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The Close Combat Tactical Trainer (CCTT) after-action review (AAR) system produces a standard set of statistical displays that trainers may use to debrief exercise participants. These displays are difficult to interpret and do not readily reveal to the player unit "WHAT happened" during the battle. If unit players are able to discern "WHAT happened", there are no correlating displays to provide ...

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Linac Inc., R&D group, proposes a completely new approach to provide Doppler frequency offset for a microwave bandwidth (higher than 16 GHz) laser radar signal. The proposed achromatic optical Doppler frequency modulator (AODFM) system uses existing technology of holographic achromatic phase modulation. The modulation is carried out by specially configured three cascaded gratings. The input and ...

This Phase I project pertains to the synthesis and biological evaluation of novel L-nucleoside-derived antimalarial compounds. A major recent finding has been that during the development of the malaria parasite in the host erythrocyte, profound alterations are caused in the permeability of the host cell-membrane. Recent investigations have discovered that a new transport pathway for nucleosides ...

Routine, fully automated analysis of air, water, soils, sludge, etch., would help target clean-up efforts and improve worker safety in the field. The availability of highly portable and affordable chemical analyzers would allow widespread deployment, which has been unobtainable with traditional instrumentation presently used for this evaluation. However, we propose a system employing state-of-th ...

Each individual soldier is becoming increasingly dependent on electronics and this dependency requires greater amounts of electrical power. Before long these requirements will exceed the capabilities of batteries and a new system will be required. Proton exchange membrane (PEM) fuel cells have the capabilities needed to fill that need. PEM fuel cells are capable of generating electricity effici ...

Traditional parenternal vaccines have many limitations which pose problems for both military and civilian vaccination programs. Parenternal vaccines must be administered by trained medical personnel, booster doses are generally required to obtain maximum protection, they are usually only effective against a single organizm and most require refrigeration. Biodegradable, bioadherent microencapsulat ...

This Phase I project will demonstrate the feasibility of applying bipolar ionomer thin films as effective desalination elements in small lightweight, handheld, manual devices for the individual soldier to desalt seawater for drinking. Water is the most important compound for every living species. In the battlefield environment, clean, fresh water is generally very difficult to supply due to the ...

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Omni-directional microstrip antenna system integrally located on a soldier's helmet for secure and reliable communications in the battlefield is the subject matter of this proposed innovative research. The antenna system consist of (N+1) circular microstrip patch elements integrally located on the soldier's helmet to provide omni-directional coverage with acceptable antenna gain for all positions ...