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Rate-Dependence of Tensile Properties And Stress-Strain Behavior of an Oxide/ Oxide Ceramic Matrix Composite at Elevated Temperature and the Effects o
Advanced aerospace structures and components require materials that exhibit high strength at high operating temperatures. Nextel " 720/Alumina (N720/A) is an oxide/oxide, porous-matrix ceramic-matrix composite developed for load bearing applications at elevated temperatures. The current research investigates the rate dependence of tensile properties of...- $15.95
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Power Scaling Feasibility of Chromium-Doped II-VI Laser Sources and the Demonstration of a Chromium-Doped Zinc Selenide Face-Cooled Disk Laser
Tunable laser sources in the 2-4 m spectral range are required for several Air Force sensor applications, yet choices are few in that spectral region, and no truly satisfactory source has yet been found for all applications. Additional source alternatives are needed in addition...- $18.95
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Passive Ranging of Dynamic Rocket Plumes Using Infrared and Visible Oxygen Attenuation
Atmospheric oxygen absorption bands in observed spectra of boost phase missiles can be used to accurately estimate range from sensor to target. This work compares two oxygen absorption bands in the near-infrared (NIR) and visible (Vis) spectrum, centered at 762nm and 690 nm, to...- $57.95
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Analysis of Aion Distributionsin the Developing Strata of a Constructed Wetland Used for Chlorinated Ethene Remediation
Perchloroethene (PCE), Trichloroethene (TCE) and their degradation products are among the most common organic groundwater contaminants in the United States. Constructed wetlands utilizing upward flow harbor reduction-oxidation conditions that have demonstrated the potential to promote both partial and total mineralization of PCE and TCE...- $18.95
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GPS-Derived Precipitable Water Compared With the Air Force Weather Agency's MM5 Model Output
Current moisture initialization sources lack the spatial and temporal resolution required for mesoscale moisture forecast accuracy critical for military operations. The Global Positioning System (GPS) satellite constellation provides an opportunity to extract accurate moisture observations based on the refraction of the GPS signal through...- $17.95
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Effects of Prior Aging at 274 °C in Argon on the Inelastic Deformation Behavior of PMR-15 Polymer at 288 °C: Experiment And Modeling
The inelastic deformation behavior of PMR-15 neat resin, a high-temperature polymer, was investigated at 288 C. The experimental program was designed to explore the influence of strain rate on loading and unloading behaviors. In addition, the effect of prior strain rate on creep, relaxation,...- $18.95
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An Analysis of Missile Systems Cost Growth and Implementation of Acquisition Reform Initiatives Using a Hybrid Adjusted Cost Growth Model
This thesis examined cost growth in Department of Defense (DoD) missile systems from 1991 to 2001 using Selected Acquisition Report (SAR) data with a hybrid adjusted cost growth (ACG) model. In addition, an analysis of acquisition reform initiatives during the treatment period was conducted...- $17.95
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An Analysis of Coast Guard HH-65 Engine Reliability: A Comparison of Malfunctions to Component Removals
The Coast Guard HH-65 helicopter experienced 31 in-flight loss of power incidents during FY 2003 and 21 during the first two months of FY 2003. Concurrent with this apparent decrease in reliability, the Coast Guard seeks ways to expand the HH-65's Airborne Use of...- $17.95
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Analysis of the Next Generation Small Loader in Reducing the Mobility Footprint
The impact the Next Generation Small Loader (NGSL) will have on reducing the mobility footprint has not been thoroughly explored. The global mobility system cannot function without adequate Materiel Handling Equipment (MHE). MHE of the future must be multi-purpose in design and should able...- $15.95
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Estimating Cost Growth in Engineering and Schedule Cost Categories Using a Two-Pronged Regression Approach
Cost growth in major DoD acquisition programs has been commonplace for the last 35 years, and shows no signs of improvement despite the adoption of new business practices legislation. In the current environment where taxpayer dollars are heavily competed for, and the expenditure of...- $17.95
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Photoluminescence of Single Quantum Well Structures in Gallium Arsenide
The continued development of state-of-the-art semiconductor technologies and devices by the United States Air Force and the Department of Defense requires accurate and efficient techniques to evaluate and model these new materials. Of particular interest to the Air Force are quantum well structures which...- $15.95
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Mitigating Reversing Vulnerabilities in .Net Applications Using Virtualized Software Protection
Protecting intellectual property contained in application source code and preventing tampering with application binaries are both major concerns for software developers. Simply by possessing an application binary, any user is able to attempt to reverse engineer valuable information or produce unanticipated execution results through...- $57.95
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Training Air Service Pursuit Pilots in World War I
