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A FEASIBILITY STUDY OF IMPROVING DECOY PENETRATION AID (PENAID) PERFORMANCE BY SUPPLYING MEANS TO 1) ALLOW FOR DUAL CENTER OF GRAVITY (CG) LOCATION, THEREBY ENABLING INDEPENDENT FULFILLMENT OF IMPULSE BALANCING AND REENTRY STABILITY REQUIREMENTS; AND/OR 2) COUNTERACT DECOY CONING BY SENSING ITS PRESENCE, AND CORRECTING THE ANGULAR MOMENTUM OF THE DECOY TO ELIMINATE CONING.

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NUCLEAR EXPLOSION INDUCED LIGHTNING (NEIL) REPRESENTS A POTENTIALLY SEVERE THREAT TO MILITARY SYSTEMS REQUIRED TO SURVIVE AND FUNCTION AFTER EXPOSURE IN THE SOURCE REGION OF A NUCLEAR EXPLOSION. WHEREAS THERE EXISTS SOME UNCERTAINTY ABOUT THE NATURE AND MAGNITUDE OF THE THREAT, ITS EXISTENCE IS CONCLUSIVELY DOCUMENTED IN THE FILM RECORD OF ATMOSPHERIC NUCLEAR TESTS IN THE PACIFIC DURING THE 1950'S ...

Vexcel proposes a system for extracting terrain elevation from large stereo SAR databases using a priori elevation map data. This system will accelerate, automate, and improve the accuracy and robustness of radargrammetricnprocessing for data acquired from wide spectrum of existing and planned SAR platforms.

In this proposed Phase II program we will build on the successful Phase I program where we for the first time implemented engineered epitaxial layers based on nanostructure technology that were used to harden commercial silicon devices against radiation by minimizing collected photocurrents (electron-hole pairs) via recombination centers where we demonstrated that improved radiation hardness could ...

Detection of chemical and biological warfare agents in a real-world setting is an increasingly urgent problem. Many of the current state-of-the-art sensors are aqueous based and require large biomolecules, such as antibodies, to achieve binding of the target molecule and subsequent reporting of the binding event. These technical hurdles are a drawback when considering deployment of these technol ...

The proposed Complex Realization Generator (CReG) provides a real-time and software-based functional alternative to the Antenna-Complex Impulse Response Function (ACIRF) code. CReG generates fading channel realizations for the entire range of channel models represented by DTRA's Generalized Power Spectral Density (GPSD).

It is challenging to detect CBRN weapons production facilities that are hidden in residential and industrial neighborhoods. Once the weapons are manufactured, they will be sealed and removed from the site of production, so developing techniques to reveal the presence of the weapons will likely be fruitless. In this project, we will develop indicators that can be applied covertly around suspected w ...