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YHIS EFFORT IS DIRECTED TO THE DESIGN, DEVELOPMENT AND INITIAL TESTING OF A MINIATURIZED, SOLID-STATE, SHUTTERED VIDEO CAMERA FOR SPECIAL DEFENSE USE. ITS POTENTIAL USES IN BOTH MILITARY AND CIVILIAN SECTORS ARE FAR REACHING. SHUTTERED VIDEO TECHNOLOGY IS RELATIVELY NEW. MUCH OF THAT TECHNOLOGY HAS BEEN DEVELOPED BY THE OFFERER OF THIS PROPOSAL DURING THE PAST FEW YEARS. SHUTTERED VIDEO BRINGS TOG ...

Wind noise in outdoor measuemetn micropnones can mask an acoustic signal. Windscreens provide some wind noise reduction; however, those typically used for outdoor applications provide noise reductions of approximately 10-15 dB. Planning Systems Incorporated (PSI) proposes to design and test a Multiple Aperture Sensor System (MASS) consisting of a microphone, a processor, and data acquisitio and ...

AbTech will survey the hardware and software available to determine what capabilities should be included in an automated office assistant software suite. A language parsing and encoding system in ANN (a leading semantic understanding software package) will be used to parse and encode ASCII output resulting from a voice recognition system such as DragonDictate. The ASCII output from the voice recog ...

Bends in waveguides are a problem for high-voltage Ultra-Wideband (UWB) systems. The difficulty arises because only a straight section of standard transmission line can support a pure TEM mode. And a pure TEM mode is necessary to preserve the risetime of the transmitted impulse. When there is a bend in the waveguide, the transmitted signal is a broader impulse than the incident signal. This ca ...

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TSAR AND TSARINA ARE COMPLEX COMPUTERMODELS THAT SIMULATE AIR BASE OPERATIONS TO DETERMINE LOGISTICS REQUIREMENTS. THE INPUT DATA SETS REQUIRED TO EXECUTE THE MODELS ARE LARGE, AND THE RESOURCES REQUIRED TO DEVELOP INPUT DATA SETS ARE SUBSTANTIAL. WE PROPOSE TO FACILITATE THE CONSTRUCTION AND MODIFICATION OF THE INPUT DATA SETS BY DEVELOPING A GRAPHICS-ORIENTED DATA BASE SYSTEM THAT WILL ENABLE AN ...

THE STATE OF THE ART OF LASERS MAKES IT FEASIBLE TO "LISTEN" TO REMOTE TARGETS WHICH CAN BE APPRECIABLE DISTANCES AWAY. THIS IS ACCOMPLISHED BY USING A LASER AS A DOPPLER MOTION DETECTOR. ALSO BECUASE OF THE UNIQUE CHARACTERISTICS OF VIBRATING MACHINERY, (E.G., TANK WITH ITS ENGINE RUNNING) ITS SIGNAL CAN BE READILY SEPARATED FROM THE DOPPLER SHIFT THAT WOULD RESULT FROM THE GROUND RETURN FROM A L ...

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THE NEED FOR LARGE HIGH-PERFORMANCE ARRAYS ON NONPLANAR SURFACES, COUPLED WITH RECENT ADVANCES IN ELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY, HAS RESULTED IN A RECENT SURGE OF INTEREST IN CONFORMAL ARRAYS. APPLICATIONS INCLUDE LARGE CONFORMAL ARRAYS ON AIRCRAFT FUSELAGE FOR SURVEILLANCE, ON ARTILLERY SHELLS, FOR MISSILE SEEKERS (AIR-TO-AIR, SURFACE-TO-AIR, AND AIR-TO-SURFACE APPLICATIONS) AND ON REENTRY VEHICLES. CON ...