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IDC will develop a preliminary design of a mortar launchable, retrievable observation vehicle which will feature a very high performance camera, extended glide, inflatable wings and control by wing warping. The wings are an extension of an existing design. These features will result in an extremely inexpensive, lightweight, strong, stealthy design.

Few strategic decision-making tools are effective today in availability analysis. These tools adapt highly deterministic approaches, ignoring uncertainty and subjectiveness naturally existing when evaluating potential propulsion system technologies. Such approaches preclude the use of a rich source of knowledge available from subject matter experts. Introduced is the concept of "fuzzy" availabilit ...

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Recycling shipboard plastic wastes that are commingled, contaminated , and densified by the Navy Plastic Processor will be very challenging. Our Phase I work will first characterize the Navy's plastic waste by resin and contam- ination types and quantities. We then conclude our ongoing industry and university review of all potential technologies capable of recycling plastic wastes. We then f ...

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A preliminary design for a despun control section for a spinning cannon launched projectile will be developed. It will incorporate the electronic packaging scheme of IDC (patent pending) and a variant of the CHAMP system that has been under development by Sanders for 10 years. The proposed design will be ultra-lightweight, extremely compact, very strong and inexpensive. System design issues wil ...

Low observable targets, such as sea skimming and terrain skimming missiles are presently hard to detect on an air based platform. Filter wheel technology causes significant problems in real time processing of the spectral information because of issues such as pixel miss alignment. This problem results in large periods of time being spent post processing the image to align pixels so that useful im ...

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Low cost image generators have been promised for many years, but there has been a significant gap between the realism demanded by the military for mission planning, mission rehearsal and training devices, and the image quality supplied at the low end of the image generation market. The latest technology closes that gap by offering realistic, fully textured, real-time images from a personal ...

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