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EMISSION CONTROL (EMCON), INCLUDING RADAR EMISSION MANAGEMENT, IS A SUBDIVISON OF THE MUCH GREATER SUBJECT OF BATTLE MANAGEMENT. AT PRESENT, THERE IS NOT A FULL DEVELOP AND NAVY ACCEPTED TECHNIQUE FOR EXAMINING THE ENTIRE TECHNICAL MANAGEMENT OF POTENTIAL SEA BATITLES. THIS PROPOSED EFFORT WILL FOCUS ON A VALUABLE SUBSET OF BATTLE STRATEGY, THE INTERPLAY BETWEEN ELECTROMAGNETIC EMISSION CONTROL AN ...

Cleveland Medical Devices Inc. proposes to design and develp a test system where the installation and maintenance of wireless Local Area Network (LAN) will become simple and routine. The device will be a low cost handheld unit that has a simple user interface for less skilled users, and also have more sophisticated capabilities for those tough to identify problems. It will have a go/no go mode f ...

Navy personnel must be prepared to think and act under fire. Navy systems must support, not hinder, the ability to think and act in situations marked by high stakes, time pressure, ambiguous or conflicting information, and rapid change. How can the Navy leverage information technologies to establish and maintain the warfighter's knowledge superiority? Prototypes that look good in the cool isola ...

RECENT DEVELOPMENTS IN THE AUTOMOTIVE INDUSTRY HAVE DEMONSTRATED THAT DISCONTINUOUS CERAMIC FIBER REINFORCEMENT CAN BE INCORPORATED IN A METAL MATRIX BY THE RELATIVELY SIMPLE AND INEXPENSIVE PROCESS OF SQUEEZE CASTING. THE OBJECTIVE OF THIS PROGRAM IS TO UPGRADE THIS TECHNOLOGY TO PRODUCE MATERIALS WHICH ARE FULLY, RATHER THAN SELECTIVELY, REINFORCED BY UP TO 20 VOLUME PERCENT DISCONTINUOUS FIBERS ...

As part of a Phase I SBIR, MetaMateria was able to make concentrated colloids of nano-yttria particles (

This Phase II proposal to develop a "Lightweight, Inexpensive, Corrosion Inhibiting, Integral and/or Multicomponent Electromagnetic Interference (EMI) and Environmental Seals for the Expeditionary Fighting Vehicle (EFV)" is focused on two important activities. The first is the optimization of the seal material formulation such that it meets all of the Marine's performance and service life require ...

THE GAS PENETRANT PROCESS IS FUNDAMENTALLY ASSOCIATED WITH THE POTENTIAL ABILITY TO DETERMINE SURFACE ANOMALITIES BY THE VARIATIONS IN GAS ABSORPTION AT THESE ANOMALITIES. THIS PROGRAM IS FOCUSED ON TWO TURBINE ENGINE AREAS, LOW CYCLE FATIGUE AND TURBINE BLADE COATINGS, BOTH OF WHICH ARE INTIMATELY RELATED TO SURFACE BEHAVIOR THERMODYNAMICS. THE LOW CYCLE FATIGUE EFFORT IS DIRECTED TO DEVELOPING A ...

Modern weapon and aircraft control systems are software intensive, containing many complex internal and external interfaces. Accurate testing is vital to ensure that the system is functioning properly and will meet all operational requirements. Most current testing focuses on components and subsystems and is labor intensive relying heavily on the subjective judgment of expert personnel. There a ...

Current helicopter sonobuoy launchers are complex, heavy and will not meet future requirements for mission versatility. Because of the complexity of the launcher and its pneumatic subsystem, the launcher has many points of potential failure; its reliability is poor. Further, as in other pneumatic systems involving stored compressed air, the system is subject to vagaries of pressure which can resul ...

WE WILL DETERMINE THE FEASIBILITY OF IMPROVED METHODS FOR DETERMING AIR CONTENT IN FRESH CONCRETE. WE EXPECT THAT A STUDY OF VOLUME CHANGE WITH VARYING PRESSURE AND VACUUM WILL LEAD TO A METHOD THAT WILL INDICATE BOTH AIR CONTENT AND VOID SIZE, AND YIELD AIR CONTENTS THAT T ARE UNAFFECTED BY THE NONTHEORETICAL COMPRESSIBILITY OF SMALL VOIDS. WE WILL DETERMINE THE FEACIBILITY OF SIMPLER METHODS OF ...