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IN RECENT YEARS THE CORROSIVITY OF THE TACTICAL WHEELED VEHICLE ENVIRONMENT HAS BECOME MORE SEVERE DUE TO INCREASED USE OF ROAD SALTS, INCREASED ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTANTS (SO(2) AND NO(X)), AND CHANGES IN CLIMATIC CONDITIONS IN SELECTED GEOGRAPHIC REGIONS OF THE WORLD. THE COMBINED EFFECTS OF THE ABOVE CONDITIONS AND MARINE SALTS HAVE SIGNIFICANTLY DECREASE THE LIFE EXPECTANCY OF SELECTED VEHICLES AN ...

To advance scientific and medical understanding of blood chemistry, we propose to develop modern medical simulation software that will be of use in predicting outcomes of medical interventions. For example, the chemical reactions between hemoglobin, oxygen, carbon dioxide, and electrolytes that occur in blood are essential to understanding human physiology, but still confuse students at many leve ...

A quality simulation which allows a user to simulate the acoustic emissions in a multi-source environment and then study the effects these conditions have on a set of acoustic sensors would be of great value. As acoustic sensors technology continues to advance with robust algorithms for detection, tracking and identification as well as high performance hardware providing real-time operation, thes ...

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Physical Sciences Inc. (PSI) proposes to show the feasibility of using a novel, spectrally-selective IR imager for the passive standoff detection of chemical agents and hazardous chemicals. The concept is based on the insertion of a tunable etalon into the field-of-view of an IR imaging system. The approach takes advantage of recent advances in the development of staring IR focal plane arrays, w ...

THE PROPOSED INVESTIGATION OF ADAPTIVE PROTOCOLS FOR SPREAD-SPECTRUM PACKET RADIO NETWORKS HAS FOUR PRIMARY TECHNICAL OBJECTIVES. FIRST, IT WILL PROVIDE A BETTER UNDERSTANDING OF THE INTERRELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN SIGNALING TECHNIQUES, ARCHITECTURES, AND ADAPTIVE PROTOCOLS FOR SURVIVABLE PACKET RADIO NETWORKS. SECOND, A NEW ADAPTIVE DISTRIBUTED ROUTING ALGORITHM WILL BE DEVELOPED FOR USE IN SPREADSPEC ...

This project applies a combination of Artificial Neural Networks (ANN), Genetic Algorithms (GA), and CAD software to the problem of optimum armor design. Previous work for TACOM has established the efficacy of ANN/GA as applied to the problem of 1-D armor design. This new work will extend the concept to full 3-D vehicle geometries (CAD models). The CAD part of the code will handle the 3D data d ...

The proposed effort is directed at achieving Automatic Target Cueing (ATC) performance at levels which are essential for near term system deployment. The performance required for deployment is beyond the capability of current systems. The design emphasis is to have robust performance under a full range of operating conditions, and to use techniques which lead to efficient real time implementatio ...

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CYTEL proposes to develop a novel system for robust, high performance identification of ground vehicles from acoustic emissions. Hallmarks of this approach include the identification of an optimal wavelet decomposition for use in extracting robust multidimensional features from the acoustic emission. These wavelet-based features will be processed by additional feature post processing algorithms ...