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The proof of concept research explores the potential for integrating the following four 'personal devices's () baseline IFF personal device () data applique interface to field processors () audio applique interface to voice headset or audio monitor () video applique interface to camera and display into a single, wearable non-line of sight spread spectrum IFF, tracking and duplex multimedia com ...

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DARPA has identified collaborative computing as a technology not yet adequately developed in the marketplace. This need to share and interactively work with documents and other information objects across separate computer systems is really the underlying human business need that originally drove the creation of network technology, desktop video-teleconferencing, and even the failed earlier indust ...

A dynamic Environment driven by real-world data is a crucial element in Distributed Interactive Simulation (DIS). The synthetic Environments Program's Dynamic Terrain and Objects (DTO) project has developed an architecture for including a dynamic environment in distributed simulations. However, to date, heterogeneous applications have not been to interoperate. In addition, the long-term success ...

A one watt 94 GHz power amplifier with >2 GHz bandwidth will be designed, and an operational brassboard model fabricated. The approach is based upon power combining of four single-diode silicon IMPATT amplifier modules using magic-tees. The brassboard model will serve as a developmental unit during Phase II in which a product development effort will lead to a production version. Also on Phase I ...

The rapid expansion in the use of microwave communications has created a need for dramatically improved microwave devices. Frequency filters are a key component in the wireless communication and military systems. Currently available filters are discrete bulky components. In this program NZ Applied Technologies in collaboration with Las Alamos National Laboratory proposes to develop novel tunab ...

Reuse of design rationales, while essential to long-term goals of both design rationale capture and software reuse, presents significant challenges to current technology. Organon Motives, Inc. (OMI) and Knowledge Evolution, Inc. (KEI) propose a system, MIRIAD (Models for Interoperable Rationale, Inference and Alternative Designs), for recording and managing reusable rationale in semantically stru ...

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Physical Sciences, Inc. (PSI) proposes to develop an etching tool based upon its patented Fast Atom Sample Tester (FAST) technology that addresses a critical processing problem faced by manufacturers of Bonded wafers. The fabrication process for bonded wafers results in a 5 mm wide strip of partially delaminated silicon along the perimeter of the 8-in. wafer which can serve as a source of unaccep ...

Performance benefits to systems employing an Electrically Steerable Antenna (ESA) are numerous. Included are rapid beam scanning, beam agility, and the performance of multiple functions such as surveillance and target tracking. These gains are obtained at the expense of large increases in system cost and weight. For many space and aerostat applications, the classical ESA architecture of one T/R ...