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Many businesses and governmental agencies seek to deter alcohol impairment on the job and, in this connection, feel a need to detect impaired performance due to alcohol or other toxic substances directly, rather than by inference from blood and urine assays. The proposed effort addresses this need. Industry requirements for a performance test of alcohol- induced impairment are that the test be j ...

A novel tertiary recycling process is proposed for investigation as an economical means for recycling shipboard plastic waste. Early development work has shown that this process can convert a wide variety of polymers and composites into low molecular weight hydrocarbons at temperatures below 200'C. The hydrocarbons produced can then be reused as chemicals, fuels, or monomers. Metal, glass, and fil ...

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The objective of this proposed effort is to research innovative methods for facilitating COTS technology infusion into embedded computer systems with a focus on affordability and ease of transition. Many of today's systems have become dead-ended due to architecture and hardware evolutions. As the technology curve has steepened, system components become dated in an ever-decreasing period of t ...

The Cesium vapor magnotometer and ground-penetrating radar senors currently used to identify subsurface Unexploded Ordnance locations also respond to underground clutter and anomalies. The ultimate objective of this project is to develop a classifier or discriminator that has the potential of providing significantly improved performance on target discrimination for subsurface ordnance ...

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This SBIR will explore and develop new automated methods for dynamic fault tolerance in defense electronic systems. The research will investigate using the software of digital signal processor operating systems to pro-actively map defective operations to remaining processors. In the past, fault tolerance has relied on passive redundancy to extend operating life. With software, a simple re-start ...

A technical approach to exploiting a specific type of non-traditional signal is proposed. This method is highly motivated by the signal properties of a class of signals known as C2 signals. A front to back detection and classification processing chain is discussed which exploits four properties of the signals. These are 1) signal periodicity, 2) the time-frequency nature of each pulse, 3) ...

Amer Ind, Inc. proposes to fulfill the requirements of DARPA SB962-058, Synchronous Collaboration Glueware, Tools, and Metrics, with a comprehensive approach that focuses on the implementation of synchronous editing of documents with embedded objects, including multimedia objects by: transparently integrating a file format converter with a server-based document repository; using one of those forma ...