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Maneuver Estimation Model for Geostationary Orbit Determination
As an increasing number of geostationary satellites fill a limited number of orbital slots, collocation of satellites leads to a risk of close approach or misidentification. The ability to detect maneuvers made by these satellites using optical observations can help to prevent these problems....- $17.95
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Developing New Multidimensional Knapsack Heuristics Based on Empirical Analysis of Legacy Heuristics
The multidimensional knapsack problem (MKP) has been used to model a variety of practical optimization and decision-making applications. Due to its combinatorial nature, heuristics are often employed to quickly find good solutions to MKPs. While there have been a variety of heuristics proposed for...- $22.95
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Vendor: Donald J. Barrett
Quantum Cryptography: Operational Impact on 2030 Operations
This paper recommends the U.S. Air Force develop an in depth understanding of quantum mechanics and more specifically its application to cryptography. A survey of scientists and academic institutions conducting experiments to better understand and apply quantum cryptography clearly shows the inevitability of quantum...- $57.95
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Collision Avoidance for UAVs Using Optic Flow Measurement With Line of Sight Rate Equalization and Looming
A series of simplified scenarios is investigated whereby an optical flow - balancing guidance law is used to avoid obstacles by steering an air vehicle between fixed objects/obstacles. These obstacles are registered as specific points that can be representative of features in a scene....- $17.95
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Optimal Wind Corrected Flight Path Planning for Autonomous Micro Air Vehicles
This research effort focuses on determining the optimal flight path required to put a micro air vehicle's (MAVs) fixed sensor on a target in the presence of a constant wind. Autonomous flight is quickly becoming the future of air power and over the past...- $17.95
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21st Century Air-to-Air Short Range Weapon Requirements
Historically, a short-range weapon system was all that was available for air-to-air fighters. As a result, the gun has been a constant in aerial warfare. However, the advent of air-to-air missile technology and sophisticated airborne radar systems has changed the fighter pilot's primary weapon...- $13.95
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Vendor: Jan S. Breemer
War as We Knew It: The Real Revolution in Military Affairs, Understanding Paralysis in Military Operations
The author defines paralytic warfare as "...aimed at incapacitating the opponent's war-making system by causing a complete or partial loss of function involving the power of motion or of sensing in any part of his system. Paralysis-based warfare is precision warfare: it relies on...- $57.95
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Vendor: Scott E. Bergren
Fabrication and Cold-Flow Testing of Subscale Space-Based Laser Geometry
The objectives of this research were to build a facility that could simulate the expected fluid flow properties in the conceptual Space Based Laser Integrated Flight Experiment (SBL IFX) gas dynamic laser using cold-flow, and to investigate the performance of the model. A 1/5-scale...- $17.95
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Vendor: Timothy J. Cook
Optimal Maintenance for Stochastically Degrading Satellite Constellations
This thesis develops a methodology to determine an optimal policy for maintaining a satellite constellation that degrades over time. Previous work has developed a methodology to compute an optimal replacement policy for a satellite constellation in which satellites were viewed as binary entities, either...- $18.95
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Unmanned Aerial Vehicles as Forward Air Controllers
The ability to provide close air support (CAS) has been critical to U.S. forces in Iraq and Afghanistan. Ground forces rely on air support and will do so in future operations. Advances in technology, such as precision guided munitions (PGMs), advanced targeting systems, the...- $13.95
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Attacking the United States With Unmanned Aerial Vehicle-Borne Radiological Weapons in 2035: Feasibilty and Deterrence
June 2035: the sky was clear and the ocean was calm. It was a perfect night to attack the United States. A fishing trawler rested peacefully on the smooth Atlantic Ocean about 150 miles due east of Washington DC. The trawler was not alone;...- $13.95
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Numerical Investigation of Statistical Turbulence Effects on Beam Propagation Through 2-D Shear Mixing Layer
A methodology is developed for determining the validity of making a statistical turbulent approach using Kolmogorov theory to an aero-optical turbulent flow. Kolmogorov theory provides a stochastic method that has a greatly simplified and robust method for calculating atmospheric turbulence effects on optical beam...- $17.95
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Vendor: Osman B. Gokcen
Robust Aircraft Squadron Scheduling in the Face of Absenteeism
Air Force fighter aircraft squadrons the world over share a unique problem. Each requires complex training schedules coupling aircraft to pilots, the duo to missions and airspaces, and then the entire combination to a feasible time slot. Creating daily and weekly flight schedules that...- $17.95
