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The ability to efficiently process intelligence data is critical to fighting the global war on terror. A major source of this data is recorded speech. Therefore, the performance of speech processing applications (speech recognition and speaker identification applications, for example) depends on pre-processing to find the regions in the recording where speech is present. Although current method ...

The U.S. poultry industry produces more than 45 billion pounds of poultry annually. A majority of this production is from concentrated animal feeding operations. In a modern poultry growing facility, small chicks are raised in several large houses that typically cover over 20,000 ft2. Starting with each grow-out period, fresh wood mulch bedding material is spread over the house floor. Over the co ...

The U.S. poultry industry produces more than 45 billion pounds of poultry annually. A majority of this production is from concentrated animal feeding operations. In a modern poultry growing facility, small chicks are raised in several large “houses” that typically cover over 20,000 ft2. Starting with each grow-out period, fresh wood mulch bedding material is spread over the house floor. Ove ...

The proposed research effort recognizes the growing importance of open-source intelligence for evolving military operations, and is designed to enhance the capability of intelligence analysts to develop inferences from open information sources that can be acted on with confidence in the face of future military challenges. Specifically, the objective of the proposed research is to design and devel ...

In order to overcome the limitations of conventional rigorous time-consuming, off-line NDE for large area structures, Intelligent Optical Systems (IOS), in collaboration with Professor Ajit Mal of the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at the UCLA School of Engineering, proposes in this Phase II to develop a novel diagnostic/prognostic ultrasound imaging system for determining the ...

The technology resulting from this effort will provide a theoretical wear model which, although focused on predicting slipper surface wear associated with Air Force high-speed sleds, can be utilized with appropriate input modifications to predict wear in a range of mechanical devices where high-pressure and high-velocity surfaces are utilized. In addition, a high-speed, high-pressure pin-on-disk ...

The Holloman High Speed Test Track (HSTT) requires the ability to accurately predict the amount of wear occurring on rocket sled slippers during testing. The sliding interface speeds and pressures experienced by slipper materials on the HSTT rail far exceeds any phenomena studied and documented to date. During the Phase I effort, a math model was developed to predict slipper wear using the free ...

Precision timekeeping is an essential enabling tool for all modern navigation, digital data transmission and telecommunications networks. In particular; rapid direct acquisition of the GPS Y-code in the presence of deliberate jamming is important for a wide variety of weapon systems. Legacy atomic clock solutions are too large and consume too much power to be routinely integrated into stressful ...

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Virtual EM, in collaboration with the Michigan Nanotechnology Institute for Medicine and Biological Sciences (MNIMBS) of the University of Michigan, proposes to develop the first stage in a BWA sensor, an electronic switch that indicates the presence of a biological warfare agent (BWA). This work will use previously designed aptamers that bind specifically to the BWA. The switch will activate in t ...