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Vendor: Michael T. Bryant
Forecasting the KC-135 Cost per Flying Hour: A Panel Data Analysis
This thesis developed models to forecast the KC-135R monthly Consumables (CONS) and Depot Level Reparable (DLR) Cost per Flying Hour (CPFH) for each U.S. Air Force service component. Using data for each operating location from FY1998 to FY2004, the models were constructed using panel...- $15.95
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Parameter Estimation of a Tactical Missile Using Linear Regression
The purpose of this research was to present the method of Linear Regression as a parameter identification method to determine the longitudinal dimensional stability derivatives of a tactical missile. Missile flight histories are characterized by rapid accelerations, rapidly changing mass property characteristics with often...- $15.95
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Development of a Novel Noise Delivery System for JP-8 Ototoxicity Studies
Numerous chemicals with ototoxic properties may cause hearing loss directly, potentiate noise-induced hearing loss, or produce additive effects. Of interest to the US Air Force are studies showing ototoxic effects of JP-8 jet fuel and its hydrocarbon constituents. The Naval Health Research Center (NHRC)...- $17.95
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Vendor: David A. Grigsby
Satellite Capabilities Mapping: Utilizing Small Satellites
The cost and schedule advantages small satellites have over larger legacy systems have been studied, but there has been very little experimentation performed to determine whether small satellites can actually deliver the capabilities of larger spacecraft. To date, a desired operational capability has not...- $57.95
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A Demand Side Requirements Model to Forecast C-17 Mobility Aircraft Availability
Current aircraft forecasting methods of the Air Mobility Command (AMC) Directorate of Logistics rely on the experience of personnel and lead to after the fact, labor-intensive analysis. These deficiencies led AMC to the development of a Mobility Aircraft Availability Forecasting (MAAF) model. The purpose...- $17.95
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Determining the Value of Groundwater Contamination Source Removal: A Methodology
Subsurface contamination by industrial chemicals is one of the most prevalent and costly environmental problems facing the United States government. This contamination problem must be managed to protect human health and the environment. Two basic strategies are used to deal with subsurface contamination: source...- $17.95
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Protecting Our Newest Weapon in Homeland Defense: Commercial Satellite Systems
Commercial satellite systems provide crucial products and services, such as commercial imagery and commercial satellite communications, to DOD and other federal agencies. The significant contributions made by commercial satellites are clearly seen in the nation's highest endeavor, homeland defense. The commercial satellite industry is...- $57.95
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Vendor: Firas Benhassen
Time Resolved Filtered Rayleigh Scattering Measurement of a Centrifugally Loaded Buoyant Jet
The combustion process within the Ultra-Compact Combustor (UCC) occurs in the circumferential direction. The presence of variable flow density within the circumferential cavity introduces significant buoyancy issues. On the other hand, G-loading caused by the presence of centrifugal forces, ensures the circulation of the...- $17.95
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Vendor: Jason B. Blevins
Authoritative Joint Doctrine: A Solution to Joint Airspace Management
Focusing the guidance of Joint Publication 3-52, Joint Doctrine for Airspace Control in the Combat Zone, from a vague, principles-based document to a tailorable, framework-based guide may improve future joint airspace interdependency. An essential element required to achieve interdependency requires the establishment of a...- $13.95
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Vendor: Andrew J. Geyer
Operations-Focused Optimized Theater Weather Sensing Strategies Using Preemptive Binary Integer Programming
Throughout history, successful military leaders have recognized that weather conditions on the battlefield can play a significant role in determining the victor. For this reason, the United States maintains and equips several different types of military units that are tasked to provide dedicated weather...- $17.95
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Vendor: Erin Y. Carraher
Periodic Methods for Controlling a Satellite in Formation
Precise position determination and control is necessary to accomplish proposed satellite formation flying missions of ground movement target indication and synthetic aperture radar. This thesis combines the estimation and control techniques of past AFIT theses with various time-varying and time-invariant LQG control methods. Linear...- $17.95
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Vendor: Okan Arslan
Developing a Tool for the Location Optimization of the Alert Aircraft With Changing Threat Anticipation
The threat to the airspace is posed by the outside world in conventional terms as well as hostilities from within the airspace such as hijacked aircraft. Alert aircraft are located with the sole responsibility of responding to any incident. Different regions of the airspace...- $17.95
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Vendor: Shawn D. Filby
A Validation of the Parameterized Real-Time Ionospheric Specification Model Version 1.7b
