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Project will develop an inexpensive vehicle identification system capable of identifying vehicles at speeds from 0 to 85 miles per hour using a conventional inductive loop or an overhead reader. System will have the following characteristics: 1) compatible with existing vehicle detector inductive loops already installed at many facilities minimizing implementation costs, 2) utilize low frequency ...

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The project goal is to produce an algorithm for synthesizing auditory distance which will be accurately perceived with little or no learning required. The algorithm could be added to an existing AF 30D audio system which uses headphones in a noise-reducing helmet. The approach is to combine very accurate recently developed atmospheric modeling with head-related transfer functions (HR ...

We shall deliver an information exploitation demonstration prototype simulatirsg actual rlata exploitation. Within this prototype we shall deliver five different types of capabilities. The first three capabilities are data mining tools. These tools shall demonstrate the capability of identifying electronic patterns or f ingerprints in data, relationships between data, and visualizations of such ...

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F&S and their research partners propose a comprehensive plan to develop a fiber optic-ased chemical detection system for the quantification of metal contaminants in aviation fuel. The system will utilize recently developed long-period grating (LPG) technology which detects index-of-refraction changes resulting from target molecules binding to affinity coatings. Calculations based on experimental ...

MicroFab Research (MFR, Inc.) proposes to apply the techniques of micromachining to aid in the fabrication of millimeter wave components, thereby reducing manufacturing expenses. Many microwave applications such as radar and communication systems would be improved by shifting to higher frequencies, provided new lower cost manufacturing techniques can be found. A manufacturing technique is presen ...

The USAF Material Command (AFMC) and the Defense Logistics Agency (DLA), Defense Microelectronics Activity (DMA) has a critical need to support military planners in establishing a cost effective approach to selecting components and identifying system behavior during the design process, minimizing expensive testing and design failures. Current test facilties are expensive to run as well as time co ...

Knowledge based methods have the potential to offer high performance solutions to a wide variety of problems. However, the development of large scale knowledge bases (KBs) and their effective application to problems have so far proved to be more expensive and less feasible than other competing methods such as statistical methods or weak search techniques. There is an immediate and critical need to ...