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COORDINATING INFORMATION EXCHANGE BETWEEN A LARGE NUMBER OF INTERRELATED RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT (R&D) PROJECTS HAS TYPICALLY BEEN CONDUCTED USING HIERARCHICAL DATA BASE MANAGEMENT SOFTWARE FOR CATALOGING AND RETRIEVING PROJECT RECORDS. AN INTELLIGENT R&D INVESTIGATOR'S ASSISTANT, ONE THAT USED OBJECT-ORIENTED PROGRAMMING TECHNIQUES TO CLASSIFYPROJECTS AND THAT COULD EMPLOY SUBJECTIVE KNOWLEDGE A ...

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PROPOSE TO DEVELOP A NEW METHODOLOGY BY WHICH NAVY C2 SUPPORT SYSTEMS REQUIREMENTS CAN BE PRECISELY DESCRIBED AND QUANTIFIED. THE METHOD WILL USE DATA FROM OPERATIONAL FLOW DIAGRAMS AND SIMILAR SOURCES. IT WILL DESCRIBE OPERATIONAL SEQUENCES AND DERIVATIVE INFORMATION FLOWS AND INFORMATION HANDLING ACTIVITIES. THE METHOD WILL ANALYZE THESE SEQUENCES USING NEWLY DEVELOPED TOOLS THAT WILL INCLUDE AN ...

THE EFFICIENCY OF THE SCRUBBER ON THE HF HIGH ENERGY LASER WILL BE MEASURED UTILIZING FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY (FTIR). CONCENTRATIONS OF HF AND FLOWS WILL BE MEASURED BEFORE AND AFTER THE SCRUBBER, AND RECOMMENDATIONS MADE TO IMPROVE SCRUBBER EFFICIENCY, IF NECESSARY. AMBIENT AIR SAMPLING USING EITHER FTIR OR OTHER WET CHEMICAL METHOD WILL BE PERFORMED TO VALIDATE THE MODEL PREDICTI ...

THE PROPOSED EFFORT WILL DEVELOP AND APPLY A NEW EXPERIMENTAL APPROACH TO MEASURE UNDERWATER TIME RESOLVED SHOCK WAVE PROFILES RESULTING FROM UNDERWATER OR SURFACE DETONATIONS. EXPLICIT DATA REQUIRED TO DESCRIBE UNDERWATER SHOCK WAVE EFFECTS ON TARGETS WILL BE OBTAINED USING A RECENTLY DEVELOPED PIEZOELECTRIC POLYMER STRESS GAUGE. A UNIQUE EXPERIMENTAL CONFIGURATION IS PROPOSED, THAT WILL ALLOW SH ...

NO METHOD CURRENTLY EXISTS TO DIRECTLY RELATE DEVICE OUTPUT TO THE KNOWN INPUT NECESSARY FOR THE RELIABLE INITIATION OF THE NEXT DEVICE IN AN EXPLOSIVE TRAIN. THE OBJECT OF THIS EFFORT IS TO DEVELOP A TECHNIQUE TO PROVIDE AN ELECTRONIC SYSTEM TO MEASURE THE OUTPUTS OF EXPLOSIVE DEVICES. THE PHASE I EFFORT WILL DEVELOP A TECHNIQUE TO ACCOMPLISH THIS OBJECTIVE. WE PROPOSE TO UTILIZE NEW PIEZO FILM T ...

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RECOGNIZING THAT CORROSION REDUCES PRODUCTIVITY AND EQUIPMENT AVAILABILITY AND ULTIMATELY COSTS $2-4 BILLION ANNUALLY, THE NAVY SEEKS A "PRO-ACTIVE," COMPREHENSIVE AIRCRAFT AND ENGINE PRESERVATION PROGRAM. SIGNIFICANT ADVANCES IN PRESERVATION TECHNOLOGY ARE OCCURRING - NAVY PRESERVATION TECHNIQUES NEED UPGRADING. THIS PROJECT WILL PROVIDE THE BASIS FOR A SOUND, STATE-OF-THE-ART AVIATION AND ENGINE ...