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The new aerospace materials are finding applications in the design of military armor vehicles. However, the effect on ride quality, fire control, and internal structural loads due to the increased flexibility of these new vehicles must be ascertained by dynamic analysis. The size of models required to simulate these flexible body effect can be prohibitive from both cost and time perspective. There ...

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Reliability and lifetime performance data for environemntal control systems (ECS) is limited. Real-time tests require 5-15 years, and results often apply only to obsolete technology. Accelerated life testing (ALT) is a means by which reliability data may be obtained quickly and at a reasonable cost. A primary difficulty with ALT of ECS units is that typical service conditions impose multiple stres ...

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Due to the increasing use of technology to plan and implement modern day combat, it is imperative that troop and vehicles deployment and position be known as precisely as possible. Furthermore, the unit commander must be able to quickly plan, transmit, and display friendly and adversarial troop and vehicle locations to coordinate battlefield operations effectively in the heat of battle. In this ef ...

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Standard Digital CMOS silicon circuits will have high quality Thin Film emitters, and modulators integrated on to the silicon using epitaxial liftoff and results in low cost opto-electronics in the near future. ABJ Integration is a leader in the field and proposes to design an optimized FPA readout system using this technology. Both emitters and modulators as signal sources will be investigated.

This proposal is focused at testing a new family of intermetallic materials for superior wear resistance in automotive applications due to the self-lubricating potential of the base material at a significant reduction in operating cost and capital investment. The proposed materials are produced by a new technique resulting in uniquely superior properties. Due to the ultrafine microstructure resu ...

Future battlefields will require independent operations and increased operational tempo, placing severe burdens on weapons platform crewmembers in the areas of information flow management, data fusion, and assessment of data to arrive at the most tactically acceptable decisions. Work continues in the development of decision aids to assist direct/indirect fire weapon platform commanders in accompl ...