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Validation of Hazardous Air Pollutant (HAP)-Free Torque Seal Inspection Lacquer
The Army uses numerous adhesives and sealants, among other coating materials, that contain significant amounts of hazardous air pollutants (HAPs). This work...
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Modeling Defects in Transparent Ceramics to Improve Military Armor
The dominant materials solution used for ballistic transparency protection of armored tactical platforms in commercial and military applications is low-cost glass backed by...
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RF Polymer Composites for Electromagnetic Systems
Design of polymer composites with specific engineered electromagnetic properties are of use in a variety of physical electromagnetic systems above 100 MHz. In physical electromagnetic systems such as GPS, radomes, WiFi, etc., proper choice of the material can be transformative in that it can yield...
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Characterization of High-Temperature Polymer Thin Films for Power Conditioning Capacitors
Wide bandgap semiconductors (e.g., silicon carbide) will enable operation of military systems at temperatures above 150 °C, which eases thermal...
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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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Multifunctional Properties of Structural Gel Electrolytes
Due to the demand for more advanced and lightweight systems, multifunctional composite structures that can function as electrochemical energy converters, while bearing mechanical load, are in development. This research involves a materials-based approach in which each component of the system...
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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...
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...
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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...
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 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...
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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....
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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...
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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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Fabricating Biologically Inspired Artificial Haircell Sensors
As electronics packaging and equipment have decreased in size and weight, so have the potential dimensions of unmanned aircraft. Specifically, a classification of micro air vehicles...
Briefs Mechanical & Fluid Systems
Sensing for Controls and Propulsion Health Management in Turbine Engines
Advances in engine performance and reliability require sensor components that operate reliably under extreme engine operating conditions (e.g., takeoff, max thrust) and in...
Tech Transfer Reports Materials
Ceramic Manufacturing Technique Opens New Markets
Traditionally, ceramics have been thought of as hard and brittle, yet able to tolerate high temperatures. Now, Advanced Ceramics Research (ACR) of Tucson, AZ has developed a method of...
Briefs Mechanical & Fluid Systems
Axial Field Electric Motor
An axial field electric motor comprises one or more elements such as a rotor mounted for rotation and multiple axial flux permanent magnets carried by the rotor. The axial flux permanent magnets are oriented such that...
Briefs Mechanical & Fluid Systems
Water Mist System for Shipboard Machinery Space Fires
Water mist has been determined to be a preferred alternative to Halon 1301 total flooding to extinguish fires occurring in ship machinery spaces and pump rooms, because it is toxicologically...
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Novel Conductive Coatings of Carbon Nanotubes
Carbon nanotubes (CNTs) are the material of ever-increasing concern due to their excellent electronic and physicochemical properties. Currently, research has been focused towards their applications for use in chemical and biological sensors as well as their use in optoelectronic devices. One of the...
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Mechanical Response of an Al-PTFE Composite to Uniaxial Compression Over a Range of Strain Rates and Temperatures
Reactive materials can be loosely categorized as composites of inert solid materials which, when subjected to a violent mechanical...
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Polymer Matrix Composite Materials for a Structural Multifunctional Fuel Cell
A structural multifunctional fuel cell design enables material elements participating in power or energy processes to also carry significant structural loads. Power...
Briefs Mechanical & Fluid Systems
Characterization of a MEMS Directional Sound Sensor
There is a wide range of potential military applications in which ambiguity in bearing occurs with respect to sound. For example, autonomous unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) could employ a...
Briefs Materials
Fluidic Flexible Matrix Composites for Autonomous Structural Tailoring
In previous research, a high-mechanical- advantage actuator system inspired by the fibrillar networks in plant cell walls was developed. One of the basic elements in the...
Briefs Software
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...
Briefs Materials
Cluster-Assembled Soft Magnets for Power Electronics Applications
This technique uses nanocluster assembly to produce model soft magnetic materials with simpler chemical composition than existing materials and well-controlled nanostructure, and...
Briefs Physical Sciences
Robot Vision System for Precise Object Retrieval in Unmanned Systems
Automating large-scale material handling systems that involve picking up or retrieving items via cranes or robot arms can yield big benefits, particularly in harsh or...
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