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40963 November 19, 1996 Southwest Sciences, Inc. Hybrid electric vehicles equipped with an auxiliary engine have shown extended driving range and better energy efficiency than electric vehicles equipped with only a standard electric power train. However, combustion exhaust from the auxiliary engine is subject to stringent emission standards that require i ...

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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One of the most challenging information management problems related to the Reconnaissance, Surveillance and Target Acquisition (RSTA) missions is the real-time spatio-temporal fusion of target-specific cues from a netwotk of multiple sensor platforms. A robust algorithmic framework is necessary to involve the multiple agents together and achieve the optimal trade-off between low false alarm rate ...

THIS PROPOSAL IS A PLAN FOR A PROOF OF CONCEPT DEMONSTRATION OF AN ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE-BASED DECISION AID TO INTEGRATE PLANNING AND ANALYSIS OF AIR DEFENSE NETWORKS ON A SINGLE WORKSTATION. PROCEDURES FOR PLANNING AND ANALYZING AN AIR DEFENSE NETWORK ARE TIME AND LABOR INTENSIVE. THESE PROCEDURES CONSTITUTE ONE OF THE MOST DIFFICULT ASPECTS OF OPERATIONAL PLANNING BECAUSE OF TRANSITORY AIRSPAC ...

We will develop technology, termed a Ruggedized Wind Measurement System (RWMS), to measure directly extreme winds with high space and time resolution, focusing on the winds that occur beneath hurricanes at land fall. This development effort will include design, fabrication of two prototype RWMS units, and a series of proof-of-concept demonstrations in strong mountain-induced downslope and severe t ...

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Knowledge based methods have the potential to offer high performance solutions to a wide variety of problems. However, the development of large scale knowledge bases (KBs) and their effective application to problems have so far proved to be more expensive and less feasible than other competing methods such as statistical methods or weak search techniques. There is an immediate and critical need to ...

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HIGH-VALUE TEST ITEMS ARE OFTEN LOST IN OPEN-OCEAN TEST AND PRACTICE RANGES. SUCH ITEMS INCLUDE WEAPONS, FLIGHT DATA RECORDERS, MISSILES, DRONES, AND MANNED TACTICAL AIRCRAFT. THE LOSS OF VALUABLE TEST DATA CAN BE A SERIOUS PROBLEM. IN ADDITION, RECOVERY OF SOME ITEMS BY FOREIGN GOVERNMENTS NOT ONLY COMPROMISES WEAPON TECHNOLOGY, BUT CAN RENDER AN ENTIRE WEAPON SYSTEM SUSCEPTIABLE TO FOREIGN COUNT ...