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Widespread damage in aging aircraft is becoming an increasing concern as both civil and military fleet operators are extending the service lifetime of their aircraft and increasing risk of crack-like damage of aircraft components. The scientific community found that fatigue damage initiation occurs at micro-features called fatigue damage precursors (FDP). This requires that fatigue crack growth a ...

Body armor used today is an achievement of modern science, constructed of high tensile strength, manmade fibers and ultra hard, impervious ceramics. As impressive as this armor is, however, one of the most critical areas of armor testing methodology has remained largely unchanged from its National Institute of Justice (NIJ) 0101.00 roots: back face signature (BFS). The somewhat arbitrary value ...

Semantically Linked Data is widely seen as a revolutionary approach for maximizing the usefulness of existing and future information. In the materials domain, semantically linked materials data holds considerable promise with the ability to facilitate materials research and product development, improve communication, and open up avenues for new types of materials informatics. But realizing the pro ...

This effort proposes to develop a toolset to evaluate the effectiveness of a safety-controller that monitors a learning-based autonomous control system. The traditional use of deterministic verification techniques for real-time monitoring is not feasible in the presence of uncertainty. This effort would advance the recommended verification techniques to include non-deterministic approaches. The ...

Barron Associates has assembled a team of researchers that include Dr. Sayan Mitra of the University of Illinois and Dr. Ufuk Topcu of the University of Pennsylvania. They will spearhead three complimentary investigations into the development of verification and validation (V & V) approaches for adaptive systems protected by run time assurance (RTA) mechanisms. Two of these approaches involve us ...

PsiKick will develop a complete system-on-chip (SoC) solution for use in a truly fieldable, laboratory-grade EEG system that can achieve a total average power draw on the order of 20 μW. This system includes power management and interfacing to energy harvesters, EEG signal amplification and digitizing, digital signal processing, local instruction and data memory, and wireless communication. This ...

The next generation of virtual training applications for the Army needs to support training at the company or battalion level with corresponding increases to the operational area and level of complexity. Current simulation-based virtual environment training applications are capped at 40 participants or less due to the inability of systems resources to handle a larger number of concurrent users. Th ...

Rotorcraft operations in a degraded visual environment, and particularly near the ground or other obstacles, can create a high risk of incident and reduce mission effectiveness. The lack of visual cues can create spatial disorientation and increases pilot workload. In a worst-case scenario the lack of visual cues may lead to spatial disorientation resulting in loss of the aircraft and flight crew. ...

JRM Technologies, in conjunction with efforts from EOIR Technologies and Optical Sciences Corporation, propose to leverage existing experience, rendering techniques, and the latest industry and academic research to design an infrared projection system that will display dynamic targets onto silhouettes via infrared projectors for live fire engagements thus improving upon the current training capabi ...

Through the proposed Army SBIR program, NanoSonic will create, qualify and integrate pioneering flame resistant, energy absorbing HybridSil trim materials for next-generation vehicle occupant protection during blast, crash and rollover events. This program will build from NanoSonics rapidly growing fire protective HybridSil polymeric armor technology which has independently validated ballistic / b ...