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ADD's Test Facilities for National Defense Magnetic Research (국방 자기분야 연구를 위한 국방과학연구소 시험시설)

  • Yang, Chang-Seob;Chung, Hyun-Ju;Jung, Woo-Jin
    • Journal of the Korean Magnetics Society
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    • v.24 no.4
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    • pp.114-122
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    • 2014
  • Since 1990, Agency for Defense Development (ADD) has been operating the nonmagnetic laboratory and the magnetic sensors laboratory to develop the key technology of the ship's magnetic silencing and to research the high performance magnetic sensors used in the weapon system and to perform the technical support for Republic of Korea Navy. Recently, the main test equipment in the laboratories has been upgraded to improve the measurement and analysis abilities against magnetic target and to evaluate the performance of the magnetic sensors. In this paper, the capability and the current state of magnetic test facilities of ADD are described.

A Study on the Analysis and Improvement of Defense Technology Planning in Response to the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4차 산업혁명 대응을 위한 국방기술기획 분석 및 개선방안 연구)

  • Noh, Sang-Woo;Song, Yu Ha;Choi, Jong-Min
    • Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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    • v.19 no.4
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    • pp.551-556
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    • 2018
  • With the rise of the fourth industrial revolution, the importance of establishing R&D strategies to develop ICT technologies such as Big Data, Artificial Intelligence, Robots, the Internet of Objects, and 3D Printing is increasing. In this study, we analyzed the effects of the fourth industrial revolution on society and the present state of the national defense technology planning system, and proposed improvement measures for the utilization of the fourth industrial revolution in the defense industry from the perspective of defense R&D. The current defense R&D strategy focuses on securing the core technologies of each weapon system required by the military through research and development. Under the current system, the role of fourth industrial revolution technology will be confined to some of the weapons systems required by the military. In order to overcome this limitation, we propose a technology roadmap for the future weapons systems.

The Development of High Performance Nano-composites with Carbon Nanotube (카본나노튜브를 이용한 고성능 나노복합재료의 개발 동향)

  • Lee, Min-Kyung;Bae, Soo Bin;Park, Jong Kyoo;Lee, Seung Geol
    • Textile Coloration and Finishing
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    • v.26 no.2
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    • pp.71-78
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    • 2014
  • This review paper is a state of the art report of the development of high performance nano-composites with carbon nanotube. We investigate the research and development (R&D) trends of high performance nano-composites with carbon nanotube by analyzing technical trends in research institutes and industry. We report the R&D and technology trends for the properties and applications of fabrication of hybrid composites with aligned carbon nanotubes, multifunctional fiber/carbon nanotube composites. We discuss the specific topics including unidirectional carbon nanotube, carbon nanotube forests, transfer-printing carbon nanotube technology, deposition of carbon nanotube by electrophoresis, vapor grown carbon fiber (VGCF), cup-stacked carbon nanotube, bucky paper and carbon nanotube yarns in this review paper.

Efficient Re-degaussing Technique for a Naval Ship Undergoing a Breakdown in Degaussing Coils

  • Kim, Dong-Wook;Lee, Sang-Kyun;Kang, Byungsu;Cho, Jeonghun;Lee, WooSeok;Yang, Chang-Seob;Chung, Hyun-Ju;Kim, Dong-Hun
    • Journal of Magnetics
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    • v.21 no.2
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    • pp.197-203
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    • 2016
  • A naval ship equipped with a degaussing system may undergo a breakdown in degaussing coils at sea. In the case, underwater magnetic field around the ship abruptly grows up and it can make the ship be easily exposed to fatal hazards such as magnetic mines or torpedoes. This paper proposes an efficient and practical re-degaussing technique for a ship where a part of degaussing coils is out of order. To achieve this, an analytical design sensitivity formula and approximated degaussing coil field are exploited, and then new optimum currents of available coils are reassessed. To validate the proposed method, a muck-up ship equipped with 14 degaussing coils is tested in scale-down magnetic treatment facilities under three faulty coil conditions.

