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Raman Scattering Study of Supercritical Bi-Component Mixtures Injected Into a Subcritical Environment
This research studies the species distribution profiles of methane/ethylene bi-components at downstream locations filled with subcritical nitrogen in a closed chamber. Unique thermodynamic and transport properties of supercritical fluids along with phase transition phenomena during fuel injection process can significantly change combustion characteristics inside...- $18.95
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Collaborative, Trust-Based Security Mechanisms for a National Utility Intranet
This thesis investigates security mechanisms for utility control and protection networks using IP-based protocol interaction. It proposes flexible, cost-effective solutions in strategic locations to protect transitioning legacy and full IP-standards architectures. It also demonstrates how operational signatures can be defined to enact organizationally-unique standard...- $22.95
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The Pilotless Air Force? A Look at Replacing Human Operators With Advanced Technology
Today, there are several concepts that are threatening Billy Mitchell's vision of airmen. New technology and operational concepts are threatening the existence of the human aircraft operator. Looming on the horizon are unmanned aerial vehicles, spaced based weapons, and information architectures. This research effort...- $13.95
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Doctrine for a Smaller Air Force: Mali and the Question of Unique Air Doctrine
Most of the world's large Air Forces including those of the United States, Russia, and China, are independent services with their own organization and doctrine. There also quite a number of medium size Air Forces who are also independent and have doctrine distinct from...- $57.95
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A Cost Analysis of Dining Facilities: Should the Air Force Continue to Operate Dining Facilities?
The Air Force is currently spending approximately $128M per year for food service contracts alone (Hamilton, 2008). These costs do not even account for the costs of labor, supplying food, maintenance contracts, or even utilities. With available annual dollars becoming smaller, the Air Force...- $15.95
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Nanotechnology: Are We Going to Be on the Wrong End of the Sword?
What is the top non-medical innovation in the last 25 years? Do you think it is the cell phone? How about email or maybe commercialized Global Positioning System (GPS)? It may not surprise you that according to a panel of technology leaders assembled by...- $13.95
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Air Force Modernization: New Investment Processes and Priorities for a 2020 Aerospace Force
There is a growing disconnect in DoD between resources and requirements, and it is becoming increasingly evident in the USAF. This paper starts with a general discussion of the current "Revolution in Military Affairs"--what it is and isn't and how to manage it. Against...- $15.95
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What is Required for an Offensive Cyberspace Operation to be Considered Just Per Traditional Just War Theory A Persuasive Thesis on Just War Analysis
Just War theory is not a settled doctrine - it is a field of critical ethical reflection. Even though Just War theory applies to objects and not ethereal networks, the current regime of international laws, norms, and definitions designed a half century before the...- $13.95
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A Study in Sea-Air Intermodal Port Selection: Strategic Decision Making for United States Southern Command
World events and changes in the expeditionary force structure and strategy of the U.S. military have altered the traditional approach to operational employment and readiness. Greater flexibility and speed are required to carry out operations; aided by intermodal transport options to quickly and efficiently...- $15.95
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Value-Driven Enterprise Architecture Score: Evaluation Applied to Joint Force Protection Future State Design
This research presents a methodology to evaluate the quality of a system's architecture using principles drawn from Value-Focused Thinking (VFT) and resulting in a Value-Driven Enterprise Architecture Score (VDEA-Score). This is an overall numerical architecture quality score useful to a system's management team to...- $18.95
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Background and Source Term Identification in Active Neutron Interrogation Methods
The detection and tracking of special nuclear material (SNM) is vitally important in order to know where these materials are and prevent them from being used in a harmful manner. Active neutron interrogation is a sought after method for this since the resulting high...- $17.95
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Forecasting Downdraft Wind Speeds Associated With Airmass Thunderstorms For Peterson Air Force Base, Colorado, Using the WSR-88D
During the period Jun-Aug 96, four Air Force installations suffered over $4.8 million in damage from convective winds. During the same summer, Air Force Space Command units issued nearly 65% of their weather warnings for convective winds, making the forecasting of convective winds the...- $17.95
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Investigation Into the Adaptation of a Stream Injector for Use on a Liquid Rock Engine
