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USING A TIME TESTED, SUCCESSFULLY IMPLEMENTED COMPUTERIZED INTEGRATED CASE MANAGEMENT INFORMATION SYSTEM AS A BASE, WE WILL DESIGN AN INTEGRATED COMPUTER-AIDED SYSTEM ENGINEERING (I-CASE) TOOL, THAT WILL (A) BE READILY ACCEPTABLE TO A WIDE VARIETY OF CASE MANAGEMENT PROFESSIONALS NATION-WIDE (B) CAN EASILY BE ADAPTED TO ACCOMODATE DIFFERENCES BETWEEN AND WITHIN SERVICE AREAS NATION-WIDE, (C) CAN E ...

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THREE AREAS OF ACTIVE MISSILE WING RESEARCH WILL BE PURSUED. THE FIRST SECTION WILL EVALUATE THE MATERIALS TO BE USED IN THE INFLATABLE WING SPARS, RIBS, SKINS, PRESSURE BLADDERS AND ACTIVE ELEMENTS. SPECIMENS OF HIGH ORTHOGONALITY COMPOSITES (POLYURETHANE-GRAPHITE) WILL BE CONSTRUCTED ALONG WITH SAMPLE ISOTROPIC BLADDER MATERIALS (MYLAR OR TEFLON) SO THAT THEIR FUNDAMENTAL PROPERTIES CAN BE EVALU ...

Fastening and joining technology has lagged behind the progress that has been made in other areas of composites for advanced air vehicles. Aerotech proposes the development of reversible polymeric adhesive bonding of composites using variable frequency microwave energy. With this method, composites are bonded using Poly Ether Ether Ketone (a high temperature thermoplastic) which is cured using v ...

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This is a Phase II proposal to continue the work begun by AgriTech Electronics, LC (AgriTech) on a GPS-based livestock control system. This system will exclude animals from areas, or contain them within defined boundaries, where it is impractical or inefficient to build fence to achieve this objective. These needs arise in a variety of contexts, including the exclusion of livestock from riparian a ...

50540-98-I Imaging Fractures and Fracture Systems to Assess Reservoir Properties--American Spectrum Engineering and Science Services, 5010 Grand Central Drive, Morgantown, WV 26505-4797; (304) 284-9144 Mr. William K. Overbey, Jr., Principal Investigator Mr. William K. Overbey Jr., Business Official DOE Grant No. DE-FG02-98ER82528 Amount: $74,694 Many fractured gas reservoirs could be produced ...

The electromagnetic directed energy method (lasers, particle beams, and high power microwaves) of defending against missiles relies on generating a large amount of energy at the defense site, locating the target, and then transporting a large fraction of that energy to the target along a line of sight at the speed of light, to either destroy or destabilize the threat at as long range as possibl ...

This proposal details the development of a new FCG design that facilitates customization to drive loads of various impedances. It addresses several of the performance limiting problems associated with small helical FCGs and potentially facilitates driving high output voltage, moderate current loads directly, without the need for a transformer.

Recent advances in directed energy weapons (DEW) require radar systems to implement front door protection against high power signals. Although nonlinear protection elements have been successfully employed in the past, fast ultra wideband (UWB) and high power microwave (HPM) signals are not successfully blocked by most current circuit protection technologies. This proposal details the developme ...