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Many environmental pollutants, contaminants, poisonous gases, and hazardous materials are halogen-based chemicals in which they have chlorine or its family of elements in their molecular compositions. Pollutants in this family include many common chemicals found in the defense and the civilian sectors, e.g., trichloroethylene, polychlorinated biphenyl, and chlorofluorocarbons. These chemicals are ...

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DECISION SCIENCE CONSORTIUM, INC. (DSC) PROPOSES TO ENGAGE IN AN INNOVATIVE RESEARCH PROGRAM TO DESIGN AND IMPLEMENT AN ADVERSARIAL PLANNING SYSTEM THAT IS ABLE TO REASON ABOUT THE PERSISTENCE OVER TIME OF AN ADVERSARY'S BELIEF AND INTENTIONS. SPECIFICALLY, THIS SYSTEM WILL UTILIZE EITHER A NONMONOLITHIC SITUATIONAL OR TEMPORAL LOGIC TO DETERMINE THE EXTENT TO WHICH AN ADVERSARY'S PRESENT BELIEFS ...

THE DEVELOPMENT OF NEW AND INNOVATIVE TECHNIQUES WHICH DETERMINE ELECTROMAGNETIC SCATTERING BEHAVIOR ARE NECESSARY IN ORDER TO ADVANCE THE STATE-OF-THE-ART IN RADAR CROSS SECTION (RCS) CONTROL. TWO OF THE MORE IMPORTANT ANALYTICAL PROBLEMS REQUIRING SOLUTION IN THIS AREA ARE THE CHARACTERIZATION OF RADAR SCATTERING FROM COMPOSITE MATERIALS AND OPTIMUM APPLICATION OF MATERIAL COATINGS TO METALLIC S ...

THE DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE HAS A REQUIREMENT FOR NON-CONTACT PROXIMITY FUZING WHICH IS IMMUNE TO COUNTERMEASURES AND ELECTROMAGNETIC INTERFERENCE (EMI/EMP). DIGITAL SIGNAL CORPORATION (DCS) HAS DEVELOPED AND DEMONSTRATED SUCH A FUZE WITH A UNIQUE DESIGN BASED ON A COHERENT SEMICONDUCTOR LASER. THE DEVICE USES OPTICS AND LASERDOPPLER INFORMATION TO PRECISELY DETERMINE THE RELATIVE VELOCITY AND DISTA ...

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THE OBJECTIVE OF THE PROPOSED EFFORT IS TO QUALIFY AN INNOVATIVE TECHNIQUE FOR DETECTING TANK MOUNTED GUNS USING NON-IMAGING (THERMAL) SENSORS. TWO EXPERIMENTAL STUDIES WILL BE PERFORMED TO CHARACTERIZE THE INDUCED RESPONSE OF TANK MOUNTED GUNS. THE TWO TECHNIQUES ARE QUITE DIFFERENT, ONE IS ACOUSTIC AND ONE IS ELECTROMAGNETIC, BUT THE BASIC DESIGN OF THE EXPERIMENTS IS VERY SIMILAR. A BROADBAND S ...

THE SBIR PHASE I PROJECT PROPOSED CONSISTS OF THE TESTING OF THE CLASSIFICATION PERFORMANCE OF SEVERAL RELATED MACHINE LEARNING METHODS TO SEISMIC DISCRIMINATION. SEVERAL OTHER APPLICATIONS OF THESE METHODS ARE ALSO SUGGESTED. IN THE APPLICATION TO DISCRIMINATION, THE FOLLOWING DATA SETS WILL BE USED: REGIONAL ARRAY DATA FOR EARTHQUAKES AND QUARRY BLASTS IN THE SCANDINAVIAN REGIONS, IRIS DATA RECO ...

Project will demonstrate the feasibility of combining signatures from multiple sensor domains to the problem of detecting, localizing and characterizing an underground facility. The Phase I effort will focus on establishing, integrating, and validating models for the source and propagation phenomenologies associated with electromagnetic, seismic, and acoustic signatures of mechanical and electro ...