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Palladium-Catalyzed Destruction of Nitro Aromatic-Contaminated Groundwater
Of the over 17,000 DoD sites that potentially require remediation, sites containing soil and groundwater contaminated by energetic compounds are prevalent (Larson et al., 2001). Production of energetics such as 2,4,6-trinitrotoluene (TNT), hexahydro-1,3,5- trinitro-1,3,5-triazine (RDX), and octahydro-1,3,5,7-tetranitro-1,3,5,7-tetrasocine (HMX) for use in munitions has created...- $15.95
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Image Registration Using Redundant Wavelet Transforms
Imagery is collected much faster and in significantly greater quantities today compared to a few years ago. Accurate registration of this imagery is vital for comparing the similarities and differences between multiple images. Image registration is a significant component in computer vision and other...- $15.95
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Prioritizing Satellite Payload Selection via Optimization
This thesis develops optimization models for prioritizing payloads for inclusion on satellite buses with volume, power, weight and budget constraints. The first model considers a single satellite launch for which the budget is uncertain and constellation requirements are not considered. Subsequently, we include constellation...- $17.95
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Evaluation of the Single Keybit Template Attack
Side Channel leakage is a serious threat to secure devices. Cryptographic information extraction is possible after examining any one of the various side channels, including electromagnetic. This work contributes a new method to achieve such a purpose. The Single Keybit Template Attack (SKTA) is...- $15.95
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Polarimetric Enhancements to Electro-Optical Aided Navigation Techniques
Navigation in indoor and urban environments by small unmanned systems is a topic of interest for the Air Force. The Advanced Navigation Technology Center at the Air Force Institute of Technology is continually looking for novel approaches to navigation in GPS deprived environments. Inertial...- $18.95
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Pulse Shape Correlation for Laser Detection and Ranging
An un-biased range estimation algorithm was developed that countered errors caused by pulse shape effects in laser radar (LADAR) systems. The Advanced Scientific Concepts FLASH LADAR created three-dimensional images by measuring return intensity and time of flight for a single laser pulse. A range...- $17.95
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Global Navigation Satellite System Software Designed Radio
There are two major trends that are driving the nature of GNSS receiver development today. First, there is a growing number of Global Navigation Satellite Systems(GNSS) that exist or are under development, so that in the near future, users will potentially have access to...- $15.95
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Modeling Network Centric Warfare with the System Effectiveness Analysis Simulation
Significant technological advances over the past few decades have fueled the continual and rapid development of an information-based world. Network Centric Warfare (NCW) has become the buzzword of the young millennium within the Department of Defense (DoD) and is quickly becoming a popularly shared...- $57.95
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An Objective Evaluation of Four SAR Image Segmentation Algorithms
Because of the large number of SAR images the Air Force generates and the dwindling number of available human analysts, automated methods must be developed. A key step towards automated SAR image analysis is image segmentation. There are many segmentation algorithms, but they have...- $17.95
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Evaluation of Factors Contributing to Damping of Coated and Uncoated Titanium Plates
High Cycle Fatigue (HCF) is the leading cause of component failure in gas turbine engines today, which poses great risk to aircraft, engines, and their crews. Mitigation of HCF effects has become a priority topic, and the damping benefits of hard coatings are being...- $22.95
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Navigation With Limited Prior Information Using Time Difference of Arrival Measurements From Signals of Opportunity
The Global Positioning System (GPS) provides world-wide availability to high-accuracy navigation and positioning information. However, the threats to GPS are increasing, and many limitations of GPS are being encountered. Simultaneously, systems previously considered as viable backups or supplements to GPS are being shut down....- $17.95
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Knock'em to the Stone Age! The Fusion of Micro Air Vehicles and Nano Sensors
The future in precision, autonomous attack lies in the fusion of emerging sensor technology and the Micro-Air Vehicle (MAV). This paper demonstrates through trend analysis the MAV could attain a 30 to 60 micrometer wingspan by 2030, making real estate for sensors, processors, payloads,...- $15.95
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An Analysis of Engagement of Those Who Telecommute vs. Those Who Do Not
Telecommuting is a program used by many of the successful companies in the private sector, both as a cost savings measure and as a way to recruit and retain quality personnel. Telecommuting has also been used by many companies to adhere to stricter environmental...- $13.95
