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The use of lead projectile cores in current U.S. Army small caliber ammunition has caused increasing concern over the environmental contamination of military firing ranges and surrounding areas. A number of military firing ranges are in danger of being closed due to high levels of lead contamination. TRI/Austin proposes to demonstrate the feasibility of developing a non-toxic, lead free, cost ef ...

Clutter metrics we important image measures for evaluating the expected perfomance of sensors and detection algorithms. Typically, clutter metrics attempt to measure the degree in which background objects resemble targets. That is, the more Target-like objects in the background the higher the clutter level. However, it is critically important that the effects that the sensor system and the oper ...

General aviation and commuter aircraft generally do not have adequate deicing equipment to operate safely in all types of icing conditions. Since icing forecasts are not yet sufficiently reliable for pilots to avoid icing conditions, an airborne system that remotely detects icing conditions ahead of the aircraft could prevent serious accidents. The National Oceanic and Atrmospheric Administratio ...

This Small Business Innovation Research Phase I project will develop a tough, strong, inexpensive and highly wear resistant ceramic composite with a "brick and mortar" microstructure. Biological materials such as nacre have high strength, high toughness and surprisingly high wear resistance even though they are composed of relatively soft materials. On the other hand, engineering ceramics achiev ...

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Enterprises today rely heavily upon a wide variety of modeling methods and modeling technologies for the development of requirements for complex, software intensive systems. In general, however, (i) the different modeling methods provide very different perspectives on system information, (ii) models created with these methods are expressed in very different modeling languages, and (iii) models ar ...

This SBIR Phase I project will create an event representation framework and generate a catalogue of reasoning mechanisms for transforming domain specific events into a convenient representational framework. The choice of the representation scheme used to model a domain for analysis by the neural network of fuzzy logic system can make an enormous difference in the ease and efficiency of the proble ...

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Statistically sound approaches to making interfrences regarding simulation model validation, rather than reliance upon subjective appeal, are needed. Fundamentally, the question of interest is whether a model reflects reality to the required degree of accuracy. The utility (and hence validity) of a simulation model relies on how well it captures those aspects of the phenonmenon under study that ...