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THE PERCENT OF 02 IN BREATHING GASES CAN BE MEASURED TO AN ACCURACY OF +0.01 PERCENT BY USING SONIC MEASUREMENT TECHNOLOGY. A SOLID-STATE OXYGEN SENSOR CAN BE DEVELOPED WHICH IS SMALL IN SIZE, INSENSITIVE TO PRESSURE AND TEMPERATURE CHANGES, AND IS NOT AFFECTED BY ACCELERATION.

TO SUCCESSFULLY EMPLOY THE INTRINSICALLY SHORT ACCESS TIME (I.E., LESS THAN 1NS) OF GAAS DIGITAL MEMORY CHIPS, UNIQUE SIGNAL PROCESSING ARCHITECTURES WILL BE REQUIRED WHICH MAY INFLUENCE CONVENTIONAL FUNCTION PARTITIONING AMONG INTEGRATED CIRCUITS. TO DETERMINE THE OPTIMAL ARCHITECTURE OF BOTH PROCESSOR AND IC'S, A CANDIDATE PROCESSOR OF IMPORTANCE TO THE AIR FORCE WILLL BE SELECTED. ITS ARCHITECT ...

THE OVERALL GOAL OF THIS STUDY WILL BE TO DEVELOP AN INTERACTIVE, OPTIMIZATION-BASED, COMPUTER GRAPHICS SOFTWARE PACKAGE FOR THE DETERMINATION OF THE OPTIMAL PHYSICAL FIT OF OBJECTS (I.E. WEAPONS, SUBMUNITIONS, ETC...) INTO CONTAINERS (I.E. AIRCRAFT, MISSILE DISPENSERS, TEC...). THIS PACKAGE WILL HAVE 1) A GEOMETRIC MODELER FOR THE CREATION OF THE GEOMETRIC DESCRIPTION, 2) A DESIGN DEFINITION ROUT ...

THE CAPABILITY OF PERFORMING BOTH ATMOSPHERIC WIND VELOCITY AND WATER VAPOR CONCENTRATION MEASUREMENT WITH A PULSED COHERENT LASER RADAR IS IMPORTANT IN MANY METEOROLOGICAL, ENVIRONMENTAL AND WEATHER FORECASTING APPLICATIONS. COHERENT LIDAR SYSTEMS ARE PROVEN INSTRUMENTS FOR THE REMOTE MEASUREMENT AT ATMOSPHERIC WIND PROFILES. A RANGE RESOLVED COHERENT DIAL SYSTEM HAS NOT BEEN DEVELOPED AT THIS TI ...

THE PURPOSE OF THIS RESEARCH IS TO STUDY THE FEASIBILITY OF QUANTIFYING THE EFFECTS OF IREASED AUTOMATION ON THE WORKLOAD AND PERFORMANCE OF THE FEDERAL AVIATION ADMINISTRA-TION'S AIR TRAFFIC CONTROLLER. IN PHASE I, RESEARCH WILL FOCUS ON ADAPTRING OUR CURRENT HUMAN PERFORMANCE MODEL TO REPRESENT THE JOB CHARACTERISTICS OR ATTRIBUTES THAT WILL DETERMINE LEVELS OF WORKLOAD AND PERFORMANCE IN THE AD ...

THE RECOGNIZED LOW LEVEL WIND SHEAR PHENOMENON KNOWN AS A MICROBURST POSES A SERIOUS AIR SAFETY THREAT TO COMMERCIAL AVIATION WHILE IN A LANDING OR POSES A SERIOUS COMMERCIAL AVIATION WHILE IN A LANDING OR TAKEOFF PATTERN. THIS LOW LEVEL WIND SHEAR HAS BEEN DEMONSTRATED TO DE A THIS LOW LEVEL WIND SHEAR HAS BEEN DEMONSTRATED TO BE A MAJOR CONTRIBUTING FACTOR TO SEVERAL CRASHES OF COMMERCIAL AIRLIN ...

In 2001 the US EPA lowered the maximum contaminant level for arsenic in drinking water from 50 ppb to 10 ppb. This change is expected to impact 10 percent of the nation's drinking water systems; the vast majority of those impacted are small, rural water suppliers. New approaches, particularly simple, adsorption-based technologies are needed to provide cost effective treatment options for small wat ...

A W-band digital communications transceiver will be developed with 5 GHz instantaneous bandwidth utilizing the 71 - 76 and 81 - 86 GHz frequency spectrum recently allocated by the FCC. This project has both military and commercial applications for SATCOM and Point-to-Point digital communications using formats such as 1.25 Gbps and 10 Gbps Ethernet for extremely wideband data and video transmission ...

An X-band digital transmit module will be developed that is suitable for phased-array radar and communications applications. This proposed Phase II SBIR will combine our Phase-I X-band transmit module design with a DBF receiver that Applied Radar is developing through separate (non-SBIR) funding from AFRL. In addition, we will investigate the development of a synthesizer to provide a common LO sig ...

This Phase I and II SBIR will develop a user-friendly, run-time efficient software package dedicated to fitting and evaluating material models used in finite element codes like LS-DYNA. The software package will consist of a pre-processor, a core driver, and a post-processor. The pre-processor will allow the user to specify the material model, model parameters, and desired load history. The dri ...