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As organizations move toward increased performance measurement and accountability, there is an increasing need to measure job performance at the individual worker level. Traditional assessment tools have been criticized as measuring test taking skills more than job performance skills. A number of approaches have been developed to address this weakness by measuring performance in practical proble ...

Most E-O sensors operate in the visible and the near infrared. These sensors such as silicon and CCD arrays are very well developed resulting in high resolution and low cost. However, these sensors are limited to a spectral response of 900 to 1000nm. The mixing laser (MIXL) uses a non-linear material doped with lasing ions to create a self frequency summing or difference frequency mix ...

To field characterize laser systems the laser power, beam divergence, intensity profile and spot size of the laser must be measured with a robust, vibration insensitive system. While some of these parameters can be obtained using conventional components, beam divergence is difficult to measure because of the complexity and vibration sensitivity of typical interferometry based elements. We propos ...

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A NEW APPROACH TO ALKALI BATTERY DEVELOPMENT, WHICH CAN SATISFY THE DEMANDING HIGH RATE, HIGH SPECIFIC ENERGY SPACE MISSION REQUIREMENTS, IS PROPOSED. THE PROPOSED APPROACH OFFERS SPEPCIFIC ENERGY PERFORMANCE COMPARABLE TO THE BEST RECHARGEABLE LITHIUM BATTERY CHEMISTRIES CURRENTLY UNDER DEVELOPMENT, WITH SUBSTANTIAL INCREASES IN SPECIFIC POWER. THIS PROPOSAL DESCRIBES A PHASE I BATTERY CONCEPT FE ...

CURRENT TECHNIQUE OF OPTICAL FLAME DETECTION RELY ON THE USE OF NARROW BANDWIDTH SENSORS WHICH HAVE BEEN DEMONSTRATED TO BE PRONE TO FALSE ALARMS. TO ADDRESS THIS NEED, AMERICAN RESEARCH CORPORATION OF VIRGINIA (ARCOVA) PROPOSES TO DEVELOP AN INTELLIGENT MACHINE VISION INTERFACE FOR THE DETECTION AND CLASSIFICATION OF SPECTRAL FLAME SIGNATURES. THE APPROACH BEING PROPOSED WOULD USE MACHINE VISION ...

MicroFab Research (MFR, Inc.) proposes to apply the techniques of micromachining to aid in the fabrication of millimeter wave components, thereby reducing manufacturing expenses. Many microwave applications such as radar and communication systems would be improved by shifting to higher frequencies, provided new lower cost manufacturing techniques can be found. A manufacturing technique is presen ...

Implementation of Federal Acquisition Streamlining Act of 1994 set into motion a series of changes requiring Government use of Electronic Data Interchange (EDI). Small businesses can use EDI to acquire contracts to $100,000. EDI is the transmission of unambiguous information of business significance between computer of independent organizations. EDI is the common "language" used to get informat ...

Recent efforts in the target vulnerability community (fixed ground targets, mobile ground targets, and aircraft) have focused on enhancing the blast and fragmentation modeling from weapon detonations. This includes modeling propagation of the detonation effects from the weapon through their interaction with the target geometry, to the development of loads on and response of the target structure. ...

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