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The Army has developed a Block I Single Channel Antijam Man portable (SCAMP) terminal power supply for field deployment. The Block I SCAMP, a 30 lb terminal, runs at least 12 hours on an Army Standard 24 VDC battery. The Block II SCAMP terminal will be a 15 lb terminal that will run at least 24 hours off a battery. The Block II SCAMP upgrade requires a smaller, lighter, high efficiency DC to D ...

The program objective is to adapt radar imaging technology to meet test center measurement requirements at high altitudes and long ranges where current optics and radars are lacking. METRATEK is in a unique position to accomplish this effort because we have a proven reputation for establishing the state of the art in advanced radar imagine technology and we have already developed and proven the t ...

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The objective of this basic research is to design and develop a low-frequency, ultra-wide band (UWE) antenna. Such an antenna combined with a pulse-generating radar system would be capable of penetrating and detecting targets through foliage, ice, snow, and even earth. Development of appropriate radar systems is state-of-the-art except for the antenna, which requires a breakthrough in technology ...

M-Vision Inc., along with the University of Michigan and Michigan State University, proposes to develop a new and novel solution to the problem of target detection and discrimination in a complex scene. This solution is obtained by innovatively combining Gabor wavelets and scale space inference. The result is a computational model of human perception that resembles the human visual system in its ...

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Military scout vehicles and commercial sports utility vehicles share the common need for advanced suspension/drive systems that offer robustness over widely varying terrain. The ultimate system for handling, ride isolation, and stability control would incorporate high efficiency electric motors independently driving the four wheels, with one on-board high-level computer for controlling the active ...

This Small Business Innovation Research Phase I program will develop a novel hybrid adaptive controller for intelligent control of mobile robotic arms. This technique will couple adaptive position control techniques with force control of the end-effector to enable mobile robotic arms to carry out complex tasks requiring close interaction with the environment. A candidate hybrid adaptive control ...

A major obstacle to the establishment and measurement of valid cause and effect relationships between Army service and the costs and benefits of such service is the impossibility of performing experiments with random assignment of individuals to service and non-service groups. A recent innovation in statistical theory, propensity score methodology, allows one to draw from an observational (or retr ...