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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 ...

In this proposal, we will develop a uniform framework, called a multimedia mediator, for integrating and querying multimedia data as well as heterogenous data located on a distributed network. The multimedia mediator will use distributed computing technology to scale up to real-world applications. We will develop graphical query languages and query engines whereby an end-user can query a system ...

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AbTech will survey the hardware and software available to determine what capabilities should be included in a natural language understanding mission planning assistant. A language parsing and encoding system in ANN will be used to parse and encode ASCII outpuf resulting from a voice recognition system such as DragoDictate. The ASCII output from the voice recongnition system will go to the ANN la ...

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CURRENT ACTIVITY WITHIN THE NRC AND THE NUCLEAR INDUSTRY SEEKS TO EXPLOIT THE BENEFITS OF PRA IN RISK-BASED APPROACHES TO RELIEVE REGULATORY BURDEN ON THE ECONOMICALLY THREATENED NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS. THE ACCIDENT PREVENTION GROUP HAS BEEN DEVELOPING THE CONCEPT OF AN INTEGRATED RISK MANAGEMENT PROGRAM (IRMP) TOWARD SUCH GOALS. A KEY ELEMENT OF AN IRMP IS AN "OPERATIONAL RISK MODEL" OF THE NPP THA ...

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Accuwave Corporation will demonstrate a new approach to obtaining wide field of view imaging ( up to 15 degrees full angle) with a holographic grating filter. This new approach will make the filter element independent of the detector array dimensions, enabling resolution changes to be made without affecting the filter. This technique can also be extended to IR filters for use in eye-safe LIDAR s ...