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Streamline Automation, LLC, with the support of United Defense, L.P. will develop tools for protecting software executables, and secure inter-unit networking. Modern weapon systems, such as Future Combat System (FCS) rely on a distributed network ofsensors, command elements and weapon platforms. Successful operation will require secure networking between them. In addition, the trend toward the ...

Directed energy weapons are being developed for both short and long term introduction into the U.S. arsenal for boost phase missile defense. A key to understanding the effectiveness of these weapons is a tool to assess modes of missile failure. Fracturemechanics based models exist, but under certain engagement conditions these do not predict clear, catastrophic failure. CFD Research Corporation ...

We propose to utilize the combination of a projection-based viscous cartesian grid approach with an anisotropic grid generation and adaptive refinement scheme to create an innovative missile-plume aerothermal flowfield simulation tool. The viscous adaptiveCartesian approach will enable automatic, efficient and accurate solutions of missile plume shapes and plume phenomenology at all operating cond ...

70607B02-II Improved technologies are needed to assist in the decontamination and decommissioning (D&D) of facilities used to support nuclear weapons production. In particular, a cost-effective approach is required to determine whether or not piping systems are contaminated and if so, to determine the level of contamination and its location in the pipe. This project will use both conservative a ...

This proposal offers an innovative and efficient computational simulation tool for the prediction of missile plume transient events and associated missile unsteady flow fields. The proposed solution will enable simulating the complete range of flowfieldtransient effects resulting from time-dependent flow boundary conditions, prescribed body and thrust vector motion, and up to performing a complete ...

Reliable and sensitive aerial defense applications (missile seekers, avionics, remote sensing) demand that electronic components be resistant to ionizing radiation from nuclear weapons and upper atmosphere/terrestrial sources. CFDRC, in collaboration withHoneywell and Vanderbilt University, is proposing to develop electronic-hardening concepts at the process, device and primitive cell level to ach ...

The growth in capabilities of Personal Computers over the past decade has been extraordinary. Until recently, large computational resource dictated the use of specialized hardware. With the phenomenal growth of capabilities of workstation grade personalcomputer systems, the range of potential applications that can be addressed with consumer off the shelf computational systems has expanded signif ...

For any real world pattern classification system (detection, identification, and tracking), there is an inherent problem of optimizing the algorithm's performance for a wide range of scenarios. This is due to a large dynamic range of variables (solarloading, solar reflectance, atmospherics, background, target condition, countermeasures) which will impact the target's feature set. The variabilit ...

East West Enterprises Inc. (EWE) proposes to develop physics based discrimination algorithms to improve GMD's ability to identify target objects in cluttered environments. Robust discrimination ability can be facilitated with a high-speed, high fidelity,signature code that can rapidly simulate all of the assumed threat objects, as seen from multiple sensor locations. This high-speed code would rap ...

Data analysis and feature selection for discrimination are, for the most part, very manual and time consuming tasks which are non-optimized. While an experienced algorithm developer will have reasonably good success in the selection of robust features, itis impossible to manually analyze the many sets of actual test and simulated data and select the truly optimal set of features for discriminatio ...