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AbTech Corporation proposes to apply its unique abductive information modeling (AIMTM) technology to develop a sensor fusion demonstration for command, control, communication, computer and information systems. Phase I is the necessary and sufficient precursor to an operational disparate sensor fusion for C4I applications. Phase I will show the feasibility of using AIM to model sensor data, threats ...

THE INTEGRATION OF VOICE AND DATA PRESENTS AN OPPORTUNITY TO USE HERETOFORE IDLE SECURE VOICE LINK CAPACITY, AND THE CHALLENGE OF IMPLEMENTING PROTOCOLS SUPPORTING BOTH VOICE AND DATA. THE NEW ARCHITECTURE DEMANDS A LAYERED FUNCTIONAL IMPLEMENTATION SIMILAR TO THE INTERNATIONAL STANDARDS ORGANIZATION (ISO) OPEN SYSTEMS INTERCONNECT (OSI) MODEL AND THE ABILITY TO GLOBALLY ADDRESS ANY MESSAGE, DATA ...

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A MODEL FOR PREDICTING THE PERFORMANCE IMPACT OF ENGINE DETERIORATION IS PROPOSED FOR FEASIBILITY EVALUATION. THIS MODEL WOULD ACCOUNT FOR ROTATING COMPONENT DETERIORATION SUCH AS INCREASED TIP CLEARANCES, SURFACE ROUGHNESS, LEADING EDGE BLUNTNESS AND VAN BOW AND TWIST. THE PROPOSED APPROACH USES A STAGE STACKING METHOD TO ALLOCATE LOSSES THROUGHOUT THE ENGINE WHICH ARE DEPENDENT ON OPERATING TIME ...

MASSIVELY INTERCONNECTED COMPUTERS, COMMONLY CALLED NEUROCOMPUTERS, ARE AT THE HEART OF SIXTH-GENERATION COMPUTING. TO DATE, HOWEVER, ONLY NEUROCOMPUTER SIMULATORS AND EMULATORS ARE AVAILABLE. THIS RESEARCH PROJECT WILL DEVELOP TOOLS AND TECHNIQUES TO TRANSLATE NEUROCOMPUTERS INTO COMPUTATIONALLY EQUIVALENT DIGITAL VLSI CIRCUITS. CONCEPTS FROM SWITCHING CIRCUIT THEORY WILL BE USED TO TRANSLATE IND ...

AeroSoft, Inc. proposes to develop, incorporate and validate transition and anisotropic turbulence models for improving the low-Reynolds number predictions for high-lift airfoil configurations. The turbulence-modeling package will use Menter's two equati

HIGH PREMEABILITY AND LOW POWER LOSS HEAD THE REQUIREMENTS LAID DOWN FOR A GOOD CORE MATERIAL FOR INDUCTANCE COILS AND TRANSFORMERS FOR THE APPLICATION IN HIGH EFFICIENCY POWER SUPPLY. RECENTLY FERRITE MATERIALS, SUCH AS NICKEL-ZINC-COBALT (NIZNCO) FERRITES HAVE BEEN USED FOR TRANSFORMER AND INDUCTOR CORES BECAUSE OF THEIR HIGH RESISTIVITIES AND CONSEQUENT LOWER EDDY CURRENT LOSSES. HOWEVER, THESE ...

CONVENTIONAL FUSION PROCESSES ARE NOT EXPECTED TO ACHIEVE BREAK-EVEN WITHIN THE NEXT DECADE. COLD FUSION IS AN EXCITING OPTION, SINCE IT OFFERS AN INEXPENSIVE ALTERNATIVE AND SOME CLAIM BREAK-EVEN HAS ALREADY BEEN ACHIEVED. HOWEVER, TO DAT, NO IN-DEPTH THEORETICAL STUDY OF COLD FUSION HAS BEEN CONDUCTED. LOW NEUTRON FLUX AND THE USE OF LITHIUM HYDROXIDE AS AN ELECTROLYTE IN THE FUSION CELLS USED B ...

THERE IS A NEED FOR UNIQUE JOING/BONDING PROCESSES THAT CAN DIRECTLY JOIN CERAMIC IR AND RF DOME COMPONENTS TO CYLINDRICAL METAL SURFACES. EXPOSURE TO THE HIGH TEMPERATURES ASSOCIATED WITH CONVENTIONAL BRAZING PROCESSES CAN DEGRADE THE OPTICAL PROPERTIES OF MATERIALS AND PROMOTE CHEMICAL REACTION BETWEEN THE BRAZE MATERIAL AND THE CERAMIC THROUGHOUT THE ENTIRE HEAT AFFECTED ZONE (HAZ). THEREFORE, ...

RECENT DEVELOPMENTS IN VERY HIGH SPEED INTEGRATED CIRCUITS (VHSIC) HAVE LED TO THE NEED FOR HIGH EFFICIENCY AND POWER DENITY RESONANT MODE AND SWITCHED MODE POWER SUPPLIES, OPERATING AT FREQUENCIES IN EXCESS O 1 MEGAHERTZ (MHZ). THE SPECIFICATIONS FOR THESE POWER SUPPLIES ARE STINGENT DUE TO REQUIREMENTS NECESSARY FOR RELIABLE POWER SOURCES. THESE REQUIREMENTS ARE DRIVING OPERATING FREQUENCIES TO ...