Award Data

The Army, and other military and civilian organizations, have a need for large shelters that are air-transportable and rapidly erected in austere conditions. For example, the Army requires an Aviation Maintenance Shelter (AMS) having approximately 75 ft span. Recent advances in high pressure inflatable structures use a braiding process to fabricate seamless airbeams and to make curved airbeams e ...

Fast tuning microwave synthesizer systems are required by the Army for the demodulation of waveforms encoded by spread spectrum techniques. These systems are required as a method of jamming, countermeasures to jamming, secure communications and as low phase noise sources for rapid tuned radar. Our novel approach to these requirements involves the optical heterodyne between two diode laser-pumpe ...

QRC, with subcontractor Texas Instruments, submits this proposal in response to SBIR A96-060 for Wideband Fast Switched RF Synthesizer. The current state of practice of advanced communication and radar systems is to use short on time emitters at any frequency in the in the RF spectrum for various systems. Therefore in support of ESM, ELINT, SIGINT and EA systems, it is necessary to have a method ...

The current market for fast switching frequency sythesizers is growing rapidly. Most synthesizers available today will not meet the stringent requirements for switching quickly, providing spectrally pure RF outputs and minimizing physical size and cost. As part of a current SBIR program, S.T. Research has developed a wideband, fast switching synthesizer, based on the use of broadband phase-locke ...

N/A

ORINCON proposes to investigate real-time pattern recognition techniques that exploit the multiresolution properties of the discrete wavelet transform (DWT). We will process one-dimensional acoustic signals and two-dimensional visual and thermal images of vehicles provided by the Army to generate several different wavelet-based signal representations (including the DWT, multiscale-edge representa ...

Systems & Processes Engineering Corporation (SPEC) proposes to develop a Waveform Agile Signal Processor (WASP) to support the next generation of fuzing systems and subsystems. WASP is designed to~provide high performance, waveform agile, adaptive signal processing for a variety of RF and optical fuze sensors. WASP is designed to support pulsed time domain, frequency domain, phase, direct sequen ...

VOICE RECOGNITION AND VOICE SYNTHESIS WORK WELL BUT NOT WELLENOUGH VOICE SYNTHESIS IS TOO ARTIFICIAL SOUNDING AND VOICE RECOGNITION ONLY WORKS IN IDEAL CONDITIONS. THE ERRORS THAT OCCUR IN A NORMAL ENVIRONMENT INDICATE TO THE USER THAT VOICE TECHNOLOGY IS NOT READY, WHEN IN FACT IT IS SIMPLY LACKS ADEQUATE SOFTWARE INTELLIGENCE TO PREVENT MISTAKES. THE PURPOSE OF THIS RESEARCH IS TO ENHANCE WITH A ...

We propose to study, formulate and assess the concept of a Virtual Test Range (VTR). A virtual test range, and its close relative the Virtual Training Range, allow live and simulated vehicles and troops to interoperate in the same exercise. Live vehicles and soldiers are instrumented to allow them to see into, and themselves to be seen in, a virtual battlefield which correlates to the actual ter ...

The proposed effort will develop a virtual prototyping tool that can be used to design equipment which protects the individual from ballistic insult, penetrating wounds, blunt trauma, and crushing injuries. In addition, the developed tool will support design of the spaces in which individuals work, live, and travel. The first task investigates providing improved models of protective equipment. ...