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Probable Economic Targets for Terrorism by Radiological Attack
Although there have been no successful terrorist attacks within the United States since 11 September 2001, many terrorism experts believe that another is likely to occur in the near future. There have been a number of foiled attacks in the intervening years, some large...- $13.95
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Harnessing Light: Laser/Satellite Relay Mirror Systems and Deterrence in 2035
Directed energy weapons represent a potential revolution in military capabilities for tomorrow's warfighters, as well as a threat to the U.S. High-powered lasers have the potential to be formidable weapons, both lethal and non-lethal. In recent years, the U.S. has made several advances in...- $13.95
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Signal Processing Design of Low Probability of Intercept Waveforms via Intersymbol Dither
This thesis investigates a modification to Differential Phase Shift Keyed modulation to create a low Probability of Interception/Exploitation communications signal. A Pseudodorandum timing offset is applied to each symbol in the communications stream to intentionally create intersymbol interference that hinders accurate symbol estimation and...- $17.95
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Vendor: Michael D. Cote
Screening and Sufficiency in Multiobjective Decision Problems With Large Alternative Sets
Portfolio selection problems with combinatorially-large alternative sets can be impossible to evaluate precisely on a reasonable timescale. When portfolios require complex modeling for performance assessment, prohibitive computational processing times can result. Eliminating a small number of alternatives through an intelligent screening process can greatly...- $17.95
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Evolutionary Artificial Neural Network Weight Tuning to Optimize Decision Making for an Abstract Game
Abstract strategy games present a deterministic perfect information environment with which to test the strategic capabilities of artificial intelligence systems. With no unknowns or random elements, only the competitors' performances impact the results. This thesis takes one such game, Lines of Action, and attempts...- $15.95
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An Investigation of the Effects of Correlation and Autocorrelation in Classifier Fusion With Non-Declarations
Air Force doctrine requires reliable and accurate information when striking targets. Further, this doctrine states that fusion should be utilized whenever possible to ensure the best possible information is conveyed; there is no specific guidance as to how to fuse this information. This thesis...- $17.95
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Vendor: Stacey L. Anason
Cost-Benefit Analysis of Cosolvent Flushing to Treat Groundwater Contamination Source Areas
Dense non-aqueous phase liquids (DNAPLs) in the zone beneath the water table can be a virtually permanent source of groundwater contamination that cannot be remediated by currently available technologies. Cosolvent flushing is a new technology that has the potential to remediate these sites and...- $17.95
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Vendor: Mohd Fairul Mohd-Zaid
Face Recognition via Ensemble SIFT Matching of Uncorrelated Hyperspectral Bands and Spectral PCTs
Face recognition is not a new area of study, but facial recognition using through hyperspectral images is a somewhat new concept which is still in its infancy. Although the conventional method of face recognition using Red-Green-Blue (RGB) or grayscale images has been advanced over...- $17.95
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Vendor: David P. Montminy
Using Relocatable Bitstreams for Fault Tolerance
This research develops a method for relocating reconfigurable modules on the Virtex-II (Pro) family of Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs). A bitstream translation program is developed which correctly changes the location of a partial bitstream that implements a module on the FPGA. To take...- $17.95
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Vendor: John R. Bochert
Software and Critical Technology Protection against Side-Channel Analysis through Dynamic Hardware Obfuscation
Side Channel Analysis (SCA) is a method by which an adversary can gather information about a processor by examining the activity being done on a microchip though the environment surrounding the chip. Side Channel Analysis attacks use SCA to attack a microcontroller when it...- $57.95
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Robust Multi-Scenario Optimization of an Air Expeditionary Force Force Structure Applying Genetic Alogorithms to the Combat Forces Assessment Model
The United States Air Force is increasingly facing more diverse threat situations while existing force structure levels are being reduced and proposed compositions are being severely scrutinized for relevance, affordability, and effectiveness. Military planners are struggling with the question of how to generate a...- $17.95
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Experimentation and Analysis of Composite Scarf Joint
Composite bonded scarf repairs were examined by experimentally measuring and analytically predicting the residual curing strains and strains due to mechanical loading. To accomplish this a three prong approach was used: a full strain field through a repaired laminate's thickness was measured for both...- $20.95
