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There is a need for a portable command-post transmitter that can be deployed in an emergency situation. Interoperability among the different military services and civilian agencies is required. Consequently, the transmitter must operate at allfrequencies from 200 MHz to 3 GHz. It must also be capable of generating a wide variety of different signals. The proposed phase-I program will investiga ...

A major barrier to the widespread adoption of wireless sensors for structural health monitoring is the requirement to power the network of wireless nodes. Batteries have a limited lifespan, adding significant size, weight, and costs to the wireless sensor network,and may represent a long term environmental problem. Battery maintenance can be eliminated by harvesting energy from the environment. Fo ...

Structural monitoring of Navy aircraft is of critical importance as the fleet ages. One critical area includes the control surfaces, which are subject to intense, dynamic buffet loading which can lead to structural cracking. The highly transient nature of buffet loading makes it difficult to measure using conventional sensors. We propose to solve this problem by combining a network of time-synchro ...