The most current version of the Parameterized Real-time Ionospheric Specification Model (PRISM), version 1.7b, was validated using Digital Ionospheric Sounding System (DISS) measurements of F2 layer critical frequency (foF2) and F2 peak electron density height (hmF2) as the "ground truth." PRISM was executed, first,...- $17.95
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Vendor: Benjamin R. Knost
Formal and Informal Work Group Relationships with Performance: A Moderation Model Using Social Network Analysis
Social networks have recently emerged in the management discipline as a unique way of studying individuals and groups in organizations. While traditionally used in the analysis of un-bounded networks, applying social network analysis techniques to bounded work groups and organizational teams has become increasingly...- $57.95
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Vendor: Emily A. Knight
Modeling Thermal Inactivation of Bacillus Spores
This research models and analyzes methods to damage Bacillus anthracis spores through heat treatment. AFIT researchers have developed methods to characterize the effects of heating spores to high temperatures and for short durations similar to the thermal pulse of conventional weapon detonation. This research...- $15.95
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Vendor: Douglas E. Gaeta
Damage Identification in a Real Structure: Using Resonant and Anti-Resonant Frequencies
There exists a need to remotely monitor the structural integrity of large space structures without costly manned missions. This work focused on further damage detection characterization of the Air Force Institute of Technology's Flexible Truss Experiment (FTE). The FTE is intended to be representative...- $15.95
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Vendor: Roland K. Van Deventer
Airborne Warning and Control System and Space: A Framework to Help Understand the Issues
As a smaller Air Force transitions to an Aerospace Force to start the new millennium, space offers a vantage point where no point on Earth is denied to a sensor system. Joint Vision 2010 describes leveraging technological opportunities to achieve information superiority to enable...- $15.95
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Design and Characterization of a Radiation Tolerant Triple Mode Redundant Sense Amplifier Flip-Flop for Space Applications
One of the more recently proposed flip-flop designs has been the sense amplifier flip-flop. It has gained acceptance in the commercial realm because of its power consumption, speed, setup time, clock line loading, and data line loading characteristics. In this thesis, a recently designed...- $18.95
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Inertia Measurement and Dynamic Stability Analysis of a Radio-Controlled Joined-Wing Aircraft
Dynamic stability and stall during steady level turns were examined for VA-1, a joined-wing flight demonstrator aircraft. Configurations with a lower vertical tail and fairings over the main landing gear were compared with a recommendation on the combination had the best drag and dynamic...- $17.95
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Vendor: Jennifer L. Ryba
Creep-Rupture Behavior of a Woven Ceramic Matrix Composite at Elevated Temperatures in a Humid Environment
For high temperature applications, ceramic matrix composites (CMCs) are ideal because of their high strength and toughness, low density, and durability. A CMC manufactured with silicon carbide fiber and silicon carbide matrix, the focus of this research, maintains its strength and toughness at low...- $17.95
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Vendor: Jody A. Paris
The Effects of Using Solar Radiation Pressure to Alleviate Fuel Requirements for Orbit Changing and Maintenance of the DSCS II F-13 Satellite
Orbit disposal and maintenance of aging satellites has become a significant concern over the past few years, as the increasing number of orbiting objects in high-value orbits (e.g. geosynchronous) threatens to limit the launching of future satellites and spacecraft. Many of the satellites currently...- $18.95
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Vendor: Stephanie Vaughn
Investigation of a Passive, Temporal, Neutron Monitoring System That Functions Within the Confines of START I
This study is an investigation of the theoretical and experimental possibilities of using activation foils to detect and monitor special nuclear material for treaty monitoring purposes. None of the experiments demonstrated sufficient sensitivity to detect the target flux of 0.5 neutrons/cm 2-sec. The target...- $15.95
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Vendor: Matthew D. Compton
Improving the Quality of Service and Security of Military Networks With a Network Tasking Order Process
This research presents a Network Tasking Order process that collects mission plans, network capabilities, and historical records to build a Network Tasking Order (NTO). The NTO document directs the form and usage of the network, much like an Air Tasking Order (ATO) directs the...- $20.95
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Preventing a Cyber Dresden: How the Evolution of Air Power can Guide the Evolution of Cyber Power
World Wars I and II witnessed air power's development in the crucible of hostilities. Ambiguous and competing air power schools of thought, on occasion, resulted in the strategically questionable employment of air power. The Allies' bombing of the cultural city of Dresden in February...- $57.95
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Vendor: Elizabeth A. Boll
Analysis in Cloud-to-Ground Lightning Flashes Over Land-vs-Water
Understanding lightning characteristics over land and water is vital to achieving optimal safety and success in Air Force missions. Lightning safety rules are often based on experience rather than a scientific understanding of lightning. Examining lightning characteristics over water and land will assist in...- $17.95
