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THE U.S. ARMY RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT COMMAND IS DEVELOPING A WATER TREATMENT SYSTEMM FOR THE PREPARATION OF U.S. PHARMACOPEIA (STERILE, PYROGEN-FREE) WATER FOR INJECTION FROM POTABLE WATER SOURCES IN A FIELD SETTING. ONE IMPORTANT COMPONENT OF THE SYSTEM IS AN ION EXCHANGE UNIT TO POLISH WATER TREATED BY REVERSE OSMOSIS. CONVENTIONAL ION EXCHANGE UNITS HAVE GEOMETRIC CONSTRAINTS THAT DO NOT MAKE ...

THE PROPOSED WORK WILL INVOLVE EVALUATION OF ORDERED POLYMER FILM AND FILM LAMINATE COMPOSITES FOR APPLICATIONS SUCH AS ROCKET MOTOR CASES, PRESSURE VESSELS AND OTHER CYLINDRICAL COMPONENTS. THE OBJECTIVE OF THEPROGRAM IS TO MAKE HIGH QUALITY FILM LAMINATES USING FABRICATION PROCESSES THAT ARE AMENABLE TO SCALE-UP. TEST SAMPLES WILL BE MADE, TESTED AND COMPARED WITH OTHER HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPOSIT ...

COMPLEX MONOLITHIC INTEGRATED CIRCUITS ARE INCREASINGLY LIMITED BY THE NEEDS OF DEVICE INTERCONNECTIONS. EXISTING MATERIALS TAKE UP VALUABLE REAL ESTATE ON THE DIE, LIMIT CURRENT, AND ARE SUBJECT TO PARASITIC CAPACITANCES. THE USE OF MULTILEVEL AND 3D STRUCTURES HAS BEEN SUGGETED IN ORDER TO AVOID SOME OF THESE PROBLEMS. FORMATION OF CONDUCTORS BY ION IMPLANTATION SHOWS PROMISE FOR PROVIDING SUCH ...

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CONFIRMING THE ACCURAY OF LIFE-PROTECTING INDUSTRIAL HYGIENE TEST EQUIPMENT OR SIMULATING MILITARY ENVIRONMENTS OFTEN REQUIRES SOPHISTICATED AND CUMBERSOME TEST CHAMBERS DEPENDENT ON COMPLICATED CALCULATIONS. THE CALIBRATION OF SUCH TEST EQUIPMENT MAY BE EASILY COMPROMISED BY OPERATOR ERROR WHERE INVOLVED CALCULATIONS ARE USED AND COMPLICATED INTERCONNECTIONS AND VALVES ARE EMPLOYED. WE PROPOSE TO ...

OPTICAL SIGNAL PROCESSING IS COMMONLY IDENTIFIED AS ONE OF THE MAJOR TECHNOLOGIES THAT MUST BE EXPLOITED IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF SUPER HIGH BANDWIDTH PROCESSORS. THE NEED FOR INCREASED PROCESSING POWER IN SMALL AND ROBUST PACKAGES IS ESPECIALLY ACUTE FOR THE NEXT GENERATION OF ASAT WEAPONS SYSTEMS, BUT DEVELOPMENT OF VIABLE OPTICAL COMPUTING DEVICES HAS BEEN SLOW. THE MOST BASIC AND CRITICAL OPTICAL ...

WE PROPOSE TO DEVELOP A NEW INFRARED TARGET SIMULATION SYSTEM BASED ON AN ELECTRON-BEAM-ADDRESED MEMBRANE LIGHT VALVE. THIS NEW DEVICE DIRECTLY INTERFACES WITH A COMPUTER AND IS EXPECTED TO OFFER SIMULATED SCENES WITH LARGE DYNAMIC RANGE RATIO, HIGH CONTRAST, HIGH RESOLUTION, LARGE NUMBERS OF STATIC AND FAST-MOVING TARGETS, AND REAL-TIME OPERATION. THIS DEVICE OVERCOME THE LOW RESOLUTION, SLOW FRA ...

THE USE OF LASER SYSTEMS FOR OPTICAL COMMUNICATION IS EXPECTED TO BE WIDELY IMPLEMENTED IN THE FUTURE. THIS PROPOSAL ADDRESSED THE CRITICAL TECHNOLOGICAL ISSUES OF WAVEFRONT CORRECTING A LASER BEAM FOR SATELLITE OPTICAL COMMUNICATION UNDER A DYNAMIC OPERATING ENVIRONMENT AND STRINGENT MISSION REQUIREMENTS. OPTRON SYSTEMS PROPOSES TO DEVELOP AN OPTICALLY ADDRESSED 2-D PHASE MODULATOR BASED ON DEFOR ...

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