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We propose to develop a simulation system that integrates CAD/CAM/CAT tools into a Virtual Manufacturing Environment, and to demonstrate the proof of concept. The proposed system will be based on the demonstrated functionality of Multi-dimensional, user-oriented Synthetic Environment, UuSE (pronounced "muse'). Developed at Sandia National Laboratories by UuSE Technologies, Inc. (principals a ...

Recycling shipboard plastic wastes that are commingled, contaminated , and densified by the Navy Plastic Processor will be very challenging. Our Phase I work will first characterize the Navy's plastic waste by resin and contam- ination types and quantities. We then conclude our ongoing industry and university review of all potential technologies capable of recycling plastic wastes. We then f ...

This proposal seeks to enhance a pre-existing simulation environment for artificial neural networks (ANNs) with a set of extensions that will incorporate neural models derived from biology. It is commonly accepted that biological information pro Our present software package implements simulations in a time-space lattice, which is required for dynamical system simulations. The goal of Phase I is t ...

Scientific innovations are commercially worthless until they are matched by corresponding manufacturing innovations. This dilemma characterizes the current status of nanometer metal powder technology. On one hand, years of scientific research have unambiguously demonstrated the utility of nanoscale metal materials for a myriad of high technology applications; on the other hand, current manu ...

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The next generation Navy radar systems will require shared active phased array antennas (PAA). PAAs offer many advantages including steering without physical movement, accurate beam pointing, increased scan exiility in two dimensions, precise PAA element phase and amp etude control to obtain low sidelobes, and reduced power consumption and weight. The complexity associated with controlling the m ...

Low observable targets, such as sea skimming and terrain skimming missiles are presently hard to detect on an air based platform. Filter wheel technology causes significant problems in real time processing of the spectral information because of issues such as pixel miss alignment. This problem results in large periods of time being spent post processing the image to align pixels so that useful im ...

Present shipboard requirements for electronic support (ES) systems must combine the ability to provide a high degree of threat detectability (good sensitivity), with the ability to correlate the increased level of AOA and spectral information, and produce specific emitter identification (SEI) of various signal sources operating within the complex EM environment aboard ship. These capabilities ...

In order to fully realize the processing gain of many modern radar systems employing coherent processing of phase coded transmissions, the received waveform and the reference waveform processed in the receiver correlator must be identical. Unfortunately, phase distortions in the transmitted waveform introduced in both the IF upconversion stages and final TWT amplifier stage often seriously deg ...

This study develops the method for constructing an interactive on-board, artificially intelligent training system for pilot and crew tasks that is portable, robust, high-fidelity, and constructed of reuseable components. Advances in computer hardware, software, and mathematical techniques shall be integrated to provide a single low weight, low cost interactive embedded tactical training system off ...