This thesis investigated the properties of a steam injector to see if the concept might be suitable for use on a liquid rocket engine. A steam injector is a device developed in the 1850's and was used to inject feedwater into the boiler on...- $15.95
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Vendor: Anthony R. George
Evaluation of Cost Improvement Models When Programs Experience Unplanned Production Decreases
As military and other governmental budgets decline and impacted project deadline changes require instantaneous responses, cost analysts' tasks become more and more formidable. Inaccurate estimates can lead to misappropriation of resources and can thus create delays in goods reaching warfighters. This thesis aims to...- $17.95
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Vendor: Ty A. Randall
Evaluation of Civil Engineering Operations Flight Competitive Sourcing Standards and Metrics
The Performance Work Statement (PWS), which defines the requirements and shapes the outcome of the activity under contract, and the Quality Assurance Surveillance Plan (QASP), which is vital in identifying what is to be evaluated, become critical documents as the Air Force enters into...- $23.95
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Using Predictive Rendering as a Vision-Aided Technique for Autonomous Aerial Refueling
This research effort seeks to characterize a vision-aided approach for an Unmanned Aerial System (UAS) to autonomously determine relative position to another aircraft in a formation, speci cally to address the autonomous aerial refueling problem. A system consisting of a monocular digital camera coupled...- $15.95
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Determining if Space is an Applicable Component to Intelligence Preparation of the Battlefield for Ranger Operations When Facing Non-Nation-State Adve
This study investigates whether or not space Intelligence Preparation of the Battlefield (IPB) applies to 75th Ranger regimental operations when facing non-nation-state adversaries. IPB includes a process in which military commanders and staff planners perform a systematic and continuous process of analyzing the threat...- $15.95
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Vendor: Charles D. Fox
Radial Distribution of Absorption in a Cesium Heat Pipe With Axial Laser Heating
Diode Pumped Alkali Lasers (DPAL) have been scaled to greater than 100 W and exhibit slope efficiencies exceeding 80 percent, offering application for tactical laser weapons. The hybrid DPAL system combines efficient diode pumping with the good beam quality and thermal characteristics of gas...- $15.95
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Army and Air Force Unmanned Air Reconnaissance: Warrior and Hydra Navigating a Maze of Strategic Hedges
"This study analyzes the relative effectiveness of the services' UASs in meeting national security objectives in the context of the Global War on Terror and future wars. Given the similarity in the air vehicles, the UAS' C2 and sustainment mechanisms served as the basis...- $17.95
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Army Aviation Intratheater Lift Operations and its Relevance and Capability to Support the Future Force
US Army aviation is undergoing an organizational and doctrinal evolution in order to be a relevant and capable force in the contemporary operational environment and on the battlefields of the future. Aviation has traditionally provided a unique operational capability of providing, in the third...- $17.95
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Coronet Vs. Cargo: A Study Into Increasing the Usage of Tanker Assets for Cargo Movement on Coronet Positioning and De-Positioning Legs
The Air Mobility Command (AMC) tanker force is heavily tasked moving fighter units on Coronets (missions to and from exercises, deployments and redeployments). Many of these missions have legs that are not utilized by the fighter units and that leave the tanker flying intratheater...- $15.95
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A Wide Area Bipolar Cascade Resonant Cavity Light Emitting Diode for a Hybrid Range-Intensity Sensor
This dissertation focused on the development of an illuminator for the HRIS. This illuminator enables faster image rendering and reduces the potential of errors in return signal data, that could be generated from extremely rough terrain. Four major achievements resulted from this work, which...- $18.95
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Vendor: Tina Reynolds
Flow Control Application in a Submerged Inlet Characterized by Three-Component LDV
A submerged inlet investigation, using flow control in the form of discrete blowing, examined proximity and jet directionality to improve compressor face uniformity. The flow control locations were at the head of the ramp and part way down the ramp, providing four configurations under...- $18.95
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Fatigue Behavior of a SiC/SiC Composite at 1000°C in Air and Steam
Tension-tension fatigue behavior of a prototype Silicon Carbide/Silicon Carbide (SiC/SiC) ceramic matrix composite (CMC) material was investigated at 1000 C in laboratory air and in steam environments. The material consists of a SiC matrix reinforced with CG NICALON(TM) fibers woven in an eight harness...- $57.95
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Executable Architectures and Their Application to a Geographically Distributed Air Operations Center
Integrated Architectures and Network Centric Warfare represent two central concepts in DoD's on-going transformation. The true power of integrated architectures is brought to bear when they are combined with simulation to move beyond a static representation and create an executable architecture. This architecture can...- $18.95
