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THIS PROPOSAL DESCRIBES AN APPROACH FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF AN EXPERT SYSTEM TO ASSIST IN MINIMIZING THE QUANTITY OF UUT FAULT INSERTIONS DURING VERIFICATION AND VALIDATION OF TEST PROGRAM SETS. THE PROJECT OBJECTIVES ARE: EVALUATE AND CATALOGUE RULES APPLICABLE TO THE SELECTION OF LRU AND SRU FAULTS, CONSIDERING BOTH UUT AND TIPS REQUIREMENTS; EVALUATE AND CATALOGUE EXAMPLES OF CAUSE AND EFFECT RE ...

AN INSTRUMENT CAPABLE OF REAL-TIME MONITORING OF SMOKE AND AEROSOL MASS CONCENTRATION UNDER FIELD CONDITIONS IS PRESENTED. IT IS BASED ON TEOM TECHNOLOGY WHICH ENABLES DIRECT MASS MEASUREMENTS OF PARTICULATES IN REAL TIME. THE SYSTEM MEASURES PARTICULATE MASS INDEPENDENTS OF OTHER PARTICULATES PROPERTIES AND HAS THE ADDITIONAL ADVANTAGE OF UTILIZING EXCHANGEABLE FILTER CARTRIDGES WHICH ALLOWS POST ...

THE INTENT OF DOD INSTRUCTION 4245.4, "ACQUISITION OF NUCLEAR SURVIVAL SYSTEMS" IS TO PROVIDE FOR NUCLEAR SURVIVABILITY THROUGHOUT THE LIFE CYCLE OF WEAPON SYSTEMS WHICH ARE REQUIRED TO SURVIVE THE EFFECTS OF NUCLEAR WEAPONS. ONE KEY TO IMPLEMENTING THIS INTENT IS TO INSURE THAT ALL THE PEOPLE INVOLVED ARE FAMILIAR WITH THEIR RESPONSIBILITIES TO IMPLEMENT AND PRESERVE THIS SURVIVABILITY. THIS STUD ...

MICROWAVE COUPLING SIMUATION CODES (MCCS) ARE REQUIRED FOR MODELING SUSCEPTIBILITY OF MILITARY SYSTEMS TO HIGH POWER MICROWAVES (HPM). MCCS ASSIST IN DETECTION OF SYSTEM WEAKNESSES TO HPM AND IN EVALUATING PROPOSED HPM-HARDENING TECHNOLOGY. THE RAPIDLY INCREASING NEED TO ESTABLISH SYSTEM SUSCEPTIBILITIES TO HPM MANDATES DEVELOPMENT AND DISTRIBUTIONN OF MCC SOFTWARE WHICH MAY BE OPERATED BY SYSTEM- ...

With the development of compact, rugged laser diodes that can be powered with bateries, it appears that medical procedures that utilize lasers can now be brought into the field environment. The goal of this effort is to develop a fieldable laser diode tissue soldering system for wound stabilization. In this technique, a laser is used to thermally cure a protein solution placed onto a wound. Thi ...

SPS SHALL UNDERTAKE AND R&D EFFORT TO INVESTIGATE THE FEASIBILITY AND EFFECTIVENESS OF AN "INTELLIGENT EXPERT ASSISTANT" WHICH APPLIES EXPERT SYSTEM TECHNOLOGY IN CONJUNCTION WITH COMPUTER-AIDED SOFTWARE ENGINEERING (CASE) TOOLS FOR STRUCTURED SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT. THE RESEARCH OBJECTIVE IS TO SHOW THAT HIGHER-QUALITY, FASTER, AND MORE EFFICIENT SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT IS ACHIEVABLE WITH AN EXPERT SY ...

Frog Embryo Teratogenesis Assay: Xenopus (FETAX) is a 96-h, whole-embryo bioassay designed to detect potential developmental toxicants. The primary goal of this research is to improve the predictability and increase the overall utility of FETAX as a screen for developmental toxicants that pose a hazard to human health. Since Xenopus laevis embryos lack mixed-fliriction oxidase metabolism (cytoch ...

TO DETECT AND IDENTIFY AIRPLANS AND GROUND TACTICL TARGETS WITH IMAGE DATA, TOW COMPLEMENTARY ANAYSES ARE REQUIRED (1) CONTOUR EXTRACTION, AND (2) SHAPE/TARGET RECOGNITION. UNTIL VERY RECENTLY, RESEARCH EMPHASIS HAS BEEN PLACED ON SHPE RECOGNITION BASED ON SEGMENTATIONS FROM ODELS AND/OR SIMPLE SCENES. IT APPEARS THAT RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT EFFORTS ON SEGMENTATION WITH COMPLEX SCENES HAVE BEEN N ...

The problem of suppressing acoustically induced vibration in precision equipment is addressed. The study specifically addresses acoustically induced vibration in an airborne optical train. Two approaches will be studied. (1) The first approach is to inertially instrument each optical element, sensing the motion causing optical jitter. The array of vibration measurements are used with a robust ...

VIDEO TRACKING HAS EVOLVED OVER THE PAST FIFTEEN YEARS FROM SIMPLE CONTRAST TRACKERS TO MORE COMPLEX AND "INTELLIGENT" TRACKING SYSTEMS BASED UPON SCENE INTERPRETATION AND OBJECT IDENTIFICATION METHODS. RESEARCH IN THE PAST DECADE IN AUTOMATIC TARGET RECOGNITION AND REALTIME TRACKING METHODS HAS PRODUCED A NEW GENERATION OF ALGORITHMS APPROPRIATE TO THE TRACKING REQUIREMENT. WHILE SOME OF THE ALGO ...