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Members of the genera Rickettsia and Ehrlichia are obligately intercellular, arthropod-borne bacteria which are distributed either worldwide or in defined geographic areas. Several are human pathogens; the severity of infection ranges from inapparent to fatal. Initiation of preventive measures and appropriate treatment depend on awareness of the infectious agent's prevalence within a given regio ...

Cross wind is the largest component in the error budget for sniper weapons used to engage targets at long range. Current technologies to estimate cross wind rely on visual cues or on a point measurement of the wind at the shooter's position. The cross wind is also assumed to be constant between the shooter and the target. These estimates for cross wind deflection are often inadequate for ballis ...

An important facet to a soldier's survivability depends on the clothing worn during combat and training exercises. Common fibers used in the textile industry, particularly nylons and polyesters, are flammable, produce toxic smoke and are potentially hazardous when worn soldiers. Flame retardant materials applied directly to these fibers may adversely alter the properties of the fabric and/or deg ...

Proposed here is a method by which large area, thick sectioned, whisker and particulate reinforced, aluminum matrix composites may be produced for lightweight armor applications. The first objective of this work is to conduct preliminary process optimization producing reinforced specimens 6" by 6" by 1" thick. Aluminum alloys 5083 and 224.2 will be infiltrated into SiC whiskers, alumina particula ...

The objective of active suspension is to minimize passenger acceleration, suspension travel, and tire deflections. Although the work done in preview control for active suspension has advanced a great deal over the last 27 years since the pioneering work of Bender (1968), several important issues still need to be addressed. These are: 1. Saturation and rate limiting of actuator control inputs, w ...

Recent advances in the development of lightweight materials which possess high strength, are dimensionally stable over wide temperature ranges, and can be machined to optical tolerances offer the potential to reduce the complexity and cost of future infrared (IR) tolerances offer the potential to reduce the complexity and cost of future infrared (IR) seekers systems and other electro optical syste ...

KaZaK Composites Incorporated (KCI) has teamed with Northrop Grumman Corporation and Dastin Associates Company to develop and demonstrate technology and manufacturing prcesses for productio of composite rod with embedded fiber optics for smart structures appl.lications. During the course of Phase I, the program team will conduct laboratory studies of the basic properties of Fujikura PANDA Polariz ...

An opportunity exists for performance models to be integrated into a continuous data flow process receiving data from design tool output and providing results to wargames used for analysis. Design tool outputs an providing results to wargames used for analysis. Design processes specify shape, configuration, materials, function and other required design components to achieve a conceptualized capab ...

An autonomous robotic vehicle which needs to move around in an unstructured environment should be able to detect obstacles in its patha and should know its own position at any given time with respect to a global map. Thie requires that the robot detect and recognize certain landmarks and infer its position in the map from the location of the landmarks. Reliable recognition of a predefined set of ...

The Close Combat Tactical Trainer (CCTT) after-action review (AAR) system produces a standard set of statistical displays that trainers may use to debrief exercise participants. These displays are difficult to interpret and do not readily reveal to the player unit "WHAT happened" during the battle. If unit players are able to discern "WHAT happened", there are no correlating displays to provide ...