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MICROWAVE RADIO CORPORATION PROPOSES TO PERFORM ADEQUATE STUDY AND TESTING TO SPECIFY A FORM, FIT, AND FUNCTIONAL REPLACEMENT FOR THE TWT AMPLIFIER IN THE AN/FRC-173(V) DRAMA RADIO.

A METHOD FOR CREATING AND AMPLIFYING LONG PULSE LASER WAVEFORMS (CO2, UV LASER, ETC.) IS BEING INVESTIGATED THAT COULD ELIMINATE AUXILIARY E-BEAM IONIZATION AND OPTICAL ISOLATION PROBLEMS ASSOCIATED WITH A MASTER OSCILLATOR/POWER AMPLIFIER (MOPA) CONFIGURATION. FREQUENCY STABILITY COULD ALSO BE IMPROVED BY REMOVING MOST LIMP INDUCED FREQUENCY CHIRP. THE METHOD COULD BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A HIGH ...

PROPERTIES OF FERRITE MATERIALS PLAY A KEY ROLE IN THE DESIGN OF BOTH ACCELERATOR CELLS AND DRIVERS FOR INDUCTION LINAC DRIVEN FREE ELECTRON LASERS (ILFELS). TIME-DEPENDENT HYSTERESIS LOSSES, COMBINED WITH THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY, CURIE POINT, AND GEOMETRY OF THE FERRITE CORE PLACE LIMITATIONS ON BOTH ACCELERATOR PULSE LENGTH AND DUTY FACTOR. THIS IN TURN IMPACTS THE AVERAGE OUTPUT POWER, EFFICIENCY ...

AN APPROACH IS BEING INVESTIGATED FOR THE FLUORINATION OF DIAMOND THIN FILMS FOR TRIBOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS. THE APPROACH USES LOW PRESSURES OF F AND/OR CFX FREE RADICALS. TO DEMONSTRATE THE FEASIBILITY OF THIS APPROACH, DATA IS BEING COLLECTED ON: FLUORINATION KINETICS, THE COMPOSITION AND STRUCTURE OF THE SURFACE AND NEAR SURFACE LAYERS, THE EFFECTS OF TEMPERATURE ON THE FLUORINATION PROCESS, AND ...

THE LACK OF REPRODUCIBLY UNIFORM, LOW-DEFECT GAAS MATERIAL REMAINS A MAJOR OBSTACLE TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF ADVANCED MICROWAVE DEVICE TECHNOLOGIES, ESPECIALLY DIGITAL AND MONOLITHIC MICROWAVE INTEGRATED CIRCUITS. SPIRE PROPOSES TO CIRCUMVENT THE SHORTCOMINGS OF MELT-GROWN GAAS WAFERS BY MEANS OF SUPERLATTICE BUFFER LAYERS, WHICH WOULD ACT AS BARRIERS TO THREADING DISLOCATIONS IN ADDITION TO PROVIDIN ...

THE FEASIBILITY OF ADDING A RAMAN DETECTION SYSTEM, FOR THE MEASUREMENT OF ATMOSPHERIC CONSTITUENTS, TO AN EXISTING BALLOONBORNE LIDAR PAYLOAD WILL BE INVESTIGATED. THE BALLOONBORNE LIAR IS CURRENTLY USED TO MAKE RAYLEIGH/MIE ATMOSPHERIC BACKSCATTER MEASUREMENTS. THE FEASIBILITY STUDY WILL INCLUDE, FOR THE VARIOUS TYPES OF RAMAN SCATTERING AN AN ERROR ANALYSIS BASED ON THE OPERATING PARAMETERS OF ...

THE GOAL OF THE PROPOSED PROGRAM IS TO DEVELOP A DEVICE TO CLEAR MILITARY SMOKES AND AEROSOLS. SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES WITHIN THE PROPOSED PROGRAM ARE DIRECTED TOWARDS THE DEVELOPMENT AND DEPLOYMENT OF CHARGED SCAVENGERS AS AN EFFECTIVE MEANS TO REMOVING AEROSOL PARTICLES AND SMOKES. INCREASING THE CHARGE ON THE SCAVENGING MATERIAL GREATLY ENHANCES THE REMOVAL EFFICIENCY OF THE CLEARING MATERIAL. THE ...

THE OBJECTIVE OF THIS PROPOSAL IS THE DEVELOPMENT OF A PULSED MID-IR LASER IN THE 3.5 TO 4.1 MICROMETER ATMOSPHERIC TRANSMISSION WINDOW. SUCH SPECTRAL SOURCE IS RELEVANT TO A VARIETY OF TACTICAL APPLICATIONS. THE DF CHEMICAL LASER HAS BEEN THE CHOICE, BUT SUFFERS FROM WASTE FUEL MANAGEMENT PROBLEMS. NO OTHER EFFICIENT DIRECT LASING SOURCE IS AVAILABLE. TO OBTAIN SUCH A SOURCE, WE PROPOSE THE USE O ...

RECENTLY, RESEARCH AT SEVERAL GOVERNMENT FACILITIES HAS RESULTED IN SIGNIFICANT ADVANCES IN BOTH THE ELECTRONIC AND DETECTOR ASPECTS OF INTEGRATING RADIATION DOSIMETERS. ONE PARTICULAR APPROACH, THE LOS ALAMOS MULTIDETECTOR RADIATION MONITOR, IS A MICROPROCESSOR BASED INSTRUMENT, CAPABLE OF INTERROGATING SEVERAL DIFFERENT NUCLEAR DETECTORS SIMULTANEOUSLY. ALTHOUGH USING GEIGER TUBES FOR THE GAMMA ...

IT IS PROPOSED TO DEVELOP AND EVALUATE AN ARCHITECTURE FOR A MULTIELEMENT RADAR RECEIVING ARRAY WHICH PERFORMS DIGITAL BEAM FORMING (DBF) WITHIN THE RECEIVING ARRAY ITSELF, USING EACH ELEMENT AS A NODE OF A SYSTOLIC-LIKE ARRAY PROCESSOR. THE PROCESSOR ASSOCIATED WITH EACH ELEMENT OF THE ARRAY WILL PRODUCE A DIFFERENT SPATIAL BEAM. THIS DISTRIBUTED ARRAY PROCESSING CAPABILITY CAN BE REALIZED BY ADD ...