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Purchasing and Supply Chain Management Costing: An Air Transport Perspective Derived Through Commercial Air Cargo Firms
The Air Force has struggled to completely understand the costs associated with its operations. The issue of understanding cost is complex, involving many perspectives, methods and techniques. When examined from a broad standpoint, total supply chain costs can include a firm's costs plus upstream...- $57.95
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An Experimental Investigation of the Effect of Dimples on Turbine Adiabatic Film Cooling
This experiment explored the ability of a row of cylindrical dimples' vortex shedding to entrain the cooling film in the boundary layer for longer distances, thus enhancing cooling on a turbine leading edge model. The experiment utilized a semi-cylindrical leading edge followed by an...- $15.95
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Stepped Waveguide Electromagnetic Material Characterization Technique
Electromagnetic material characterization is the process of determining the complex permittivity and permeability of a material. A new waveguide material measurement technique is developed to reduce test sample size requirements for low-frequency applications. Specifically, a waveguide sample holder having a reduced aperture is utilized...- $15.95
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Vendor: Han Bouwmeester
Showtime: An Analysis of the Embedded News Media Program During the Pre-Combat and Combat Phases of Operation Iraqi Freedom
Secretary of Defense, Donald Rumsfeld, and his Assistant Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs, Mrs. Victoria Clarke, initiated the embedded news media program. The intent was for the public to see directly through the media what happened at the front before others could affect...- $57.95
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Role for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles on the Modern Tactical Battlefield
This monograph proposes the use of close and short range unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) as a valuable air reconnaissance asset that is needed on the tactical battlefield. Current intelligence gathering assets at division and below don't have the range to gather information throughout the...- $13.95
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Artificial Inhomogeneous Tapered Impedance Sheet Characterization and Applications
The ability to manipulate a complex impedance sheet about a PEC or general dielectric cylinder of arbitrary diameter to control the overall scattering characteristics at particular angles for shielding or scattering applications is presented. It is shown that with the capability to readily control...- $17.95
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Creating Cost Growth Models for the Engineering and Manufacturing Development Phase of Acquisition Using Logistic and Multiple Regression
Cost growth is a concern for all parties involved in the DoD acquisition process. These parties include cost analysts, program managers, senior DoD decision-makers, Congress, and even the American public. All of these people have a vested interest in the cost of DoD programs...- $57.95
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An Architecture for Improving Timeliness and Relevance of Cyber Incident Notifications
This research proposes a communications architecture to deliver timely and relevant cyber incident notifications to dependent mission stakeholders. This architecture, modeled in Unified Modeling Language (UML), eschews the traditional method of pushing notifications via message as dictated in Air Force Instruction 33-138. It instead...- $18.95
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Fan-Beam Multiplexed Compton Scatter Tomography for Single-Sided Noninvasive Inspection
Energies, the scattered gamma ray spectra are significantly influenced by the momentum distribution of the electrons in the target, a phenomenon known as Doppler broadening. This broadening is energy-variant and the shape is a function of scattering material. A deterministic system model is developed...- $18.95
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Security Force Assistance: Building Foreign Security Forces and Joint Doctrine for the Future of U.S. Regional Security
The United States Military conducted numerous attempts to train Foreign Security Forces over the past 100 years. From training the Nicaraguan National Guard to the most recent efforts in Iraq, the U.S. Military has repeatedly shown a need for a coherent and comprehensive plan...- $57.95
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Cobalt Doping of Semiconducting Boron Carbide Using Cobaltocene
The decomposition of cobaltocene and metacarborane (closo-1,7-dicarbadecaborane) under low energy electron irradiation at about 200 K results in a material with the Fermi level closer to the valence band than the material resulting from the decomposition of metacarborane alone. This indicates that cobaltocene provides...- $15.95
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Sea Basing: A Way to Project Land Combat Power
As described in the 2004 National Military Strategy, the US military must be capable of rapidly projecting military power to achieve full spectrum dominance over any situation or against any adversary in any theater. The US military projects land power through a combination of...- $15.95
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Revolution After Next: Making Vertical Envelopment by Operationally Significant Mobile Protected Forces a Reality in the First Decade of the 21st Cent
