Abstract: A computer-implemented modeling-and-simulation coordination module is provided for coordinating components by exchanging and sequencing instructions. The module includes a scenario file generator, a plug-in loader, an interface loader, a module classifier, an event detector, a response initiator, a simulation processor, a model request processor, an instance receiver, and an output provider. The scenario file generator creates a blank scenario file. The plug-in loader loads plug-in modules. The interface loader loads GUIs into corresponding containers. The classifier sets a classification to a highest rank plug-in module. The event detector monitors updating events. The response initiator prompts the operator to select an experimental plug-in module. The simulation processor executes a simulation in response to the operator loading a scenario, setting experimental parameters, and selecting the simulator plug-in.

Abstract: A fixture is provided for supporting load from weapons recoil, being mountable on a flat bed of a road vehicle disposed on ground. The flat bed can receive a weapons mount. The vehicle has longitudinal, lateral and vertical orientations. The fixture includes a box brace, a recoil platform, first and second brackets, first and second beams, first and second posts and a deck. The box brace extends in the lateral direction. The recoil platform is parallel to the brace. The first and second brackets extend from the platform in the longitudinal direction. The beams are disposable parallel to the brace. The beams are translatable in the lateral direction. The first and second posts extend in the vertical direction downward from respective the first and second beams. The deck can receive the weapons mount, and is disposable on the platform and the brackets. The posts are retractable for stowage and extendible for raising the flat bed above the ground.

Abstract: A method is provided for assessing potential threat from an approaching craft to a target platform. The method includes analyzing a vulnerability parameter of the platform, such that parameter quantifies a threshold to a destructive event. The method further includes observing a characteristic of the craft based on its size and type, and estimating a carrying capacity explosive mass of the craft based on that characteristic. The method further includes computing a risk boundary based on the mass against the parameter as a function of distance between the craft and the platform, displaying a graph of said boundary as the distance varying with respect to the mass, wherein the boundary represents the threshold, and plotting a graphical position of the craft in relation to the mass and the distance on the graph.

Abstract: A cloak is provided for concealing an object to an electromagnetic field. A first vane encloses the object and a second vane encloses the first vane. The distance between the first and second vanes varies relative to the object, so as to conceal the object to the electromagnetic field.

Abstract: A computer-implemented analysis method is provided for identifying launch position and acceleration of a bogey relative to Earth's surface based on Earth's radius. The method includes operations of observing a target position and a velocity vector of the bogey; establishing an altitude of the bogey relative to a tangent line on the Earth's surface from the target position and the velocity vector; determining a flight path angle of the bogey relative to an intersection line perpendicular to the tangent line; calculating a launch angle of the bogey from the flight path angle and the altitude; evaluating a tilt angle of the bogey from the flight path and launch angles; establishing a distance of the target position to the launch position from the flight path and tilt angles and the Earth's radius; estimating the acceleration from the distance and a velocity magnitude deriving from the velocity vector; and reporting the acceleration and the launch position.

Abstract: A signal amplifier is provided via a triple Mach-Zehnder interferometer (MZI) apparatus for determining intensity distribution at either a first port or a second port by a photon from a source. The first and second ports correspond to respective first and second directions. The MZI apparatus includes four beam-splitters disposed co-linearly in parallel between the source and the ports, six parallel mirrors, and first and second path projectors. Three of these mirrors are displaced along the first direction from the beam-splitters, while the remaining mirrors are displaced along the second direction. The path projectors conduct weak measurement of a photon occupation number and are disposed between the second beam-splitter and an adjacent downstream mirror. The output port is disposed beyond the fourth beam-splitter in the first direction. The intensity distribution at the output port is positive in response to one of the first measurement being positive and the second measurement being negative.

Abstract: A method is provided for producing a particulate filter to pass through select permeate particles in a fluid medium from inflow to outflow regions while restraining reticulate particles.