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IN THIS PHASE I EFFORT, THE GOAL IS TO DETERMINE THE FEASIBILITY OF CONDUCTING ACCELERATED CORROSION TESTING OF VEHICLES BY SIMULATING 5-10-15 YEARS OF FIELD LIFE IN A COMPUTER CONTROLLED ENVIRONMENT SIMULATION CHAMBER. THE DIFFERENT REQUIREMENTS OF THE CHAMBER, THE TYPES OF ENVIRONMENTS PRESENT IN THE DIFFERENT GEOGRAPHICAL REGIONS, THE CORRELATION BETWEEN ACCELERATED CHAMBER TESTS AND FIELD COND ...

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Acoustic sensors can be used to detect ground and air combat vehicles at extended ranges under good environmental conditions. When installed on a vehicle, eliminating or reducing self noise and interference become the critical issues. SenTech proposes to adapt an existing sensor system to meet TACOM's requirements. An eight - element microphone array will be designed, with rugged microphone moun ...

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Spectral Sciences, Inc. proposes to adapt the Environmentally Oriented Systems Atmospheric Effects Library (EOSAEL) to the Microsoft Windows Environment. The Windows EOSAEL (WinEOSAEL) package will reside on and execute from a CD-ROM running under Windows on an Intel 486-based microcomputer platform. In Phase I, plans for front ends for each of the 26 EOSAEL modules and 4 EOSAEAL WAVE modules wi ...

Physical Sciences Inc. (PSI) proposes to show the feasibility of using a novel, spectrally-selective IR imager for the passive standoff detection of chemical agents and hazardous chemicals. The concept is based on the insertion of a tunable etalon into the field-of-view of an IR imaging system. The approach takes advantage of recent advances in the development of staring IR focal plane arrays, w ...

The proposed effort is directed at achieving Automatic Target Cueing (ATC) performance at levels which are essential for near term system deployment. The performance required for deployment is beyond the capability of current systems. The design emphasis is to have robust performance under a full range of operating conditions, and to use techniques which lead to efficient real time implementatio ...

CYTEL proposes to develop a novel system for robust, high performance identification of ground vehicles from acoustic emissions. Hallmarks of this approach include the identification of an optimal wavelet decomposition for use in extracting robust multidimensional features from the acoustic emission. These wavelet-based features will be processed by additional feature post processing algorithms ...

Toxic heavy metals, such as Pb, Cd and Cr, have been identified in the soil on Army firing ranges and around industrial sites which can contaminate the ground water and present a inhalation and digestion hazard. New technologies are needed for cost effective environmental restoration of these sites. The proposed research addresses these challenges by developing a new class of water soluble poly ...

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