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A progressive system development is proposed which uses Bayesian methodology for combined detect, track, localize, and classify. The core paradigm focuses on detection followed by various estimation schemes to extract information on contact type, track, and location from the detector. A rapid prototype development using the Generic Multipurpose Processor (GMP) will provide optimal detection ...

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"Mathtech has developed a digital Advanced Inter-Communications System (AICS) for the E-2C aircraft. The AICS is an Ethernet-based system with many user-friendly features, and both weight and cost savings over competing systems. This proposal describesour approach to architecture and options for converting the AICS to a fiber optic bus. There is increased interest in the use of fiber optic voice ...

"Wireless NDE is a dream ready to become a reality. The increase in capability of commercial systems for communication and computation has opened the door for many novel new NDE applications. As with any breakthrough, the first runners set the tone foracceptance for those who follow. Nascent is committed to utilize this SBIR opportunity to develop a practical NDE system to monitor selected critica ...

"The proposed program would develop high-speed optical fiber Bragg grating sensors and signal processing methods for the near real-time detection of acoustic emission events and associated material damage in advanced aircraft structures. Acoustic emissionis associated with the occurrence and accumulation of microstructural damage in materials. By detecting the amplitude and frequency characteris ...

"High tempo 24 hour day and night flight operations on a U.S. Navy aircraft carrier create a hazardous environment that taxes even the best safety procedures and programs. As the only propeller driven aircraft deployed on carriers, the E-2C and C-2A presenta unique problem. Their rotating propellers create a serious threat to the safety of maintenance and flight crews working in close proximity to ...

"Today's sophisticated aircraft such as the F-22 will have expended billions of dollars on software over the life cycle, constituting a large portion of the TOC (Total Cost of Ownership). Tomorrow as seen in the JSF architecture, the hardware/softwareinterface will move forward to the sensor level and the common avionics approach will increase the software complexity, which will impact the TOC by ...

"This project will develop tools to support the design, development, discovery, andcost-effective reuse of learning-object based instructional materials that fully support the goals and guidance provided in the ADL Sharable Content Object Reference Model and are informed by empirically derived principles of sound instruction. A designmethodology will be demonstrated in Phase I of how meta-data ta ...

"Advanced failure progression modeling will be demonstrated on selected gear and bearing components for the purpose of providing a basis for fully enabling the Prognostics and Health Management (PHM) to assess the remaining useful life of components andtheir risk to catastrophic failure. Fracture Mechanics methods within a framework of Finite Element Analysis (FEA) will be applied to a crack in ...

"Future applications in both shipboard and highly mobile land-based wireless systems will require the capability to automatically configure and reconfigure as required to support rapid instantiation and employment of wireless networks. Current commercialtechnology-both network protocols and available hardware-make industry-standard wireless communications approaches suboptimal for platform and fa ...