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THE PRIMARY OBJECTIVE OF THIS PROPOSED EFFORT IS TO DETERMINE IF A MODIFIED TWO-COMPARTMENT ULTRASONIC VAPOR DEGREASER CAN BE BOTH AN EFFECTIVE CLEANER AND AN EFFECTIVE STERILANT FOR FREQUENTLY-USED SURGICAL INSTRUMENTS.

TO MEET THE KINETIC ENERGY ANTI-SATELLITE (KE ASAT) REQUIREMENTS FOR TIMELY AND RELIABLE KILL ASSESSMENT, AEROMET PROPOSES TO RECOMMEND INNOVATIVE TECHNIQUES IN REAL-TIME KILL ASSESSMENT SPECTROSCOPY. BECAUSE IT CAN BE CRITICALLY IMPORTANT TO ACCURATELY VERIFY SATELLITE ELIMINATION, A KILL ASSESSMENT SYSTEM MUST DISCERN BETWEEN VARIOUS HIT AND MISS PHENOMENA, INCLUDING THE USE OF POTENTIAL COUNTER ...

THERE IS A NEED OF A MM-WAVE RADAR TO RECORD THE INTERNAL STRUCTURE OF SMOKE OBSCURANT CLOUDS GENERATED DURING THE TESTS. MILLIMETER WAVE RADAR WITH 7.5M RANGE RESOLUTION AND 0.5 DEGREE ANGULAR RESOLUTION ARE REQUIRED. THE MILLIMETER WAVE RADAR TO BE DEVELOPED UNDER THIS PROPOSAL IS FREQUENCY TUNABLE IN A WIDE RANGE (10@0GHZ) AND THUS THE SPATIAL RESOLUTIONS CAN BE TUNED ALSO IN A WIDE RANGE. TYPI ...

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THE PROPOSED PROCESS WILL USE ACCELERATED IONS TO REMOVE ORGANIC MATTER BY PHYSICALLY DESORBING MOLECULAR FRAGMENTS AND BY REACTING CHEMICALLY TO PRODUCE VOLATILE, NON-TOXIC GASES SUCH AS CO2. STUDIES WITH RELATED EQUIPMENT HAVE DEMONSTRATED FEASIBILITY. PHASE I RESEARCH IS TO DETERMINE THE OPTIMAL SIZE OF THE PROCESS CHAMBER AND HOW SURGICAL INSTRUMENTS CAN MOST EFFECTIVELY BE ARRANGED IN IT; THE ...

A FEASIBILITY STUDY IS PROPOSED ON A NOVEL CONCEPT FOR A GENERATION OF A VERY LIGHTWEIGHT, HIGHLY FOCUSED GAMMA RADIATION BEAM USEFUL FOR MULTIPLE APPLICATIONS IN DEFENSE SUCH AS KILL OF ELECTRONIC SYSTEMS IN LAND WARFARE, AND (AS DESCRIBED HEREIN) DISCRIMINATION OF TARGETS IN SPACE. THE DEVICE IS SMALL ENOUGH TO "PIGGY BACK" ON THE PROPOSED REENTRY VEHICLE (RV) INTERCEPTOR MISSILES, OR BE CARRIED ...

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SINCE THE ADVENT OF ARMORED VEHICLES, SEVERAL PROBLEMS HAVE PLAGUED THEIR DESIGN WHICH DIRECTLY AFFECT THE MANNER IN WHICH THE CREW VIEWS THE BATTLEFIELD AND HOW THEY CAN SUCCESSFULLY COMPLETE THEIR MISSION. OBVIOUSLY THE NEED TO PROTECT THE CREW/EQUIPMENT IS OF PARAMOUNT IMPORTANCE. FROM A DESIGN PERSPECTIVE, THE TRADEOFF HAS ALWAYS BEEN VISION AGAINST ARMOR. SEVERAL ANALYSES CONDUCTED BY CONTRAC ...

A STUDY WILL BE CONDUCTED OF A CONCEPT FOR A COMPACT AIRBORNE DETECTOR OF XAND -GAMMA RADIATION THAT WILL RAPIDLY MEASURE AIRBORNE RADIOACTIVE CONCENTRATIONS AND FALLOUT DEPOSITS ON THE GROUND, FROM NATURAL BACKGROUND LEVELS TO INTENSITIES AT LEAST FIVE ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE GREATER THAN BACKGROUND. COMPUTER SIMULATIONS OF THE EFFECTS OF THE INTERVENING ATMOSHERE WILL BE RUN. LABORATORY MEASUREMENTS ...

LARGE, PERIODIC TEMPERATURE EXCURSIONS CAUSE SIGNIFICANT DIMENSIONAL CHANGES IN LARGE ORBITING SPACE STRUCTURES. SIMILARLY, LARGE GROUND-BASED ANTENNAS AND OPTICAL SYSTEMS ARE SUBJECT TO DIURNAL DIMENSIONAL CHANGES THAT DIMINISH PRECISION AND SENSITIVITY. OUR RECENTLY DEVELOPED GRAPHITE/MAGNESIUM METAL MATRIX COMPOSITES (MMC) HAVE BEEN SHOWN TO BE DIMENSIONALLY STABLE (ZERO CTE AND ZERO HYSTERESIS ...