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Active Multispectral Bidirectional Distribution Function Measurement System
Today's highly technical battlefield environment dictates the need for a method of standoff target identification, which reduces risk to personnel and equipment. It is widely known that a given material will react differently to incident radiation than a dissimilar material. Certain materials may respond...- $17.95
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Vendor: Craig W. Rizzo
Parallel Implementation of an Artificial Neural Network Integrated Feature and Architecture Selection Algorithm
The selection of salient features and an appropriate hidden layer architecture contributes significantly to the performance of a neural network. A number of metrics and methodologies exist for estimating these parameters. This research builds on recent efforts to integrate feature and architecture selection for...- $15.95
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Vendor: Jennifer Corneille
Wind Tunnel Ivestigation of Joined Wing Configurations
The Air Force Research Laboratory's Munitions Directorate is looking to extend the range of its small smart bomb. One proposed idea is to retrofit the bombs with a wing kit, particularly a joined wing configuration. A typical joined wing configuration is one where the...- $17.95
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USAF Airlift into the Heart Of Darkness, the Congo 1960-1978: Implications for Modern Air Mobility Planners
As recently as September 2007, Deputy Secretary of Defense Gordon England directed the establishment of a task force to coordinate unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) issues and determine a way ahead to provide for "common, joint, and operationally effective UAS programs."1 Aren't the systems we...- $57.95
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Optimum Preventive Maintenance Policies for the AMRAAM Missile
The overall objective of this research effort was to formulate a preventive maintenance strategy for AMRAAM missiles subject to extended captive carry flight time. A preventive maintenance policy is only applicable if the item in question is aging, or deteriorating with time. Therefore, a...- $17.95
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Vendor: Vance P. Visser
Preparing for Response to a Nuclear Weapon of Mass Destruction, are We Ready?
In the wake of the untimely execution of an ill-coordinated response at all levels to the Hurricane Katrina devastation and destruction that rocked the Gulf Coast, it is important to examine how the United States government is organized and resourced to confront future catastrophic...- $15.95
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Information Anxiety: Comparison of Samples Within the United States Air Force And Linear Analysis of the Political-Military Affairs Strategist Career
This research examined the levels of information anxiety within the USAF, with specific emphasis on the levels experienced by a single career field (16P, Political-Military Affairs Strategists). Data gathered was used to make two separate assessments and a final recommendation. First, the paper explored...- $13.95
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Vendor: Dennis Lewis
Predictive Analysis: An Unnecessary Risk in the Contemporary Operating Environment
The construct for predictive analysis is based on the unfounded assumption that technologies and sound analysis will dissipate uncertainty in war. U.S. military doctrine shows an expectation for prediction from the intelligence process; it assumes that prediction is possible, and details a methodology to...- $15.95
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Mines Away! The Significance of U.S. Army Air Forces Minelaying in World War II
In World War II/s Pacific Theater, the U.S. Army Air Forces (AAF) devoted a small percentage of its long-range capability to aerial minelaying against Japanese warships and commerce. Sea mines--explosive underwater devices that damaged, sank, or deterred ships--were weapons that had difficulty gaining the...- $15.95
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Use of Quantum Mechanical Calculations to Investigate Small Silicon Carbide Clusters
Silicon carbide (SiC) has a wide band gap at high temperature, a good candidate material to meet future Air Force needs for wide-band-gap semiconductor devices for optoelectronics and high power electronics in aerospace applications. Defects generated during growth and fabrication are largely responsible for...- $17.95
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Vendor: Chong Kyung Kil
Visual Execution Analysis for Multiagent Systems
Multiagent systems have become increasingly important in developing complex software systems. Multiagent systems introduce collective intelligence and provide benefits such as flexibility, scalability, decentralization, and increased reliability. A software agent is a high-level software abstraction that is capable of performing given tasks in an...- $15.95
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The Airship's Potential for Intertheater and Intratheater Airlift
This paper asserts there exists a dangerous GAP in US strategic intertheater transportation capabilities, propounds a model describing the GAP, and proposes a solution to the problem. Logistics requirements fall into three broad, overlapping categories: Immediate, Mid-Term, and Sustainment requirements. These categories commence and...- $15.95
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Orbit Maneuver for Responsive Coverage Using Electric Propulsion
