Award Data

N/A

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 ...

N/A

N/A

N/A

N/A

Wang-Tripp Corporation (WTC) prposes a six-month Phse I exploratiory research and development effort to design a UHF Satellite Communications (SATCOM) antenna for beyond-line-of-sight communications, and participation in Navy communications nets. Curretnly availabe UHF SATCOM antennas are unsuitable for the Navy's high-performance aircraft because of form factor, weight, intrusion into the aircaft ...

Today, the majority of sandwich structures on aircraft involve a honeycomb and/or foam core with adhesive bonded face sheets. But, there are problems associated with conventionally cored composites. Honeycomb cored composites are expensive and vulnerable to a variety of environmental threats and shortcomings. These include moisture absorption, internal corrosion, shin-to-core disbonds, shin bulg ...

N/A

The U.S. Navy has already achieved dramatic cost savings using teleconferencing technology in its Chief Electronic Schoolhouse Network (CESN) project. Even greater cost savings could be achieved if teleconferencing technology were portable and reliable enough to be used from any geographic location (ship or shore), in the world. At the same time, experiments like the Defense Information Services ...