Composition of Federal R&D Spending, and Regional Economy : The Case of the U.S.A

  • Lee, Si-Kyoung
    • Journal of the Korean Regional Science Association
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    • v.9 no.1
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    • pp.65-78
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    • 1993
  • In this study, the significant and enduring concentration of federal R&D spending in metro-scale clusters across the nation is treated as evidence of the operation of a distinct industrial infrastructure defined by the ability of R&D performers to attract external funding and pursue the sophisticated project work demanded. It follows, then, that the agglomerative potential of these R&D concentrations -- performers and their support infrastructures -- requires a search for economic impacts guided by a different stimulative effects attributable to federal R&D spending may be that substantial subnational economic impacts are routinely obscured and diluted by research designs that seek to discover impacts either at the level of nation-scale economic aggregates or on firms or specific industries organized spatially. Therefore, this study proceeds by seeking to link the locational clustering of federal contract R&D spending to more localized economic impacts. It tests a series of models(X-IV) designed to trace federal contract R&D spending flows to economic impacts registered at the level of metro-regional economies. By shifting the focus from funding sources to recipient types and then to sector-specific impacts, the patterns of consistent results become increasingly compelling. In general, these results indicated that federal R&D spending does indeed nurture the development of an important nation-spanning advanced industrial production and R&D infrastructure anchored primarily by two dozed or so metro-regions. However, dominated as it is by a strong defense-industrial orientation, federal contract R&D spending would appear to constitute a relatively inefficient national economic development policy, at least as registered on conventional indicators. Federal contract R&D destined for the support of nondefense/civilian(Model I), nonprofit(Model II), and educational/research(Mode III) R&D agendas is associated with substantially greater regional employment and income impacts than is R&D funding disbursed by the Department of Defense. While federal R&D support from DOD(Model I) and for-profit(Model II) and industrial performer(Model III) contract R&D agendas are associated with positive regional economic impacts, they are substantially smaller than those associated with performers operating outside the defense industrial base. Moreover, evidence that the large-business sector mediates a small business sector(Model VI) justifies closer scrutiny of the relative contribution to economic growth and development made by these two sectors, as well as of the primacy typically accorded employment change as a conventional economic performance indicator. Ultimately, those regions receiving federal R&D spending have experienced measurable employment and income gains as a result. However, whether or not those gains could be improved by changing the composition -- and therefore the primary missions -- of federal R&D spending cannot be decided by merely citing evidence of its economic impacts of the kind reported here. Rather, that decision turns on a prior public choice relating to the trade-offs deemed acceptable between conventional employment and income gains, the strength of a nation's industrial base not reflected in such indicators, and the reigning conception of what constitutes national security -- military might or a competitive civilian economy.

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A Systems Engineering Case Study to Improve Defence R&D Program Effectiveness (국방 R&D사업 시스템엔지니어링 적용사례 및 발전방안 연구 - 저고도레이더 업체주관 연구개발사업 사례 중심으로 -)

  • Park, Kyeong-Il;Pyun, Wan-Joo;Park, Young-Won
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Systems Engineering
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    • v.4 no.2
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    • pp.35-43
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    • 2008
  • Application of system engineering should be realized on necessary condition being to propel National Defense R&D Program. But, these necessity is yet not realized easily to many project managers of Defense Acquisition Program Administration(DAPA). As one person of DAPA project manager, system engineering hard to approaches easily by the word itself. There are a lot of difficult sections where should apply how. This paper established DAPA Project Manager and Acquisition Point of Contact of demand Military by main customer (reader), and wished to make understood more easily and approach system engineering application to these. Also, this paper studied project management example that scientific project management techniques of Earned Value Management(EVM) and Cost As an Independent Variable(CAIV) etc. is taken abuzz in DAPA inside by Project management technique that become reform, arc Integrated in system engineering.

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Real-Time Closed-Loop Degaussing Technique for a Minesweeper (소해함을 위한 실시간 폐회로 소자 기법)

  • Kang, Byungsu;Kim, Dong-Hun;Yang, Chang-Seob;Chung, Hyun-Ju;Kim, Dong-Wook
    • Journal of the Korean Magnetics Society
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    • v.27 no.3
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    • pp.98-103
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    • 2017
  • In this paper, an efficient closed-loop degaussing technique is proposed to control real-time degaussing currents required for a minesweeper. To achieve this, new principle and algorithm for controling degaussing currents are presented, and they are compared to conventional ones. To validate the proposed method, a minesweeper mockup is tested by means of a rigorous numerical simulation. Results show that the method successfully yields satisfactory degaussing performances for several course angle changes of the mockup.

