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70075T02-II Significant fuel cost savings can be realized in the automotive and aerospace industries by employing lightweight materials in the design and fabrication of vehicular components. To date, the exploitation of lightweight magnesium and aluminum alloys in component fabrication has been restricted due to their limited formability at room temperatures in conventional metal stamping proc ...

70075T02-II Significant fuel cost savings can be realized in the automotive and aerospace industries by employing lightweight materials in the design and fabrication of vehicular components. To date, the exploitation of lightweight magnesium and aluminum alloys in component fabrication has been restricted due to their limited formability at room temperatures in conventional metal stamping proc ...

The need for a ship-launched tactical reconnaissance mini UAV is presented, to support fleet/force protection and perimeter defense goals. A cohort of such vehicles could gather situational awareness data to provide early detection and indication ofassymetric threats on a round-the-clock basis. A low-observable, highly survivable platform design is presented. Aero, propulsion, structures, nav/comm ...

NON-TECHNICAL SUMMARY: As crop growers begin to use GPS technology to manage the variability in their fields, they are seeking ways to assess the variability of physical and chemical properties more accurately and cost-effectively. In the most common approach, soil samples are acquired on a 2.5 acre grid pattern. Soil properties often have greater spatial variability than is identified with this a ...

NON-TECHNICAL SUMMARY: As crop growers begin to use GPS technology to manage the variability in their fields, they are seeking ways to assess the variability of physical and chemical properties more accurately and cost-effectively. In the most common approach, soil samples are acquired on a 2.5 acre grid pattern. Soil properties often have greater spatial variability than is identified with this a ...

This research will make significant progress in developing energy-based acoustic sensors and measurement techniques which will provide new insights into acoustic fields. In Phase I, a robust, three-dimensional, energy-based sensor will be developed and commercialized. It will be implemented on an efficient digital platform for acquiring and transmitting data. Energy-based measurement techniques an ...

70437S02-II Increasing the power density of solid oxide fuel cells (SOFC) can substantially reduce the costs of SOFC technology by decreasing the stack size, which in turn decreases the amount of materials necessary, reduces the size of the balance of plant, and decreases the size and amount of requisite stack hardware and insulation. Likewise, lowering the operating temperature of SOFC lowers ...

70437S02-II Increasing the power density of solid oxide fuel cells (SOFC) can substantially reduce the costs of SOFC technology by decreasing the stack size, which in turn decreases the amount of materials necessary, reduces the size of the balance of plant, and decreases the size and amount of requisite stack hardware and insulation. Likewise, lowering the operating temperature of SOFC lowers ...

Military and civilian medicine currently lack a capability to develop and deploy realistic, mission-oriented training to personnel. Non-physician medical personnel are at increased risk of unpreparedness due to abbreviated training for similarmission-oriented responsibilities as physicians. In this Phase I effort MDInformatics (MDI) proposes to design a Disaster Medicine Core Curriculum (DMCC), ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Medical Physics is engaged in the development of noninvasive methods of extracting hemodynamic data, normally only accessible by use of highly invasive right heart catheterizations. The methods employ inert gases, in tracer concentrations, applied at the airway and measured at the nose by a gas analyzer specifically developed for this purpose. Recently, we h ...