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Contractor will develop innovative concepts and techniques to develop target recognition approaches focused on cognitive synthesis of current and emerging sensor data sources.(Approved for Public Release 15-MDA-8482 (17 November 15))

CAPACITOR TECHNOLOGY IS A MAJOR DRIVER FOR THE SIZE AND COST OF MANY SPACE POWER CONDITIONING SYSTEMS. CURRENT TECHNOLOGY FOR HIGH VOLTAGE (>100V), HIGH FREQUENCY (HIGH REP RATE) CAPACITORS IS LIMITED TO AN ENERGY DENSITY LESS THAN 7500 J/M3. WE ARE PROPOSIING A REVOLUTIONARY CAPACITOR TECHNOLOGY WHICH PROMISES TO INCREASE CAPACITOR ENERGY DENSITIES BY AFACTOR OF MORE THAN 100. IN MANY APPLICATION ...

"The current state of the art reserve battery technologies will not be able to meet requirements that call for higher power and longer runtimes in smaller spaces. The principal avenue for increasing the power and energy density is to identify and develop new electrode materials that provide higher specific capacity and power performance. The overall objective of the proposed effort is to develop ( ...

Research seeks to correct the limitations of peridynamic theory that underestimates failure strains in ductile materials.Effort will revise and update current state of the art peridynamics models for ductile fracture expanding model to include temperature and strain rate effects while applying to the prediction of fragmentation in aluminum alloys.Peridynamics is a mesh-free theory of continuum mec ...

WORKERS AT BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY, BIPOLAR TECHNOLOGIES, HAVE DEVELOPED A MATERIAL FOR USE AS A BIPOLAR ELECTRODE SUPPORT WHICH WILL RESULT IN MORE LIGHTWEIGHT, LONGER LIFE BATTERIES. THE ELECTRODE SUPPORT IS A COMPOSITE MATERIAL COMPOSED OF LOW SURFACE AREA CARBON/POLYMER COMPOSITE MATERIAL WHICH HAS LOW ELECTRICAL RESISTANCE, CHEMICALLY STABLE, AND HAS LOW ACTIVITY FOR OXYGEN EVOLUTION, AN UND ...

Although there have been many advances in optics for low energy x-rays, (

A compact x-ray laser driver with a high repetition rate is the subject of this phase I project. Most existing x-ray laser drivers are huge (1000s of square feet of floor space), expensive ($10,000,000+), have a low repetition rate (1/hr), are complex and require several PhDs to keep them working. Thus applications of present x-ray lasers are limited. In contrast, the proposed laser will occupy on ...

"Combatant Commands (CoComs) desire the ability to perform analyses on current plans, Blue Force Laydowns (BLFDs), and enemy Courses of Action (COA). These capabilities support critical decision making for Requests For Forces (RFFs) and assess whether modification of forces or additional forces should be applied to mission areas. Analyses must take into account resource performance, resource avail ...

This effort seeks to develop training and operational displays that optimize user reaction times, minimize cognitive load, perform attention cueing, and present large quantities of data in an understandable fashion. The Warfighter requires advances in Human Machine Interfaces (HMI) to provide a usable and optimized system for missile defense.Key requirements of such a system are a rapid developmen ...

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