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THIS PROGRAM IS ORGANIZED TO DEMONSTRATE THE FEASIBILITY OF AN ACOUSTIC APPROACH TO AUTONOMOUS DETECTION, IDENTIFICATIONAND MEASUREMENT OF HAIL. THE SENSOR, WHICH IS DESIGNED TO DISCRIMINATE HAIL FROM RAIN AND OTHER FORMS OF PRECIPITATIONIS CONFIGURED IN A SMALL, ALL SOLID STATE UNIT WITH NO MOVING PARTS. LOW COST, LOW POWER CONSUMPTION AND HIGH RELIABILITY ARE ALL IMPORTANT CHARACTERISTICS OF THE ...

THIS PHASE I PROJECT WILL RESEARCH THE PROBLEMS, CURRENT OPERATIONS, FILE STRUCTURES, AND DATA COMPRESSION REQUIREMENTS TO FACILITATE THE RAPID ERROR-FREE TRANSMISSIONOF WEATHER MAPS, ALPHANUMERIC WEATHER DATASETS, AND SATELLITE IMAGES. SUPPORTING THE INTERAGENCY FIRE WEATHER PROGRAM, IT WILL ALSO RESEARCH THE COMMERCIALLY AVAILABLE HARDWARE AND SOFTWARE WHICH WILL MEET TRANSPORTABILITY, RELIABILI ...

A FEASIBILITY STUDY WILL BE CONDUCTED TO DETERMINE HOW TO ADAPT A NEW-TECHNOLOGY, MULTISPECTRAL, VIDEO-BASED IMAGING AND ANALYSIS CAPABILITY TO THE AIRBORNE MEASUREMENT OF ESTUARINE CONCENTRATIONS OF PHYTOPLANKTON PIGMENTS AND SUSPENDED SEDIMENTS. THIS ACCOMPLISHMENT WOULD PROVIDE A LOW-COST REMOTE SENSING SYSTEM THAT COULD BE DEPLOYED FROM SHIP OR SHORE USING TETHERED BALLOONS, REMOTELY PILOTED A ...

FIBER-OPTIC MAGNETIC FIELD SENSORS REQUIRE BULK CRYSTAL SENSOR ELEMENTS WITH HIGHER SENSITIVITY AND BETTER THERMAL STABILITY THAN PRESENTLY AVAILABLE. RARE-EARTH IRON GARNET SINGLE CRYSTALS HAVE GREAT POTENTIAL FOR IMPROVING THESE CHARACTERISTICS. HOWEVER, THERE ARE A VAST NUMBER OF REIG COMPOSITIONS POSSIBLE. ALTHOUGH SOME COMPOSITIONS ARE BEINGREPORTED ON, PARTICULARLY BY FOREIGN SCIENTISTS, THE ...

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Accelerated development of directed energy technologies has presented new problems to mission planners and weapon operators regarding the capabilities, lethality and performance of weapon systems. The Emerging Weapons Technology Evaluation Model willaddress these shortcomings by providing users of varying technical expertise 1) the ability to model a variety of weapons in various mission scenario ...

The overall goal of this program is to build a compact, lightweight, portable laboratory kit that can be used to analyze chemistries, cell counts, parasites, bacteria, and other pathogens in blood, urine, and body fluids. Our proposed Portable Micro-Lab(PML) kit will be composed of two sub-systems:1) Environmentally stable microdot test strips smaller than a stick of chewing gum and containing th ...

Magnetooptic Indicator (MOI) garnet films are an important non-destructive tool for imaging magnetic domains in a wide variety of applications from basic research to quality control. To be effectively used they must be 1) optimized for individual applications using interactive feedback from users, 2) standardized to allow comparison of data, 3) improved in quality and process control and 4) made g ...

Policell Technologies Inc. proposes 6 month research effort to demonstrate the feasibility of replacing the lithium BA-5590 with a rechargeable battery. It is proposed to design and develop basic pouch lithium-ion cells that are suitable for assembly ofBA-5590 battery and deliver some basic pouch cells to SOCOM by the end of the Phase I program. The battery system will be based on Policell Technol ...

The United States faces a broad range of nuclear threats and technologies are needed to prevent or mitigate nuclear incidents. SMI has invented (patent pending) a near 100 volume percent efficient, real-time, microelectronic self calibrating and directional radiation detector. We can increase detector area to increase broad sensitivity and the number of layers to increase directionality. We herein ...