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RECOGNIZING THAT CORROSION REDUCES PRODUCTIVITY AND EQUIPMENT AVAILABILITY AND ULTIMATELY COSTS $2-4 BILLION ANNUALLY, THE NAVY SEEKS A "PRO-ACTIVE," COMPREHENSIVE AIRCRAFT AND ENGINE PRESERVATION PROGRAM. SIGNIFICANT ADVANCES IN PRESERVATION TECHNOLOGY ARE OCCURRING - NAVY PRESERVATION TECHNIQUES NEED UPGRADING. THIS PROJECT WILL PROVIDE THE BASIS FOR A SOUND, STATE-OF-THE-ART AVIATION AND ENGINE ...

As organizations move toward increased performance measurement and accountability, there is an increasing need to measure job performance at the individual worker level. Traditional assessment tools have been criticized as measuring test taking skills more than job performance skills. A number of approaches have been developed to address this weakness by measuring performance in practical proble ...

Today's workforce requires higher skill levels than ever before. This necessitates effective training technologies. A key component of the training process is assessing trainee performance and critical learning needs. Traditional assessment tools have been criticized as measuring test taking skills more than problem solving skills. A number of approaches have been developed to address this wea ...

American health care is in the midst of momentous change. Quality improvement principles are being used increasingly to enhance productivity and efficiency of health care delivery and to help contain costs. In producing patient outcomes and resource utilization measures, it is vital to control appropriately for case mix (i.e., differences in patients due, e.g., to illness severity) in the predicti ...

The proposed SBIR program will accelerate the commercialization of multiplexed optical fiber networks and their use in both DoD and commercial systems. F&S (Fiber & Sensor Technologies, Inc.) proposes to implement all-optical low-loss switches for signal multiplexing in large networks. This new approach to multiplexing is based on the development of optically-activated in-line switches to automa ...

86 A Low Cost Acoustic Property Sensor for Measuring Natural Gas Composition in Liquid Natural Gas (LNG) Powered Vehicles--Commercial Electronics, Inc., 801 North 15th Street, Broken Arrow, OK 74012-2838; (918) 251-0925 Mr. Scott Phillips, Principal Investigator Mr. Michael A. Phillips, Business Official DOE Grant No. DE-FG03-97ER82353 Amount: $75,000 Among the various alternative fuels propos ...

50 Alternative Metal Forming Using Laser Engineered Net Shaping--Optomec Design Company, 13170 B Central Avenue SE, Suite 310, Albuquerque, NM 87123-3032; (505) 343-9139 Mr. David M. Keicher, Principal Investigator Mr. Thomas A. Swann, Business Official DOE Grant No. DE-FG03-97ER82448 Amount: $74,777 Energy intensive metal forming operations are among the most common steps in manufacturing ...

Most E-O sensors operate in the visible and the near infrared. These sensors such as silicon and CCD arrays are very well developed resulting in high resolution and low cost. However, these sensors are limited to a spectral response of 900 to 1000nm. The mixing laser (MIXL) uses a non-linear material doped with lasing ions to create a self frequency summing or difference frequency mix ...

PROPOSE TO DEVELOP A NEW METHODOLOGY BY WHICH NAVY C2 SUPPORT SYSTEMS REQUIREMENTS CAN BE PRECISELY DESCRIBED AND QUANTIFIED. THE METHOD WILL USE DATA FROM OPERATIONAL FLOW DIAGRAMS AND SIMILAR SOURCES. IT WILL DESCRIBE OPERATIONAL SEQUENCES AND DERIVATIVE INFORMATION FLOWS AND INFORMATION HANDLING ACTIVITIES. THE METHOD WILL ANALYZE THESE SEQUENCES USING NEWLY DEVELOPED TOOLS THAT WILL INCLUDE AN ...