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Composite materials, with their high strength to weight ratios, manipulative properties, and corrosion resistance are now widely utilized throughout the military. High performance composites are required for air, sea, and land platforms. One of the drawbacks of these composite systems is the excessive costs and time required for part manufacturing. Manufacturing of large-scale parts typically r ...

AVID proposes the development of a lifting surface method for rotor aerodynamic analysis. The method will use a cambered mean-surface analysis for the blades, using doublet lattices to define the geometry, with vortices shed by all aerodynamic surfaces. The focus of AVID’s approach is modifying and extending an existing AVID unsteady doublet lattice method, developed for flapping wing applicat ...

Aircraft fuel contamination either from water or particulates can interrupt fuel flow leading to catastrophic engine failure. Particulates and ice can plug fuel filters, and slugs of free water can cause engine flameout. Despite careful design of equipment and procedures, technician training and supervision, engine failures still occur resulting in degraded mission effectiveness, damaged equipme ...

In recent years, there has been an increased reliance on personal computers for our everyday activities. Indeed, services including banking, news, email communication, business arrangements can be accomplished from the comfort of one’s home. Unfortunately

Existing security technologies such as firewalls, anti-virus, intrusion detection and prevention systems, and botnet detection systems fail or have a significant capability gap in detecting and stopping malicious traffic, particularly where it is disguise

In the defense industry today, high level SysML system models are used by engineers beginning early in the design process to functionally decompose the system being designed and to flow down requirements to sub-systems and components. Despite their usefulness, these system models are by and large descriptive models and not analytical (executable) models. In contrast, domain level engineers (struct ...

Automatic extraction and representation of visual concepts and semantic information in scene is a desired capability in any security and surveillance operations. In the proposed effort we seek to advance the foundations of representation and fusion of data, information and knowledge gathered from diverse sources, and across multiple application domains. We target the problem of visual event recogn ...

We propose a comprehensive system to support the definition and governance of user interface (UI) standards, and to simplify compliance with standards across diverse platforms as designers create new UIs. However, we also allow platform-specific features to be exploited, so the consistency is in defined logical according to a meta-model that relates each platform to each other. New platforms that ...

Luna Innovations will determine the feasibility of developing an encapsulated cell based microfluidic sensor device that has an extended cell viability lifetime, requires no external power for cell maintenance, and is capable of detecting a wide array of water contaminants, toxic industrial chemicals (TICs) using multiple cytotoxicity endpoints. The proposed encapsulated cell technology will p ...

Harmonia proposes creating a dynamic Bayesian networks and redescription/story telling (DBN-RS) tool to help solve problems such as the problem of condition-based maintenance for vehicles. DBN-RS offers two means of data mining. The first is DBN which is used in an automated mode on discrete event streams, and by applying an algorithm that marries frequent pattern mining with probabilistic modelin ...