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Not Available The Gulf War demonstrated the changing nature of modern warfare. In modern warfare, a great deal of fire power is directed at a battle space compressed in space and time. Assets such as cruise missiles and aircraft are concentrated on a relatively small number of platforms. Thus, the complexity of mission planning is increased due to: (i) the trend towards jointness and (ii) usi ...

Not Available This Phase I proposal develops a pioneering technology to automate the docking process of unmanned micro shuttles to the satellites to be serviced. This technology is based on the Laser Dynamic Range Imager (LDRI) which is a dynamic version of the Scannerless Range Imager (SRI), and the Point Tracking (PT) algorithm. The SRI provides the range measurement from the laser unit to th ...

Not Available In recent years efforts have been concentrated on maximizing the resolution of optical materials for use in high-energy laser systems by minimizing absorption of irradiated power and subsequent deformation caused by heating. With a higher thermal shock resistance than any available optical material, sapphire is the material of choice, but displays significant scattering due to optic ...

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Not Available Foster-Miller proposes to develop an integrated tactile transduction garment for in-flight spatial orientation. Pilot disorientation is a disturbingly frequent phenomenon for military, commercial and civilian pilots. Pilot disorientation costs the U.S. military about 30 lives and over $300 million in lost aircraft annually. Speculation surrounding the recent crash of John F. Kennedy ...

Not Available Modern US Navy aircraft as well as older aircraft currently being updated to today's avionic standards, contain avionics and ordinance equipment that require regulation of the 28VDC system. The V-22 platform utilizes three regulated AC/DC converters (CVs) to provide regulated DC power from the AC generator source. The presently used device uses a power topology that yields both a ve ...