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A suite of sensors is required to detect, analyze, track, and report position, speed, and direction of travel of watercraft in interior waterways. WaveBand's millimeter-wave sensors have demonstrated the capability to provide watercraft data whose attributes contain the position, speed, and direction of travel of these objects. The sensors are also capable of furnishing near-photographic quality ...

Mayflower's proposed Robust MINT system is fully responsive to the Army STTR program objective to develop a robust high data rate, short distance mobile wireless communications system, which would allow the transfer of 100's of Mbps in a range of 50 - 100 feet from mobile base stations to combat vehicles or dismounted soldiers. The "robust" feature of our MINT system refers to its jamming immunit ...

The techniques of linear filtering have contributed tremendously in missile guidance and modern radar technology. However, they can only serve as a first order approximation to the infinite-dimensional nonlinear filtering problem. Solutions to these problems are known in theory, and with the explosive growth of high performance computing, they have also increasingly become available in terms of ...

Surface Optics Corporation (SOC), teamed with the University of California, Irvine, proposes an exploratory study aimed at the development of an inexpensive portable optical tagging system with an intelligent retro-reflective encoded tag, dynamic modulator, and sensors needed for tracking and identification of U.S. military assets. The encoded tag can be either affixed to, or printed onto, milita ...

Triton Systems, Inc. and the University of California, Santa Barbara are developing a low-cost, hybrid composite technology which combines the high temperature corrosion resistance of ceramic matrix composite surfaces with the high strength, high thermalconductivity, machinability and weldability of a metal matrix composite. These highly integrated metal-ceramic matrix composite (MCMC¿) structu ...

During Phase I Sonalysts, Inc., Worcester Polytechnic Institute, and Advanced Interactive Simulations, collaborated to investigate the feasibility of producing a training system that, using a simulated urban environment, supplies instructional interventions (such as real-time feedback) that are pedagogically sound and contextually relevant to the Soldier engaged in first-person simulated training. ...

Automatic Target Recognition (ATR) algorithms must be able to identify the conditions under which they are operating and tune their parameters accordingly to ensure robust accuracy and low false-alarm rate. For example, the signature of a target imagedunder ideal weather conditions (overcast skies) is fundamentally different from the signature of a target imaged when raining. Therefore, a single A ...

The proton-exchange membrane fuel cell (PEMFC) has the potential to be used as a portable power source for the military. The fuel cell would derive its fuel from a reformed liquid such as diesel, methanol or gasoline that, in addition to hydrogen, wouldproduce species such as CO that could poison the fuel cell anode catalyst. To overcome the poisoning problem, the team consisting of GINER ELECTROC ...

This proposal is concerned with the development of an advanced three-dimensional simulation facility for the analysis of environments such as produced by high-velocity impact of kinetic energy penetrators under the Army STTR Program. This facility will enable the Virtual Testing and Design of Military Systems with increased survivability as demanded by the Army's Future Combat System (FCS) and Obj ...

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