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Potential cost effective proprietary solutions to a number of outstanding problems involved in achieving an SBR capable of meeting military surveillance and reconnaissance requirement for the detection and track of both ground and airborne moving targets are proposed to be further developed and space-time adaptive processing SBR. Performance e ...

We propose to engineer a low-cost computer-controlled optical diagnostic system for measuring sound speed, thermal diffusivity, density, and velocity. This system will use laser-induced thermal accoustics (LITA), a transient-grating technique capable of making accurate single-shot measurements in luminous, multiphase, high-pressure flows. The LITA signal intensity is quadratic in fluid density f ...

The Pulse Detonation Engine (PDE) is an intermittent combustion engine that relies on traveling detonation waves for the combustion and compression elements of the prosulsive cycle. This engine may be used as a low cost propulsion system in defense flight vehicle system applications or as the low speed cycle for a high Mach number combined cycle engine system. The mechanical simplicity of this e ...

The creation of digital design information for the manufacture of existing parts is a critical need for maintaining part inventories and to ensure the reliable operation of critical equipment. Such parts, which are frequently found in aging military aircraft, pose an important challenge to the Air Force's resupply operations. Current methods for obtaining the surface geometry of parts do not ad ...

This proposal will identify a Technical Design and Implementation Project Plan for an HLA compliant tool suite that will automate the Exercise Scenario Generation process consistent with the High Level Architecture (HLA) specifications and process. The proposed design for the tool suite will provide automation support for the scenario generation process, the selection of Federation Object Models ...

The Skytote concept has emerged from a system analysis seeking a remotely/ autonomously controlled air vehicle for transporting materials -- a vehicle system that emphasizes simplicity, economy, and versatility. In one version it is envisioned as a ing less than 250 lbs) that does not require any physical conversion of configuration going from vertical takeoff to hig ...

Amain has developed and proposes a new electronic camera technology that digitally captures and converts at the pixel level. The approach, MOSAD,Multiplexed OverSample Analog to digital conversion is based on well proven oversample analog to digital conversion, A/D, processes. Oversample A/D at the pixel is accomplished using charge transfers, eliminating the need for precision or trimmed compo ...

The objective of this project is to provide a comparative evaulation of six key techniques utilized for the generation of high electromagnetic (EM) fields useful for testing the susceptibilty of electronic systems to EM radiation. The techniques under comparative evaluation are: (1) reverberation; (2) T-line or coaxial; (3) mode stirred; (4) frequency stirred; (5) parallel plate T-line and (6) t ...

The objective of this effort is to develop a neural network-based aerodynamic prediction model of an existing weapon systems and integrate this model into a PC-based six degree-of-freedom (6DOF) simulation of the weapon. Two extensive sets of wind tunnel data have been used to demonstrate the potential of using Artificial Neural Network programs as limited aerodynamic prediction codes. The algor ...

The problem addressed is through-life, non-destructive monitoring of adhesively bonded structures. The concept presented is to produce a mart material cro-electro Mechanical Systems (MEMS) bond degradation sensors positioned in the adhesive bond-line. These MEMS sensors consist of two critical components: 1)the chemical sensor and 2)the C ...