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This proposal seeks to enhance warfighter situational awareness and improve threat detection by developing an advanced thermal imager that processes and presents full-motion multi-band LWIR chroma video in accord with human color-vision processing. This will be useful in a variety of applications, including by dismounted soldiers (helmet-mounted or handheld), on small UAVs, as well as supporting a ...

By developing a miniaturized and deployable EMP-like device, dismounted soldiers will have the ability to engage targets that might otherwise be impossible. Whether it is part of a SAM system deployed to the roof of a hospital or mosque or an armored vehicle in a crowded market place, the ability to act preemptively without having to worry about the protracted political ramifications increases the ...

AEROMET PROPOSES TO DEVELOP A SENSOR SYSTEM FOR THE PURPOSE OF MONITORING RF FIELD STRENGTH ENERGY. PHASE I WILL CONCENTRATE ON THE DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT OF A UNIQUE PROGRAMMABLE SENSOR THAT CAN SENSE THE ENERGY IN VARIOUS FREQUENCY BANDS. THE SENSOR WILL ACT AS A STAND ALONE UNIT AND BE POWERED BY SOLAR CHARGED BATTERIES. THE SENSOR WILL BE DESIGNED SO THAT MANY OF THEM CAN BE OPERATED IN CONJUN ...

FOR FAST RISE TIME PULSES AND HIGH POWER MICROWAVE APPLICATIONS, A NEW CLASS OF VARISTOR DEVICES IS NEEDED THAT SURPASSES THE PERFORMANCE OF PRESENT DEVICES. CURRENTLY AVAILABLE VARISTOR MATERIALS DEPEND ON SEMICONDUCTOR JUNCTIONS, AVALANCHE MECHANISMS, OR ZENER ACTION, OR A COMBINATION OF THESE EFFECTS. AN ALTERNATIVE THAT OFFERS SIGNIFICANT ADVANTAGES IN TERMS OF RESPONSE CHARACTERISTICS, RELIAB ...

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CURRENTLY, THE ARMY USES WATER PURIFICATION SYSTEMS BASED ON REVERSE OSMOSIS (RO). RO IS EFFECTIVE, BUT CONSIDERABLE ENERGY IS REQUIRED TO OVERCOME THE OSMOTIC PRESSURE OF RAW WATER. ALSO, ELABORATE PRETREATMENT SYSTEMS MUST BE USED TO PROLONG THE LIFE OF EXPENSIVE RO ELEMENTS. THE ARMY DESIRES A SYSTEM THAT IS AT LEAST AS EFFECTIVE AS RO FOR WATER PURIFICATION, YET IS SMALLER, LIGHTER, MORE ECONO ...

VERY RECENTLY, THERMOPLASTIC PULTRUSIONS, INC., HAS DEVELOPED THE CAPABILITY TO PULTRUDE ULTRA HIGH-MODULUS GRAPHITE FIBER/POWDERED THERMOPLASTIC RESIN PREPREGS INTO HIGH QUALITY COMPOSITES WITHOUT DAMAGING THE FIBERS. SINCE THE PULTRUDED COMPOSITES ARE ALREADY CONSOLIDATED, REFORMING DOES NOT REQUIRE THE HIGH PRESSURES AND LONG DURATIONS TYPICAL OF AUTOCLAVE FABRICATION. HENCE, IT SHOULD BE POSSI ...

A PLAN FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF A MESOSCALE WEATHER NOWCASTING SYSTEM IS PROPOSED. THAT SYSTEM WOULD BE USED AS A TACTICAL DECISION AID FOR SUPPORT OF TACTICAL ARMY OPERATIONS. THE SYSTEM WOULD BE COMPOSED OF MODULAR SENSOR PACKAGES, A TELEMETRY SYSTEM, A FLEXIBLE SYSTEM OF SENSOR DEPLOYMENT, AND A MICROPROCESSOR BASED TACTICAL COMPUTER SYSTEM FOR THE ANALYSIS AND DISPLAY OF DATA COLLECTED. THE PROP ...

ULTRASONIC NONDESTRUCTIVE TESTING HAS BECOME THE METHOD OF CHOICE FOR THE QUALITY ASSURANCE OF ADVANCED COMPOSITE MATERIALS. THE PROPOSED RESEARCH PROGRAM COVERS THE DEVELOPMENT OF A COMPUTER-BASED NDT METHOD FOR DETERMINING LOCAL FIBER VOLUME FRACTION AND RESIN POROSITY IN PRACTICAL LAMINATED COMPOSITES. THE COMPUTER ALGORITHMS WILL BE BASED ON EARLIER STUDIES THAT HAVE BEEN SUCCESSFUL FOR UNIDIR ...

ARMY DOCTRINE STATES THAT QUICK, EFFECTIVE COMMAND AND CONTROL (C2) IS THE KEY TO SUCCESS ON THE BATTLEFIELD. THE INCREASING TEMPO AND LETHALITY OF THE MODERN BATTLEFIELD DICTATE THAT THE ARMY'S DISPERSED,SEMI-AUTONOMOUS UNITS AND SYSTEMS POSSESS THE CAPABILITY TO OPERATE EFFECTIVELY ON THE BATTLEFIELD BY HAVING ON-BOARD INTELLIGENT C2 SYSTEMS. THE US ARMY FIELD ARTILLERY ENVISIONS THE DISPERSED, ...