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Advantages and Limitations of Motorization Trend of Modern Developments and Suggested Lines of Experimentation
This paper presents the advantages and limitations of motorization under existing conditions, the trend of development, and the lines along which experimentation should be conductedAuthor: Francis F. FainterISBN-10: 1288406983ISBN-13: 9781288406982Publisher: BiblioscholarLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/05/2012Pages: 26Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.15lbsSize: 9.69h x 7.44w x 0.05d- $57.95
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Air Force Special Operations Training Center: Does 3-Level Maintenance Training Belong?
AFSOC should incorporate basic 3-level aircraft maintenance OJT into the AFSOTC if and only if two important results can be achieved. First, 3-level training provided by AFSOTC should be better than the current training received. Second, there is no degradation in maintenance production at...- $57.95
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Commercial Eyes in Space: Implications for U.S. Military Operations in 2030
Commercial remote sensing from satellites provides tremendous information about objects on the Earth's surface for a variety of business, civil, and recreational needs. Using two case studies, this research paper investigates how commercial satellite remote sensing capabilities in 2030 could impact U.S. military operations...- $57.95
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Vendor: Erin N. Claunch
Luminescence Studies of Ion-Implanted Gallium Nitride and Alluminum Gallium Nitride
Recently, research on the wide bandgap semiconductors such as GaN and AlxGa1-xN became very popular for their applications on various devices. Therefore comprehensive and systematic luminescence studies of Si implanted AlxGa1-xN, Mg doped GaN, and Si+N implanted GaN grown on sapphire substrates by molecular...- $57.95
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Simulations of Flowing Supercritical N-Decane
The Air Force is interested in the research of supercritical jet and rocket fuels, as well as the effects of thermally induced fuel degradation. As future flight vehicles travel at ever increasing Mach numbers, greater heat loads will be imposed upon the fuel. The...- $57.95
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Biaxial Fatigue Behavior of Niti Shape Memory Alloy
Nitinol is a shape memory alloy (SMA) capable of martensite-to-austenite phase transformations enabling shape-memory behavior. Shape-memory properties make Nitinol a strong candidate material for use in aircraft applications such as actuators. Structural integrity and reliability of torque tube actuators must be assured before this...- $57.95
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Space Launch Operations and the Lean Aerospace Initiative
The lean concepts of right thing, right place, and at the right time can be applied to current and future launch systems. While much has been written on the concept of lean manufacturing and production, this thesis is the first in a series of...- $57.95
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Performance of Military Cargo Aircraft Using Required Navigation Performance Departures
Maximum takeoff weight for cargo aircraft is affected by many factors including the aircraft's ability to safely climb out to altitude. When there are obstacles in the departure path, the total weight of the aircraft may have to be reduced to ensure the aircraft...- $57.95
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Requirements for Common Bomber Mission Planning Environment
The mission planning environment for the strategic bomber is characterized by numerous few man-to-machine relationships, data flows and organizational interactions. Currently, these activities are accomplished by several systems using a variety of data formats. Several tools have been developed to address the complexity of...- $57.95
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Real-Time GPS-Alternative Navigation Using Commodity Hardware
Modern navigation systems can use the Global Positioning System (GPS) to accurately determine position with precision in some cases bordering on millimeters. Unfortunately, GPS technology is susceptible to jamming, interception, and unavailability indoors or underground. There are several navigation techniques that can be used...- $57.95
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Investigation of Laser Beam Combining and Clean-Up via Seeded Simulated Brillouin Scattering in Multimode Optical Fibers
The purpose of this thesis research was to determine if stimulated Brillouin scattering (SBS) amplification in multimode optical fibers would exhibit the same laser beam combining and clean-up properties exhibited by SBS oscillation, and to characterize the Brillouin amplification process in a multimode optical...- $57.95
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An Analysis of the Impact of Defense Acquisition Reforms and External Factors On Schedule Growth of Defense Weapon Systems
The growth in the acquisition cycle time of large defense systems from what was planned (i.e., schedule growth) creates several issues for defense acquisition managers and policy makers. These issues include increased likelihoods of cancellations, changes in requirements, and delays in the fielding of...- $57.95
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Strategic Effects of Airpower and Complex Adaptive Agents: An Initial Investigation
US airpower theory and doctrine depend on the concept that the destruction of a few key targets or centers of gravity can unravel the enemy's physical ability to wage war or break his will to prosecute the war. This synergistic decimation of the enemy's...- $57.95
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Knowledge Based Operations: Coup d' Oeil for the CAOC?
