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This SBIR program would develop practical methods for the interconnection, addressing and control of large numbers of distributed MEMS-based sensing and actuation elements using optical fiber multiplexing techniques. Such interconnected sensor/actuator arrays have immediate and long-term applications in the instrumentation and control of adaptive aircraft, spacecraft and hydrocraft structures, fl ...

InfoTech Enterprises, Inc. (InfoTech), proposes to study the feasibility of a submarine compartment arrangement tool in which NAVSEA developed databases will determine the application of 3D CAD graphic design rules within a networked environment. The underlying technique will implement a generalization of K.S. Ful's pattern grammar concept which results in generalized 3D CAD graphic rewrite rules ...

Society is currently plagued by the disposal of post consumer plasti c waste products which represent 30% by volume of the National solid waste stream. The Navy has particular problems when a vessel is at sea with several thousand men consuming foods and beverages contained in plastic. The plastic waste volume becomes both a sanitation and storage problem. At sea, dumping is no longer permit ...

Large field-of-regard (FOR) scanners are often desirable for poassive and active optical-infrared (IR) sensor systems for applications such as imaging, ladar, precision munitions, space-based surveillance, security surveillance, remote sensing, and free-space optical communications. The large FOR scanners for precision munitions need to be fast, small, light, rugged, low in power consumption, and ...

The continued improvement in wide-band radar technology has prompted a re-evaluation of current radar methods for advances in all areas of application. Radar signals have long been used to collect remote data from the ocean surface, and so, new methods which utilize wide-band technology should be developed. METRATEK has unique experience with such systems because we have been building them ...

This proposal is for a feasibility study to develop an interface system capable of presenting data from multiple sources and of varying types to operator in an easy, clear and unambiguous manner. The proposed standar interface system will be based on the Multi-dimensional, User-oriented Synthetic Environment (UuSE). UuSE has been developed at DOE's Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM, a ...

For more than one hundred years, painters style electrical brushes and various modifications thereof in the form of assemblies of metal wires, were universally used for sliding electrical contacts. They were replaced by monolithic graphite brushes only at the turn of the century. Monolithic graphite brushes shed Carbon particles as a result of scouring abrasion, and are transferred throughout a g ...

Current flight test programs are complete well before data analysis is finished and the simulation is updated. Therefore, lessons learned during the analysis can not directly affect the test program. The proposal suggests using a set of cooperating expert systems, with rules suggested by identification experts, to coordinate a toolkit of fast estimatioin algorithms for real-time or near-real-tim ...

Phoenix Integration, Inc. proposes a 6 month design and feasibility study to investigate application of innovative software techniques toward an integrated program for the design and analysis of combat weapon subsystems. There is a recognized deficiency in the area of compatible ship design modules that allow weapon system concepts to be quickly configured and analyzed. A modeling and analysis to ...

THIS IS A PROPOSAL TO DEMONSTRATE THE UTILITY OF A 3-D DISPLAY FOR THE ASSESSMENT OF ACTIVE SONAR PERFORMANCE. THE PROTOTYPE DISPLAY WILL BE COMPOSED FROM A SET OF 3-D TOOLS WHICH WILL BE DEVELOPED USING THE C LANGUAGE AND NAVY STANDARD GRAPHICS LIBRARIES (X-WINDOW X11R5, MOTIF, AND OTHERS). THE DESIGN OF THE TOOLKIT WILL EMPHASIZE COMPATIBILITY WITH EXISTING SENSOR PERFORMANCE PREDICTION BUILDING ...