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A FUNDAMENTAL PROBLEM IN AUTOMATIC TARGET RECOGNITION (ATR) IS THE OVERWHELMING AMOUNT OF SENSOR DATA WHICH MUST BE PROCESSED. MANY ADVANCED ATR ALGORITHMS WHICH REDUCE THE FALSE ALARM RATE CANNOT BE EXECUTED IN REAL TIME DUE TO COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY. THIS LIMITS OVERALL SYSTEM PERFORMANCE. IN ATR, THE FEATURES THAT MUST BE RESOLVED ARE LOCALIZED WITHIN THE FIELD-OF-VIEW (FOV) OF THE SENSOR. UN ...

In this project we propose to develop an end-to-end high performance system for cross document entity consolidation. The problems tackled are person name disambiguation, personal alias detection as well as location name disambiguation. Performance on alias detection is proposed to be enhanced by using the results of entity consolidation in a second pass. Flexibility to configure and use additio ...

To meet the need of the Navy in fabrication and measurement of conformal windows such as toroidal to precise optical tolerances from ceramic materials, Applied Science Innovations (ASI) proposes Phase II development of the Closed-Loop Fabrication of Free-Form Optics (CLF3O), building directly on ASI''s successful Phase I feasibility studies. The proposed CLF3O system is a modular attachment for in ...

Training of dismounted infantry provides unique challenges to the training and simulation community. Personal mobility and complete situation awareness are key to providing and experience that realistically simulates the environment they operate within. Past attempts at improving the personal mobility side have led to significant tradeoffs in the immersive experience, especially limiting the ima ...

Very large aerial video collectors (VLAVCs) are of increasing interest, including such systems as Constant Hawk, Sonoma, Angel Fire and the planned ARGUS video sensor. These systems show significant potential in their ability to provide surveillance capabilities; however, the amount of data they generate is daunting, and image compression is required to store and transmit the data. In our Phase I ...

The development under this effort will take the innovative 3D feature extraction techniques and concepts implemented in IAVO’s GeoGenesis® software, specifically our FeatureXTractTM module, and take them to the next level; making them available for operation usage. Our current 3D feature extraction capabilities provide a streamlined workflow for accurately and efficiently extracting 3D site mod ...

Intelligent Power & Energy Research Corporation proposes a novel intelligent power management system that will manage sources and demand for optimal performance. The p intelligent power management system will have the following characteristics: •A system that optimally coordinates, manages, and dispatches generation resources with existing and anticipated load profiles to reduce overall fuel co ...

The objective of topic A07-192 of Army SBIR 07.2 is to develop and demonstrate a prototype collimated visual imaging solution for low-cost, virtual, fully embedded vehicle driver training focused on current force combat vehicle vision blocks and night driving sources. This multi-purpose visualization solution is referred to as a switchable vision block (SVB). In phase I, driver crew stations of ...

Corvid Technologies is pleased to present this proposal for the development of IM technology. The objective of this project is to use an innovative light-weight armor design methodology as a guide to IM solutions for large diameter solid rocket motors. This armor solution will mitigate or reduce the violence of reaction in bullet and fragment impact scenarios by providing protection for the syst ...

The performance and reliability of AlGaN/GaN HEMT transistor technology is closely coupled to the ability to reduce the thermal resistance of the device and to maintain a reasonable junction temperature. Current commercial products offered by Nitronex pro