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THE DEVELOPMENT OF AN ELECTROMAGNETIC COMPRESSION PROJECTILE ACCELERATOR THAT CAN MEET THE REQUIREMENTS FOR APPLICATION AS KINETIC ENERGY WEAPON IS PROPOSED. THE PRINCIPAL VIRTUE OF THE PROPOSED CONCEPT, IN ADDITION TO SIMPLICITY AND HIGH EFFICIENCY TYPICAL OF ELECTROMAGNETIC LAUNCHER CONCEPTS PRESENTLY UNDER DEVELOPMENT IS ITS EXPECTED RELIABILITY DUE TO THE FACT THAT, IN CONTRAST TO RAIL GUNS, C ...

Development of air vehicles capable of routine operation and able to achieve hypersonic speeds is paced by the availability of a propulsion system. The vision is to combine improved off-the-shelf turbines for low-speed operation (M=0 to 2+) and dual-mode ramjet (DMSJ) engine technologies for high-speed operation (M=2+ to 5+), with both engines sharing a common air inlet and a common thrust produci ...

In this project, the developers will create a prototype of a More Perfect Union, a role-playing game for high school civics and history. The technology-facilitated intervention will provide a library of simulations on a range of topics and historical moments inspired by the AP U.S. History Curriculum and the Common Core History Standards. In the game students will be cast in the roles of leading p ...

Not Available This proposal describes an innovative, ultrashort pulse laser system offering environmental stability, compactness and extremely high efficiency. This will be achieved by the use of a novel diode-pumped, mode-locked ytterbium fiber laser and fiber pulse stretcher, followed by a diode-pumped Yb:YAG amplifier and compact grating compressor. This system will deliver the >5mJ, subpicose ...

This Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) Phase I effort will demonstrate the feasibility of using piezoelectric fibers to detect shock waves from underwater explosions (UNDEX) and sensing physiological measures such as heart and respiratory rates on warfighters. Piezoelectric fibers will be characterized for their ability so sense different amplitudes and frequencies of shock and vibration. ...

As the DoD continues to develop applications backed by cloud-based data and enterprise infrastructures, remote-sites will require on-site data caches to permit operation during periods of disconnect from the enterprise.To address this challenge for SOCOMs Chimera system, Black River will develop a stand-alone Chimera system that is independent of Amazon cloud software; develop bi-directional data ...

Data-rich applications, such as web servers, web browsers, and document editors, are inherently vulnerable to non-control data attacks, i.e., attacks that exploit memory corruption vulnerabilities to leak or corrupt sensitive data. We propose Dobby, a tool that statically transforms software binaries to integrate run-time checks ensuring illicit data flows caused by memory corruption errors in the ...

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Not Available Borates have an intrinsic band edge below 200 nm, which makes them attractive for optical applications in the deep UV. The birefringence of beta-BaB204 (BBO) is large enough to allow phase matching down to the band edge, so crystal growth and processing innovations that improve transmission and the damage threshold in the UV can have a beneficial effect on harmonic generation. This ...

Not Available Capacitors are formed by depositing a dielectric between two conductive plates. While fabrication techniques achieve outstanding levels of repeatabillity and consistency, many applications are difficult to fullfill with current manufacturing methods. A solid state resistor film may be trimmed to a certain value after deposition by the selective ablation of the resisting medium b ...