The use of continuous electric propulsion to manipulate a satellite's orbit offers significant potential for enhancing coverage of a target in ways not previously considered. Elliptical orbits utilizing a very low perigee can facilitate access to the surface and atmosphere of the Earth at...- $15.95
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A Case Study Analysis of the Overhead Rate Impact Model Used During the C-5 Maintenance Source Selection
The Overhead Rate Impact (ORI) model was used during the C-5 Maintenance source selection to evaluate the impact the new workload would have on the existing overhead rates. The objectives of this research study were to evaluate the ORI model and to identify the...- $15.95
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An Analysis of Airfield Throughput at Elmendorf Air Force Base Using the Airfield Simulation Tool
Elmendorf Air Force Base (AFB) is one of the two key en route airfields for the Pacific Theater. The condition of en route airfields has recently come to the attention of the DoD and the GAO. Delays at these airfields may cause personnel and...- $15.95
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Rethinking the Air Operations Center: Air Force Command and Control in Conventional War
The Air Operations Center (AOC) is the centerpiece of the Air Force's new command and control (C2) system for prosecuting theater conventional war. The AOC is a direct outgrowth of the Tactical Air Control Center (TACC). In Vietnam, the TACC mirrored the divided command...- $57.95
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Software Acquisition Improvement in the Aeronautical Systems Center
In the past 20 years, over 150 recommendations have been made to improve software systems development by organizations such as the Defense Science Board, National Research Council and the U.S. General Accountability Office. It has been discovered that many of these recommendation have remained...- $17.95
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Optical and Electrical Characterization of Bulk Grown Indium-Gallium-Arsenide Alloys
Advances in crystal growth techniques have allowed increased quality in growth of bulk ternary InxGa1-xAs. Here, the optical and electrical properties of samples grown through the vertical Bridgman (or multi-component zone melting growth) method have been investigated through photoluminescence spectroscopy and Hall effect measurements....- $15.95
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Effects of Prior Aging at 191°C on Creep Response of IM7/BMI 5250-4
The creep behavior of IM7/BMI 5250-4 with fiber orientations of [ 45] and [0/90] that were aged in air at 191 C for up to 1000 hours was evaluated. The total weight loss during the aging process was also evaluated. Weight loss due to...- $17.95
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The Threat of Intentional Oil Spills to Desalination Plants in the Middle East: A U.S. Security Threat?
This project will examine the importance of desalination facilities to mid-east security, the potential environmental terrorist threat in the form of oil spills, and the vulnerability of these facilities and specific countries to oil spills. The project will conclude with alternatives for how we...- $13.95
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Integrated Conceptual Design of Joined-Wing Sensorcraft Using Response Surface Models
A multidisciplinary conceptual design and analysis of Boeing's joined-wing SensorCraft has been conducted. This analysis was completed using geometrical optimization, aerodynamic analyses, and response surface methodology on a composite structural model. Phoenix Integration's Model Center was used to integrate the sizing and analysis codes...- $18.95
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Vendor: Hee-Hyoung Jung
An International Study of Organizational Change: A Simultaneous Analysis of Process, Context, and Individual Attributes
By collecting data from three organizations located in two continents, this study was designed to build on the literature that has called for both individual-level and internationally relevant change research. It examined how individual perceptions of the change process, context, and individual attributes influenced...- $17.95
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Military Deployments as a Respite from Burnout: An Analysis of Gender and Family
To explore the possible respite effects of deployments, active duty Air Force acquisition support personnel who were either scheduled to deploy (n = 74), or recently returned from deployment (n = 34) were surveyed. Analysis of variance compared the pre-deployment male's and female's perceived...- $57.95
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Operational Art and Aircraft Runway Requirements
A commander exercises operational art to achieve strategic goals through his design, organization, and conduct of campaigns. In designing and organizing a campaign, a commander uses movement to provide his forces with the advantages needed to win battles and exploit the opportunities provided by...- $57.95
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Updating Optimal Decisions Using Game Theory and Exploring Risk Behavior through Response Surface Methodology
This thesis utilizes game theory within a framework for updating optimal decisions based on new information as it becomes available. Methodology is developed that allows a decision maker to change his perceived optimal policy based on available knowledge of the opponents strategy, where the...- $57.95
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