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THE PROPOSED RESEARCH BUILDS UPON THE CONTRACTOR'S PROPRIETARY NEURAL NETWORK SPACE-TIME MEMORY, THE PARAMETRIC AVALANCHE, TO DETERMINE A SET OF DESIGN CHARACTERISTICS FOR NEUROCOMPUTING ARCHITECTURES THAT WILL EFFECTIVELY SUPPORT REAL TIME ACQUISITION AND TRACKING OF MULTIPLE TARGETS USING MULTIPLE SENSORS, AND DEPLOY AND CONTROL MULTIPLE SIMULTANEOUS RESPONSES. THE APPROACH TO THIS PROBLEM IS TO ...

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A SIMPLE CONTACT FILTER HAS BEEN DEVISED THAT WILL CONVERT G-TYPE CHEMICAL AGENTS TO HYDROGEN CYANIDE, WHICH CAN BE MEASURED BY A SENSITIVE AMPEROMETRIC DETECTOR. THE CONTACT FILTER SEPARATES THE CONVERSION AND DETECTION PROCESSES, ALLOWING EACH TO BE OPTIMIZED SEPARATELY. IN PRELIMINARY EXPERIMENTS, WE HAVE DETECTED 2.5 PPB (0.014 MG/M3) G-AGENT SIMULANT, WITHOUT SPECIAL EFFORTS TO OPTIMIZE THE F ...

A BACKGROUND STUDY WILL BE PERFORMED ON THE STATE-OF-THE-ART SPECIFIC MATERIALS AND ION PRODUCTION TECHNIQUES THAT CAN BE ADDED TO IMS SYSTEMS TO IMPROVE SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY. ION-MOLECULE CHEMISTRY AND SIGNAL PROCESSING ALGORITHMS THAT WILL ALLOW INTERFERENCE REJECTION WILL BE INCLUDED.

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THE PROJECT WILL DEVELOP A NOVEL MINIATURE PULSE WIDTH MODULATED POWER DRIVER FOR ACTUATORS, I.E. DC MOTOR. THE POWER DRIVER WILL DELIVER 50 AT 50VDO IN A DOUBLE INON PACKAGE. THIS COMPACT DESIGN CAN ONLY BE ACHIEVED THROUGH THE INNOVATIVE COMBINATION OF MODER POWER SEMICONDUCTOR TECHNOLOGIES, PROPRIETORY CIRCUIT DESIGN, AND STATE-OF-THE-ART PACKAGING TECHNOLOGY WHICH UTILIZES NEW HEAT CONDUCTIVE ...

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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 ...