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A small, battery-operated data recorder/analyzer utilizing internal sensors is needed to collect data to improve the design of the ejection seat and restraint mechanisms to reduce injuries and deaths during ejections. SPEC proposes to leverage our existing recorder, multiplexing and telemetry experience to develop a completely autonomous, high G, miniature Ejection Data Acquisition and Recorder M ...

Short duration pulsed radar and ladar technology offers many advantages in missile fuzing applicaitons. In order to make this technology feasible, miniature wide bandwidth transmit/receive switches, transmitter/receiver isolation or limiting techniques, high speed analog-to-digital converters, and signal processing techniques must be developed. Radar pulses are approaching minimum pulse widths o ...

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TMSSequoia proposes to develop a software system to allow conversion of paper-based legacy engineering drawings, technical manuals and reports, to a digital format. This process will include automatic extraction of data from the scanned images that is input into a Configuration Management Information System (CMIS) for storage, query and retrieval. TMSSequoia will then identify current software t ...

To field characterize laser systems the laser power, beam divergence, intensity profile and spot size of the laser must be measured with a robust, vibration insensitive system. While some of these parameters can be obtained using conventional components, beam divergence is difficult to measure because of the complexity and vibration sensitivity of typical interferometry based elements. We propos ...

ZC&H Dynamic Systems, Inc. proposes the development of algorithms for real-time kinematic GPS-based guidance of tactical munitions. These algorithms rest on the wide-lane approach and the continuous carrier smoothing approach developed by Mr. Ron Hatch will act as principal scientist on this project. Both of these methods are feasible even when there is no direct link from a differential base st ...

Conversion of legacy drawings to usable product models is an important requirement for all the services. This is especially true of USAF which is trying to keep operational several time-tested airplanes. The DoD Automated Data Conversion System (ADCS) project addresses this issue. A key objective of this project has been the conversion of vectorized CAD drawings to feature based CAD models so t ...

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Functionally smart materials, which have to ability to perform both sensing and actuating operations, are being developed to perform many aircraft type of control events. Smart materials, fabricated suing "continuous ferroelectric fibers," are being consider for full flight control of subsonic missiles, as the servoactuator system, specifically, and for active aerodynamic surface cont ...