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ABSTRACT: The U.S. Air Force has an identified an important need for improving the reliability of sensor systems used for critical control of aerospace engines and vehicles. Reliable sensors are key to achieving a significant reduction in maintenance costs and cost-effectively increasing the reliability of test cell sensor systems. Environetix will leverage extensive expertise in wireless high-t ...

ABSTRACT: Distributed Communication Systems (DCS) proposes to design and develop a solution for integrating tactical weather sensors with mobile devices for dissemination of the sensor data back to the Air Force Weather enterprise. DCS will evaluate communications methods which include military and commercial satellite communications. Wherever possible, DCS"s solution will leverage existing comme ...

WE PROPOSE A NEW LASER MACHINING TECHNIQUE USING NONLINEAR SELFFOCUSING MEDIA SUCH AS CARBON DISULFIDE AND NITROBENZENE. THE TECHNIQUE USES THE CATASTROPIC SELF-FOCUSING SOLUTIONS TO THE NONLINEAR WAVE EQUATION TO PRODUCE INTENSE NON-DIFFRACTING OPTICAL FILAMENTS IDEALLY SUITED FOR PRODUCING SMALL HOLES. THE "LIQUID OPTICS" OFFERS SEVERAL ADVANTAGES OVER CONVENTIONAL OPTICAL FOCUSING: 1) CONSIDERA ...

THE OBJECTIVE IS TO DEMONSTRATE THE FEASIBILITY OF USING NESTOR'S NEURAL NETWORK LEARNING TECHNOLOGY FOR PATTERN RECOGNITION IN A MULTISENSOR AVIONICS SYSTEM ENVIRONMENT. PATTERN MATCHING VIA PARALLEL SEARCHES IN A MULTISENSOR DATA ENVIRONMENT MUST BE CONTROLLED BY AN APPROPRIATE HIERARCHICAL DECISION LOGIC THROUGH WHICH A SYSTEM CAN LEARN HOW BEST TO USE ITS AVAILABLE DATA FOR ROBUST RECOGNITION. ...

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YTP will develop technology that provides a high performance, modular Li-ion battery with: redundant safety features, safer thin, metal case cell designs; fin/micro-channel thermal control system; and an evaporating fluid system that rapidly quenches failing cells to prevent thermal runaway and fratricide. The end goal of the proposal is making a lighter, longer lasting, less expensive, safer JSF ...