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MISRA C:2012
For C programmers working on safety-critical applications, following restrictions and guidelines to ensure safe-coding practices can be painful. Features of the language designed to make your work easier, more efficient, or provide...
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Intelligence Analysis System
Air Force intelligence analysts must assess an adversary’s capability to achieve their objectives, including their offensive and defensive systems, state of readiness, training, and conditions such as weather. To effectively assess these capabilities, analysts must integrate a tremendous amount of data from a number...
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Weapon Center of Mass Calculator
The Weapon Center of Mass (COM) software allows researchers to easily determine mass properties of a weapon system. The tool presents a photograph of the weapon and allows the user to place weight anywhere on the weapon by clicking on the screen. After the weight is placed, the software returns the mass properties...
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General Runtime/Architecture for Many-core Parallel Systems (GRAMPS)
The era of obtaining increased performance via faster single cores and optimized single-thread programs is over. Instead, a major factor in new processors’ performance comes from parallelism: increasing numbers of cores per processor and threads per core. In both research and...
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Crumple Zone Software Absorbs Attack Effects Before System Failures
A higher level of structural and operational endurance and ruggedness can be achieved in software systems by strategically introducing crumple zones (CZs) in the system...
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Software Design for CFD Rotary-Wing Aeromechanics Modeling
Helicopter flight involves many multidisciplinary physics problems that are difficult to predict with today’s engineering modeling and simulation tools. Rotor aerodynamic systems...
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RF Waveform Software
X-COM Systems, LLC, a subsidiary of Bird Technologies (Reston, VA), has introduced Version 3.0 of its RF Editor Graphical RF Editor software for modifying and building custom RF signal waveform files for use in defense,...
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SWORD Simulation Software
MASA Group, a developer of Artificial Intelligence (AI)- based Modeling & Simulation (M&S) software for the defense, public safety, emergency management, and serious games markets, has launched SWORD 5.0, the...
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MIL-STD-1553 Development Kit
Data Device Corporation (Bohemia, NY) has released the Total-AceXtreme™ MILSTD- 1553 hardware/software development kit. The package includes design documentation, simulation models, and software so that users can...
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RF Design Software
Agilent Technologies (Santa Clara, CA) offers EMPro 2011.11 Electromagnetic Professional software, a 3D modeling and simulation platform that features enhancements to further speed and improve RF design and verification....
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AWACS Real-Time Operating System
LynuxWorks, Inc. announced recently that the Mission Systems and Sensors Division (MS2) of Lockheed Martin in Owego, NY, selected the LynxOS real-time operating system (RTOS) and Luminosity Integrated...
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Computational Cameras
A computational camera uses a combination of optics and software to produce images that cannot be taken with traditional cameras. A variety of computational cameras has been demonstrated; some designed to achieve new...
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3D Modeling Software
VISTAGY (Waltham, MA) has released SyncroFIT® 2011, which allows airframe manufacturers to implement advanced manufacturing processes. CAD designers can use the software to define and manage fasteners, holes, joints, and...
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Army Implements Vehicle-Based Common Operating Environment
On the dynamic and complex battlefield, the Common Operating Environment will streamline communications between Soldiers in vehicles and higher headquarters, creating seamless...
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Atomic Weapons Defense Testers Mark Major Milestones
Two remarkable pulsed-power machines used to test the nation’s defenses against atomic weapons have surpassed milestones at Sandia National Laboratories: 4,000 firings, called ‘shots,’...
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Software System for Microbial Genome Sequence Annotation
The annotation of genomes from next-generation sequencing platforms needs to be rapid, high-throughput, and fully integrated and automated. Although a few Web-based annotation services have recently become available, they may not be the best solution for researchers that need to annotate a...
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Army Tests High-Tech Helicopter Simulator
The Army is using a new helicopter simulator, called the Non-rated Crew Member Manned Module (NCM3), to train helicopter crews on the rear of both the CH-47 Chinook and UH-60 Black Hawk. Through specially created virtual reality glasses, which fit the same as night vision goggles, soldiers can practice and...
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Test and Evaluation Uses of Heterogeneous Computing
T est and evaluation of current systems is a time-consuming process that reflects both the intricacies of the object of the test and the range of equipment, personnel, and environments required. Many argue that this process consumes far too much of the time that it takes to put new systems into...
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Environmental Awareness of Sensor and Emitter Employment
Many Army missions rely on effective sensing capabilities that provide intelligence on the adversary, and protect friendly forces from enemy detection. Sensors that are stationary (microphones, geophones, and ground-based radars) and moving (cameras on unattended aerial vehicles and ground...
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Bus Analyzer Plus Data Reconstruction
Data Device Corporation (DDC) (Bohemia, New York) has added data reconstruction and troubleshooting capabilities to its dataSIMS bus analyzer software. Reconstruction, or On-Line Replay, mode enables users...
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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...
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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...
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Multi-Agent Software for Airspace Control in the Combat Zone
AGENTFLY software is part of a computer-based system technology that will enhance airspace operation, providing ever-increasing support to personnel without freeing them from the ultimate responsibility. AGENTFLY features distributed coordination mechanisms based on collective...
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Medical Information Network Decision Support System
In order to facilitate a more rapid and systematic transfer of new medical knowledge and capabilities into mainstream clinical practice, a new Medical Information Network Decision Support (MINDS) system has been proposed. This system is intended to be a platform for storing and fusing medical data...
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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...
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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...
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Considerations of Aeroacoustics in Turbojet-Engine Testing
A study of the aeroacoustics of a turbojet-engine test cell has been performed as one step in the development of a computational aeroacoustics capability (CAA) that could provide...
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Software Optimizes Multi-Core Platforms
Perseus is a suite of tools that allows existing x86-based software (in binary form) to be optimized for commodity multi-core platforms. Optimizations are made with respect to both performance (e.g., by avoiding undesirable cache effects) and power consumption (e.g., by modulating frequency and voltage of...
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Tool for Processing and Displaying Genomics Data in Spreadsheets
ChromaBlast is a computer program that facilitates and accelerates processing and display of data by use of Microsoft Excel or other spreadsheet software that affords similar capabilities. The development of ChromaBlast was prompted by a need for improved means of analyzing and...
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