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Frangible Polymer Circuit Acts as Tamper Sensor
Originally begun as an investigation to detect attempts to tap into an electrical cable, the emergence of modern encryption hardware rendered impractical attempts to protect communication media...
Articles Aerospace
Tactical Lab Trains Warfighters in Space Hardware and Software Control Tasks
A Training and Tactical ORS Operations (TATOO) Laboratory is being developed by Star Technologies Corp. under the direction of the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL)...
Articles Aerospace
Electrically Driven General Systems for UAVs
General systems are defined as all of the flight safety critical systems of an aircraft, excluding the engine and flight control computing. Usually, the main subsystems in a general system include...
Tech Transfer Reports Data Acquisition
Web-Based Software Uses Patient Data to Diagnose Cancer
Physicians may soon be able to better prevent and more accurately diagnose breast cancer with the help of battlefield planning software designed for missile defense. Medical Information...
Tech Transfer Reports Information Technology
Information Technology Helps Users Monitor Power Consumption
Buildings and factories are a lot like living creatures. Their mechanical systems, from elevators to manufacturing equipment, are like muscles. Specialized fluids and life-giving utilities such as water, natural gas, steam, and electricity course through their structure. And they respond...
Tech Transfer Reports Software
Scheduling Software Enables On-Time Aircraft Deliveries
Building next-generation aircraft may be a daunting task logistically, but using new software developed with Missile Defense Agency (MDA) funding could save manufacturers time, cost, and...
Articles RF & Microwave Electronics
Demodulating Over-the-Air Communications
Today, modern radio designs have made a predominant shift to the software-defined radio architecture. From cellular handsets to military communications devices, the flexibility to use multiple wireless...
Application Briefs RF & Microwave Electronics
High-Cycle Life Testing of RF MEMS Switches
MEMS switch technology has many potential benefits over conventional electronic devices for switching microwave and millimeter-wave signals. MEMS switches possess very low insertion loss, miniscule...
Articles RF & Microwave Electronics
Synthetic Aperture Radar Image Recognition
Synthetic radar image recognition and classification are areas of interest for both the military and civilian communities. These tasks have significance in automatic target recognition, air traffic...
Articles Aerospace
Middleware Offers Integration Framework for Dynamic UAV Applications
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) like the MQ-1 Predator have excelled in the theaters of war in which they have been deployed. However, the ability of those controlling the UAV...
Articles Aerospace
Interaction Methods for Virtual Reality Applications
The potential of Virtual Reality (VR) technology has not been fully realized because the user interfaces are not designed to effectively support the user. One of the most critical interface...
Tech Transfer Reports
Imaging System Analyzes Crop Health
Farmers could soon reduce water, energy, and labor costs by using imaging technology that analyzes crop health. Opto-Knowledge Systems, Inc. (OKSI) of Torrance, CA has developed modeling and simulation...
Briefs Manufacturing & Prototyping
Microfabrication and Testing of a Thermoelectric Device for Generating Mobile Electrical Power
Several attractive features of thermo-electric (TE) technology include no moving parts, light weight, modularity, covertness, silence, high power...
Briefs Physical Sciences
Detector Module for Testing Silicon Carbide Semiconductor Devices
Long-term stress testing of silicon carbide (SiC) semiconductor devices is required to determine suitability for power electronics applications. During testing, preventable...
Briefs Electronics & Computers
Automated Data Acquisition for a Prognostics and Diagnostics Health Monitoring System
A highly flexible automated prognostics and diagnostics sensor module (PDSM) prototype is presently under development to be incorporated for data acquisition...
Briefs Materials
Wettability Tests of Polymer Films and Fabrics
High-strength polymer materials are useful components in many multifunctional materials applications. However, because of low reactivity, their use is inhibited in many processing techniques....
Briefs Mechanical & Fluid Systems
Using a Steering Shaping Function to Improve Human Performance in By-Wire Vehicles
Currently, there is a performance issue regarding vehicle control at higher speeds for some indirect-vision, by-wire military vehicles; that is, those vehicles...
Briefs Manufacturing & Prototyping
Manufacturing Cylindrical Parts Using Deep Draw Technology
In applications where product performance is mission critical, commercial, military, and aerospace companies require technology to manufacture deep- drawn cylindrical product...
Briefs Energy
Advanced Lithium Ion Systems for Military Vehicles
The higher energy and power density of Li-Ion battery technology offers a significant reduction in the weight and volume for hybrid electric vehicle (HEV) battery systems compared to lead acid and nickel metal hydride technologies. Saft’s High Power Li-ion battery technology has demonstrated...
Briefs Sensors/Data Acquisition
MEMS-Based Optical Limiter
Protecting optical sensors and detectors against excessive input signals is not only important for dealing with unintentional overloads, but also central for protecting sensors against intentional high-intensity...
Briefs Physical Sciences
Reducing Thicknesses of PbZrₓTi₁₋ₓO₃ Films in Capacitors
A document describes experiments performed to determine effects of reducing the thicknesses of films of lead zirconate titanate (PbZrxTi1-xO3, wherein 0<x<1) used as ferroelectric dielectric layers in some capacitors. The fabrication of specimen capacitors for the experiments...
Briefs Software
Virtual Network Computing Software for DataWall Remote Display
VNC (Virtual Network Computing) is open-source software that allows a user to view and interact with a remote computer (known as the VNC server) from a local computer (known as the VNC viewer/client). VNC is used to display multiple remote desktops on the DataWall. The original VNC...
Briefs Software
Software Suite for a Large Defense System
A suite of software tools was developed to enable networks composed of many hundreds, thousands, or even millions of commodity computers to protect themselves against a variety of security threats. These tools include Anagram, a content-based anomaly detection (AD) tool; ASSURE, which provides automatic...
Application Briefs RF & Microwave Electronics
New All-Digital RF Technology Simplifies the Radio Environment
The concept of a software or “cognitive” radio has been around for about 20 years, and has progressed to the point where open-source software code is available. A cognitive radio is “smart” in the sense that it is continuously aware of changes in radio frequency (RF) spectrum...
Articles RF & Microwave Electronics
Wireless Sensor Network with Geolocation
Maintaining situational/positional awareness in indoor and urban environments is difficult because buildings, walls, and other obstacles obstruct vision and RF propagation. Propagation channels are...
Articles Aerospace
2D Laser Profiling Scanner for Detecting Targets
The Radiometric Sensor Development and Applications Team of the Sensors and Electron Devices Directorate (SEDD) at the U.S. Army Research Laboratory (ARL) has developed a 2D laser profiling...
Briefs Electronics & Computers
Heterogeneous System-on-a-Chip for Self-Powered Wireless Sensor Networks
A new dimension of system architecture design is emerging where hundreds to thousands of ultralight (
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