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Vendor: Michael T. Morgan
A Study in Drag Reduction of Close Formation Flight Accounting for Flight Control Trim Positions and Dissimilar Formations
The purpose of this research was to further define the position of maximum benefit for the wingman of a two-ship formation of aircraft. An analytical analysis was conducted using a vortex lattice code. Investigations of a similar formation of F-16 aircraft and a dissimilar...- $17.95
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A Hybrid Jump Search and Tabu Search Metaheuristic for the Unmanned Aaerial Vehicle Routing Problem
In this research, we provide a new meta-heuristic, a jump search / tabu search hybrid, for addressing the vehicle routing problem with real-life constraints. A tour construction heuristic creates candidate solutions or jump points for the problem. A tabu search algorithm uses these jump...- $15.95
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The Effect of Orthophosphate as a Copper Corrosion Inhibitor in High Alkalinity Drinking Water Systems
The purpose of this research was to investigate orthophosphate as a corrosion inhibitor for copper pipe in a high-alkalinity drinking water system. Specifically, this thesis sought to answer three research questions regarding the impact of orthophosphate treatment, the nature of the mechanism by which...- $15.95
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Vendor: Brian P. Ballew
The Distributor's Three-Dimensional Pallet-Packing Problem: A Mathematical Formulation and Heuristic Solution Approach
It is through practice and experience Air Force loadmasters are able to pack the Air Force standard HCU-6/E (463L) pallets efficiently. Although the loadmasters perform their jobs exceptionally well, the Air Force is in search of a model that will more efficiently pack the...- $57.95
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Vendor: Maureen A. Downen
Evaluation of an Innovative Technology for Treatment of Water Contaminated With Perchlorate and Organic Compounds
Drinking water sources contaminated with both perchlorate and organic compounds have frequently been found in the U.S. Tailored granular activated carbon (T-GAC) is an innovative technology that is being evaluated to determine if it can more cost effectively remove perchlorate than conventional technologies. A...- $18.95
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Vendor: Birce Boga Bakirli
Commercial Regional Space/Airborne Imaging
In most recent years, both high-resolution imagery systems and images were only available to military and national security organizations. Distinctive changes within the commercial image industry allowed space-borne pioneers to provide high-resolution images. Space-borne Image Company's Ikonos satellite provides a 1-meter resolution for the...- $18.95
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Performance Evaluation of Ad Hoc Routing Protocols in a SSwarm of Autonomous Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
This thesis investigates the performance of three mobile ad hoc routing protocols in the context of a swarm of autonomous unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). It is proposed that a wireless network of nodes having an average of 5.1774 log n neighbors, where n is...- $17.95
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A Traffic Pattern-Based Comparison of Bulk Image Request Response Times for a Virtual Distributed Laboratatory
Various agencies throughout the Department of Defense possess intelligence imagery and electrooptical signature data required by researchers in the field of automatic target recognition (ATR). The Air Force Research Laboratory, Sensors Directorate, has been tasked with creating a virtual distributed laboratory (VDL) which will...- $17.95
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Vendor: Eric J. Roth
A Case for Enlisted Unmanned Aerial System Operators
The Air Force needs more Unmanned Aerial System (UAS) operators and does not have enough experienced officer pilots to serve as these operators. Furthermore, using pilots as UAS operators costs too much money, adversely impacts upon pilot morale and degrades Air Force mission readiness....- $15.95
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Evolution of China's Nuclear Capability: Implications for U.S. Policy
The strategic arms control process to reduce nuclear weapons and contain the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction is a center piece of the United States arms control policy. To be effective in arms control negotiations with the Chinese, the United States must understand...- $57.95
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Analytical Solution for Low-Thrust Minimum Time Control of a Satellite Formation
Satellite formations or distributed satellite systems provide advantages not feasible with single satellites. Efficient operation of this platform requires the use of optimal control of the entire satellite formation. While the optimal control theory is well established, only a very simple dynamical system affords...- $22.95
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Interference Suppression in Multiple Access Communications Using M-Ary Phase Shift Keying Generated via Spectral Encoding
A conceptual transform domain communication system (TDCS) is shown capable of operating successfully using M -Ary phase shift keying (MPSK) data modulation in a multiple access environment. Using spectral encoding, the conceptual TDCS provides an effective means for mitigating interference affects while achieving multiple...- $17.95