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An Analysis of the Effectiveness of a Constructive Induction-Based Virus Detection Prototype
Computer viruses remain a tangible threat to the systems on which the Department of Defense increasingly depends. This threat is exacerbated continually, as new viruses are introduced at an alarming rate by the growing collection of connected machines. Unfortunately, current antivirus solutions are ill-equipped...- $17.95
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Vendor: Thomas A. Niday
Inelastic Scattering Matrix Elements for the Collision B ( 2P1/2 ) + H2 ( j ) -> B ( 2P3/2 ) + H2 ( j' )
Initial efforts to characterize the scattering dynamics of B + H2 focus on computing scattering matrix elements for the fine structure transition B ( 2P1/2 ) B ( 2P3/2 ) in collisions with H2, allowing for rotational excitation. Using a new application of the...- $17.95
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A Pharmacokinetic Study of the Effects of Stress and Exercise on Chemical Exposure
Several concerns about the effects of the combination of human chemical exposure with the stressful conditions of the Gulf War have been raised. The wartime stress experienced by soldiers can vary from physical to mental and emotional stress. Each type of stress causes changes...- $20.95
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Vendor: Christopher G. McChesney
Design of Attitude Control Actuators for a Simulated Spacecraft
The Air Force Institute of Technology's attitude dynamics simulator, SimSat, is used for hardware-in-the-loop validation of new satellite control algorithms. To provide the capability to test algorithms for control moment gyroscopes, SimSat needed a control moment gyroscope array. The goal of this research was...- $18.95
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Vendor: John M. Kos
Graphical User Interface and Microprocessor Control Enhancement of a Pseudorandom Code Generator
Modern digital communication techniques often require the generation of pseudorandom numbers or sequences. The ability to quickly and easily produce various codes such as maximal length codes, Gold codes, Jet Propulsion Laboratory ranging codes, syncopated codes, and nonlinear codes in a laboratory environment is...- $17.95
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Vendor: Halit Oktay
Airborne Pseudolites in a Global Positioning System Degraded Environment
The high accuracy of the Global Positioning System allows for precision navigation in support of current and future military operations. However, generating a three-dimensional position using GPS requires a clear line-of-sight between the user and at least four GPS satellites, and so the GPS...- $17.95
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Vendor: Joel T. Hanson
Radiological Dispersal Device Primer: From a Terrorist's Perspective
This study will attempt to analyze the subject of RDDs from an al Qaeda terrorist's perspective. The following scenario provides the platform for the analysis: Osama bin Laden, al Qaeda's leader, issues a mission-type order to one of his lieutenants to develop a RDD...- $15.95
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Vendor: Steven J. Storch
Predicting Launch Pad Winds at the Kennedy Space Center With a Neural Network Model
This thesis uses neural networks to forecast winds at the Kennedy Space Center and the Cape Canaveral Air Station launch pads. Variables are developed from WINDS tower observations, surface and buoy observations, and an upper-air sounding. From these variables, a smaller set of predictive...- $15.95
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Vendor: Todd A. Henninger
Characterization of Ballistic Impact Flash: An Initial Investigation and Methods Development
Ballistic impact flash plays a pivotal role in the ignition of fires in military vehicles. Flash duration, geometry, and energy profiles are critical variables in the assessment of ballistic-induced fires. The survivability community has identified a need for a standardized data collection methodology and...- $13.95
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Vendor: Nickolas A. Duncan
Changes to Electrical Conductivity of Irradiated Carbon Nanocomposites
Carbon nanotubes (CNT) and carbon nanofibers (CNF) are two nanoparticles incorporated in a polymer to create a composite material. These composites are two potential lightweight materials for use as replacements for aluminum structures on satellite systems. Both composite materials have a low resistivity that...- $15.95
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Vendor: E. A. Eidal
The Past, Present, and Future: An Analysis of the Across Strait Relationship and Its Implications to the United States
China, in its long history, has always been one of the largest empires in the world. Since the turn of the 20th century it has had a tumultuous history and almost isolationist government. However, it is now emerging as one of the world's strongest...- $57.95
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Vendor: Jeffrey P. Duffy
Dynamic Behavior Sequencing in a Hybrid Robot Architecture
Hybrid robot control architectures separate plans, coordination, and actions into separate processing layers to provide deliberative and reactive functionality.This approach promotes more complex systems that perform well in goal-oriented and dynamic environments. In various architectures, the connections andcontents of the functional layers are tightly...- $17.95
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Next Generation Assembly Fabrication Methods: A Nanotechnology Trend Forecast