As the 21st Century dawns, warfare is in the midst of revolutionary change. Information Age warfare characterized by knowledge, speed, and precision is slowly supplanting Industrial Age war and its reliance on mass. The advent of precision firepower is but the first tremor of...- $15.95
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Comparative Study of Aerodynamic Interference During AFT Dispense of Munitions
Based on forthcoming USAF needs, an investigation was launched to further the understanding of aft dispense of munitions in a high-speed environment. A computational fluid dynamics (CFD) study was performed followed by a wind tunnel experiment. The study consisted of a strut-mounted cone simulating...- $18.95
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Effects Based Performance: Bridging The Gap Between Fighter Operations and Maintenance
Effects Based: Not Just For Operations Anymore The United States Air Force is in a transformational phase. Leaders are searching for new and innovative ways to look at old problems. One problem that has plagued the USAF is the measurement of operations and maintenance...- $13.95
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Abstracting GIS Layers From Hyperspectral Imagery
Modern warfare methods in the urban environment necessitates the use of multiple layers of sensors to manage the battle space. Hyperspectral imagers are one possible sensor modality to provide remotely sensed images that can be converted into Geographic Information Systems (GIS) layers. GIS layers...- $18.95
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Development of Predictors for Cloud-to-Ground Lightning Activity Using Atmospheric Stability Indices
A detailed examination was performed on several commonly applied atmospheric stability indices and lightning activity from 1993 to 2000 to determine the indices usefulness as predictive tools for determining cloud-to ground lightning activity. Predetermined radii of 50 nautical miles around upper-air stations in the...- $18.95
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Close Air Support for Counterinsurgency: An Analysis of Aircraft Requirements
This research paper will explore the best aircraft design features for close air support (CAS) for counterinsurgencies (COIN), particularly with respect to the current COIN efforts in Iraq and Afghanistan. There is nostalgia for simple, small, low, slow aircraft for COIN operations. Books and...- $57.95
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Reverse Engineering of Foreign Missiles via Genetic Algorithm
One mission of the National Air Intelligence Center (NAIC) is the reverse engineering of foreign missile weapon systems from incomplete observational data. In the past, intuition and repeated runs of a missile performance model were required to converge to a solution compatible with observed...- $15.95
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Velocity Plume Profiles for Hall Thrusters Using Laser Diagnostics
This research built a non-intrusive laser diagnostic tool using Laser Induced Fluorescence (LIF) and absorption techniques to measure the velocity and density plume profiles of low powered Hall Thrusters. This tool was then applied to a Busek 200W Hall thruster to validate the performance...- $17.95
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Wavelet-Based Audio Embedding and Audio/Video Compression
With the decline in military spending, the United States relies heavily on state side support. Communications has never been more important. High-quality audio and video capabilities are a must. Watermarking, traditionally used for copyright protection, is used in a new and exciting way. An...- $17.95
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Demonstrative Maneuvers for Aircraft Agility Predictions
This study was motivated by a need to develop a reliable method of predicting the agility characteristics of various aircraft. To fully investigate the agility of an aircraft, maneuvers which push the limits of an aircraft's maneuvering capabilities must be simulated. In these cases,...- $17.95
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Stochastic Orbit Prediction Using KAM Tori
Kolmogorov-Arnold-Moser (KAM) Theory states that a lightly perturbed, conservative, dynamical system will exhibit lasting quasi-periodic motion on an invariant torus. Its application to purely deterministic orbits has revealed exquisite accuracy limited only by machine precision. The theory is extended with new mathematical techniques for...- $20.95
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Use of Climatology to Predict Maximum Wintertime Wind Speeds at the Kennedy Space Center and Cape Canaveral Air Station
This thesis uses statistical analysis to forecast the probability of meeting or exceeding the maximum allowable wind speeds for each of the launch pads at the Kennedy Space Center (KSC) and Cape Canaveral Air Station (CCAS). Wind data were collected from the Weather Information...- $15.95
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An Analysis of the NATO Special Operations Transformation Initiative and the NATO Special Operations Coordination Centre
The NATO Special Operations Transformation Initiative, agreed to at the 2006 Riga Summit, established three goals for NATO special operations: first, to improve the representation of special operations expertise at the Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe (SHAPE); second to create a federation of special...- $13.95
