Award Data

N/A

SYSTEMS & PROCESSES ENGINEERING CORPORATION 'SPEC) IS PROPOSING TO DEVELOP A MANEUVER SECURITY EXPERT PLANNING SYSTEM (MSEPS). MSEPS IS A HIGH PAYOFF MINE AND AIR DEFENSE BARRIER CONCEPT THAT ASSISTS COMMANDERS TO PLAN FOR THE SECURITY OF U.S. ARMY AND U.S. MARINE CORPS MANEUVER ELEMENTS, PROVIDING INCREASED ECONOMY OF FORCE AND FLEXIBILITY. THE PROPOSED SYSTEM INTEGRATES A GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION ...

RECENT SPECTRAL LUMINESCENCE INVESTIGATIONS INDICATE THAT CAMOUFLAGE FABRICS AND PAINTS HAVE UNIQUE SPECTRAL SIGNATURES THAT CAN BE EXPLOITED BY A LASER-INDUCED LUMINESCENCE REMOTE SENSOR. SPEC IS PROPOSING THE DEVELOPMENT OF A LASER INDUCED FLUORESCENE (LIF) LIFETIME SENSOR CAPABLE OF DISCRIMINATING CAMOUFLAGE MATERIALS AND PAINTS IN THE PRESENCE OF BACKGROUND VEGETATION AND SOILS, THUS RENDERING ...

AN APPLICATION OF A PROVEN SPEECH RECOGNITION NEURAL NETWORK TO MONITORING PRODUCTION LINE MACHINERY IS PROPOSED. THE NETWORK WILL BE USED TO DETECT MACHINE SET-UP CHANGES AND ANALYSIS WILL BE DONE TO DETERMINE IF THE TIME WAVEFORM DESCRIPTION CAN BE RELATED TO SET-UP AND TO PRODUCT QUALITY. THE PARTICULAR APPLICATION IS A MACHINE THAT PRODUCES HIGH VALUE METAL CANISTERS AT A HIGH SPEED. DATA HAVE ...

THE OBJECTIVES OF THE PROPOSED RESAERCH ARE TO DESIGN A PARALLEL PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE, CALLED "CRISP," THAT SUPPORTS EXISTING C PROGRAMS AS A SUBSET OF THE LANGUAGE. CRISP SUPPORTS AUTOMATIC SYNCHRONIZATION, MULTIPLE GRAIN-SIZES OF PARALLELISM, AND A LARGE LIBRARY OF COMMON PARALLEL AND SERIAL PROGAMMING CONSTRUCTS. THE PROPOSED STRATEGY FOR THIS PROJECT IS BASED ON UTILIZING AN EXISTING COMMERCIA ...

ADVANCED WEAPON SYSTEMS AND SPACE APPLICATIONS REQUIRE PRECISION PARTS WITH BETTER SURFACE FINISHES. AS MACHINE TOOL AUTOMATION INCREASES, MACHINIST'S SKILLS DECLINE WITH DISUSE AND EXACERBATES QUALITY PROBLEMS. YET THE MACHINIST'S INTUITIVE INTERACTION WITH THE MACHINING PROCESS IS CURRENTLY AN INDISPENSABLE SKILL COMPONENT. SUCH MACHINIST INTERACTION COULD, IN THE FUTURE, BE REPLACED WITH STRATE ...

N/A

THIS PROJECT WILL DEMONSTRATE THE EFFECTIVENESS OF A NEW APPROACH TO THE TRANSFER OF TECHNOLOGY IN IMAGE UNDERSTANDING (IU). IT IS BASED UPON THE USE OF A SHARED SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT ENVIRONMENT FOR IU, CALLED THE KBVISION (TM) SYSTEM, WHICH CAN SERVE TO EASE THE TRANSFER OF COMPUTER VISION ALGORITHMS. THE PHASE I PROPOSAL WILL DEMONSTRATE THE FEASIBILITY OF THE TRANSFER OF IU SOFTWARE BY SHARING ...

N/A

THIS RESEARCH PROPOSAL IS AIMED AT PRELIMINARY INVESTIGATION AND FEASIBILITY ASSESSMENT OF SIGNAL PROCESSING TECHNIQUES FOR IMPROVING THE SIGNAL-TO-CLUTTER RATIO IN FOLIAGE PENETRATION SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR (SAR) DATA, BASED ON ADAPTIVE CROSS-MODELING OF THE COMPETING CLUTTER THROUGH THE USE OF MULTIPLE RADAR FREQUENCIES. THE ADAPTIVE CROSS-MODELING APPROACH SEEKS TO ESTIMATE THE CLUTTER RETURN ...