A simple iterative independent component analysis algorithm for vibration source signal identification of complex structures

  • Lee, Dong-Sup;Cho, Dae-Seung;Kim, Kookhyun;Jeon, Jae-Jin;Jung, Woo-Jin;Kang, Myeng-Hwan;Kim, Jae-Ho
    • International Journal of Naval Architecture and Ocean Engineering
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    • v.7 no.1
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    • pp.128-141
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    • 2015
  • Independent Component Analysis (ICA), one of the blind source separation methods, can be applied for extracting unknown source signals only from received signals. This is accomplished by finding statistical independence of signal mixtures and has been successfully applied to myriad fields such as medical science, image processing, and numerous others. Nevertheless, there are inherent problems that have been reported when using this technique: instability and invalid ordering of separated signals, particularly when using a conventional ICA technique in vibratory source signal identification of complex structures. In this study, a simple iterative algorithm of the conventional ICA has been proposed to mitigate these problems. The proposed method to extract more stable source signals having valid order includes an iterative and reordering process of extracted mixing matrix to reconstruct finally converged source signals, referring to the magnitudes of correlation coefficients between the intermediately separated signals and the signals measured on or nearby sources. In order to review the problems of the conventional ICA technique and to validate the proposed method, numerical analyses have been carried out for a virtual response model and a 30 m class submarine model. Moreover, in order to investigate applicability of the proposed method to real problem of complex structure, an experiment has been carried out for a scaled submarine mockup. The results show that the proposed method could resolve the inherent problems of a conventional ICA technique.

Development of an Equine Antitoxin by Immunizing the Halla Horse with the Receptor-Binding Domain of Botulinum Neurotoxin Type A1

  • Kim, Na Young;Park, Kyung-eui;Lee, Yong Jin;Kim, Yeong Mun;Hong, Sung Hyun;Son, Won Rak;Hong, Sungyoul;Lee, Saehyung;Ahn, Hye Bin;Yang, Jaehyuk;Seo, Jong-pil;Lim, Yoon-Kyu;Yu, Chi Ho;Hur, Gyeung Haeng;Jeong, Seong Tae;Lee, Hun Seok;Song, Kyoung;Kang, Tae Jin;Shin, Young Kee;Choi, Joon-Seok;Choi, Jun Young
    • Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
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    • v.29 no.7
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    • pp.1165-1176
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    • 2019
  • Botulinum neurotoxins (BoNTs), produced by Clostridium botulinum, are the most toxic substances known. However, the number of currently approved medical countermeasures for these toxins is very limited. Therefore, studies on therapeutic antitoxins are essential to prepare for toxin-related emergencies. Currently, more than 10,000 Halla horses, a crossbreed between the native Jeju and Thoroughbred horses, are being raised in Jeju Island of Korea. They can be used for equine antitoxin experiments and production of hyperimmune serum against BoNT/A1. Instead of the inactivated BoNT/A1 toxoid, Halla horse was immunized with the receptor-binding domain present in the C-terminus of heavy chain of BoNT/A1 (BoNT/A1-HCR) expressed in Escherichia coli. The anti-BoNT/A1-HCR antibody titer increased rapidly by week 4, and this level was maintained for several weeks after boosting immunization. Notably, $20{\mu}l$ of the week-24 BoNT/A1-HCR(-immunized) equine serum showed an in vitro neutralizing activity of over 8 international units (IU) of a reference equine antitoxin. Furthermore, $20{\mu}l$ of equine serum and $100{\mu}g$ of purified equine $F(ab^{\prime})_2$ showed 100% neutralization of 10,000 $LD_{50}$ in vivo. The results of this study shall contribute towards optimizing antitoxin production for BoNT/A1, which is essential for emergency preparedness and response.

Applying 3D Printing Spare Parts to Operation Field (3D 프린팅 수리부품의 작전현장 적용을 위한 방안)

  • Yoo, Seunghee;Hur, Jangwan;Lee, Heungryong
    • Journal of Aerospace System Engineering
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    • v.13 no.1
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    • pp.54-61
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    • 2019
  • The 3D printing technology took the second place within the top ten rising technologies at the World Economic Forum in 2012. It arose as a core technology that would enable transformation in the manufacturing industry and develop new markets through the change of existing industry paradigms. Leading countries, like the United States of America, are actively expanding the use of 3D printing technologies within their defense areas. In order to utilize the technology within her defense areas, the Republic of Korea is planning to acquire defense spare parts manufacturing technologies and nurture professional defense personnel specializing in the 3D printing technology. Hence, this study offers various methods to efficiently apply reliable 3D printing spare parts to operation fields in the future by utilizing spare parts localization development management methods within existing weapon systems' development, manufacturing and sustainment phases.