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THE NAVY F-14 FIGHTER CURRENTLY HAS TWO PRIMARY SYSTEMS WHICH CAN BE USED FOR THE IDENTIFICATION OF NON-COOPERATIVE AIR TARGETS: THE TELEVISION CAMERA SET (TCS) AND A RADAR SIGNAL MODULATION (RSM) PROCESSOR COUPLED TO THE AWG-9 FIRE CONTROL RADAR. CURRENTLY, DATA FROM THESE SYSTEMS IS PROCESSED INDEPENDENTLY, AND ANY FUSTION WHICH TAKES PLACE IS PERFORMED BY THE OPERATOR. THE OBJECTIVE OF THIS RES ...

The implementation of new environmental and National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) regulations due to take effect by the year 2000 make it imperative that industrial and manufacturing processing facilities take steps to monitor, characterize, and control stack emissions in accordance with EPA air permit requirements. Inline gas/air monitoring techniques that permit simultane ...

Warhead design calculations and weapons effectiveness estimates require a methodology to predict the terminal ballistic structural response and the associated functional damage to operating missile batteries subjected to warhead fragment impacts at speeds up to 16,000 ft/sec. The objectives for the proposed Phase I study effort are to develop a candidate structural representation for the missile b ...

A miniaturized lighter-than-air (LTA) unmanned air vehicle (UAV) is proposed as a low altitude, station keeping, optical instrumentation platform. The advanced airship design will be derived from parameters developed during the successful Small Aerostat Surveillance System, Low Intensity Target Exploitation (SASS LITE) UAV program. This miniature airship developed by Applied Research Associates, I ...

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Brimrose proposes to research and develop, in this SBIR program, a prototype minature, polarization-insensitive, acousto-optically tuned filter. This filter will be capable of high speed, mechanical-free electronic tuning over a broad wavelength region with high resolution, sensitivity and repeatability. The filter will be realized by employing optical waveguides integrated into a LiNbO3 substrate ...

The feasibility of developing a reserve, lithium thionyl chloride battery that combines both high power and high energy is examined. Highly acid electrolytes with halogen catalysts and blended and/or layered carbon cathodes will be studied at current densities up to 250mA/cm and at temperatures from -20 to 60 degrees C. A bipolar reserve cell configuration will be designed to verify that SBIR powe ...

Central Connecticut Engineering, Inc. proposes to develop the design of a high-power, high-repetition-rate switch for manufacturing. The switch will be capable of continuous operation at 100,000 volts, 100 kilowatts of average power, 100 joules per pulse, and 1000 hertz pulse rates into a low impedance load. The switch inductancee minimized, as consistent with the other requirements, and the capab ...

Development of an advanced a spectroscopic sensor for on-line monitoring of hydraulic pump health status will be pursued. The proposed sensor will provide real-time information on wear status and will generate advance warning of impending catastrophic failure. If successful, the proposed technology will bring to on-line real-time sensing sophisticated spectroscopic diagnostic analysis now availabl ...