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EMISSION CONTROL (EMCON), INCLUDING RADAR EMISSION MANAGEMENT, IS A SUBDIVISON OF THE MUCH GREATER SUBJECT OF BATTLE MANAGEMENT. AT PRESENT, THERE IS NOT A FULL DEVELOP AND NAVY ACCEPTED TECHNIQUE FOR EXAMINING THE ENTIRE TECHNICAL MANAGEMENT OF POTENTIAL SEA BATITLES. THIS PROPOSED EFFORT WILL FOCUS ON A VALUABLE SUBSET OF BATTLE STRATEGY, THE INTERPLAY BETWEEN ELECTROMAGNETIC EMISSION CONTROL AN ...

THE PNEUMATICALLY DE-ICED STRUCTURAL ICE DETECTOR IS DESIGNED TO BE BATTERY OPERATED AND CONSUME VERY LITTLE POWER. THE ICE DETECTOR PROBE AND MOUNTING ARRANGEMENT ARE BOTH PNEUMATICALLY DE-ICED USING GAS OPERATED RUBBER DE-ICER BOOTS. THE PRESSURE IS SUPPLIED BY A COMPRESSED DRY VITROGEN GAS TANK. THE ICE DETECTOR WILL MEASURE THE WEIGHT OF ICE FORMING ON THE PROBE; IT CAN ALSO MEASURE THE LOADS ...

THE FEASIBILITY OF THE PROPOSED EXPERT SYSTEM WILL BE PROVEN THROUGH ACHIEVEMENT OF THREE GOALS IN PHASE I. THESE GOALS ARE: 1) DEVELOPMENT OF A CONCEPTUAL DESIGN, 2) DEFINITION OF COST/BENEFITS, AND 3) DEVELOPMENT AND EVALUATION OF A PROTOTYPE EXPERT SYSTEM ON A PERSONAL COMPUTER. THE OUTPUTS OF PHASE I WILL BE A WRITTEN REPORT AND A WORKING COPY OF THE PROTOTYPE. THE PROPOSED EXPERT SYSTEM WOULD ...

THE PRESENT PROGRAM HAS THREE TECHNICAL OBJECTIVES. THE FIRST IS TO CONSTRUCT A COMPUTER CONTROLLED VERSION OF A CONFIGURABLE OPTICAL SUPERCLASSIFIER THAT IS CAPABLE OF ACCEPTING A SYSTOLIC STREAM OF INPUT DATA. THE NEXT MAJOR OBJECTIVE OF THIS PROPOSAL IS TO DEVELOP A DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE BUS STRUCTURE THAT WILL BE REQUIRED TO FEED DATA INTO THE OPTICAL SUPERCLASSIFIER AT RATES THAT ARE CO ...

A DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM IS DESCRIBED WHICH WILL CONFIRM THE FEASIBILITY OF THE OVONIC THRESHOLD SWITCH (OTS) TO PROTECT ELECTRONIC SYSTEMS FROM EMP OR OTHER ELECTROMAGNETIC DISTURBANCES. THE DEVICE WILL BE INVESTIGATED FOR THE CASE OF VERY LARGE ELECTRODE AREAS IN ORDER TO CONFIRM AN EXPANDING CHANNEL MODEL WHICH ALLOWS FOR VERY HIGH CURRENT CARRYING CAPABILITY. THE KEY TECHNICAL ISSUES FOR THE LARG ...

FOR ENGINE TESTING, AN ANGULAR ACCELERATION SENSING SYSTEM WILL BE ADAPTED TO BE DRIVEN BY THE CRANKSHAFT WITHOUT IMPACT ON THE DRIVELINELAYOUT. A CORRELATION WILL BE ESTABLISHED BETWEEN CRANKSHAFT ANGULAR ACCELERATIONS AND OVERALL ENGINE TORQUE OUTPUT. THE SENSING SYSTEM WILL BE UTILIZED TO MEASURE THE TORQUE CONTIBUTED BY EACH INDIVIDUAL CYLINDER IN A MULTI-CYLINDER ENGINE. THIS SYSTEM MAY ALSO ...

THE OFFEROR, LASER TECHNOLOGIES, INC., HAS A TECHNIQUE AND A WORKING CO(2) LASER BREADBOARD CAPABLE OF REMOVING PAINT FROM SURFACES. IT VAPORIZES POLYURETHANE PAINT FROM SUBSURFACES. THE VAPORIZATION PRODUCTS MUST BE STUDIED FOR ENVIRONMENTAL COMPATIBILITY AND WORKPLACE HAZARDS. EFFECTS ON COMPOSITE SUBSTRATE MATERIALS MUST ALSO BE STUDIED. IT IS PROPOSED THAT PHASE I SUPPORT QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS ...

THE SCRIBE DATA CONSISTS OF HIGH RESOLUTION (0.06 CM -1) MEASUREMENTS OF IR ATMOSPHERIC EMISSION FROM A STRATOSPHERIC BALLOON PLATFORM. THIS PROPOSAL HAS THREE OBJECTIVES: 1. TO VALIDATE THE SCRIBE SPECTRA WITH REGARD TO ABSOLUTE RADIOMETRIC CALIBRATION, SPECTRAL RESOLUTION, AND FREQUENCY CALIBRATION; 2. TO VALIDATE MODELS FOR PREDICTING ATMOSPHERIC RADIANCE USING THE SCRIBE SPECTRA; AND 3. USE TH ...

The project objective is to test the feasibility of new network protocols for integration of a large collection of widely distributed heterogeneous databases and object data respositories into a unified system. Data contained in these databases will include text, graphics, sound, video, etc. The project will provide 2 kinds of services: 1. Index services to increase the ease and efficiency of loca ...

The development of an Active-Vision, Task-Specific Planning system is proposed. This scheme is based on a human-centered approach to obtaining insight into task-specific vision control strategies using eye-tracking hardware. This idea is coupled with computer vision and artificial intelligence frameworks to produce a task-specific programmable system for planning and allocating resources to produc ...