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Detailed models of limited aspects of vehicle performance are currently used in engineering development, e.g., DADDS, BRL-CAD/SQUASH, PRISM, etc. There is a need for an integrated model which analyzes the interactions among subsystems and evaluates performance of multiple system functions. Design decisions which make sense in isolation can turn out to be detrimental in the integrated system oper ...

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This Small Business Innovation Research Phase I project aims to develop compact and low cost instruments to measure tissue oxygenation based on near-infrared (NIR) spectroscopy. NIR light in the .7-1.1 Um range penetrates human tissue to a depth of several centimeters, and is attenuated during transmission by oxyhemoglobin, deoxyhemoglobin, melanin, water and cytochrome aa3, each with its own cha ...

Q-DOT proposes an innovative wideband microwave programmable delay line network. The proposed approach offers an unprecedented combination of bandwidth, 16 GHz, resolution, delays to 655.34 Us in steps of 20 ns, delay stability, 1 ns over temperature, and amplitude stability, +-1.5 dB. Most of the components are off-the-shelf, with only one custom component to be developed, a micromachined, opti ...

The notion of using an inexpensive inertial augmentation system for a tube launched ordnance, either with or without a terminal homing sensor, has existed for some time now. The main drawback has been the high cost associated with reliable inertial components and the hardening problem with gyroscopes or other rate sensing elements. Some of the solutions that have been proposed to date attempt to ...

The Environmentally Oriented Systems Atmospheric Effects Library (EOSAEL) treats the propagation of ultraviolet through millimeter wavelength electromagnetic radiation for a wide range of atmospheric conditions. Because EOSAEL was originally designed in the 1970s for operation on mainframe and mini-computers, many archaic, cumbersome artifacts remain embedded in the code structure and programming ...

A full motion video compression system with synchronized sound based on the MPEG-1 standard will be developed to provide a high compression ration and software playback capability on the Contract Test Set (CTS) III. Phase I will research new techniques in the areas of digital video preprocessing, adaptive quantization, motion prediction and bitstream manipulation with the objective of developing ...

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Conventional methods of immunization in general require multiple injections at certain intervals to achieve the required protective immune response. However, this immunization protocol may not always be practical, especially for Army personnel in the field or in remote areas where access to the health care personnel may be difficult. Our program is based on the concept of complete immunization ( ...

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