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SINCE ATMOSPHERIC DISTURBANCES CAN HAVE A LARGE IMPACT ON THE FLYING QUALITIES OF FIXEDAND ROTARY-WING AIRCRAFT, REAL-TIME AIRCRAFT TRAINING AND RESEARCH SIMULATORS MUST INCORPORATE MODELS OF THESE DISTURBANCES THAT ARE APPROPRIATE TO THE VEHICLES AND FLYING TASKS. IN SIMULATING NAP-OF-THE-EARTH (NOE) OPERATIONS IN PARTICULAR, THE DISTURBANCE MODELS SHOULD REPRESENT NONUNIFORM DISTRIBUTIONS IN THE ...

NUMEROUS GOVERNMENT AND INDUSTRY RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS ARE EXPLORING THE APPLICATION OF NEURAL NETWORKS WITHIN EMBEDDED SOFTWARE SYSTEMS. ALTHOUGH MODELS, IMPLEMENTATIONS, AND APPLICATIONS OF NEURAL NET TECHNOLOGY ARE MULTIPLYING, LITTLE ATTENTION HAS BEEN PAID TO TESTING, BENCHMARKING, AND COMPARING THESE COMPUTATIONAL SYSTEMS. IN FACT, FOR MANY SPECIFIC NEURAL NETWORK ARCHITECTURES L ...

Many methods & procedures have been used to predict the value or worth of training systems. However, there is currently no method available relating the effectiveness of the simulator/device to any cost savings to the government. Current models require an exhaustive task analysis and are not able to assess cost-effectiveness at concept formulation, due to the lack of detailed system information. T ...

A surveillance tracking and report system (TRS) capable of self position determination combined with a means of communicating its position through satellite data links to a tactical monitoring and control center would provide valuable assistance to counternarcotics and other special operations forces. A TRS system is proposed which would utilize small (shirt-pocket size or less), light weight, low ...

Although the wideband, narrow beam radars at KMR are capable of tracking well-behaved targets during reentry, the radars do not reliably maintain track on targets whose drag profiles deviate significantly from a priori predictions. The objective of this effort is to determine the feasibility of augmenting existing tracking filters for the KMR radars to allow real-time computation, correction, ad p ...

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TRIDENT SYSTEMS INCORPORATED PROPOSES TO DEFINE, DEVELOP SPECIFICATIONS FOR AND DEMONSTRATE PROOF-OF-CONCEPT FOR AN EXPERT SYSTEM BASED, AUTOMATED SOFTWARE TOOL TO ASSIST IN THE MEASUREMENT OF PERFORMANCE AND CORRECTNESS OF INFERENCE ENGINES. THE PROJECT INCLUDES DEFINITION OF A SET OF INFERENCE ENGINE CHARACTERISTICS AND THE PARAMETERS BY WHICH TO RECOGNIZE THEM, A SET OF QUANTIFIABLE METRICS, A ...

THE MISSION OPERATIONS DIRECTED AT USAKA OFTEN INVOLVE COMPLEX TARGET CONFIGURATIONS UNDER OBSERVATION BY NUMEROUS RADARS, OPTICS SENSORS, AND TELEMETRY STATIONS. IN NON-NOMINAL MISSIONS, AND IN COMPLEX NOMINAL MISSIONS, THE REAL TIME ACTIVITIES UNFOLD RAPIDLY WHICH TAXES THE ABILITIES OF THE OPERATORS TO REACT OPTIMALLY WITH THE ATTENDANT THREAT OF DATA LOSS. THESE CONTINGENCIES ARE OFTEN NOT APP ...

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