With the right knowledge at the right place at the right time, an effects based approach to the employment of airpower can truly be implemented. Sensor fusion, increased bandwidth, reach-back capability, and a common operating picture, have allowed the Combined Joint Force Air Component...- $57.95
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Analyzing Inter-Theater Airlift for 2020
This study attempts to answer the question, what issues should the next mobility study examine to determine the appropriate inter-theater airlift force structure in the year 2020? In 1998, the Air Force commissioned a Mobility Requirements Study called MRS-05 that attempted to predict future...- $57.95
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Dollarizing Qualitative Discriminators Used in Best Value Source Selections
A steadily decreasing budget affects the quantity and type of purchases made each year by the U.S. Department of Defense. This results in increasingly less money allocated to the different services each year in order to accomplish their individual missions. We are constantly being...- $57.95
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Game Theory and U-boats in the Bay of Biscay
Analysis of a large combat campaign using game theory is difficult due to non-linearities and other soft factors which exist in a complex system. However, game theory can give decision makers insight into strategies and outcomes that can be utilized to maximize one's objective....- $57.95
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Biological Weapons, the Poor Man's Nuke
Biological warfare is one leg of the triad of weapons of mass destruction (coupled with nuclear and chemical weapons). Biological weapons pose a significant threat to the United States military and public population across the spectrum of conflict. There is, however, little common knowledge...- $57.95
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Prioritization Schemes of the Air Force Logistics Reparable Pipeline
This study describes the prioritization schemes utilized in the Air Force logistics reparable pipeline. The reparable pipeline is defined and illustrated with flowcharts. A literature review examines previous research conducted on the reparable pipeline, including analytic and conceptual pipeline models, and pipeline management studies....- $57.95
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Nanotechnology: Risks, Benefits, and Ethical Implications
Numerous technological changes have taken place in the last 50 years; many of them were considered science fiction in the twentieth century. Geoffrey Hunt and Michael Mehta said nanotechnologies are making the jump from science fiction to science reality.1 Popular science fiction author Michael...- $57.95
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Space Weapons and Spacepower
This study examines the real power behind spacepower with the goal of bringing clarity to one small facet of a complex subject. The real or underlying power behind spacepower lies not in the basic space support capabilities of the current on-orbit inventory, but in...- $57.95
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Tactical Air Refueling: Undocumented Past, Future Requirement
Largely the result of military restructuring away from overseas basing to a strategy of forward presence, the Air Force has adopted a concept of Global Power-Global Reach. Air Mobility Command has been charged to provide the Global Reach needed to project power abroad. The...- $57.95
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The AFSO21 Toolbox's Missing Tactical Tool
This paper explores and assesses the implementation of AFSO21 at the strategic, operational, and tactical level on the Air Force's journey to transformation. Using logistics community examples, it focuses on the tactical environment where our lowest-level technicians operate on a daily basis. It provides...- $57.95
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Energy: An Argument for, and Progress towards Independence
This paper examines the state of the nation and the Air Force with regard to energy. First, it describes in detail the "perfect storm," or convergence of reasons why the problem of energy dependence deserves immediate and uncompromising attention. In short, there exists a...- $57.95
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To Click or Not to Click: Technology and Human Factors to Mitigate Phishing Attacks on Air Force Networks
Today's Air Force networks are under frequent attack. One of the most pernicious threats is a sophisticated phishing attack that can lead to complete network penetration. Once an adversary has gained network entry, they are in a position to exfiltrate sensitive data or pursue...- $57.95
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Vendor: Murat Toydas
Fuel Savings Opportunities from Air Refueling
Fuel is a critical strategic asset for military aviation operations, yet is increasingly expensive. Air refueling offers both the opportunity to extend aircraft range and the potential to save fuel by enabling a transport aircraft to depart with less fuel in exchange for additional...- $57.95
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At the Crossroads of Cyber Warfare: Signposts for the Royal Australian Air Force
