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In this task, we seek to assess the technical feasibility of developing tools for automatic information extraction from electronic documents. Our focus is on the development of a domain independent, calendar event extraction tool. Regardless of a document's format, or the domain it represents (e.g., business news, community newspaper), it is possible to extract key data such as name, location/addr ...

Maintaining straightness of continuously welded high speed DoD track rails is critical to the facility's mission, since test vehicles, often traversing the track at up to Mach 10, can experience dangerous dynamic loading due to track irregularities. Although facilities are constructed with adequate pretension to reduce undesirable effects of irregularities and thermal expansion/contraction over w ...

A novel, adaptive waveform coherent LADAR concept is proposed to provide a robust sensor capability to meet Air Force objectives. The LADAR operates at an eyesafe solid-state wavelength in order to achieve a compact, rugged design capable of stand-off ranges of 20 km or more. Simultaneous precision range, Doppler and micro-Doppler target signatures are extracted with an extremely efficient proc ...

THERE IS AN ESTABLISHED NEED FOR A SIMPLE ROBUST TRANSDUCER TO MEASURE PARTICLE VELOCITY IN SEVERE BLAST AND SHOCK ENVIRONMENTS SUCH AS NUCLEAR AND HIGH EXPLOSIVE TESTS. A GAGE CONCEPT IS PROPOSED FOR DEVELOPMENT, BASED ON THE PROVEN MEASUREMENT PRINCIPLES USED IN THE HIGHLY SUCCESSFUL DX GAGE, BUT RECONFIGURED MECHANICALLY AND ELECTRICALLY TO WITHSTAND THE HARSH SHOCK ENVIRONMENTS. THE CONCEPT RE ...

Ultrafast imaging is an important need for the development, control and evaluation of modern air-deliverable weapons systems. Current high-speed cameras are based upon rotating prism/mirror assemblies which require a time delay for start-up and synchronization. Because of the mechanical inertia involved, the camera must trigger the experiment (rather than the other way around), and only fixed in ...

CURRENTLY SURVIVABILITY ASSESSMENTS DO NOT USE ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCETECHNIQUES. THE GOAL OF THIS PHASE I PROPOSAL IS TO BUILD A DEMONSTRATABLE KNOWLEDGE SUPPORT SYSTEM TO ASSIST SURVIVABILITY ANALYSTS AND SYSTEM ARCHITECTS IN MAKING SURVIVABILITY ASSESSMENTS. SPECIFICALLY, WE WILL BUILD A SYSTEM INCORPORATING A SATELLITE/WEAPON DESCRIPTION AND PROBABILISTIC METHODS THAT WILL PROVE THE FEASIBILIT ...

Important emerging technologies such as adaptive optics (e.g., scintillation control), optical signal processing, and miniature displays require spatial light modulators (SLMs) which can control the amplitude or phase of optical wave fronts. In most cases suitable SLMs are not yet available. New SLM technologies and manufacturing processes must be developed in order to enable the economic and pe ...

This proposed effort is for the design and demonstration of a new generation software processor that applies Artificial Intelligence, Expert System, and Fuzzy Logic technologies to conservative electromagnetics (EM) analysis methodologies. The proposed capability, AE3EXPERT, represents an innovative step in the advancement of conservative analysis and prediction techniques based initially on the a ...

WE PROPOSE TO BUILD A DOMAIN-INDEPENDENT INTELLIGENT TRAINING SYSTEM PROTOTYPE SUITABLE FOR AIR FORCE TRAINING NEEDS. THE PROTOTYPE WILL BE DEMONSTRATED IN A FIELD OF TRAINING TO BE DETERMINED. A HUMANCOMPUTER INTERFACE WILL HAVE NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING CAPABILITY IN THE SELECTED DOMAIN. THE ITS WILL ADAPT INSTRUCTIONS ACCORDING TO A TRAINEE'S LEARNING STYLE AND PREFERENCES. IT WILL BE CAPABLE ...

We propose to develop an object-oriented toolbox for modeling, control design and analysis of distributed parameter systems based on PDESolve, our commercially available PDE computing sybstrate. The toolbox will be an open environment containing all the components required a PDE control problem, including the effect of sensors and actuators. With the toolbox, the user will be able to design and ...