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Vendor: Aaron J. Reifsnyder
Vibrometric Detection of Beam Damage Due to Inclusions
The Air Force Institute of Technology, in conjunction with the Structural Health Monitoring branch of the Air Force Research Laboratory, is researching methods of determining effects of notch location and size on beam structures using modal frequency analysis. This thesis explores the ability to...- $17.95
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Vendor: Lourdes M. Duvall
Accounting for Human Information Processing: A Critical Element for Future United States Air Force Command and Control Systems
This research paper proposes that USAF C2 operations would benefit from greater emphasis on the human aspects of information processing and decision-making. This emphasis will be particularly critical in a future where C2 operations are characterized by increasing computer support, with the objective of...- $13.95
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Vendor: Brian A. Sessler
Evaluation and Analysis of Node Localization Power Cost in Ad-Doc Wireless Sensor Networks With Mobility
This research examines the power costs of network irregularities on communications and localization in an Ad-hoc Wireless Sensor Network (AWSN). Specifically, the performance of two anchor-based algorithms, APS-Euclidean and Map-Growing, are characterized with respect to the data communications costs. The number of data bits...- $17.95
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Vendor: Patrick C. Wade
Development of an Experimental Test Section for Forcing Unsteady Flow in a Linear Compressor Cascade Using Circular Rods
Upstream propagating waves impinging on a cascade of compressor blades were examined in an effort to better understand the infuence of downstream components on high cycle fatigue in turbine engines. An array of cylinders was used to simulate the unsteady field generated by a...- $18.95
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Vendor: Eric A. Buschelman
Material Characterization Improvement in High Temperature Rectangular Waveguide Measurements
This research presents a method using modal analysis by which electromagnetic characterization of materials in a partially filled rectangular waveguide, having a single top air gap, can be accurately performed. Thermal expansion of waveguides commonly occurs during high-temperature measurements, resulting in air gaps between...- $15.95
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Vendor: Michael Martindale
A Discrete-Event Simulation Model for Evaluating Air Force Reusable Military Launch Vhicle Post-Landing Operations
The United States military, and in particular the Air Force, has long recognized the requirement for a responsive spacelift capability as an enabler to gaining and maintaining space superiority. In order to fulfill this requirement, the Air Force as a portion of its Operationally...- $15.95
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Vendor: James M. Bono
Development of a Defense Meteorological Satellite Program F-15 Disturbance Storm-Time Index
As the Department of Defense's use of space and space assets increases, so does its need for timely and accurate predictions of space weather conditions. A good understanding of the data from satellites together with data from ground stations can help model and determine...- $15.95
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A Formal Specification and Proof of System Safety Using the Schematic Protection Model
This research formally specifies the Schematic Protection Model (SPM) to prove its ability to provide security services such as confidentiality and integrity. The theory described by the resultant model was logically proved in the Prototype Verification System (PVS). Each component of SPM was tested,...- $15.95
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Vendor: Kevin R. Moore
Using Activity-Based Costing to Improve Performance: A Case Study Report
The ongoing Department of Defense (DOD) downsizing and reorganization programs have had a significant impact on defense capabilities and resources. Declining defense resources, in particular, are providing significant incentives to improve the management of all costs in the DOD. To improve cost management, the...- $57.95
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Vendor: Byron D. Nicholson
A Delphi Study Assessing Long-Term Access to Electronic Medical Records
This research effort addressed the issue of long-term access to electronic medical records as technological generations become obsolete, thereby preventing the access to patient health information. Using the Delphi methodology, experts with experience in electronic medical records and applicable systems provided insight based on...- $15.95
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Vendor: David M. Pugh
A Validation Assessment of the Storm Air-to-Air Prototype Algorithm
A validation assessment of the new STORM air-to-air prototype algorithm is accomplished using structural and output validation techniques. In the structural validation phase, the algorithms, code, and assumptions are evaluated to determine if the implementation of the model will match the intent of the...- $17.95
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Vendor: Stephen T. O'Leary
A Multi-Pass Construction Heuristic for the Aggregated Airlift Problem
The Air Force has over 26,000 Airmen deployed from over 80 military installations to Forward Operating Locations (FOLs) in over 21 countries providing capabilities for air mobility and refueling, precision strike, close air support, intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance among others. Airmen are rotated in...- $15.95
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A Secure and Efficient Communications Architecture for Global Information Grid Users via Cooperating Space Assets
