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Munitions loading is a critical element of Air Wing Operations. However, as airframes and weapons evolve, it becomes ever more difficult to adapt the rudimentary lifting technology of existing loaders to modern positioning demands. “Our legacy lift equipment is no longer an effective agile solution creating a mission support gap affecting combat lethality and readiness for adaptive basing.â ...

Advanced semiconductor devices form the heart of 21st Century technologies. The mission-critical role that these devices play demands exceptional levels of reliability. When a semiconductor device does fail, it is essential that the cause of the failure is identified as quickly as possible, Because of the daunting complexity of an integrated circuit, a significant amount of intricate material rem ...

Abstract Accurately diagnosing epilepsy is very challenging and time consuming because clinicians rarely observe the actual seizure, and there are many different types of seizures and epilepsy syndromes with differing presentations. Furthermore, other neurological disorders can be mimics of seizures leading to erroneous diagnosis, inappropriate treatments with significant potential adverse events, ...

An intelligent flight control system is developed with learning capabilities and a high degree of assurance that can be certified by the FAA and tested on a modular reconfigurable UAS.nbsp; Existing lack of intelligence, adaptability and high performance of current automatic flight controllers is addressed by taking advantage of high-performance computing platforms, state-of-the-art machine learni ...

The objective of this proposal is the development and demonstration of a cost-effective high-fidelity aeroacoustic design tool for future commercial supersonic nozzle designs and installations. Although eddy-resolvingnbsp; CFD methods for computing high-speed jet noise are available, such methods are computationally expensive and are currently deemed impractical for use in a design optimization lo ...

The broader impact/commercial potential of this Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) project is to deploy a revolutionary water-flood technology to increase oil recovery. The best current technology is limited to 30 - 50% recovery leaving significant resources in the ground. The available methods to further increase recovery are expensive, have limited application and can cause environmental ...

Project SummaryAbstractEpilepsy affects approximatelyof the world populationtotaling andgtmillion patientsWhile anti epileptic drugAEDtreatment is successful in many patientsof patients continue to experience seizures causing physicians to adjust change medications or other treatment parametersCurrent diagnostic tools are incapable of differentiating between patients experiencing a recent seizure ...

ABSTRACT Commercially available biosensors are designed to measure only one molecule at a time at a given recording site. This is a problem because chemical signals in the brain do not work in isolation; rather, neurotransmission involves many chemical species simultaneously released and little is known about how specific neurochemicals fluctuate relative to one another. Understanding these relati ...

The USAF has identified the need for ADS-B systems for UAVs. Details of Phase 1 work are discusssed. Methods to enhance ADS-B functionality which were identified and investigated in Phase I are presented. A detailed Phase II work plan consisting of software design, simulations, hardware development and flight testing is presented.

AbstractThrombosis affectstopatients in the United States annuallyand results in more thandeaths each yearRapid and complete removal of blood clots to re canalize blood vessels is criticalThe goal of this study is to develop a high efficient endovascular method to remove blood clots by combining laser and ultrasound techniquesCavitation is the main mechanism for both laser and ultrasound thromboly ...