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Measuring the Utility of a Cyber Incident Mission Impact Assessment Process for Mission Assurance
Information is a critical asset on which virtually all modern organizations depend upon to meet their operational mission objectives. Military organizations, in particular, have embedded Information and Communications Technologies (ICT) into their core mission processes as a means to increase their operational efficiency, exploit...- $17.95
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Applications of Geographic Information Systems in United States Air Force Emergency Management Operations
This research investigated the applications of GIS in emergency management operations specifically response to certain types of natural disasters and accidents both in general and in the USAF. The research objective was to determine the benefits the USAF can obtain from the use of...- $13.95
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Vendor: John L. Insprucker
The New Dod Space Management Process: A Critical Analysis
The new DOD space management process tried to improve on past performance, but still suffers from many inefficiencies. Congress dictated a solution of a space czar without focusing on the more generic problem of service roles and missions. The Commission on Roles and Missions...- $57.95
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Vendor: Ryan E. Gorecki
Creating a Comprehensive Decision Analysis Playbook for the JFACC
Operational decision analysis is one of the most preeminent challenges facing the Joint Forces Air Component Commander (JFACC) in campaign planning. Furthermore, while the JFACC utilizes operational art and doctrinal processes to design a campaign, there exists no means to record the results of...- $13.95
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Vendor: David J. Wakefield
Identification of Preferred Operational Plan Force Mixes Using a Multiobjective Methodology to Optimize Resource Suitability and Lift Cost
AFIT research in support of the Advanced Logistics Project is directed at developing a Mission-Resource Value Assessment Tool for rationally assigning relative value to resources and identifying alternative force mixes to logistics and operational planners. Research of factors that affect force mix composition has...- $17.95
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Vendor: David E. Womack
Medical Engagement as National Security Tool: A Prescription for Joint Doctrine
Military medicine has the potential to play a leading role in national security matters in the 21st century. Its inherent capabilities and the emerging environment make it a potential tool of choice for decision-makers. This paper shows military medicine has been a key instrument...- $13.95
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Vendor: Luke J. Hagen
Effects of Air Drag and Lunar Third-Body Perturbations on Orbital Motion Near a Reference KAM Torus
The KAM Theory was developed in the 1960s but only in the last decade has it been applied to Earth orbiting satellites. Physical state variables of position and velocity are transformed into KAM Torus variables. The KAM Torus is a geometrical structure similar to...- $17.95
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Vendor: Ronjon Annaballi
A Multiple Ant Colony Metaheuristic for the Air Refueling Tanker Assignment Problem
A key tenet to the Air Force's vision of Global Vigilance, Reach, and Power is the ability to project power via the use of aerial refueling. Scheduling of limited tanker resources is a major concern for Air Mobility Command (AMC). Currently the Combined Mating...- $15.95
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A Linear Programming Approach for Determining Travel Cost Minimizing ECSS Training Locations
The number of deaths in OPERATION IRAQI FREEDOM (OIF) is significantly higher than expected, due mostly to the persistent use of increasingly sophisticated IEDs in the Iraq Theater of Operations. Iraq has a large number of hardtop roads that US forces use constantly for...- $17.95
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Vendor: Adem Okal
Simulation Modeling and Analysis of F-16 Pilot Training Squadron
The need for fighter pilots in the Turkish Air Force is expected to increase with the planned acquisition of Joint Strike Fighters, ongoing new F-16 purchases, and other upgrades to the Turkish Air Force fighter inventory. This increased demand will affect the current fighter...- $15.95
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Vendor: Ngoya Pepela
Effect of Multi-Mode Vibration on Signature Estimation Using a Laser Vibration Sensor
A Laser Vibrations Sensor (LVS) can be used to determine the vibrational spectrum of targets, such as vehicles, using heterodyne laser Doppler velocimetry. The vibrational spectra of vehicles are known to have characteristic resonances due to the motors, gears and other moving parts. Each...- $15.95
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An Evaluation of Telemaintenance Capability and Its Impact Within the United States Air Force
Over the years technology has advanced as it relates to aircraft maintenance. Telemaintenance--an item specifically identified in JV2010's Focused Logistics Joint Logistics Roadmap--is a new maintenance capability that could completely transform the Air Force's maintenance doctrine and organizational structures. Telemaintenance, the capability to repair...- $13.95
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United States Chemical Facilities: The Terrorist's Version of a Poor-Man's WMD
The security vulnerabilities associated with our nation's chemical facilities afford terrorists aimed at executing a WMD or WMD-like attack against us an opportunistic target. The deadly nature of the hazardous materials manufactured and stored at many of these facilities could easily kill thousands to...- $13.95
