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Diesel engines are attractive for military use because of good fuel economy and ability to use JP8-type fuels. However naturally-aspirated (n.a.) diesel engines have low power density, and small diesel engines are not amenable to turbo-charging. To overcome this disadvantage for weight-sensitive applications such as portable generators (gensets), the use of a novel supercharger is proposed. In ...

The goal is to develop and demonstrate a physics-based, artificial intelligence (AI) empowered modeling and optimization software tool for the Air Logistics Complexes (ALCs) and U.S. Air Force (USAF) suppliers to successfully machine additively manufactured non-flight critical metal parts. Post-process machining is required to create precision features and mating surfaces, but the machining proces ...

Hyperspectral imaging arrays offer far more data and the ability to discriminate objects being observed. Continued difficulties with applying HgCdTe materials, especially for LWIR, present an opportunity for the development of alternate materials. One such candidate for MWIR/LWIR photodetectors are InAsSb alloys and short period Type-II superlattices based on InAs/GaInSb. This superlattice struc ...

Modern airframes require thousands of drilled holes in difficult materials such as graphite-epoxy composites, titanium, or layered metal-composite assemblies. Drill life and hole quality are often limited when drilling composites due to heat buildup. Drilling composite/metallic stackups often requires costly interlayer deburring due to rapid drill wear. Trial-and-error approaches to improving dr ...

Gradient Technology in conjunction with Professor M. Hillmyer of the Department of Chemistry at the University of Minnesota proposed to develop advanced technology to recover and convert the explosive and urethane binder found in plastic bonded explosives. This technology provides a unique reclamation, recovery, and reuse opportunity for dramatically reducing the disposal cost of technology munit ...

An advance ultra-high vacuum (UHV) deposition system will be designed for fabrication of group IV photoemissive materials for high performance long wavelength infrared (8-12 um) focal plane applications. Device candidates including silicides, and silicon germanium superlattices and quantum wells, will be considered from the material growth perspective. Various steps of the fabrication process wi ...

Routine Air Force operations generate particulate emissions at bases around the country. Many bases are located in air quality non-attainment zones, and at these locations all air emissions are coming under increasing scrutiny. The current method to test particle mass emission from aircraft turbine engines (EPA Method 5) is not ideal, because it requires long run times and concomitant high jet f ...

REAGENTS AND REACTION PROCEDURES WILL BE DEVELOPED DURING PHASE I FOR THE COUPLING OF ANTIBODY MOLECULES TO THE ACTIVATED SURFACE OF MICROCHIP CAPACITANCE SENSORS. PROPRIETARY PHOTOAFFINITY REAGENTS WILL BE SYNTHESIZED AND COUPLED TO THE ELECTRODE SURFACE FOR SPECIFIC COVALENT BINDING OF MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY (USING ONE OF THE TWO ANTIBODY BINDING SITES). THIS WILL LEAVE THE REMAINING STABILIZED ANT ...

"Military software systems are vulnerable to Information Warfare attacks. If an enemy can gain knowledge of the software, then the software and the systems it runs on can be attacked, either directly or indirectly. One method the enemy may employ isreverse engineering, attempting to recover the program's source code from the binary executable file. Software obfuscation is a defensive informatio ...

Architecture Technology Corp. (ATC) proposes a reverse-engineering toolset named AfterShock. This toolset will use dynamic analysis and will build one work done for ATC's static reverse-engineering tool, Earthquake. AfterShock will use Valgrind, an open-source dynamic code modifying tool, to gather data from execution traces of the target program. AfterShock will then analyze and convert thos ...