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Tactical wheeled vehicles represent a prominent portion of the Army's budget for both acquisition and operating costs. TACOM has identified suspension lubrication as a mission critical area for improvement. The goal is to lubricate a vehicle's suspension continuously for two years. This should create a cascade of cost effects in both maintainability and reliability. Single-point lubricators ba ...

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This proposal describes a novel flat-panel display using light-emitting-diodes (LEDs) as light sources. A side-lighting scheme is proposed to significantly reduce the number of LEDs from that required in a conventional LED matrix display. Channel waveguides and specially designed light switches will be used to produce spatial modulation of lights for the purpose of generating video images. This ...

The makeup and location of hostile forces can be identified for battlefield surveillance or target acquisition by deploying a network of autonomous acoustic sensors. Each sensor would listen for acoustic emissions from ground vehicle traffic. Such emissions would then be analyzed by pattern recognition algorithms to determine the presence of acoustic signatures characteristic of potentially host ...

Two small businesses, ThermoAnalytics (prime contractor) and Aerodyne Research (subcontractor) , propose to collaborate on a major integration of signature codes. Government agencies have been sponsoring independent signature code development programs for several years resulting in very specialized analysis tools. This proposed effort will directly support the integration of the PRISM/MuSES, SPI ...

Clutter metrics we important image measures for evaluating the expected perfomance of sensors and detection algorithms. Typically, clutter metrics attempt to measure the degree in which background objects resemble targets. That is, the more Target-like objects in the background the higher the clutter level. However, it is critically important that the effects that the sensor system and the oper ...

General aviation and commuter aircraft generally do not have adequate deicing equipment to operate safely in all types of icing conditions. Since icing forecasts are not yet sufficiently reliable for pilots to avoid icing conditions, an airborne system that remotely detects icing conditions ahead of the aircraft could prevent serious accidents. The National Oceanic and Atrmospheric Administratio ...

This Small Business Innovation Research Phase I project will develop a tough, strong, inexpensive and highly wear resistant ceramic composite with a "brick and mortar" microstructure. Biological materials such as nacre have high strength, high toughness and surprisingly high wear resistance even though they are composed of relatively soft materials. On the other hand, engineering ceramics achiev ...

This SBIR Phase I project will create an event representation framework and generate a catalogue of reasoning mechanisms for transforming domain specific events into a convenient representational framework. The choice of the representation scheme used to model a domain for analysis by the neural network of fuzzy logic system can make an enormous difference in the ease and efficiency of the proble ...