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A METHOD OF ESTABLISHING THE HOLDING CAPACITY OF ROCK ANCHORS IS PROPOSED. THE TECHNIQUE INVOLVES IMPROVED ELECTRONICS TO ESTABLISH UP-HOLD SEISMIC PROFILES. THESE VELOCITIES WOULD PROVIDE A QUANTIFIABLE METHOD OF DESIGNING ANCHORAGES IN COMPLEX STRATIGRAPHIES AND FRACTURED CONDITIONS SUCH AS COMMONLY FOUND IN CABLE LOGGING OPERATIONS. THE SYSTEM, OPERABLE BY A LAY LOGGER, WOULD ALLOW UTILIZATION ...

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A REPLACEMENT BATTERY FOR THE THERMAL BATTERY CURRENTLY BEING USED IN THE MK 48 TORPEDO IS SOUGHT. THIS REPLACEMENT BATTERY SHOULD PERFORM AS A FORM, FIT, AND FUNCTION REPLACEMENT FOR THE EXISTING BATTERY BUT ALLOW MULTIPLE FIRING ATTEMPTS. FLYWHEEL ENERGY STORAGE IS A PROMISING MEANS OF IMPLEMENTING LOW MAINTENANCE, SHORT TERM ENERGY STORAGE FOR THIS TYPE OF APPLICATION. THESE FLYWHEEL SYSTEMS OF ...

RECENTLY CANONICAL VARIATE ANALYSIS (CVA) THEORY HAS BEEN SUCCESSFULLY APPLIED TO ADAPTIVE IDENTIFICATION OF MULTI-INPUT MULTI-OUTPUT (MIMO) SYSTEMS IN OPEN - AND CLOSED-LOOP CONFIGURATION. THE METHOD AUTOMATICALLY SELECTS AN OPTIMAL MODEL ORDER BASED ON AN INFORMATION THEORETIC CRITERION KNOWN AS AKAIKE INFORMATION CRITERION (AIC). UNDER THE SCOPE OF THIS PROPOSAL, A NEW FILTERING AND SMOOTHING S ...

SPIRE CORPORATION PROPOSES TO DEVELOP AN OPTICAL BAFFLE MATERIAL THAT IS METALLIC, LIGHT ABSORBING, RADIATION-HARDENED AND DURABLE. USING A SPIRE DEVELOPED PROCESS, INITIAL EXPERIMENTS HAVE DEMONSTRATED THAT A STRUCTURED BE SPUTTERED LAYER CAN BE DEPOSITED ON PROPERLY PREPARED BE SUBSTATES. THE STRUCTURE IS IN THE FORM OF LIGHT ABSORBING SPIRES WITH HIGH ASPECT RATIOS. OPTIMIZATION OF THE PROCESS ...

THE CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK, MODELS AND METHODS TO DEVELOP A PROTOTYPE DESISION SUPPORT SYSTEM TO AID IN ESTIMATING TRAINING COSTS ARE PRESENTED IN THIS PROPOSAL. THE PROTOTYPE SYSTEM WOULD DEMSONSTRATE THE FEASIBILITY OF THE APPROACH AND WOULD PROVIDE THE DETAILED INSIGHT REQUIRED TO DEVELOP A FULL SCALE SYSTEM.

THIS PROPOSAL PRESENTS AN UNUSUAL AND INNOVATIVE RESPONSE TO THE SBIR SOLICITATION N86-33 REQUIRING THE CONCEPTUAL DESIGN OF A FIBEROPTIC BASED LOCAL AREA NETWORK (LAN) FOR RADAR DISTRIBUTION. THE PROPOSAL IS TO MARRY A DRAFT NATO STANDARD DIGITIZED VIDEO FORMAT (STANAG 4217) WITH AN EVOLVING U.S. NAVY 125-MBPS FIBER-OPTIC LAN STANDARD (SAFENET II) TO PROVIDE A LOW-RISK, NATO-COMPATIBLE SOLUTION T ...

THIS PROPOSAL PROVIDES A NOVEL AND INNOVATIVE SOLUTION TO THE PROBLEM OF SHORT RANGE (UP TO 1000 YARDS) UNDERWATER COMMUNICATION UNDER VARIABLE SOUND PROPAGATION CONDITIONS. THE PROPOSED CONCEPT IS TO ADAPT THE FREQUENCY MODULATION FEEDBACK (FMFB) PRINCIPLE WHICH HAS BEEN WELL PROVEN IN MICROWAVE RADIO TRANSMISSION TO THE UNDERWATER ACOUSTIC ENVIRONMENT. AT THE TRANSMITTER, A WIDEBAND HIGH DEVIATI ...