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High Volume Air Sampling for Viral Aerosols: A Comparative Approach
The United States Air Force has high volume biological air sampling equipment available including the XMX/2L-MIL and DFU-1000. Neither system has been evaluated for effectiveness in the collection of viruses. Furthermore, decontamination methods have not been evaluated for these systems after use in sampling...- $18.95
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Vendor: Paul L. Muller
A Study of Collapse Events in Ultraviolet Light Filaments due to Transient Edge Effects
Intense, short light pulses can form filaments capable of propagating kilometers through the atmosphere. This is due to the nonlinear index of refraction of the atmosphere in response to the pulse's high intensity, which creates a self-focusing effect that further intensifies the pulse. This...- $17.95
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Comparing Management Approaches for Automatic Test Systems: A Strategic Missile Case Study
From 1980 to 1992, the DoD spent over $50 billion acquiring Automatic Test Systems (ATS) used to test weapon systems. At that time, procuring unique ATS to support single weapon systems was the norm. In 1994, the DoD made a dramatic change to their...- $18.95
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Multi-Dimensional Range Querying Using a Modification of the Skip Graph
Skip graphs are an application layer-based distributed routing data structure that can be used in a sensor network to facilitate user queries of data collected by the sensor nodes. This research investigates the impact of a proposed modification to the skip graph proposed by...- $17.95
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Vendor: Paul E. Adamson
A General Quantum Mechanical Method to Predict Positron Spectroscopy
The NEO method was modified and extended to positron systems. NEO-MP2 energies and annihilation rates were calculated for PsH, and the effects of basis set size on correlation energies captured with the NEO-MP2 and NEO-FCI methods are compared and discussed. Equilibrium geometries and vibrational...- $20.95
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Vendor: Wooddy S. Miller
Rubidium Recycling in a High Intensity Short Duration Pulsed Alkali Laser
Laser induced fluorescence was used to study how pump pulse duration and alkali recycle time effects maximum power output in a Diode Pumped Alkali Laser (DPAL) system. A high intensity short pulsed pump source was used to excited rubidium atoms inside a DPAL-type laser....- $15.95
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Vendor: Umit H. Tekelioglu
A Reactive Tabu Search Metaheuristic Extension of the Air Refueling Tanker Assignment Problem
The Combined Mating and Ranging Planning System (CMARPS) is the system used by AMC to schedule air refueling for deployments from the continental US to other parts of the world. The tool developed by Capehart (2000) provided results similar to CMARPS in less time....- $57.95
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Performance Analysis of a Secure IEEE 802.11B Wireless Network Incorporating Personal Digital Assistants
Research results of this indicate very poor performance of a Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) utilizing PDAs. Network throughput is adversely effected most by VPN implementation and slightly by increased file size. The client distance factor has virtually no effect on the throughput. The...- $17.95
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A Real-Time Wireless Sensor Media Access Control (MAC) Protocol
Wireless sensor networks are rapidly becoming a platform for applications such as battlefield monitoring, intelligence gathering, environmental monitoring, and emergency response. Inherent in these applications is a priority and urgency of the information or messages. This means the messages must be delivered in a...- $15.95
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Vendor: Nathan O. Boyce
Thermal Neutron Point Source Imaging Using a Rotating Modulation Collimator
This thesis demonstrates a previously untested capability of the Rotating Modulation Collimator (RMC) to image a point-like neutron source. The encouraging results, achieved using low-energy neutrons, provide motivation for further refinement and continued research with higher-energy neutrons. The detector and the masks on an...- $17.95
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A Vision for Air Force Special Operations Mq-1 Predator Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Operations
Currently, all USAF MQ-1 Predator assets are assigned to the CENTCOM AOR and tasked by the CFACC. Under this arrangement, "there are not enough Predators available to the CFACC to fulfill all SOF requirementsand the quality of the support has been hindered by the...- $57.95
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Vendor: C. Baird
Direct Diode Pumped Raman Amplifier Based on a Multimode Graded Index Fiber
The direct pumping of a Raman number amplifer (RFA) was attempted using an array of four 25W, number pigtailed diodes at 936nm, combined via a 7 channel number beam combiner. The initial attempt was conducted using a 1.8 km, 100 um core, GRIN number...- $15.95
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Establishing a Framework for the Oversight of Major Defense Acquisition Programs: A Historical Analysis