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Using Time-Resolved Photoluminescence to Measure the Excitation and Temperature Dependence of Carrier Relaxation in Mid-Wave Infrared Semiconductors
Research in the field of mid-wave infrared (MWIR) semiconductor photonic devices has led to applications in a variety of disciplines including atmospheric monitoring, optical communications, noninvasive glucose testing for diabetics, and infrared (IR) countermeasures. One of the limiting factors for improving the modulation rates...- $15.95
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How Is U.S. Space Power Jeopardized by an Adversary's Exploitation, Technological Developments, Employment and Engagement of Laser Antisatellite Weapo
This research project discusses how an adversary's exploitation, technological developments, employment and engagement of laser antisatellite (ASAT) weapons may negatively impact the US ability to use space power to enhance terrestrial warfighting capability. After describing some exploitable, attractive laser weapon characteristics, the paper explains...- $15.95
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Reducing the Probability of an Al-Qaeda Attack of Mass Effect
The greatest threat facing the Unites States today is what the president described as the union of weapons of mass destruction (WMD) and radicalism.1 Although the potential use of a WMD by a terrorist group is a terrifying prospect we must understand that the...- $13.95
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Assessing the Treatment of Airborne Tactical High Energy Lasers in Combat Simulations
In March 2000, the High Energy Laser Executive Review Panel presented the Department of Defense Laser Master Plan, which reported that HEL weapons are ready for offensive and defensive applications. One candidate platform capable of performing some of the reported applications is the Advanced...- $17.95
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Japanese Nuclear Proliferation Scenarios
The acquisition of nuclear weapons has developed in international relations to be the hallmark of a mature military society. Japan is distinctive in world affairs simply because they have never aspired to be a military nuclear power, despite a vast technical and physical capability...- $13.95
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Using Covert Means to Establish Cybercraft Command and Control
The Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) Information Directorate (RI) is researching a next generation network defense architecture, called Cybercraft, that will provide automated and trusted cyber defense capabilities for AF network assets. In this research, we consider the issues of how to protect or...- $15.95
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The Fabric of Air Warfare: Doctrine, Operational Experience, and Integration of Strategic and Tactical Air Power from World War I through World War II
Dr. Mowbray examines the links between doctrine and operational experience in the US Air Force from World War I through the end of World War II. He specifically addresses the employment of air power by integrated organizations that combine tactical and strategic elements. FM...- $57.95
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An Improved Algorithm for Transplanting Relational Schemas Into an Object Model
Today's warfighter is inundated with data from numerous Command, Control, Communications and Computers and Intelligence systems. Integration of these systems is desirable, yet integration results in a static solution to a dynamic problem-by the time a global schema can be devised, it's out of...- $17.95
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Crisis Advance Planning and Force Capabilities Integration: Enabling Rapid Global Mobility by Accelerating the Deployment Process
As a result of the reduction in overseas U.S. forces at a time of global instability, theU.S. military has transformed to a home-based expeditionary force, highly dependent onrapid deployment to project force abroad in response to crisis. Effective response tocrises demands rapid, decisive force...- $17.95
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Combat Identification Using Multiple TUAV Swarm
In modern warfare, Tactical Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (TUAVs) are rapidly taking on a leading role in traditional and non-traditional ISR, to include Automatic Target Recognition (ATR). However, additional advancements in processors and sensors on TUAVs are still needed before they can be widely employed...- $15.95
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Minimizing Security Forces Response Times Through the Use of Facility Location Methodologies
Since the events of September 11, 2001, security for the nation's Intercontinental Ballistic Missile force has become a prominent concern for personnel in the highest levels of government. This has resulted in many physical security upgrades and new methods to counter hostile activities. This...- $17.95
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An Evaluation of Formate as an Electron Donor to Facilitate Palladium-Catalyzed Destruction of Chlorinated Aliphatic Hydrocarbons
Chlorinated aliphatic hydrocarbons (CAHs) such as trichloroethylene (TCE), tetrachloroethylene (PCE), and trichloroethane (TCA) are probable human carcinogens that have been used widely within the DoD, primarily as solvents for cleaning and metal degreasing. These compounds are frequently found to be groundwater contaminants. In fact,...- $18.95
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