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With the advent of satellite telephone services, it is now feasible to provide secure voice communication to any location on Earth. In a Phase I SBIR for AFRL, Black & Ryan Engineering (BRE) developed VAWCS (Voice Authenticated Wireless CommunicationSystem), a computer model of a Communications Waveform, combining Voice Authentication, Speech Compression, Encryption, and Forward Error Correction ...

With the advent of satellite telephone services, it is now feasible to provide secure voice communication to any location on Earth. In a Phase I SBIR for AFRL, Black & Ryan Engineering (BRE) developed VAWCS (Voice Authenticated Wireless CommunicationSystem), a computer model of a Communications Waveform, combining Voice Authentication, Speech Compression, Encryption, and Forward Error Correction ...

We propose to define a universal graphics interchange format which extends existing Extensible Markup Language (XML) graphics languages such as SVG and XGL so as to enable portability among display formats for the test and evaluation (T&E) of aircraft andspace systems, to design a unified framework for interoperability which specifies mappings between formats as multi-stage XML StyleSheet Transfor ...

SiC materials offer excellent characteristics for high energy lasers applications. However, both monolithic and RBSI materials suffer from brittleness. This proposal builds on the concept of ultra lightweight C-C (SiC) composite structure, which yieldvery high thermal conductivity and modulus. Subsequently, chemical vapor reaction (CVR) process will be employed to render optical quality SiC su ...

Research and development is proposed of a miniature low capacity cooler capable of reliable achieving and sustaining cryogenic temperatures for very long periods without maintenance and providing low capacity refrigeration to cryogenic sensors and coldelectronic systems. The cooler has no moving parts of any kind and very long life (10 - 20 years) is anticipated. The unit operates without noise ...

The objective of this proposal is to demonstrate a new means to interconnect high-density electronic circuits and systems using discrete insulated wire. This insulated wire can interconnect high-density electronic devices with impedance-controlledconnections. These methods form the component receptacle from part of the interconnect wiring, where the signal and signal complement (or return) are hom ...

In response to possible biological warfare (BW) attack, accurate sample acquisition and rapid detection of point microbial contamination on military equipment, housing and supplies is required for personnel safety and early response strategies. A novelhand-held, wet-vacuum sampling unit (VSU) is proposed, which will allow application of sterile rinse solutions onto diverse material surfaces or te ...

A wing-store unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) is presented deployed from widely fielded existing weapons launchers. Computational simulation and modeling of the UAV as it is launched from a helicopter in hover, forward and sideward (crosswind condition)flight is considered. Comparison of simulation with data from a company 100% scale model test flown previously demonstrates accurate results of simu ...

During Phase I, feasibility was demonstrated for a prototype wing-store unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) to be deployed from a widely fielded weapons launcher system. The proposed Phase II effort integrates a number of candidate electro-optical sensorpayloads to fly and demonstrate their efficacy in terms of system performance and utility for route and battlespace reconnaissance and battle damage as ...

The Phase I objective of this R&D project is to confirm the feasibility of developinga solid state relay (SSR) to replace the problematic electromechanical relays in theautomatic bus transfer (ABT) control circuitry of the in-plant load centers onboardCVN 68 class ships. The feasible design will closely match N-130 performancecharacteristics and have substantially increased reliability, low maint ...