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Micro-vacuum-tube electronics utilizing CVD diamond micro-tip emitters (patented) as the cold cathode, a CVD diamond micro-patterned grid or self aligned gate, and a CVD diamond anode will be developed. Each device will be 3 microns square and will befabricated in an array having 10 million devices in 1 cm^2. The very small vacuum tubes will have plate currents of 100 micro-amps at grid voltages ...

The Electronic Systems Command (ESC) of the U. S. Air Force has funded the development of a variety of C3I systems, raising concerns about excess cost and effort due to overlapping components and functionality. This concern motivated ESC to developschedulers by the product line approach. Our Planware project addresses the fact that the core functionality of scheduling is diverse, and that no small ...

Blood lactate concentration is a highly sensitive measure of tissue oxygen deprivation from trauma and blood loss, which produces shock in wounded personnel. It is the most reliable end pint of resuscitation and predictor of survivability. Development ofa rugged, compact device capable of continuously monitoring tissue blood lactate in the field is extremely desirable and is the goal of this Pha ...

Testing in a simulated environment is an essential feature of weapons system development. However, creating that environment can pose severe technical challenges. In the case of TV-guided munitions, the difficulty stems from the need to preserve dynamicimage fidelity with respect to a weapon's seeker; a task which is very different from creating imagery which appears realistic to the human eye, an ...

Power and brightness scaling of single-fiber lasers is limited by intrafiber damage intensity. Hence, scaling to kW levels requires designs which coherently integrate the output of multiple fibers while, at the same time, avoiding nonlinear effects (suchas SBS) which limit the output power from a single fiber. We have devised a technique whereby multiple fiber sources can be combined coherently ...

Phase I work has resulted in the invention of a new, revolutionary multiscale technique that is very well suited for compressing DTED. This technique includes(1)accurate reconstruction of terrain features via simple add-on to any compressionroutine,(2)feature based compression, (3) curve and surface compression, (4) fast, feature preserving data retrieval. Phase II general objectives involve (1) ...

We propose an innovative approach to increasing the optical power available from optical fiber lasers. The approach uses a novel fiber design that sharply discriminates against long wavelengths. We can engineer this wavelength cutoff to eliminateparasitic nonlinearities that limit the useful peak power from fiber. We will build a demonstration system utilizing this approach to increase the powe ...

60985 Carbon isotope ratio variations in carbon dioxide have been shown to be useful in mapping the flux of biologic versus terrestrial carbon sources. However, most current methods for making this determination rely upon field samples returned to laboratories for analysis, making contamination a serious problem. This project will develop new fieldable instrumentation that can make these d ...

Identification by radar of moving targets, including aircraft, ground vehicles, andships, is difficult because their complex backscattering behavior is coupled withmotion that is not smooth. The identification cannot be based on target shape andsize alone. MARK Resources has developed an advanced radar signal processingtechnology for extracting detailed information about target features that can ...

Interim Phase Status. Currently this Phase is in progress, and the planning documents required are in progress. This document is one of the deliverables of the Interim Phase. Phase 2 Focus. Phase 2 is focused on implementing adaptive technology andsupplemental curriculum for Anatomy and Physiology. Although commercialization issues are important, most of these issues will be deferred to the Commer ...