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Cognitive engineering when integrally practiced with systems engineering, enriches both the human and the equipment sides of interfaces to improve situational awareness, speed information to the warfighter, and enabling more rapid decision-making. The design of highly effective human-equipment interfaces requires specification of the information required by operators as well as the equipment's co ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): In the United States, more than 250,000 persons annually experience out-of-hospital sudden cardiac death (SCD). However, few, approximately 4%, are revived with standard CPR and advanced life support interventions and survive to be discharged from the hospital. Successful restoration of cardiac function after SCD is dependent on early electrical defibrillati ...

The quality and quantity of information directly available to command authorities is becoming a dominant factor in modern force projection. The demand for information in the form of digital imagery and real time video has exposed the severe bandwidth limitations of current data link resources. This demand is due to the recognition that “tip of the spear,” front line data is increasingly impo ...

The IMLD program addresses the lack of an affordable missile launch detection system. The IMLD will provide the host aircraft with protection against the MANPADS threat by providing missile detection with high probabilities of declaration and a low false alarm rate. The IMLD technology is based on fusing an innovative motion detection algorithm called Passive Moving target Detection (PMTD) with ...

The F-22 Data Compression program addresses the problem of the insufficient imagery storage capacity of the F-22. This impacts the ability of the aircraft to deploy munitions or transfer imagery for tactical planning. The imagery capacity of the targeting system is significantly smaller than the area of operations thus restricting the ability to attack targets. For reconnaissance operations, du ...

The MMCAS program leverages off of extensive Government investment in research to provide autonomous UAV operations in the NAS. The focus of the program is to develop a prototype situation awareness system (MMCAS) for installation on UAVs that integrates the situation awareness information provided by TCAS with detection and tracking information on non-cooperative intruders to avoid a mid-air col ...

Current/next generation aircraft will utilize capabilities-based system of systems (SoS) concepts to enhance combat operations. SoS concepts involve seamless connectivity of external (to a combat aircraft) Command, Control, Communications, Computers, Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (C4ISR) assets, and internal situational awareness/threat warning systems in joint battlespace environ ...

Video sensors play an increasingly important role in surveillance and reconnaissance missions, including tactical, strategic and domestic border security. One recent example involved video from a Predator Skyball being sent via data link to an AC-130 Gunship crew for real time targeting use. The data went through D/A conversion, transmission and A/D conversion, which caused significant informati ...

In modernizing its rotorcraft fleet, the US Army has identified the need to increase the horsepower of existing rotorcraft transmissions without sacrificing component life, and also the need for new transmission designs with higher power density capacity and improved durability. The concept of improving durability without enlarging the current transmission envelop or imposing changes that would r ...