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THE NAVAL AIR SYSTEMS COMMAND HAS REQUESTED AN INVESTIGATION OF THE SHARING OF THE INERTIAL INSTRUMENTS FROM WITHIN MULTIPLE DISPERSED INERTIAL SYSTEMS. THE SHARING OF REDUNDANT HARDWARE TO PROVIDE FAULT TOLERANCE IS COMMON ON FLIGHT CRITICAL AND LIFE THREATENING AVIONICS APPLICATIONS. THE DIFFERENCE IN THIS INVESTIGATION IS TO EXPLORE THE SHARING OF THE INERTIAL INSTRUMENTS FROM WITHIN MULTIPLE D ...

ABACUS PROGRAMMING CORPORATION PROPOSES TO KNOWLEDGE ENGINEER AND DEVELOP A PROTOTYPE OF AN INTERACTIVE EXPERT SYSTEM TO AID IN THE SELECTION OF INERTIAL SYSTEMS FOR NEW AND UPGRADED MISSILE/WEAPON SYSTEMS. THE EXPERT SYSTEM WILL ALLOW A NON-SPECIALIST USER TO ACT AS AN EXPERT IN INERTIAL SYSTEMS TO MATCH MISSION REQUIREMENTS WITH INERTIAL HARDWARE CAPABILITIES AND TO EVALUATE THE MISSION IMPLICAT ...

THE OBJECTIVE OF THIS SBIR PROJECT IS TO IDENTIFY THE MEANS TO SUBSTANITALLY REDUCE THE SIZE AND WEIGHT OF THE ALQ-170 ELECTRONICS PACKAGE WHILE IMPROVING THREAT SIGNAL FIDELITY AND ADDING VERSATILITY. THE INITIAL EFFORT CONSISTS OF A STUDY TO BASELINE THE CURRENT PERFORMANCE OF THE ALQ-170 AND ITS SUBSYSTEMS, AND IDENTIFY AREAS WHERE IMPROVEMENT IS REQUIRED. NEXT, SUBSYSTEM PERFORMANCE SPECIFICAT ...

FLEET TRAINING EXERCISES UTILIZING THE AIRBORNE, MISSILE THREAT SIMULATOR POD, AST-6, CAN BE MATERIALLY IMPROVED BY THE ADDITION OF AN ECM RESPONSE MONITOR IN THE POD. THIS MONITOR WILL RECORD THE ECM RESPONE OF THE TARGET AND THE TACTICS OF ECM UTILIZATION FOR SUBSEQUENT DOWNLOAD AND DEBRIEFING. THIS APPLICATION REQUIRES A DIFFERENT APPROACH THAN CONVENTIONAL ECM SCORING SYSTEMS IN SEVERAL RESPEC ...

THE PROPOSED INTEGRATED SINGLE FIBER OPTIC TRANSCEIVER (ISFOT) WILL PROVIDE AVIONICS DESIGNERS WITH A PACKAGED SOLUTION FOR USING FIBER OPTICS. THE ISFOT WILL ALSO PROVIDE THE DESIGNER WITH DETAILED INFORMATION REGARDING THE STATE OF THE OPTICAL FIBER LINK, AND BIT INFORMATION TO IDENTIFY ANY INTERNAL FAILURES TO WITHIN TENS OF COMPONENTS. THIS INFORMATION WILL ALSO BE AVAILABLE IN THE LOGISTIC SU ...

ADVANCE TITANIUM ALLOYS HAVE PROMISING POTENTIAL APPLICATIONS FOR FUTURE GAS TURBINE ENGINES USED IN NAVAL AIRCRAFTS AND MISSILES. HOWEVER, OXIDATION AND HOT SALT-INDUCED STRESS-CORROSION CRACKING, CREEP OR FATIGUE RESULTED IN SIGNIFICANT SURFACE DETERIORATION OF THESE ALLOYS. IN THIS PROPOSED STUDY, WE ATTEMPT TO TEST THE FEASIBILITY OF TWO NEW INORGANIC OXIDE POLYMERS AS PROTECTIVE LAYERS AGAINS ...

A MODEL FOR PREDICTING THE PERFORMANCE IMPACT OF ENGINE DETERIORATION IS PROPOSED FOR FEASIBILITY EVALUATION. THIS MODEL WOULD ACCOUNT FOR ROTATING COMPONENT DETERIORATION SUCH AS INCREASED TIP CLEARANCES, SURFACE ROUGHNESS, LEADING EDGE BLUNTNESS AND VAN BOW AND TWIST. THE PROPOSED APPROACH USES A STAGE STACKING METHOD TO ALLOCATE LOSSES THROUGHOUT THE ENGINE WHICH ARE DEPENDENT ON OPERATING TIME ...

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MASSIVELY INTERCONNECTED COMPUTERS, COMMONLY CALLED NEUROCOMPUTERS, ARE AT THE HEART OF SIXTH-GENERATION COMPUTING. TO DATE, HOWEVER, ONLY NEUROCOMPUTER SIMULATORS AND EMULATORS ARE AVAILABLE. THIS RESEARCH PROJECT WILL DEVELOP TOOLS AND TECHNIQUES TO TRANSLATE NEUROCOMPUTERS INTO COMPUTATIONALLY EQUIVALENT DIGITAL VLSI CIRCUITS. CONCEPTS FROM SWITCHING CIRCUIT THEORY WILL BE USED TO TRANSLATE IND ...

THERE IS A NEED TO IMPROVE THE EFFICIENCY OF PROPELLERS FOR EXISTING AND FUTURE UAV SYSTEMS. PROPELLER PITCH CONTROL PROVIDES A VERY EFFECTIVE MEANS OF ACHIEVING GOOD PERFORMANCE OVER A WIDE RANGE OF FLIGHT CONDITIONS AND IS THE METHOD UTILIZED BY CONVENTIONAL ACTIVE SYSTEMS. FOR LIGHTWEIGHT UAV APPLICATIONS, SEMI-AUTOMATIC OR PASSIVE SYSTEMS ARE POSSIBLE AND VERY BENEFICIAL. THE ADVANTAGES OF A P ...