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The development of diagnostic instruments with temporal and spatial resolution, for monitoring and controlling microwave based processing of ceramics and nanopowders is proposed. Emphasis is placed on techniques relevant to NRL's experimental plan and having significant commercial applications. Diagnostics for monitoring and possibly imaging temperature, dielectric properties and densification are ...

The objective of this project is to design a new large caliber naval gun to fit in a relatively small volume within a ship and yet be capable of firing ranges considerably greater than are presently available from equal caliber guns and ammunition. This gun will have a very short recoil whose greater recoil forces will be passed directly to major load bearing structure near the ship's ke ...

We will use our existing commercial grade chaotic data analysis tool kit to characterize ocean clutter and noise in hostile environments. This knowledge will be used to demonstrate how Receiver Operating Curves can be improved by reducing the mismatch between real noise and the noise model in traditional filters. We will also study the feasibility of signal detection with chaotic filters. For this ...

CTI and its subcontractors, BDM's Defense Enterprise Integration Team and Sonalysts, Inc., propose to apply a hybrid task analysis methodology to model critical functions in the CIC and derive measures of performance by individuals and teams. The approach is a hybrid in that it joins cognitive analysis techniques with methods typically used to in business re-engineering studies. In addition, it in ...

We propose to develop algorithms which can be used to assimilate separate satellite data sets of important geophysical parameters into global, gridded data sets. The data assimilation program will be cast as a retrieval problem in which the true, instrument independent global distribution is retrieved from the combined satellite data set. This problem will be solved using the method of optima ...

Significant savings in system life cycle costs can be realized when common Automated Test Systems (ATS) resources are used to meet both system production and field maintenance needs. Additional cost avoidance and quality gains are the result of transferring unit under test (UUT) design data, "lessons learned" gained during manufacturing in-process and system acceptance (sell-off) testing to the ma ...

A new generation of motion systems which are software-driven leads to the possibility of far more compact, adaptable, and reliable designs for multipurpose motion-based training simulators. An important consequence of this new technology is that it may no longer be necessary to make a once-and-for-all decision to include, or exclude, a motion system from a particular training device. Now we may be ...

DDL OMNI Engineering proposes to design a secure system for the continuous, real time acoustic measurement of towed array position relative to the host submarine. By using focused transmit and receive assemblies, pseudo- random spread broadband signals, and relatively high carrier frequency, the transmission level will be minimized so as to be virtually undetectable by a non-dedicated system ...

A progressive system development is proposed which uses Bayesian methodology for combined detect, track, localize, and classify. The core paradigm focuses on detection followed by various estimation schemes to extract information on contact type, track, and location from the detector. A rapid prototype development using the Generic Multipurpose Processor (GMP) will provide optimal detection ...

The Navy has identified Distributed Simulation-Based Acquisition (DSBA) as the approach for developing and implementing future acquisition programs. DSR proposes building a Simulation Based Concurrent Planning and Development System that would achieve this goal. At present the market has been inundated with an overwhelming number of products that could potentially contribute to this simulati ...