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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 ...

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 ...

Safety is a critical concern in unmanned autonomous systems. Simulation environments that use a virtual environment to provide realistic inputs with the autonomy algorithms in the loop have proven valuable for replicating closed-loop behavior seen in live testing. These simulation environments can also supply the varied conditions (unusual weather, moonlit nights) required for safety testing that ...

As communications systems become more and more complex and dependence on foreign manufacturing facilities and supply chains increases, the potential for adversaries to compromise some of the most integral components of the communications network used in m

The low density of magnesium makes it of interest for the development of advanced materials having high specific strength and stiffness. Current Mg applications, however, are limited by the performance and cost/quality relationships of existing Mg-alloy systems. One approach to obtain improved Mg alloys is through the development of new alloys and/or Mg-based composite materials that are enabled t ...