This thesis provides signposts to guide the Royal Australian Air Force during its journey through the development of a cyber capability. As with most journeys, there are always multiple paths; the challenge is to choose a path that will deliver an effective cyber force...- $57.95
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The Application of Statistical Sampling Techniques to the Operational Readiness Inspection
This thesis explains the construction of acceptance sampling plans and procedures. The changes to the Operational Readiness Inspection for effective application of acceptance sampling are defined and the automatic computation of acceptance plans through a computer spreadsheet application is accomplished. A validation is provided...- $57.95
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Forecasting Wet Microbursts Associated with Summertime Airmass Thunderstorms over the Southeastern United States
This thesis seeks to develop a technique to forecast wet microbursts using currently operational technology, including upper air soundings and WSR-88D products. The technique developed is comprised of three distinct phases. First, recognize the potential threat for given environmental conditions. Second, predict the maximum...- $57.95
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Modeling Information Quality Expectation in Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Swarm Sensor Databases
Swarming Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) are the future of Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR). Swarms of hundreds of these vehicles, each equipped with multiple sensors, will one day fill the skies over hostile areas. As the sensors collect hundreds of gigabytes of data, telemetry...- $57.95
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Vendor: James B. Kuntzelman
Comparative Analysis of Active and Passive Mapping Techniques in an Internet-Based Local Area Network
Network mapping technologies allow quick and easy discovery of computer systems throughout a network. Active mapping methods, such as using nmap, capitalize on the standard stimulus-response of network systems to probe target systems. In doing so, they create extra traffic on the network, both...- $57.95
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U.S. Policy Recommendation for Responding to Cyber Attacks Against the United States
U.S. Response Strategy for Cyber Attacks The United States has traditionally looked to its military to defend against all foreign enemies. International telecommunications and computer networks and globalization have now overcome the military's absolute ability to provide for that common defense. More than capable...- $57.95
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Vendor: Wilburn B. McLamb
Reducing Uncertainty in Effects-Based Operations
Known as the fog of war, uncertainty has been prevalent in the conduct of military operations throughout human history. Intelligence collection efforts are tasked to reduce this uncertainty through the collection of information. Utilizing Shannon's entropy as a measure of the expected information gain...- $57.95
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Vendor: Courtney M. Canadeo
Ultra Wide Band Multiple Access Performance Using TH-PPM and DS-BPSK Modulations
The increasing demand for portable, high data rate communications has focused much attention on wireless technology. Ultra Wide Band (UWB) waveforms have the ability to deliver megabits of information while maintaining low average power consumption. In accordance with recent FCC rulings, UWB systems are...- $57.95
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Robot Localizationusing Visualimage Mapping
One critical step in providing the Air Force the capability to explore unknown environments is for an autonomous agent to determine its location. The calculation of the robot's pose is an optimization problem making use of the robot's internal navigation sensors and data fusion...- $57.95
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Hypersonic Global Strike Feasibility and Options
This paper explores the feasibility of hypersonic weapons and aircraft as global strike options in the 2035 timeframe. The paper proposes there are currently two limitations or gaps in U.S. prompt global strike capabilities; timeliness, and increasingly the ability to gain access to the...- $57.95
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Forecasting Advective Sea Fog with the Use of Classification and Regression Tree Analyses for Kunsan Air Base
Advective sea fog frequently plagues Kunsan Air Base (AB), Republic of Korea, in the spring and summer seasons. It is responsible for a variety of impacts on military operations, the greatest being to aviation. To date, there are no suitable methods developed for forecasting...- $57.95
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Characterizing the Impact of Precision Time and Range Measurements from Two-Way Time Transfer Systems on Network Differential GPS Position Solutions
Precise positioning plays an important role for both military and civilian users, from cell phones and OnStar to precision munitions and swarms of UAVs. Many applications require precise relative positioning of a network of vehicles (such as aircraft, tanks, troops, etc). Currently, the primary...- $57.95
