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RECENT SPECTRAL LUMINESCENCE INVESTIGATIONS INDICATE THAT CAMOUFLAGE FABRICS AND PAINTS HAVE UNIQUE SPECTRAL SIGNATURES THAT CAN BE EXPLOITED BY A LASER-INDUCED LUMINESCENCE REMOTE SENSOR. SPEC IS PROPOSING THE DEVELOPMENT OF A LASER INDUCED FLUORESCENE (LIF) LIFETIME SENSOR CAPABLE OF DISCRIMINATING CAMOUFLAGE MATERIALS AND PAINTS IN THE PRESENCE OF BACKGROUND VEGETATION AND SOILS, THUS RENDERING ...

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Is chaos present in any significant real distributed system? We don't know. We will use our commercial grade toolkit for chaotic data analysis to see if chaos is present is some distributed systems. Our toolkit incorporates all the relevant methods for detecting and analyzing chaos. The remarkable aspect ofthese methods is that they operate directly on data. No prior knowledge or model of the syst ...

Significant savings in system life cycle costs can be realized when common Automated Test Systems (ATS) are used to meet both system production and field maintenance needs. Additional cost avoidance and quality gains are the result of transitioning the "lessons learned," and test maturity gained during manufacturing in-process and system acceptance (sell-off) testing to the maintenance environment ...

The number of mines buried throughout the world and the cost to remove them demonstrate an urgent need for field-deployable detection technologies. Current technologies being developed are large and not man-portable. Biosensors and immunoassay techniques are excellent detectors for these low vapor pressure explosive targets due to their inherent sensivity and specificity at the ppb and ppt level ...

The program objective is to develop novel designs, techniques, and structures to synthesize apertures capable of efficient operation over broad frequency ranges and functions. Conventional apertures are narrowly focused, application specific, and basically single point design. To decrease the cost of antennas, a more universal building block design is required. It would provide a significantly ...

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We propose a plan sentinel prototype consisting of three components. The first component is the development of a plan mining tool which identifies and computes false or missing assumptions and deviations to plans and time phased tasks. The second component, the annotated database, computes plans which the plan mining tool access and parses into a logical annotated rule set. Finally, MAVIS, a to ...

Proposed is an investigation into the use of flexible, extremely strong and tough, superelastic Nitinol shape memory alloy as a means of dramatically improving puncture resistance for personnel body armor. The Nitinol material is proposed as a surface material or coating for reinforcement or organic fiber fabrics and/or composites or aramid and UHMW polyethylene used in the current body armor sys ...

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