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THIS PROPOSAL DESCRIBES A FEASIBILITY STUDY FOR IMPLEMENTING A REALTIME, THREE-DIMENSIONAL CLOUD MODEL TO SUPPORT REENTRY VEHICLE TEST OPERATIONS. AN EXISTING RESEARCH CLOUD MODEL WOULD BE INTERFACED TO A MESOSCALE ATMOSPHERIC MODEL. THE COMBINED MODELING SYSTEM WOULD BE ADAPTED FOR USE AT THE KWAJALEIN MISSILE RANGE (KMR). FORECASTS OF DETAILED CLOUD FEATURES SUCH AS WATER CONTENT, RADAR REFLECTI ...

A PLAN FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF A MESOSCALE WEATHER NOWCASTING SYSTEM IS PROPOSED. THAT SYSTEM WOULD BE USED AS A TACTICAL DECISION AID FOR SUPPORT OF TACTICAL ARMY OPERATIONS. THE SYSTEM WOULD BE COMPOSED OF MODULAR SENSOR PACKAGES, A TELEMETRY SYSTEM, A FLEXIBLE SYSTEM OF SENSOR DEPLOYMENT, AND A MICROPROCESSOR BASED TACTICAL COMPUTER SYSTEM FOR THE ANALYSIS AND DISPLAY OF DATA COLLECTED. THE PROP ...

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ULTRASONIC NONDESTRUCTIVE TESTING HAS BECOME THE METHOD OF CHOICE FOR THE QUALITY ASSURANCE OF ADVANCED COMPOSITE MATERIALS. THE PROPOSED RESEARCH PROGRAM COVERS THE DEVELOPMENT OF A COMPUTER-BASED NDT METHOD FOR DETERMINING LOCAL FIBER VOLUME FRACTION AND RESIN POROSITY IN PRACTICAL LAMINATED COMPOSITES. THE COMPUTER ALGORITHMS WILL BE BASED ON EARLIER STUDIES THAT HAVE BEEN SUCCESSFUL FOR UNIDIR ...

THE PROGRAM GOALS FOR THE EGRESS BORING MACHINE REQUIRE A ROCK BORING SYSTEM WHICH WILL PRODUCE PENETRATION RATES OVER TEN TIMES GREATER THAN THOSE PRODUCED TO DATE UNDER SIMILAR CONDITIONS. THIS PROPOSAL IS TO DEVELOP A CUTTER SYSTEM WHICH USES THE CONCEPT OF AN INTERRUPTED DISC CUTTER. IT WILL TAKE FULL ADVANTAGE OF INDEXING BETWEEN CRATERS TO MAXIMIZE ROCK REMOVAL WHILE MINIMIZING THRUST REQUIR ...

CYTOSKELETAL AND NUCLEAR MATRIX PROTEINS (NMPS) PLAY AN IMPORTANT ROLE IN THE BIO-CHEMICAL EVENTS INVOLVED IN DIFFERENTIATION AND TRANSFORMATION OF MAMMALIAN CELLS. CERTAIN OF THESE MARKERS, F/G-ACTIN AND BLADDER CANCER-RELATED NMPS, PROVIDE A UNIQUE MEANS FOR EARLY IDENTIFICATION OF BLADDER CANCER AS WELL AS ASSESSMENT OF FIELD DISEASE EFFECTS. NEW METHODS OF ISOLATING, PURIFYING REAGENTS AND LAB ...

CURRENT BEST TELEMETRY SOURCE COMBINER SYSTEMS USED AT WEAPONS TEST RANGES ARE CAPABLE OF SELECTING THE "BEST" SIGNAL FROM SEVERAL REDUNDANT SOURCES. HIGHER DATA RATES AND DETERIORATION OF TEST RANGE SNRS HAVE PRECIPITATED A REQUIREMENT FOR AN AUTOMATED TELEMETRY SIGNAL PROCESSING SYSTEM CAPABLE OF COMBINING AVAILABLE SOURCES INTO AN ENHANCED "BEST SIGNAL."

THIS SBIR PROPOSAL DESCRIBES A PROJECT IN WHICH TECHNIQUES ARE DEVELOPED FOR APPLYING EXPERT SYSTEMS THAT AID CLINICIANS DURING INTERPRETATION OF NUCLEAR MEDICINE AND PHOTOGRAPHIC IMAGES, AS WELL AS PHYSIOLOGICAL ANALOG SIGNALS SUCH AS ELECTROCARDIOGRAMS. THE TECHNIQUES WHICH EMBODY ACCEPTED AND PROVEN KNOWLEDGE BASES AND AN ACCEPTED REASONING MECHANISM SERVE AS A STANDARD BY WHICH FUTURE DIAGNOSI ...

THE OIL INDUSTRY GENERATES LARGE VOLUMES OF DRILLING MUD WASTES THAT CONSTITUTE AN ENVIRONMENTAL PROBLEM. CURRENT PRACTICES INVOLVE RETAINING SUCH WASTES IN PITS, OR DISPOSING THEM BY REMOVING AND TRANSPORTING THEM TO ANOTHER LOCATION FOR TREATMENT. THE TECHNOLOGY STUDIED IN THIS PROJECT IS TREATING THE MUD ON-SITE, REDUCING ITS VOLUME, AND ALLOWING THE SEPARATION OF SELECTIVE MUD COMPONENTS FOR R ...

A HIGH CELL DENSITY FERMENTATION TECHNOLOGY IS PROPOSED FOR THE PRODUCTION OF MICROBIAL NERVE GAS DEGRADING ENZYMES. THIS TECHNOLOGY WILL RELY ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF AN ULTRA HIGH CELL DENSITY (GREATER THAN 100 G DRY WEIGHT CELLS/L) CONTINUOUS FERMENTATION FOR THE PRODUCTION OF MICROBIAL ENZYMES KNOWN TO DEGRADE NERVE GASES.