The purpose of this study was to determine if the American Air Service developed a training program which successfully prepared pursuit pilots to accomplish their mission along the western front in World War I. This historical research thoroughly examined each of the three key...- $13.95
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Acquisition Renaissance: The Birth of Critical Analysis in the Acquisition Workforce
In his article, "The Military-Technical Revolution: A Preliminary Assessment," Andrew F. Krepinevich, Jr. suggests "an adaptive, flexible, and innovative acquisition system will become increasingly important as the rate of technological change increases."1 Indeed, how can we make systems acquisition more efficient and effective? The...- $13.95
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From Desert Storm to 2025: Close Air Support in the 21st Century
As the U.S. Air Force attempts to resolve force structure requirements with decreasing military budgets, multi-role aircraft are gaining acceptance as economical solutions. Unfortunately, close air support (CAS) has few mission requirements that are compatible with more traditional air combat roles. Despite this fact,...- $13.95
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Operational Risk Management Problems in Air Combat Command Units: Misguided Risk Quantification and a Lack of Integration Could Impede Implementation
In 1987, the US Army implemented Operational Risk Management (ORM) techniques in an attempt to reduce mishaps. By the early 1990s, the Army reduced serious mishaps by more than 80 percent. In 1996, Air Combat Command (ACC) outlined its ORM implementation strategy in an...- $13.95
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Toward a Single, Integrated Planning and Execution System Deployment Planning in the Expeditionary Aerospace Force
The Joint Operation Planning and Execution System (JOPES) is a combination of joint policies, procedures, and automated data processing (ADP) support used to plan and execute joint military operations. While JOPES defines three interrelated planning processes, circumstances of the past decade induced the Air...- $13.95
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Demonstration and Verification of a Broad Spectrum Anomalous Dispersion Effects Tool for Index of Refraction and Optical Turbulence Calculations
An atmospheric optical turbulence strength model with a broad wavelength range of 355nm (ultraviolet) to 8.6m (radio frequencies) has been created at AFIT and implemented into the High Energy Laser End-to-End Operational Simulation tool (HELEEOS). This modeling and simulation tool is a first principles...- $17.95
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An Investigation of Air Force Communities of Practice: A Descriptive Study of Evolution Through Assessment of People, Process, and Technology Capabili
A variety of theories state that communities of practice (CoPs) "evolve" or "mature" through various stages over time. Such theories posit that each stage is characterized by different people, process, and technology attributes/capabilities that ultimately necessitate differing strategies for achieving effectiveness (Gongla and Rizzuto,...- $17.95
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The Nevada Test and Training Range Crunch: Expanding Airpower Capabilities Are Shrinking Training Airspace and Ranges
The Nevada Test and Training Range (NTTR) Crunch: Expanding Airpower Capabilities are Shrinking Training Airspace and Ranges How does the US maintain the most capable Air Force in the world? Without argument, Air Force aviators receive the best training on the best equipment with...- $13.95
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A Neural Network Solution to Predicting Wind Speed at Cape Canaveral's Atlas Launch
This thesis demonstrates the potential for using time-delay neural networks to provide Launch Weather Officers (LWOs) at 45th Weather Squadron (45 WS) with advance warning of wintertime (November-March) peak wind speeds at the Atlas launch pad. The 45 WS provides weather support to the...- $17.95
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A Delphi Study of HIPAA Compliance to Battlefield Medical Evacuation
The purpose of this research was to examine the impact of HIPAA compliance on the Battlefield Medical Evacuation process. Specifically, this thesis sought to answer three research questions addressing the current Battlefield Medical Evacuation process and current HIPAA considerations for each step of the...- $13.95
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A Delphi Expert Assessment of Proactive Contracting in an Evolutionary Acquisition Environment
This study used structured group discussions (The Delphi Method) among three groups of contracting professionals from the Air Armament, Aeronautical Systems, and the Electronic Systems Centers in order to identify potential roadblocks to implementation of Evolutionary Acquisition strategies. The Delphi groups also tackled the...- $20.95
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Security Vulnerability Trends Related to Electric Power Supplied at Military Installations
The United States (U.S.) electric grid is considered one of the greatest inventions of the twentieth century, yet it become apparent over the past few decades that it is not without its own set of problems. The deregulation of the U.S. electric system in...- $17.95
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Effect of Temperature and Steam Environment on Fatigue Behavior of an Oxide-Oxide Continuous Fiber Ceramic Composite