Today, the continued success of many industries, especially the microelectronics industry, relies upon the ability to fabricate structures with nanometer precision. The efforts toward developing nanometer scale fabrication methods fall loosely into two fields. One field seeks to extend the current planar, deposit-pattern-etch paradigm...- $15.95
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A Multispectral Bidirectional Reflectance Distribution Function Study of Human Skin for Improved Dismount Detection
In 2008, the Sensors Exploitation Research Group at the Air Force Institute of Technology began using spectral properties of skin for the detection and classi cation of humans. Since then a multispectral skin detection system was developed to exploit the optical properties of human...- $17.95
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The Impact of Input Error in a Single and Multiple Variable Analysis of the Electro-Optical Tactical Decision Aid
The purpose of this thesis is to define the necessary accuracy of the TDA for certain meteorological input elements. A few atmospheric input variables (temperature, dew point, and wind speed) are crucial to the accuracy of the TDA output. Proper forecast of the dew...- $17.95
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Vendor: Jason L. Ives
Evaluation of a Field Programmable Gate Array Circuit Reconfiguration System
This research implements a circuit reconfiguration system (CRS) to reconfigure a field programmable gate array (FPGA) in response to a faulty configurable logic block (CLB). It is assumed the location of the fault is known and the CLB is moved according to one of...- $15.95
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Experimental Investigation of Turbojet Thrust Augmentation Using an Ejector
In recent years a significant number of commercially available small turbines have become available. At the same time unmanned aerial vehicles and smart munitions have decreased in size while their endurance needs have increased. With these new platform requirements comes the need for a...- $15.95
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Transforming COBOL Legacy Software to a Generic Imperative Model
Legacy COBOL code presents challenges for organizations wishing to increase their effectiveness and improve their efficiency. The systems that utilize this code are vital to enterprise operations, yet maintenance of code is expensive. This research presents an alternative that overcomes some of the problems...- $15.95
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How to Develop a Robust Automatic Target Recognition Capability by the Year 2030
This research paper illustrates how automatic target recognition (ATR) technology is poised to grow dramatically over the next decade and how a robust operational ATR capability is expected to be attainable by the year 2030. As new ATR systems begin to emerge, DoD leaders...- $13.95
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Vendor: Laura J. Kleen
Malicious Hackers: A Framework for Analysis and Case Study
Recent years have seen an increase in the number and severity of Information Operations (IO) attacks upon DoD resources. At a higher level, the US as a whole has come under cyber attack by individuals and groups seeking thrills, monetary gain, publicity for their...- $20.95
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A Simple Non-Destructive Method for Characterizing Nondispersive, Low-Loss Dielectrics
It is shown how permittivity can be extracted via time domain reflection data from a perfect electric conductor (PEC) backed planar sample of a low-loss, non-dispersive dielectric using two rectangular Ku-band waveguide aperture probes with attached PEC flange plates of the same geometry but...- $15.95
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A Cyber Special Program Office: Managing the Enterprise as a Weapon System for Better Information Sharing in the DOD
Department of Defense (DOD) standard 8320.02 establishes the need for all subordinate organizations to share information through metadata tagging of information. The United States Air Force's recent consolidation of cyber capabilities under the 24th Numbered Air Force formerly AFCYBER, under the Air Force Space...- $57.95
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Using Direct Sequenced Spread Spectrum in a Wired Local Area Network
Computer networks dramatically impact the Air Force mission and day-to-day operations. As network speeds increase to the gigabit range and beyond, better means for arbitrating network access becomes critical for increasing performance. Conventional approaches to increase Ethernet performance include using higher bandwidth media such...- $18.95
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Development and Simulation of a Pseudolite-Based Flight Reference System
Current flight reference systems are vulnerable to GPS jamming and also lack the accuracy required to test new systems. Pseudolites can augment flight reference systems by improving accuracy, especially in the presence of GPS jamming. This thesis evaluates a pseudolite-based flight reference system which...- $17.95
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Development and Demonstration of a Field-Deployable Fast Chromotomographic Imager
A field deployable hyperspectral imager utilizing chromotomography (CT), with a direct vision prism (DVP) as the dispersive element, has been constructed at AFIT. This research is focused on the construction and characterization of a CT imager as prototype for a follow on International Space...- $15.95
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