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COMMERCIAL AND GOVERNMENT SPACE TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMS DEPEND ON GROUND SUPPORT FOR NAVIGATION. THE GROUND SOLUTION CAN BE COSTLY AND MAY PROVIDE LESS ACCURACY THAN NEEDED. A GPS-BASED REAL-TIME AUTONOMOUS SPACECRAFT NAVIGATION SYSTEM IS PROPOSED. AN ALGORITHM WILL BE DEVELOPED WHICH COMBINES GPS-DERIVED POINT POSITION ESTIMATES WITH A PROPAGATED A PRIORI POSITION ESTIMATE. THE POINT POSITIONS ARE ...

APPLICATION OF BIOTECHNOLOGY TO THE PRODUCTION OF 4-HYDROXYBENZOCYCLOBUTENE WILL ALLOW BULK MANUFACTURE OF THIS POLYMER PRECURSOR BY MORE ECONOMICAL MEANS THAN IS CURRENTLY AVAILABLE. DEVELOPMENT OF SUCH A PROCESS WOULD ALLOW INDUSTRIAL APPLICATIONS OF BCB-BASED POLYMER MATERIALS.

MODERN WARFARE PRESENTS A RISK OF LASER EYE DAMAGE, EITHER ACCIDENTAL OR FROM DELIBERATE ENEMY ACTION. WE PROPOSE TO DEVELOP COMPUTER MODELS WHICH WILL ALLOW US TO SIMULATE SHORT PULSE LASER GENERATED VISION LOSS. THESE MODELS WILL BE CHECKED AGAINST EXPERIMENTAL DATA AND ADJUSTED AS NECESSARY. AS THEY ARE PERFECTED, THEY WILL INCREASE THE USEFUL AMOUNT OF DATA FROM ANIMAL STUDIES BY EXTRAPOLATION ...

DURING PHASE I, WE WILL DEVELOP AN ALGORITHM TO CALCULATE THE FORCES GENERATED DUE TO THE IMPACT OF AIRCRAFT STRUCTURES WITH SOIL. THIS ALGORITHM WILL BE INTEGRATED WITH THE CURRENT KRASH PROGRAM AS AN EXTERNAL FORCE ACTING ON THE VARIOUS MASS ELEMENTS THAT ARE DEFINED IN KRASH. THE FAILURE OF SOIL DUE TO THE IMPACT OF THE AIRCRAFT AND DRAGGING OF THE AIRCRAFT ALONG THE SURFACE WILL BE MODELLED TA ...

THERE IS A GROWING NEED FOR SMART AUTONOMOUS AIR DELIVERY OF CONVENTIONAL MUNITIONS. PRECISION ALL-WEATHER AUTONOMOUS GUIDANCE IS A FUNDAMENTAL BUILDING BLOCK FOR SUCH SYSTEMS. THE PROPOSED CONCEPT SYNTHESIS STUDY WILL INVESTIGATE AN INTEGRATED VISUAL-INERTIAL GUIDANCE CONCEPT THAT COMBINES IMAGING SENSORS AND INERTIAL COMPONENTS WITH IMAGE FLOW ALGORITHMS, INFORMATION ANALYSIS ALGORITHMS AND SITU ...

A NEED EXISTS TO MONITOR VIBRATION IN HIGHWAY BRIDGES. IT IS DESIRABLE TO MONITOR MANY POINTS ON THE BRIDGE. THE CURRENT PROBLEM IS THAT SENSORS MUST BE WIRED TO A CENTRAL LOCATION. WIRE IS DIFFICULT TO INSTALL AND TO MOVE. THE SOLUTION IS TO COLLECT SENSOR DATA BY RADIO. A SYSTEM EXISTS THAT ELIMINATES WIRE. IT GATHERS SENSOR DATA TO A CENTRAL LOCATION BY RADIO. THE SYSTEM'S UNIQUE FEATURE IS THA ...

"ADVANCED OZONATION PROCESSES" (I.E., THE COMBINATION OF OZONE WITH HYDROGEN PEROXIDE OR UV LIGHT), HAVE APPLICATIONS TO THE REMOVAL OF ORGANIC POLLUTANTS FROM WATER. ONE OF THE MAIN BARRIERS TO IMPLEMENTING AOPS HAS BEEN THE HIGH CAPITAL AND OPERATING COSTS FOR OZONE GENERATION. LYNNTECH, INC., HAS DEVELOPED AN ELECTROCHEMICAL DEVICE FOR THE PAIRED SYNTHESIS OF OZONE AND HYDROGEN PEROXIDE FROM WA ...

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The objective of this Phase I investigation is to develop candidate designs for a prototype prevailing torque nut with a locking mechanism that can be reliable re-used. The current prevailing torque nuts used in military aircraft are a nuisance in the respect that they will provide adequate locking for only one installation. This "single-use" criterion requires the maintenance of adequate stocks o ...

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