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TAC PROPOSES TO STUDY THE FEASIBILITY OF DETECTION AND LOCALIZING OIL DRUM SIZE OBJECTS ON/IN THE BOTTOM OF SURF ZONES. THE APPROACH IS TO ANALYZE THE PERFORMANCE PROBABILITIES AND DESIGN FEASIBILITY OF LOW FREQUENCY (20 TO 500 HZ) ACTIVE ELECTROMAGNETIC DESIGNS IN A TOWABLE, SUBMERGED HYDROFOIL CONFIGURATION. DETECTION SYSTEMS WOULD BE SUPPLEMENTED FOR LOCALIZATION BY EITHER NAVIGATIONAL FIX METH ...

THE PROPOSED PROGRAM IS DIRECTED TOWARDS EVALUATING THE TECHNICAL FEASIBILITY OF APPLYING SOLID POLYMER ELECTROLYTES (SPE) IN NOVEL ALL SOLID-STATE PHOTOELECTROCHEMICAL STORAGE CELLS. THE UNIQUENESS OF THIS APPROACH LIES IN THE USE OF PHOTOCATHODES WHICH WILL HAVE THE POTENTIAL TO NOT ONLY GENERATE REDUCED REDOX SPECIES, AT THEIR INTERFACE WITH THE SOLID ELECTROLYTE, BUT ALSO WILL STORE SUCH SPECI ...

IMI-TECH CORPORATION PROPOSES TO DETERMINE THE FEASIBILITY OF MEETING THE NAVY'S NEED FOR A POURED-IN-PLACE, LIGHTWEIGHT FLOTATION FOAM THAT WILL NOT SUSTAIN COMBUSTION, DOES NOT RELEASE HAZARDOUS AMOUNTS OF TOXIC GASES WHEN EXPOSED TO FLAMES, AND HAS LOW WATER ABSORPTION. THE TECHNOLOGY TO MEET THIS REQUIREMENT, WITHOUT THE USE OF TOXIC GAS-PRODUCING FLAME RETARDANTS, EXISTS AT IMI-TECH TODAY. TH ...

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THE OBJECTIVE OF THIS PROPOSED RESEARCH IS TO DEVELOP NEW ANALYTIC METHODS FOR CHARACTERIZING MINE WARFARE EFFECTIVENESS. IT WILL USE A COMBINATION OF A PRIOR KNOWLEDGE OF SEQUENTIAL CHOICE OUTCOMES AND UNCERTAINTY IN SEQUENTIAL OUTCOMES. THE APPROACH WILL BE TO DEVELOP A SEQUENTIAL DESIGN ANALYSIS OF PERFORMANCE FOR INDIVIDUAL MINE FIELDS WHICH FULLY CHARACTERIZES SYSTEM PERFORMANCE LINKED TO OBJ ...

A MULTIPLACE MINEFIELD DESIGN IS A SERIES OF MINEFIELD DESIGNS; THAT IS, A SERIES OF SPECIFICATIONS, ONE FOR EACH OF THE COMPONENT MINEFIELDS OF A MULTIPLACE MINEFIELD, OF THE CORRESPONDING MINEABLE AREA AND OF THE NUMBERS AND KINDS OF MINES AND THEIR DISTRIBUTIONS OF SETTINGS THAT ARE TO BE LAID IN IT. DESIGNING MULTIPLACE MINEFIELDS IS THE CORE OF MULTIPLACE MINEFIELD PLANNING, THE ENTIRE STOCKP ...

CURRENT ALUMINUM MATRIX COMPOSITES WHICH USE ALLOYS REQUIRING SOLUTION HEAT TREATING, QUNEHCING, AND ELEVATED TEMPERATURE AGING SUFFER FROM POOR TOUGHNESS. IT IS EXPECTED THE TOUGHNESS OF ALUMINUM MATRIX COMPOSITES CAN BE SIGNIFICANTLY INCREASED THROUGH THE USE OF 5000 SERIES ALLOYS WHICH HAVE HIGH WORK HARDENING RATES AND GOOD DUCTILITY. ANY LOSS IN COMPOSITE STRENGTH CAN BE COMPENSATED BY ADJUST ...

METAL MATRIX COMPOSITES (MMC) OFFER COMPARABLE MICROCREEP RATES (MCR) AT A FRACTION OF THE COST FOR SPECIALLY PROCESSED ALLOYS IN STABLE MEMBER APPLICATIONS. RESIDUAL STRESSES ARE IMPORTANT TO CONTROL WHEN PARTS PER MILLION OF STRAIN ARE A CONCERN. LARGE VOLUME FRACTIONS OF CERAMIC REINFORCEMENT IN COMPOSITES WILL CONTRIBUTE TO BOTH THE MACRO AND MICRO RESIDUAL STRESSES. THE PROPOSED PROGRAM WILL ...

Scot Forge, a leading manufacturer of open and semi-closed die forging and innovator of forging technologies, is submitting a proposal to look at non-traditional track shoe manufacturing processes in an effort to decrease the cost, weight and maintenance while increasing the water track speed performance relative to the T157I track, currently being used on the Assault Amphibious Vehicle (AAV).Scot ...

The goal of this proposed Phase I effort is to design and demonstrate a monolithic architecture for two-dimensional, all-electronic beam steering of a high power, mid-infrared laser. A photonic integrated circuit architecture is described which contains a widely tunable, mid-infrared quantum cascade laser integrated with a phase-adjustable amplifier array and a high efficiency grating outcoupler. ...