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This proposal is in response to rapid modeling need in our military force. We plan to develop and demonstrate a framework that will allow warfighters to rapidly acquire and edit geospecific terrain databases, including both building exterior and interiors. The output of our models will be in standard 3D format, which can be used in a variety of simulation and training software, including VBS2. We ...

To address a Navy need for a high resolution full color situational awareness displays to optimize human interface for Navy personnel, ships, and crafts, Hitron Technologies Inc. proposes to develop a see-through full color transparent flexible display with collaboration of Liquid Crystal Institute of Kent State University. The transparent flexible display is based on innovative integration of a f ...

The objective of this proposal is to develop Selective Availability Anti-Spoofing Module (SAASM) compliant GPS receiver for Geosynchronous Earth Orbit (GEO) applications. In this proposal, we explore an approach to design the GEO GPS SAASM receiver based on improved techniques for signal acquisition (or detection) and then signal tracking (and demodulation) of weak GPS signals. GPS signals availa ...

Electric vehicles, including hybrids in the nearer term, are the principal transportation technology by which the United States can become independent of foreign oil, can become energy independent overall, and can effect control over greenhouse emissions. For this to become reality, electric vehicle costs need to come down and performance needs to improve. For electric vehicle motors, the goals ...

There is a need for high-resolution, high-efficiency, and high-rate neutron imaging detectors at neutron scattering facilities. The Oak Ridge National Laboratory Spallation Neutron Source neutron scattering instruments the VULCAN Engineering Diffractometer, the TOPAZ Crystal Diffractometer, and the Liquid and Magnetic Reflectometer; these instruments need thermal-neutron detecting array ...

ScienceTomorrow in collaboration with Dr. David C Joy, at the University of Tennessee Research is proposed to fabricate direct digital Quantitative Secondary Electron Detectors (QSED) for scanning electron microscopes (SEMs). If successful, commercial versions of the QSED would transform the SEM/STEM into a quantitative, metrological tool with enhanced capabilities that, in turn, would broaden re ...

The utility-scale wind industry is evolving towards very large ( & gt;4MW) machines with blades longer than 70m for both land-based and off-shore installations. There is a rapid ramp in cost associated with ground transportation of blades longer than 65m, rising to a threshold that is considered practically prohibitive for blades longer than 75m. Managing the quality of such large blades using co ...

ABSTRACT: Design, Analysis and Research Corporation (DARcorporation) proposes to develop a 3-D visualization and modification environment as well as higher fidelity modeling capability based on defined geometry to be incorporated into the Advanced Aircraft Analysis (AAA) software. AAA is a conceptual aircraft design and analysis tool using semi-empirical and physics based methods. It is used fo ...

ABSTRACT: Proposed is the development of an advanced solid state neutron spectrometer (NeuKopis) with directional resolve, building from prototype instruments that have demonstrated the art-of-the-possible. The intrinsic neutron detection efficiency of the refined BENEFITS: Low power, solid state, compact, rugged, economical, portable

ABSTRACT: In our Phase I SBIR work to date, we constructed an implosion system using carefully-designed components and geometries that reproducibly reacts nearly 100% of the JP10 in the test cell. Using ALE3D we have also been able to qualitatively describe the major hydrodynamic processes involved in the collapse and subsequent expansion of the assembly. In Phase II we propose a continuation a ...