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One of the biggest problems faced by both military and non-military personnel in planning and conducting Operations Other Than War (OOTW) and Law Enforcement (LE) is a lack of cultural awareness. A lack of cultural awareness in OOTW causes misplanning and misinterpretation in the areas of economics, politics, religion, and historical events. The objective of the proposed work is to produce a des ...

This project is dedicated to the development of an adaptive network security management tool that is analogous to implementing and incident/response paring mechanism on top of a universal remote control facility for a variety of network and security tools, network types and operating systems. Our proposed approach to accomplishing this is to integrate and agent architecture with a Case-Based Reas ...

Mountain Wave, Inc. proposes to investigate the development of an automated network security management product that would allow personnel within an Information Technology (IT) organization to combine information from heterogeneous sources into an integrated application that captures business processes and automates tasks to "prevent" potential security violations. This product will: be "extensib ...

COLDING INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION WITH SUBCONTRACT TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN PROPOSES TO DEVELOP A COMPLETE ADAPTIVE OPTIMIZATION SYSTEM FOR BOTH SINGLE MACHINE TOOL AND MACHINING CELLS. THE SYSTEM WILL INCREASE THE PART DIMENSIONAL ACCURACY BY AT LEAST10:1 AND IMPROVE SURFACE FINISH BY 2:1, YET INCREASING PRODUCTIVITY BY 50%, AND BE ABLE TO OPTIMIZE AND BALANCE THE CELL PRODUCT FLOW TO ACHIEV ...

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Q-DOT PROPOSES A VERY HIGH-SPEED (10 - 20 GS/S) MEDIUM-RESOLUTION (6-BIT) ANALOG-TO-DIGITAL CONVERTER (ADC) USING AN ADVANCED HETEROJUNCTION BIPOLAR TRANSISTOR (HBT) PROCESS. INNOVATIVE CIRCUIT DESIGN, COMBINED WITH A VERY FAST HBT PROCESS, WILL BE USED TO DESIGN A PRACTICAL WIDE BANDWIDTH CONVERTER. THE DESIGN WILL ACCOUNT FOR THE REDUCED COMPLEXITY REQUIRED BY AN EMERGING TECHNOLOGY BY USING ANA ...

RESPONSIVE AND SENSITIVE FORCE CONTROL IS ESSENTIAL FOR SOPHISTICATED ROBOT TASKS SUCH AS ASSEMBLY AND FINE MANIPULATION. HOWEVER, THIS KIND OF CONTROL IS VERY DIFFICULT FOR MANIPULATORS DRIVEN BY ELECTRIC MOTORS WITH GEARED TRANSMISSIONS, PRIMARILY DUE TO FRICTION IN THE DRIVE TRAIN. YET THESE TYPES OF MECHANICAL SYSTEMS ARE OFTEN THE MOST PRACTICAL FOR MANY APPLICATIONS. TWO PRIMARY TYPES OF CON ...

It is the purpose of this proposal to develop the key technologies required to construct a man-portable advanced multimedia imaging helmet system. We will develop and demonstrate three helmet designs including a monocle headset, a goggle headset, and a face plate. These three helmet platforms will be founded on the miniaturized CPU, communications, display, audio, and sensor technologies establis ...

THE PROPOSED PHASE I PROGRAM ADDRESSES PROBLEMS CURRENTLY INHIBITING DEVELOPMENT OF DIRECT METHANOL FUEL CELLS BY SUBSTITUTING HIGH AREA PEROVSKITE ELECTROCATALYSTS OF THE GENERAL COMPOSITION LN1-XAXCOO3, AND ACO1-XFEXO3 (WHERE LN - LA, ND, SM AND EU; A' = BA, SR, CA AND CE WITH O < X < 0.6; A - BA AND SR WITH O < X < O.4) FORDISPERSED NOBLE METAL ELECTOCATALYSTS CURRENTLY USED FOR THIS APPLICATIO ...

Aurora Flight Sciences, with expertise in designing and manufacturing low Reynolds number high-altitude aircraft, proposes to develop new aerodynamics computational tools and flight control solutions to enable the development of 15cm and smaller hovering micro unmanned aerial vehicles (MUAV)s. The objective of this project is to validate the analytical approach, and refine the proposed MUAV desig ...