With the Information Age in full and rapid development, users expect to have global, seamless, ubiquitous, secure, and efficient communications capable of providing access to real-time applications and collaboration. The United States Department of Defense's (DoD) Network-Centric Enterprise Services initiative, along with the notion...- $20.95
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A Service Life Analysis of U.S. Coast Guard C-130 Aircraft
The U. S. Coast Guard, much like the rest of the Armed Services, is facing a dramatic transformation of its forces to meet current and future service requirements. The Coast Guard has responded to this transformation by initiating the Deepwater System, a complete review...- $17.95
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Development of 2-Dimensional Cloud Rise Model to Analyze Initial Nuclear Cloud Rise
The objective of this research is to create a two-dimensional cloud rise model that could be used instead of the current 1-D cloud rise model in the Defense Land Fallout Interpretive Code (DELFIC) option of the Hazard Prediction and Assessment Capability (HPAC). The model...- $17.95
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Electrical Activation Studies of Silicon Implanted AlxGa1-xN and Coimplanted GaN
A comprehensive study of the electrical activation of silicon implanted AlxGa1-xN was performed as a function ion dose, anneal temperature, and aluminum mole fraction. Also, GaN coimplanted with silicon and nitrogen was investigated. Room temperature Hall effect measurements were used to determine carrier concentration...- $15.95
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Anatomy of a Capabilities Gap: Retirement of the F-117a Stealth Fighter
The Air Force's first stealth fighter has had a long and distinguished service record for our nation providing commanders a then revolutionary capability to fight our nation's wars. The F-117A Nighthawk's traditional mission of knocking down the door for conventional forces to follow will...- $57.95
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A Comparison of Horizontal Cloud-to-Ground Lightning Flash Distance Using Weather Surveillance Radar and the Distance Between Successive Flashes Metho
On April 29th, 1996 an airman servicing a C-130 aircraft on Hurlburt AFB Florida was struck and killed by a lightning flash that traveled an estimated 7 to 10 miles from storms south of the airfield. Ten other workers were injured in the incident....- $17.95
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Optimization of a Low Heat Load Turbine Nozzle Guide Vane
Often turbomachinery airfoils are designed with aerodynamic performance foremost in mind rather than component durability. However, future aircraft systems require ever increasing levels of gas-turbine inlet temperature causing the durability and reliability of turbine components to be an ever more important design concern. As...- $20.95
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Vendor: Rebecca S. Corbin
An Analysis of Groundwater Flow Patterns in a Constructed Treatment Wetland Cell
This research effort analyzed groundwater flow paths within a treatment wetland constructed to degrade tetrachloroethylene (PCE) in groundwater. The treatment cell is a vertical flow wetland that allows the water to flow from the bottom to the surface breaking down PCE and daughter products....- $17.95
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Vendor: Kevin Cousin
A Unified Framework for Solving Multiagent Task Assignment Problems
This research presents a unified approach to representing and solving the multiagent task assignment problem for complex problem domains using ideas central to multiagent task allocation, project scheduling, constraint satisfaction, and coalition formation, forming the basis of the constrained multiagent task scheduling (CMTS) problem....- $20.95
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Optimal Control of a Circular Satellite Formation Subject to Gravitational Perturbations
Satellite formations, otherwise known in the space community as satellite clusters or distributed satellite systems, have been studied extensively over the last 10 to 15 years. For use in remote sensing applications, formations consisting of smaller, simpler satellites provide numerous advantages over individual satellites....- $17.95
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Transition to Jointness: An Analysis and Appraisal of Consolidating Service Acquisition Personnel Into a Joint Acquisition Force
Why has the defense acquisition workforce across the services not yet been reorganized into a consolidated, joint organization and would such an organization serve stakeholders better than the current system? The methodology for this paper included researching precedent-setting steps such as enactment of the...- $15.95
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Comparative Evaluation of Voice Versus Keypad Input for Manipulating Electronic Technical Data for Flight Line Maintenance Technicians
Interactive Electronic Technical Manuals will soon be come a requirement for aircraft maintenance technicians. An important aspect in their development is the selection of an input device that will enhance, rather than impede, technician performance. The purpose of this thesis was to evaluate two...- $17.95
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Characterization and Measurement of Passive and Active Metamaterial Devices
This document addresses two major obstacles facing metamaterial development: uncertainty in the characterization of electromagnetic field behavior in metamaterial structures and the relatively small operational bandwidth of metamaterial structures. To address the first obstacle, a new method to characterize electromagnetic field behavior in a...- $20.95
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