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With the appropriate analytical resources, the Space & Missile Technology Directorate will be able to "look into the future" of the development of space system technologies, development which spans definition, acquisition, and operations phases. For example, developers will be able to clearly quantify system requirements before system acquisition begins, use component test data to predict overall ...

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The objective of this project is to develop a new class of antennas -- an integrated phased array antenna (IPHAR). The novel antenna system is of the travelling wave type, it has a planar multilayer design and can be fabricated with the use of printed circuit block (PCR) technology. The multilayer antenna design consists of two anisotropic electrically controlled layers, and an active layer with ...

We propose the first phase of a two-part research and development program aimed at realizing a practical silicon-based pollutant-monitoring technology. The microfabricated sensor chips that are the heart of the technology will respond to volatile organic compounds (VOCs). The chips employ ultrasonic measuring principles that have been shown in previous university research to result in extremely hi ...

The Dynamic Environment Simulator (DES) at Armstrong Laboratory will be a useful tool for crew member training and human factors research for future high performance aircraft. To make the best use of the DES, this proposal presents a plan for creating a software tool that simulates the operation of the centrifuge. The software would enable scientists to specify a time history of desired crew mem ...

The Head-Spine Model (HSM) is a three-dimensional, discrete element mathematical model and software program that describes the kinematics and loads of the head-neck spine structure due to high impact accelerations. The proposed Phase I development program represents an effort to rehost the FORTRAN software from a Unix workstation environment to an IBM PC-Compatible MS-DOS environment, to study th ...

The US Air Force has identified a need to quantify the benefits associated with applying nonlinear estimation techniques to air-launched weapon systems equipped with Inertial Measurement Units (IMU). Of particular interest is a new technique recently developed by the Air Force, referred to as the State Dependent Riccati Equation (SDRE) technique. The SDRE technique has the potential to achieve I ...

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The optical beam scanners developed under this program will have linear resolution of up to 1000 angles with access times as low as 10 nanoseconds. Besides contributing to existing systems in optical memory access, optical signal processing, and optical switching, the unprecedented speed at such high resolutions will open up further applications previously unaccessible like real-time ...

This proposal describes a novel high throughput, massively parallel, ferroelectric liquid crystal-based Fourier transform spectrometer. The proposed system improves upon conventional polarization interference filters for applications requiring the recovery of spectral signatures. The basis for the proposed approach is that the high speed of FLC materials can be used to reduce hardware requiremen ...