composed of a material with unique reflectance signatures not visible tothe naked eye, these tags will be coupled with a highly portable imaging sensor capable of uniquely distinguishing tags from the background in the ...

We propose the study of a new heuristic for the general mixed integer problem called the Neighborhood Covering Heuristic (NCH). We describe the heuristic in its simplest, worst-case form. We then describe three enhancements to the heuristic which,separately and in combination, should yield a practical method for finding solutions. We believe this approach has the potential to be significantly fast ...

U.S. military aircraft are still vulnerable to man-portable air defense systems (MANPADS) due to MANPADS effectiveness, low cost, availability, small size, and ease of use and due to the lack of operationally effective Electro-optical/ Infrared (EO/IR)detection systems that are capable of supporting advanced laser countermeasures (CM). An effective and affordable solution is critical. This resea ...

DeveloSoft proposes to use its considerable carrier automation experience to investigate three main approaches for gesture recognition. First, we will evaluate either Measurand ShapeTape or micro-accelerometers for direct measurement of arm and handpositions. Second, we will investigate an imaging approach using LEDs or reflective tape... both with specially tuned optics and frequencies which wo ...

Currently, power electronic systems, for the Navy results in systems that are 10 times too large and heavy. The passive components such as inductors, reactors, and transformers take up a considerable percentage of the weight and volume. Superconductingpassive components can dramatically reduce the size and weight of these components. This project investigates the potential of using magnesium di ...

Rare earth permanent magnets of the Nd2Fe14B family are brittle with poor mechanical properties. The poor material toughness poses serious problems in the manufacture of magnets, assembly in devices and integrity of motor components during spinning. Thetraditional powder metallurgy method of improving mechanical properties by refining microstructures via substitutions of rare earth Dy, Pr for Nd ...

The emerging HR environment in the Navy presents a variety of challenging problems that can be addressed with the aid of operations research methodologies. Optimization modeling and solution techniques along with simulation hold particular promise asmodern approaches in this area. In this project we represent these challenges by presenting a significant human resource problem associated with DDX, ...

A large majority of aircraft shot down over the past three decades have been lost to infrared (IR)-guided anti-aircraft missiles. One of the major factors affecting final development and deployment of an IR CounterMeasure (IRCM) system on Naval aircraftis the high cost of the system. This proposal seeks to reduce the cost of the detector portion of the IRCM system. Silicon technology offers a p ...

Advances in the fields of real-time computer graphics, behavioral animation and artificial intelligence are enabling creation of realistic 3D Virtual Environments (VE) in which participants can acquire skills that are normally too costly, dangerous orotherwise impossible to achieve using traditional training methods. The effectiveness of such training applications is currently limited when requiri ...

The iterative nature of ship design and the conflicting requirements of multiple disciplines present a challenge to find the best combination of design parameters to balance mission effectiveness with cost and risk. An engineering framework is proposed,integrating ship synthesis and design analysis tools, and employing multidisciplinary optimization and probabilistic design methods for modeling a ...