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OUR FIRM HAS UNIQUE EXPERIENCE IN CHARACTERIZING AND CLASSIFYING PATTERNS. OUR PROPRIETARY TECHNOLOGY ORIGINATED MORE THAN TWENTY YEARS AGO IN PERCEPTRON THEORY, AND WE HAVE BEEN QUIETY AND SUCCESSFULLY APPLYING IT FOR YEARS. THE EMERGING NEURAL NETWORK TECHNOLOGY PROMISES IN HARDWARE THINGS WE HAVE BEEN DOING IN SOFTWARE FOR A LONG TIME, AND OUR ENGINES CAPTURE SOME OF THESE THINGS. WE WOULD LIKE ...

A FAMILY OF REACTIVE COUPLING AGENTS BASED UPON AN EXOTHERMIC DECOMPOSITION IS BEING DEVELOPED. THE REACTION MAY BE INITIATED THERMALLY OR WITH ACTINIC LIGHT. INITIATION MAY BE VARIED OVER A WIDE RANGE OF TEMPERATURES OR WAVELENGTHS, WHICH ALLOWS THE BONDING REACTION TO BE TAILORED TO THE ADHESIVE CURE PROCESS. EARLY STUDIES HAVE SHOWN THE FEASIBILITY OF USING THIS CHEMISTRY TO BOND TO METALS, CER ...

A need to control the fugitive emissions of hazardous vapors, volatile organic compounds (VOCs) and hazardous air pollutants (HAPs) has been identified in operations at Army plants and depots. The High Mesa Technologies (HMT)/Coyote Aerospace team proposes to meet this need using proven silent discharge plasma (SDP) techniques, developed by the Electric Power Research Institute and Los Alamos Nat ...

TO MEET THE KINETIC ENERGY ANTI-SATELLITE (KE ASAT) REQUIREMENTS FOR TIMELY AND RELIABLE KILL ASSESSMENT, AEROMET PROPOSES TO RECOMMEND INNOVATIVE TECHNIQUES IN REAL-TIME KILL ASSESSMENT SPECTROSCOPY. BECAUSE IT CAN BE CRITICALLY IMPORTANT TO ACCURATELY VERIFY SATELLITE ELIMINATION, A KILL ASSESSMENT SYSTEM MUST DISCERN BETWEEN VARIOUS HIT AND MISS PHENOMENA, INCLUDING THE USE OF POTENTIAL COUNTER ...

In spite of the fact that powerful desktop computers are readily available, the mechanics of antenna design has changed very little as a result. Computers are being used, but only as high speed calculators to solve models that were developed 30 years ago. Two new developments in electromagnetics have been recently published. The first is a general antenna pattern synthesis algorithm developed by ...

The main thrust of this proposed effort is to design, develop, and fabricate a low cost, producible, robust and rugged, one pixel, range-only laser radar (Ladar) fuze sensor sufficient to support the safe and reliable delivery of a ballistic round against an intended target. A CW/FW waveform is planned for use to amplitude modulate the laser diode transmitter. The returned optical energy will be ...

THE OVERALL OBJECTIVES OF PHASE I ARE TO DEVELOP FEASIBLE, EFFECTIVE SYSTEM CONCEPTS FOR UTILIZING SPACE-BASED ASSETS AS PLATFORMS FOR RF DECEPTION EQUIPMENT IN SUPPORT OF THE BATTLEFIELD COMMANER. THIS PHASE WILL RESULT IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF SPECIFIC SYSTEM DESIGNS WHICH IMPLEMENT THE CONCEPTS DEEMED EFFECTIVE. THE STUDY WILL FOCUS ON DEFINING THE SUITABILITY OF SPACE ASSETS TO THE FOLLOWING USES ...

Recent cognitive research indicates that military teams operate effectively in high-stress, information-rich environments when they 1) share mental models of the battlefield situation and the team; 2) critique their situation model to develop clear goals for information retrieval; 3) effectively communicate information needs to others; and 4) anticipate and counteract information overload. We pro ...

Statistically sound approaches to making interfrences regarding simulation model validation, rather than reliance upon subjective appeal, are needed. Fundamentally, the question of interest is whether a model reflects reality to the required degree of accuracy. The utility (and hence validity) of a simulation model relies on how well it captures those aspects of the phenonmenon under study that ...

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