The Department of Defense (DoD) has budgeted over $134.5 billion for Fiscal Year 2004 for Acquisition, yet little is written about the personnel responsible for managing and evaluating Major Defense Acquisition Programs (MDAP), that is those who perform Acquisition Oversight. The Acquisition Oversight process...- $17.95
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A Decision Support Tool to Aid Campaign Planners in Selecting Combat Aircraft for Theater Crisis
One way of comparing alternative deployment plans is to examine how combat aircraft tasked within a deployment plan meet the combat commander's requirements. Both the absolute capabilities and the campaign-specific issues affecting the operational capabilities of those aircraft could assess a set of combat...- $18.95
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Performance of a Spectrally Encoded Multi-Carrier Phase Shift Keying Communication System in a Frequency-Selective, Slowly-Fading Multipath Channel
This research examines the performance of a spectrally encoded, multi-carrier, phase shift keying communications system in a frequency-selective, slowly-fading multipath channel. The specific communications system modeled is the transform domain communication system (TDCS) originally researched as an interference avoidance technique. Previous TDCS research assumed...- $17.95
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Vendor: Krystal L. Murphy
Biothreat Bedlam: A (Much Needed) Framework for Planning, Programming and Prioritizing
For more than 20 years, we have lacked a consensus about the threat biological agents pose to the United States. Various and sometimes voluminous "risk assessments," "threat assessments" and "vulnerability assessments" have yielded wildly different conclusions. This impass is unworkable for several reasons, but...- $15.95
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The B-2A and 500 Pound JDAM: A New Concept of Mass
As a key tenant of Joint Vision 2020 and one of the core competencies of the United States Air Force, precision strike is a key component to fast and decisive victory in war and some operations other than war. Precision strike is now more...- $13.95
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A Methodology to Assess the Value of Communications Systems
A major shortcoming in current defense communications architecture acquisition is the lack of credible methods to assess the operational value of the various architecture alternatives. Modern communication systems are procured on the basis of how well they meet system performance criteria, but little is...- $15.95
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Perimeter Security and Intruder Detection Using Gravity Gradiometry: A Feasibility Study
Changes in the mass distribution around some point on the Earth's surface induce corresponding changes to the magnitude and direction of the gravity vector at that location. The nine-tensor derivative of the gravity vector, or gravity gradient, is sensitive to very small changes in...- $17.95
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Vendor: Samuel W. Birch
Performance Characteristics of a Kernel-Space Packet Capture Module
This research attempts to improve the efficiency of capturing network packets to disk using commodity, general-purpose hardware and operating systems. It examines the bottlenecks between NIC and disk, implements a kernel-space capture capability to improve storage effciency, and analyzes the performance characteristics of this...- $17.95
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Implementing an Information Retrieval and Visualization Framework for Heterogeneous Data Types
In today's information focused world, there is no lack of entities focused on information gathering. However, there is still a widespread epidemic of information starvation in the Department of Defense (DoD). This starvation is attributed to the lack of interoperability between information gatherers and...- $15.95
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Vendor: Eric Hanington
A Comparative Analysis of ASCII and XML Logging Systems
This research compares XML and ASCII based event logging systems in terms of their storage and processing efficiency. XML has been an emerging technology, even for security. Therefore, it is researched as a logging system with the mitigation of its verbosity. Each system consists...- $15.95
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Discrete Event Simulation Model of the Ground Maintenance Operations Cycle of a Reusable Launch Vehicle
The Air Force uses a family of expendable launch vehicles to meet its spacelift needs. Unfortunately, this method is not responsive: months of preparation are typically required and launch costs are high. Consequently, the Air Force seeks a reusable military launch vehicle that can...- $20.95
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A Methodology for Cybercraft Requirement Definition and Initial System Design
The United States Air Force and Department of Defense networks and information system are under attack from a variety of actors. Current network defense systems are reactive in nature and unable to prevent determined adversaries from successfully infiltrating these information systems. The realization of...- $15.95
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A Multi Agent System for Flow-Based Intrusion Detection Using Reputation and Evolutionary Computation
The rising sophistication of cyber threats as well as the improvement of physical computer network properties present increasing challenges to contemporary Intrusion Detection (ID) techniques. To respond to these challenges, a multi agent system (MAS) coupled with flow-based ID techniques may effectively complement traditional...- $18.95
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