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The proposed Skyward passive dry bay fire extinguishing system is based upon years of experience in research and development and test and evaluation in the passive fire protection area.  The proposed system is completely passive, without power requirements or sensors/detectors.  It offers a lightweight solution, at low cost, and without maintenance requirements under normal aircraft operation. � ...

The Global Positioning System (GPS) has become essential to U.S. national security and a key tool in military operations at home and abroad. As the military dependence GPS technology increases, the success of the mission can be tied to the soldier’s ability to navigate in GPS degraded or denied areas. Direct acquisition of GPS P(Y) code is desirable to military users as it has a higher toleran ...

merging Cognitive Radio (CR) technologies are allowing the development of radios that can “observe,” “orient,” “plan,” “decide,” “learn,” and “act” to adapt the performance of a Software Defined Radio in response to stimuli in the external environment. By applying these CR technologies to enhancing Position, Navigation and Timing (PNT) performance, a cognitive GPS UE can b ...

Current generation military GPS User Equipment use significantly more power than a commercial GPS unit. There is a desire to develop operational techniques and lower power devices to increase operational use of hand-held military GPS devices. A lower power alternative to continuously running a SAASM receiver is to use a hybrid solution where the SAASM is only periodically turned on and used to u ...

IT IS PROPOSED THAT MINIATURIZED GPS TRANSLATORS BE DEVELOPED TO MEET LOW VOLUME, WEIGHT AND POWER CONSUMPTION REQUIREMENTS FOR INSTRUMENTATION ON BOARD SDI TESTS SUCH AS THE SPACE-BASED INTERCEPTOR (SBI). THE PROPOSED TRANSLATOR WOULD REBROADCAST THE GPS SATELLITE SIGNALS FROM SBI PROJECTILES TO A MASTER GPS RECEIVER AT THE SBI PLATFORM WHERE THE LOCATIONS OF THE INTERCEPTORS ARE COMPUTED. SINCE ...

GPS TRANSLATORS ARE PRESENTLY USED BY BOTH THE TRIDENT AN ERIS TEST PROGRAMS TO PROVIDE REAL-TIME TSPI DATA FOR MISSILE GUIDANCE AND RANGE SAFETY. ONE PRESENT LIMITATION IS THE SITE AND COST OF THE TRANSLATOR PROCESSING SYSTEM (TPS) WHICH CONSTRAINS IT TO A FEW GROUND-BASED IN ALLATIONS. THIS LIMITS THE RANGE OF OPERATION OF THE TRANSLATOR BASED TRACKING SYSTEM AND ALSO THE NUMBER OF PARTICICPANTS ...

A VARIETY OF SENSORS WILL BE INVESTIGATED FOR DAMPING INERTIAL NAVIGATION SYSTEMS THROUGHOUT LONG DURATION MISSIONS. TO PROVIDE MAXIMUM FLEXIBILITY, A KALMAN FILTER DAMPING ALGORITHM WILL BE DEVELOPED SUITABLE FOR ACCURATELY ESTIMATING AND PROPAGATING THE INS ERRORS OVER LONG PERIODS OF TIME. THIS FILTER SHALL BE DESIGNED TO ACCEPT INPUTS FROM A VARIETY OF SENSORS AND SHALL BE CAPABLE OF MODELING ...

THIS PROPOSAL DESCRIBES AN INNOVATIVE FILTERING TECHNIQUE THAT CAN BE USED TO DETECT AND REJECT OUT-OF-TOLERANCE MEASUREMENTS FROM A DIFFERENTIAL GPS NAVIGATION SOLUTION. THE TECHNIQUE CAN BE APPLIED FOR BOTH MOBILE AND STATIC APPLICATIONS AND COULD BE INTEGRATED INTO SHIPBOARD OR REFERENCE STATION GPS RECEIVERS. USING THE FILTER DESIGN PROPOSED, ERRORS CAUSED BY MULTIPATH, SATELLITE, RECEIVER ORR ...

EXISTING RANGES ARE FACED WITH THE REQUIREMENT TO TEST WEAPONS OF INCRESED COMPLEXITY, RANGE, AND FIREPOWER. PRESENT RANGES ARE INCREASING AFFECTED BY COMMERICAL AND RECREATIONAL ACTIVITIES. THE SOLUTION IS THE WORLD RANGE CONCEPT OF USING THE LARGE OCEAN AREAS FOR TEST AND TRAINING OPERATIONS. TODAY-S SHORE BASED RANGE FACILITIES AND LABORATORIES CONSTITUTE A SIGNIFICANT INVESTMENT. THE GOAL OF W ...

AN INNOVATIVE NEW RECEIVER ARCHITECTURE IS DESCRIBED IN THIS PROPOSAL FOR AN ADVANCED GPS RECEIVER DESIGN SUITABLE FOR SPACE APPLICATIONS. THE DESIGN ALLOWS FOR A SINGLE RECEIVER ARCHITECTURE TO BE EASILY ADAPTED FOR A VARIETY OF APPLICATIONS. THE AGR DESIGN PROPOSED INCLUDES THE CAPABILITY FOR HIGH-PRECISION SPACECRAFT NAVIGATION, TRACKING, ATTITUDE DETERMINATION, AND CAN BE EASILY ADAPTED TO IMP ...