There is an ever-increasing need for materials that maintain high strength and fracture toughness at elevated temperatures and in complex environments. Advanced aerospace applications are motivating the development of composite materials that can meet demanding requirements. This research effort investigates mechanical behavior of an...- $17.95
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Terrain and Spatial Effects on a Hazard Prediction and Assessment Capability Software Dose-Rate Contour Plot Predictions as Compared to a Sample of Lo
Hazard Prediction and Capability (HPAC) Software is validated by comparing modeled predictions to historical test data. Reanalysis weather data is acquired and reformatted for use in HPAC. Simulations are made using various amounts of weather data by use of a spatial domain. Simulations are...- $18.95
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Defeating Adversary Network Intelligence Efforts with Active Cyber Defense Techniques
The purpose of this research was to assess the potential of dynamic network reconfiguration and decoys to defeat adversary network reconnaissance efforts, thereby improving network defense. Specifically, this study sought to determine if the strategy has merit, thus warranting more resource intensive research and...- $57.95
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Not with Impunity: Assessing U.S. Policy for Retaliating to a Chemical or Biological Attack
How should the United States determine its response to a chemical or biological attack against American personnel or interests? This paper assesses the current U.S. reprisal policy known as calculated ambiguity and concludes that today.s policy does not contain enough substance to support strategy...- $57.95
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O Day of Wrath: A Case Study in Collateral Damage and Psychological Effects
One of the realities of war is collateral damage. Modern war fighters make every effort to avoid unwarranted loss of life and destruction of property that is not part of the "target set" for a given operation. Yet, during World War II when "precision...- $15.95
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Modeling Urban Warfare: Joint Semi-Automated Forces in Urban Resolve
The United States military is performing operations in urban environments with increasing frequency. Current Department of Defense doctrine is poorly suited to train and equip today's warriors with the tools and experience necessary to fight and win in modern sprawling cities. In order to...- $57.95
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Aerospace Sanctuary in 2025: Shrinking the Bul's-Eye
Future technologies may allow a direct reduction of core entities or centers of gravity on an operating air base. Reducing the core entities has a direct impact on base defense. As fewer things become critical for sustained operations, defending them becomes easier. Further, there...- $15.95
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Fuel Composition and Performance Analysis of Endothermically Heated Fuels for Pulse Detonation Engines
Waste heat from a pulse detonation engine (PDE) was extracted via concentric, counter flow heat exchangers to produce supercritical pyrolytic conditions for JP-7 and JP-8 fuels. A sampling system and method was utilized to collect samples of reacted fuel to be extracted during steady...- $17.95
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Jp-8+100lt: A Low Cost Replacement of Jpts as the Primary Fuel for the U-2 Aircraft?
The Air Force currently spends approximately $10 million dollars annually on fuel support for the U-2 aircraft. The U-2 has used a jet fuel known as JPTS since the aircraft's development in the 1950's. JPTS is a specialty fuel used only by the U-2...- $15.95
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Support Equipment Deployability: A Delphi Study to Determine the Transportability Characteristics of Aerospace Ground Equipment
The issue of mobility is vital to the Air Force as it faces the 21st century. Operational units must be prepared to quickly deploy anywhere in the world. Aerospace Ground Equipment (AGE) is a large portion of any operational unit's mobility requirements. The Multi-function...- $15.95
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A Comparative Usability and End-User Satisfaction Analysis of Two Geographic Information System Applications
The U.S. Air Force has recognized that organizations across Air Force (AF) installations often require geospatial information resources or maps to accomplish mission essential tasks. To provide an AF-wide approach to addressing this need, in 2001, the Headquarters Air Force Geo Integration Office formed...- $17.95
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Visualization of Career-Related Computer-Mediated Communication for Increased Knowledge Management
Retention and retrieval of organizational memory has been the concentration of many conceptualized models of an organizational memory information system (OMIS). This thesis presents an extended view for system development of an OMIS from a knowledge management perspective. The United States Air Force maintains...- $17.95
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Forecasting Demand for Civilian Pilots: A Cost Savings Approach to Managing Air Force Pilot Resources
The purpose of this research was to create a model that could potentially predict demand for military trained pilots in the airline industry. Specifically, this thesis sought to answer the research question addressing whether or not military trained pilots are currently more in demand...- $13.95
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Information Requirements Analysis: A Qualitative Characterization of the Flightline Expediter for the Integrated Maintenance Information System