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Dynamic Characterization of Thin Deformable PVDF Mirror
Methodology for the design and fabrication of 5 inch diameter membrane-like mirror structures is explored, resulting in test articles with areal densities as low as 1.57 kg/m2 and a thickness of 1.5 mm. Each optical structure has 7 control patches etched into the PVDF...- $57.95
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Development and Testing of the Rigidizable Inflatable Get-Away-Special Experiment
The purpose of this research project is to develop the Rigidizable Inflatable Get-Away-Special Experiment (RIGEX) from a computer-based model into a space-qualified prototype. Past research projects have developed RIGEX's command and control, structural analysis, and integration with the orbiter. This thesis details the organization,...- $57.95
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Range Precision of LADAR Systems
A key application of Laser Detection and Ranging (LADAR) systems is measurement of range to a target. Many modern LADAR systems are capable of transmitting laser pulses that are less than a few nanoseconds in duration. These short-duration pulses provide excellent range precision. However,...- $57.95
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Analyzing the Interdiction of Sea-Borne Threats Using Simulation Optimization
Worldwide, maritime trade accounts for approximately 80% of all trade by volume and is expected to double in the next twenty years. Prior to September 11, 2001, Ports, Waterways, and Coastal Security (PWCS) was afforded only 1 percent of United States Coast Guard (USCG)...- $57.95
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Value Focused Thinking Analysis of the Pacific Theater's Future Air Mobility En Route System
Proper optimization in number, location, and function of supply chain nodes to reduce costs with simultaneous improvements in distribution effectiveness is a key goal for United States Transportation Command (USTC) in its execution of the National Defense Strategy. As the distribution process owner (DPO)...- $57.95
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Text Manipulation Judgment Accuracy: An Exploratory Study
Deception aims to affect a decision-making process in a way that somehow benefits the deceiver. More knowledge is desired in the area of purely text-based scenarios. Thirty-seven graduate students at the Air Force Institute of Technology participated in an experiment in order to gain...- $57.95
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Fear and Loathing in the Air: Combat Fear and Stress in the Air Force
This thesis is about the Air Force's organizational response to acute combat fear and stress-past and present. Despite the practical experience of dealing with this issue from World War II to Vietnam, the Air Force's response has become muddled in recent years. Anecdotal evidence...- $57.95
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Three-Dimensional Dynamic Stress Analysis of Sandwich Panels
A layerwise geometrically nonlinear theory for a thick sandwich plate was developed by introducing assumptions on a variation of transverse strains in the thickness direction of the faces and the core of the plate. An effect of transverse extensibility or compressibility of the core...- $57.95
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Defeating 802.11 Wireless Networks
Homeland Security of the United States is constantly under threat of attack from terrorist organizations. A variable and current terrorist threat is the use of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) as weapons of mass destruction. These UAVs can be built simply and cheaply from commercial...- $57.95
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Application of Post Modern Portfolio Theory to Mitigate Risk in International Shipping
This research uses asset allocation concepts to determine the correct amount of cargo to send down the PAKGLOC and NDN to minimize the risk of loss or damage. Loss and Damage data is used from Transportation Discrepancy Reports and overall value is assumed to...- $57.95
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Fusion of Inertial Sensors and Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexed Signals of Opportunity for Unassisted Navigation
The advent of the global positioning system (GPS) has provided worldwide high-accuracy position measurements. However, GPS may be rendered unavailable by jamming, disruption of satellites, or simply by signal shadowing in urban environments. Thus, this thesis considers fusion of Inertial Navigation Systems (INS) and...- $57.95
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An Analysis of Construction Contractor Performance Evaluation System
A rigorous system for rating construction contractor performance does not exist for the USAF as identified by the Air Force Civil Engineer (USAF CE), Major General Del Eulberg (Eulberg, 2007). The United States Army Corp of Engineers (USACE) uses DD Form 2626 for contractor...- $57.95
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