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Alameda Applied Sciences Corporation (AASC) and its co-operative partner, the Plasma Applications Group at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (PAG/LBNL) propose to develop and commercialize a sub-kW vacuum arc ion thruster for electric propulsion and other government and commercial applications. The proposed thruster will use a solid propellant, which offers several advantages over Xenon or ...

Accurate Automation proposes to design and develop the architecture for an instrumentation system for hypersonic aircraft. We will design an instrumentation system for use in a Mach 8-10 hypersonic testbed for the HyTech engine. We will investigate the feasibility of incorporating a plasma generation capability into this instrumentation system. We will develop an enhanced instrumentation system ...

A special purpose robot to remove corrosion from the interior surfaces of the ductwork in AEDC's Engine Test Facility (ETF) will be designed and developed. The robot willimplemnt the Laser Induced Surface Improvement (LISI) process which alloys the interior surface of the ductwork with a chromimum compound. The system will include a remotely operated robot capable of traversing the ETF ductwork, ...

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Acroamatics, Inc. proposed to perform research to develop a method permitting the telemetric transmission of avionics bus data from an air vehicle under test to a remote receiving station using a narrower radio frequency (rf) bandwidth than presently required. Increasing use of digital avionics in aircraft and reduced availability of rf spectrum make this an important topic of development. The s ...

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AIRBORNE INTERCEPTOR RADARS AT UHF OR L-BAND WITH CONFORMAL WINGMOUNTED ARRAY ANTENNAS AND DIGITAL SIGNAL PROCESSING ARE OF INTEREST FOR FUTURE SYSTEMS. ADAPTIVE CONTROL OF THE ANGLE/DOPPLER RESPONSE OF THESE RADARS, USING ARRAY ELEMENT OUTPUTS, MULTIPLE BEAM OUTPUTS, OR SUB-APERTURE OUTPUTS PROVIDES A POSSIBLE METHOD OF DETECTING AND TRACKING LOW CROSS-SECTION TARGETS IN GROUND CLUTTER. THESE TEC ...

A NEW CLASS OF ARRAY CALLED THE SPATIALLY DIVERSE COHERENT ARRAY (SDCA) IS PROPOSED FOR STUDY. SUCH ARRAYS USE A NEW CONCEPT INTRODUCED HERE--THE SIMULTANEOUS TRANSMISSION OF INDEPENDENT WAVEFORM FROM DIFFERENT CONFIGURATIONS OF ELEMENTS COMPRISING THE ARRAY. WHEN COMBINED COHERENTLY ON RECEIVE VIA ADAPTIVE SPACE-TIME PROCESSING, THE (SDCA) WITH IT'S ADDITIONAL SPATIAL DEGREES OF FREEDOM (DOF) PRO ...

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The proposed work is intended to provide a basic system design for a true three-dimensional display for the AFDTC and AFFTC to visualize TSPI and OAR data. This project will include an in-depth analysis of the current display systems including data formats and transfer protocols, a design parameter specification for each agency, and system architectures tailored to each for displaying Air Force d ...