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A great opportunity exists to leverage the DIS/HLA simulation environment and the HLA Federation Development Process in order to improve training and system acquisition for Intelligence and Electronic Warfare (IEW) systems. What is needed, and is proposedhere, is a more effective method to develop and represent complex scenarios encompassing realistic communications systems, complex communication ...

The large area of the human skin and its exposed position on the body surface make it an important portal of entry for toxic agents. Pesticides are able to penetrate the skin and reach the systemic blood and other tissue. Pericor Science has developed atechnology by means of which a pesticide-degrading enzyme can be coupled to the cornified layer of the human epidermis by covalent bonds introduced ...

Proper protective clothing offers the potential of significant reduction of battlefield casualties due to flame/thermal hazards. However, current procedures for testing the flame/thermal protective performance of military clothing fabric samples areunsatisfactory for routine automated evaluations. These test methods are either highly simplified without evaluation of skin burn injuries or too com ...

Physical Sciences Inc. (PSI) proposes to develop biodegradable obscurants operating over the infrared wavelength range using variants of an electroactive polymer. High aspect ratio fibers and flakes of the polymeric material in the size range necessary toprovide full coverage of the infrared spectrum will be produced through electrospinning and electrospraying. The degradation of the polymer wil ...

TACOM currently has a Cave Automated Visual Envirionment (CAVE) device that it uses for product design reviews and evalutions of ground vehicle systems in a collaborative immersive setting. The goal of this SBIR project is to integrate a six degree offreedom motion base into TACOM's CAVE environment. As part of this Phase II effort, several research issues must be addressed. First a scene compe ...

Construction of a state-of-the-art hybrid vehicle propulsion motor drive including dynamometer and instrumentation for performance measurement is in progress for Phase I. Baseline performance using a silicon semiconductor based inverter and high-speedinduction motor will be established. Phase I will conclude with the preliminary design of a silicon-carbide semiconductor based inverter to be used ...

The Phase II will continue development of a continuously variable transmission (CVT) that utilizes magnetorheological (MR) fluids. The Phase I program investigated several CVT concepts and defined a design and control approach for a 50 hp CVT that fitswithin the space available (10-inch dia x 3-inch long) in a wheel. The Phase I will conclude with test of a small-scale MR fluid transmission now un ...

"This SBIR effort will develop an integrated information classification anddocument management system, applicable to complex weapons systems software.Currently, software engineers at Army's Tank-automotive & Armaments Commandrely on Software Trouble Reports (STRs) that contain unstructured text describing operational problems filed by soldiers fortroubleshooting of computer-controlled weapons syst ...

The Phase I effort, through analysis and continuing simulation, proved the feasibility of improving the accuracy of locating an emitter with an unknown waveform by a method that uses more of the information in the received signals than previous methods.The approach generalizes AOA and TDOA, normally used in triangulation methods, and combines them into an algorithm estimating location directly. W ...

"The proposed Phase II SBIR program is aimed at developing a low-cost method for incorporation of lasers, amplifiers, waveguides, modulators, phase shifters and splitters on a single chip for use in microwave phased array antenna control and related RFsignal processing functions. Specific semiconductor device designs require different material properties, which normally precludes such monolithic ...