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Detecting electromagnetic (EM) signals generated by electrical and electronic processes and equipment in the presence of large amounts of clutter and unknown obstacles or infrastructure along the channel presents a unique set of challenges, with the most critical being: Lack of signal design, Unknown channel conditions, and Potential active attempts to hide or obfuscate the signals. Recently, ther ...

Project Summary/Abstract: For reservoir development and management in the highly flow- restrictive shales of today’s unconventional reservoirs, the oil and gas industry needs to quantify oil flow characteristics. With production, reservoirs characteristics change while the data from flow tests of cores captured during drilling give very imprecise and inaccurate data only about initial reservoir ...

In a catastrophic event, much of the electrical infrastructure can be damaged, even destroyed. The US Power Grid is a critical infrastructure and a catastrophic failure would result in huge humanitarian and economic loss. In addition, a widespread power outage would affect the readiness and response capabilities of various security agencies including Department of Homeland Security (DHS), Local P ...

Corrosion induced degradation of material components in the harsh environment of light water reactor can impact reactor reliability, availability, safe operation and eventually life. A possible remedy could be to replace the replaceable components at appropriate moments which may not be economically favorable. Thus there is a need to develop technologies to repair degraded materials. STATEMENT OF ...

A novel pressurized gasfilled multiRFcavity beam profile monitor has been studied that is simple and robust in highradiation environments. Charged particles passing through each RFcavity in the monitor produce intensitydependent ionized plasma, which changes the gas permittivity. Standard RF techniques to measure the change in quality factor (Q) and frequency (f) as a function of time are then use ...

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An important objective of the NEAMS program is to enable widespread use of the software tools among the industry, academia, and regulatory communities. For solving the problems occurring at various stages of NEAMS simulations, typically there are several possible choices for numerical subroutines. Furthermore, the best method for a numerical problem may also evolve over the course of the simulatio ...

The S-351 mini-sub is a prototype of the Dry Combat Submersible (DCS). This prototype was established as a means of risk reduction prior to a full commitment to the DCS program. Both of these platforms have an operational need to transit with minimum operator fatigue safely to a pre-defined point and covertly deploy and retrieve SEALS. To meet these operational needs, these platforms require upgra ...

Hyper Tech is developing a long-length superconducting NbTi CIC cable that can improve the performance/cost for a new DOE colliders plus energy and medical applications like MRI and SMES.

The novel high energy, high average power, diode-pumped solid state lasers to be developed by this program will enable the realization of a new generation of high average power table-top x-ray laser sources with applications in ultrafast metrology of materials, studies of molecular structure and catalysis, ultra-high resolution microscopy, and other nanotechnology applications.