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SSG proposes the development of a dual-octave, hyperspectral sensor, comprising a dual-band focal plane array and an innovative instrument concept for dual-band dispersive optics. The instrument concept proposed combines an innovative Grating ImagingSpectrometer (GIS) instrument concept with ultralightweight Silicon Carbide (SiC) materials to provide a novel optical system payload which addresses ...

Efforts to apply active noise and vibration control commercially, while intensifying, continue to be hampered by the cost of the computers required to implement the active algorithms. Currently, the cost of wide-band control is prohibitive for lightly damped systems such as precision structures or highly reverberant acoustic spaces, even if the system has just one canceling actuator and one error ...

Imaging spectrometers are a powerful new tool for performing hyperspectral measurements for remote sensing, environmental monitoring, and target detection and characterization applications. The major problem associated with hyperspectral measurements now, however, is not the technology for performing the measurements but rather the technology for analyzing and recording the high data rates genera ...

Cooperative, autonomous control is required to realize the full potential of autonomous assets in a tactical operational setting. For a tactical battlespace, there are many levels of applications requiring cooperative control. This proposal addresses themission control level where the control task is to coordinate multiple heterogeneous distributed assets to achieve the desired global effect thro ...

This program develops and demonstrates an innovative, low cost, solution and non-vacuum based process for deposition of YBCO on continuous, textured metal tape substrates. It is easily scaleable for long lengths of continuous conductors, and is an inherently more cost effective as it is scaled.Recent advances in the deposition of thick YBCO films have demonstrated that fabricating practical, long ...

In complex sociotechnical systems such as military command and control, multiple individuals must work with complex and dynamic information from many diverse sources. Methods are needed to increase worker productivity in such systems by reducing thecognitive complexity of the multi-system interface. We propose a revolutionary approach to interface design for such systems, drawing on the techniqu ...

In this Phase I SBIR, the Aptima team will draw upon its experience and expertise in studying, designing, and supporting effective distributed teams, and its long-term expertise in the design of human-centered interfaces for military command and controlteams to design the interface for a remote distributed satellite maintenance crew. The Phase I work will result in the requirements for a human-ce ...

A highly automated approach is proposed to measure learning and performance of cognitive tasks in Air Force intelligence organizations. We propose to identify key knowledge requirements, Mission Essential Competencies, and training needs in arepresentative intelligence domain; develop a Latent Semantic Analysis (LSA) model of domain knowledge with which we will assess expertise and diagnose specif ...

The goal of this work is to develop a web-enabled scenario-based decision skills training program for distributed teams. In Phase I, using applicable research on team theory and scenario-based team training, we will develop a methodology for implementinga distributed team training program using web-enabled collaborative technologies. The program will be comprised of a set of scenarios each of wh ...

Low power electrostatic thrusters are greatly penalized by the lack of small efficient cathodes. Conventional hollow cathodes are relatively large and consume power and propellant at a rate approaching that required by the small thruster, thus greatly reducing the overall efficiency and Isp. An attractive alternative to the hollow cathodes (which are thermionic emitters) are field emission array ...