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Weapon payloads are needed to degrade an adversary's military capability while minimizing the destructive effect on civilian populations. A payload which inhibits operation of internal combustion engines while having no destructive impact on human beings would meet a variety of non-lethal weapon requirements. Immobilization of engines by uptake of fuel combustion inhibitor (FCI) compounds, tailor ...

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One of the most important problems to overcome for the development of wide bandgap metal insulator semiconductor (MIS) technology is development of high-quality gate dielectric layers. Systems & Processes Engineering Corporation (SPEC), in collaboration with the University of Texas at Austin, proposes to use deposited silicon nitride as the dielectric gate layer for wide bandgap semiconductor ...

This Small Business Innovation Research Phase I project will establish the feasibility of integrating a small, light weight MAD sensor and signal processing technology with an UAV platform for shallow water and land surveillance. Polatomic's approach utilizes a miniature laser magnetometer concept and technology developed under SBIR contracts from NASA, NSF and the Navy. The laser magnetometer ...

Current field deployed remote sensing capabilities are limited since they must be either hand emplaced or helicopter dropped from low altitudes. This is impractical in hostile, remote, or covert applications. A sensor capability is needed that can be dropped from high altitude, high performance aircraft and multiple sensors delivered to a desired precise location. Due to the expense in flight ...

A TRANSPUTER BASED ASW DATA CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM IS PROPOSED. DEDICATED TRANSPUTER MODULES (TRAMS), POSSIBLY DISTRIBUTED OVER A LOCAL AREA NETWORK (LAN), PREPARE SENSOR REPORTS FROM VARIOUS SOURCES FOR INPUT TO A PROBABILISTIC NEURAL NET (PNN). THE PNN IS IMPLEMENTED ON ONE OR MORE TRAMS, AND ASSOCIATES DATA FIELDS WITH TRACK CLASSIFICATION CATEGORIES. MEASURES OF CONFIDENCE ARE PROVIDED AT THE P ...

THIS PROPOSAL DESCRIBES PROCEDURES FOR MEASUREMENT OF ACTUALLOADS DURING FLIGHT OPERATIONS OF NAVY AIRCRAFT BY ATTACHINGTRANSDUCERS TO SENSITIVE COMPONENTS OF THE NOSE AND MAIN LANDING GEAR. STRAIN GAGES ARE THE ANTICIPATED TRANSDUCERS HOWEVER, INDUCTIVE, CAPACITIVE AND OTHER RESISTIVE TRANSDUCERS SHALL BE EVALUATED FOR USE IN THIS SYSTEM. PROCEDURES ARE OUTLINED TO DETERMINE THE OPTIMUM LOCATIONS ...

A novel tertiary recycling process is proposed for investigation as an economical means for recycling shipboard plastic waste. Early development work has shown that this process can convert a wide variety of polymers and composites into low molecular weight hydrocarbons at temperatures below 200'C. The hydrocarbons produced can then be reused as chemicals, fuels, or monomers. Metal, glass, and fil ...

Conventional electro-optic (EO) switches must have multiple electrode sections to ensure a producible polarization-insensitive device, which is impractical for high-speed operation and compact device integration. There have been great advances in achieving high-frequency operation using phase reversal traveling-wave electrode structures. However, the presence of phase-reversal configuration in t ...

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