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Our Phase II effort creates a set of commercially viable tools that represent significant advancement in the state of art for software maintenance engineering, management and estimation. Software maintenance and estimation is a huge problem for all of the software industry, especially those parts involved in the maintenance of high risk, complicated, systems – like cruise missiles, airplanes, ...

The proceedings from the 16 August 1999 HCF Probabilistics Steering Committee meeting indicate that material behavior is a leading root cause of HCF problems in blades, vanes, and seals. A conventionally used component lifing practice is to conduct a Goodman type analysis to estimate the resistance to HCF failure. However the true resistance of a component to HCF loading is dependent on the steady ...

Reliance on modern electronic network technology comes with susceptibility to upset or damage from high energy Electromagnetic Pulses. The U.S. Navy plans to deploy a family of Multi-Mission Surface Combatants outfitted with local area network total ship monitoring systems utilizing the evolving family of IEEE 1451 standards. Network standards will facilitate manpower reduction through automation, ...

As a result of Phase I research and development, MDInformatics (MDI) designed a comprehensive CBRNE Core Curriculum (C3), a dual-pedagogy (didactic presentations + case-based learning) Advanced Distributed Learning (ADL) system for C3 course content delivery, and a course content development plan to be used in Phase II in order to complete development of the C3 course. C3 was designed in accordan ...

Superconducting coils are capable of storing considerable amounts of energy. Should a coil quench, due to overheating or exceeding the critical field or current, the stored energy in the coil must be dissipated safely - without endangering personnel or damaging the coil or control systems. In any superconducting coil design, it is essential to design and build the system such that limits of the ...

The widespread use of communication devices and radar systems has made our society increasingly vulnerable to disruptive, high-power, short pulse electromagnetic interference (EMI) and high power microwaves (HPM). Significant advances in devices that produce these high-power, short pulses have been made in the US and abroad in the past few decades. As a result, the need for devices that can protec ...

The fundamental objective of this Phase II proposal is to develop an economically viable and structurally reliable 40-foot tall, fiber-reinforced composite, unguyed tilt tower with counter-balanced raise/lower capability. IsoTruss’ proposal includes a bifurcated development approach. The bifurcated approach has been separated and termed Phase II Part A and Part B. Parts A and B of IsoTruss’ ...

Atmospheric Glow Technologies proposes to develop the Plasma Agent Neutralization Elimination (PLANE) System based upon its patented One Atmosphere Uniform Glow Discharge Plasma (OAUGDP) technology. When developed, this advanced design will serve as a system for the decontamination of aircraft and associated cargo. AGT has demonstrated the success of OAUGDP in decontaminating various substrates ...

This SBIR proposal consists of three (3) related research efforts. Research effort 1 will focus on further development of the configurable running gear / shape shifting track concept as started by ASI during the Phase I award. Research effort 2 will focus on the development and completion of the hardware and electronics systems of the T4 robot as started at the Center for Self Organizing and Int ...

Massive blood loss is the most common cause of death in potentially survivable battlefield casualties, yet no definitive medical innovations have been made for reducing these deaths in the past several decades. It is still highly impractical to carry large volumes of refrigerated blood into battle, and substantial research for developing blood substitutes and extending the durability and portabili ...