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WE PROPOSE TO INVESTIGATE AN ASYMMETRIC-COUPLED-WELL, MULTIPLEQUANTUM-WELL STRUCTURE AND ITS APPLICATIONS TO BOTH BISTABLE AND NONBISTABLE OPTICAL SWITCHING. THE COUPLED-WELL FEATURE MAY PROVIDE FOR LOWER SWITCHING THRESHOLDS.

THE PROPOSAL DESCRIBES AN APPROACH TO PROTOTYPE A STRUCTURED DESIGN ANALYSIS TOOL FOR THE ASSESSMENT OF NAVAL FORCE ARCHITECTURES. USING AN OBJECT ORIENTED MODEL DESIGN (OOD) FOR IMPLEMENTATION ON A MICRO OR MINI COMPUTER. THE OOD WILL BE GEARED TO ACCEPT INPUTS DIRECTLY FROM THE SPAWAR ARCHITECT'S OPTIONS. A GRAPHIC INTERFACE PACKAGE WILL ALSO BE DESIGNED TO ENABLE RAPID DEFINITION OF SCENARIO, T ...

THE CHEMICALLY-BOOSTED KINETIC KILL VEHICLE (KKV) WEAPON IS A NECESSARY COMPONENT OF STRATEGIC DEFENSE. NEW SYSTEMS BASED ON ADVANCED SOLID PROPULSION CONCEPTS ARE CURRENTLY BEING INVESTIGATED. THEIR ULTIMATE POTENTIAL CAN BE REALIZED ONLY BY THE DEVELOPMENT OF ULTRALIGHTWEIGHT, HIGH TEMPERATURE, HIGH PERFORMANCE MATERIALS. ONE APPROACH IS THE USE OF SHEATHED FOAM COMPOSITES, THE TECHNOLOGY OF WHI ...

THE DIFFERENTIAL INVERSION TECHNIQUE DEVELOPED BY KING SHOWS EXCITING PROMISE AS A MEANS FOR OBTAINING ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE PROFILES FROM UPWELLING INFRARED AND MICROWAVE RADIANCE DATA WITHOUT THE USE OF A PRIORI INFORMATION ABOUT THE STRUCTURE OF THE ATMOSPHERE. THE DEFENSE METEOROLOGICAL SATELLITE PROGRAM (DMSP) VEHICLES GENERATE A DATA SET OF UPWELLING RADIANCE SUITABLE FOR APPLICATION OF TH ...

A SHALLOW WATER SONAR SYSTEM WILL BE DESIGNED AND ANALYZED USING A UNIQUE RAY-BASED SHALLOW WATER PROPAGATION AND REVERBERATION MODEL. THE BASELINE CANDIDATE SYSTEM IS A PLANAR ARRAY SONAR IN A VDS CONFIGURATION. THE ARRAY USES LIGHTWEIGHT CYLINDRICAL TRANSMITTING ELEMENTS AND DIFAR RECEIVING ELEMENTS TO ACHIEVE EXCELLENT PERFORMANCE IN A COMPACT CONFIGURATION. ITS SIZE AND WEIGHT ARE APPROPRIATE ...

THE OBJECTIVE OF PHASE I IS TO DEVELOP A SPECIAL RELIABILITY ANALYSIS ALGORITHM FOR DIESEL ENGINES THAT ACCOUNTS FOR THE COMPLEX FACTORS AND SEVERE ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS EXPERIENCED IN MILITARY APPLICATIONS. A RELIABILITY, AVAILABILITY, MAINTAINABILITY (RAM) MONTE CARLO SIMULATION APPROACH IS PROPOSED TO BE INTEGRATED WITH EXISTING FAULT TREE ANALYSIS SOFTWARE FOR EFFICIENT PREDICTION OF DIESEL ...

THIS PHASE I SBIR EFFORT'S OBJECTIVES (1) ARE TO DEVELOP ONE OR MORE PRELIMINARY DESIGN(S) FOR AN OPTIMAL AIRFRAME (HEATSHIELD AND SUBSTRUTURE) FOR A NEW, SMALLER BALLISTIC REENTRY VEHICLE (BRV) CARRYING A 50-200 KILOTON WARHEAT, FOR USE ON ICBMS, AND (2) PLAN THE PROGRAM AND PREPARE COST AND SCHEDULE ESTIMATES FOR THE PHASE II SBIR PROGRAM FOLLOW-ON DETAILED DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT WORK. IT'S SCOP ...

COMPLEX AIR FORCE COMMAND AND CONTROL PROBLEMS REQUIRE ADVANCED DECISION AIDING TECHNOLOGY TO GUIDE THE USERS THROUGH PROBLEM FORMULATION, SOLUTION, AND EXPLANATION PROCESS. SUCH PROBLEM AREAS AS TARGET PRIORITIZATION, RESOURCE ASSIGNMENT, PATH PLANNING, ETC., DO NOT ALWAYS HAVE NEAT, EASILY DEFINABLE PROBLEM STRUCTURES. IN THE PAST, DECISION ANALYSIS TECHNIQUES HAVE BEEN APPLIED TO VARIOUS PROBLE ...

WE PROPOSE TO INVESTIGATE AND DEVELOP A PARALLEL OUTPUT IMAGING SENSOR BASED ON A CUSTOM MOS INTEGRATED CIRCUIT. THE SENSOR WILL HAVE AN IMAGING RESOLUTION OF APPROXIMATELY 256 X 256 PIXELS AND OPERATE AT FRAME RATES GREATER THAN 2000 FRAMES/SECOND. THE HIGH BANDWIDTH REQUIREMENTS WILL NECESSITATE PARALLEL OUTPUTS FROM THE CHIP, PERHAPS AS MANY AS ONE OUTPUT PER ROW OF SENSORS. OUR APPROACH WILL U ...

THE STATE-EVENT CALCULUS (SECALC) IS A META-MODEL FOR SOFTWARE SYSTEM BEHAVIOR. STATES REFER TO SITUATIONS OF SOME DURATION WHILE EVENTS REFER TO SYSTEM ACTIONS PERFORMED BY SYSTEM ENTITIES IN RELATION TO OTHER SYSTEM ENTITIES AND EXTERNAL INPUTS. THE MAIN OBJECTIVES GUIDING THE INITIAL DEVELOPMENT OF SECALC WERE THAT: 1) IT BE COMPREHENSIBLE, 2) IT BE DERIVABLE FROM FUNCTIONAL SPECIFICATIONS (WIT ...