The Integrated Maintenance Information System (IMIS) concept design includes the addition of management tools to access IMIS databases and provide communication capabilities between flightline technicians and supervisors. Armstrong Laboratory has developed a portable maintenance aid for technicians, and sponsored this research to investigate the...- $15.95
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Developing an Effective and Efficient Real Time Strategy Agent for Use as a Computer Generated Force
Computer Generated Forces (CGF) are used as units or people in military training and simulation. The use of CGF signi cantly reduces the time and money required for effective training. Real Time Strategy (RTS) games place players in control of a large force whose...- $17.95
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Automated Virtual Machine Introspection for Host-Based Intrusion Detection
This thesis examines techniques to automate configuration of an intrusion detection system utilizing hardware-assisted virtualization. These techniques are used to detect the version of a running guest operating system, automatically configure version-specific operating system information needed by the introspection library, and to locate and...- $17.95
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Preliminary Electrical Designs for CTEX and AFIT Satellite Ground Station
This thesis outlines the design of the electrical components for the space-based ChromoTomography Experiment (CTEx). CTEx is the next step in the development of high-speed chromotomography at the Air Force Institute of Technology. The electrical design of the system is challenging due to the...- $18.95
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Comparative Analysis of Traditional Versus Computer-Based Survey Instrument Response
The purpose of this study was to determine if survey medium (paper versus computer) affected responses and response rates in Air Force personnel. The study compared responses and response rates from 900 randomly selected Air Force active duty members using a paper-based survey, a...- $17.95
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Development of a Standard Set of Indicators and Metrics for Artificial Intelligence and Expert System Software Development Efforts
The purpose of this research was to identify a standard set of indicators and metrics that can be used by program managers to improve their abilities to direct development efforts involving Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Expert Systems (ES). This research addresses two objectives. The...- $15.95
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Process Time Refinement for Reusable Launch Vehicle Regeneration Modeling
To sustain operational effectiveness, the Air Force has invested in the research and development of space-based technologies. Certain ongoing spacelift research efforts are focused on developing operationally responsive Reusable Military Launch Vehicles (RMLV) capable of launching payloads into orbit within hours of a tasking...- $18.95
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A New Application of the Channel Packet Method for Low Energy 1-D Elastic Scattering
An algorithm is presented which uses the channel packet method (CPM) to compute S-matrix elements. The standard approach to solving for the S-matrix elements is to use states which contain only positive or negative momentum. In doing so however, the standard approach fails to...- $15.95
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A Multireference Density Functional Approach to the Calculation of the Excited States of Uranium Ions
An accurate and efficient hybrid Density Functional Theory (DFT) and Multireference Configuration Interaction (MRCI) model for computing electronic excitation energies in atoms and molecules was developed. The utility of a hybrid method becomes apparent when ground and excited states of large molecules, clusters of...- $18.95
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Codifying Information Assurance Controls for Department of DefenseSupervisory Control and Data Acquisition Systems
Protecting DoD critical infrastructure resources and Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) systems from cyber attacks is becoming an increasingly challenging task. DoD Information Assurance controls provide a sound framework to achieve an appropriate level of confidentiality, integrity, and availability. However, these controls have...- $17.95
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Interoperability at the Speed of Sound: Canada-United States Aerospace Cooperation Modernizing the CF-18 Hornet
Modern warfare is clearly changing, yet there are some things that do not change. Throughout history, soldiers, sailors, Marines and airmen have learned one extremely valuable lesson relative to engagement with an opposing force. That is, if you can analyze, act and assess faster...- $13.95
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Suppression of Pilot-Induced Oscillation
The purpose of this simulation study and flight test was to attempt to eliminate oscillatory departures and/or pilot-induced oscillations (PIOs) by means of selectively attenuating pilot command in the oscillatory frequency range. While rate limiting is a major contributor to many PIOs, this study...- $57.95
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Optical Parametric Oscillation in Orientation-Patterned Gallium Arsenide
Tunable laser sources in the mid-infrared (MIR) spectral range are required for several Air Force applications. Existing lasers with output in the near-infrared can be converted to more desirable MIR by using nonlinear effects. Orientation patterned gallium arsenide (OPGaAs) is a promising nonlinear conversion...- $13.95
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