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Vendor: David M. Ryer
Implementation of the Metaheuristic Tabu Search in Route Selection for Mobility Analysis Support System
This thesis employs a reactive tabu search heuristic implemented in the Java programming language to solve a real world variation of the vehicle routing problem with the objective of providing quality routes to Mobility Analysis Support System (MASS). MASS is a stochastic simulation model...- $57.95
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Limitations of Segmented Wavefront Control Devices in Emulating Optical Turbulence
Using a device to act as a surrogate for atmospheric turbulence in a laboratory is necessary to build and test optical systems for imaging, lidar, laser weapons, and laser communications. Liquid-crystal spatial light modulators (LC SLMs) and segmented micro-electro-mechanical-system (MEMS) deformable mirrors (DMs) are...- $17.95
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Methods for Aiding Height Determination in Pseudolite-Based Reference Systems Using Batch Least-Squares Estimation
There are many situations in which GPS is either unable to provide the desired level of accuracy or is unavailable. Use of a pseudolite-based reference system for nav- igation can be a means for positioning during these times. While there are advantages in using...- $17.95
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Triple Threat: HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis, Malaria, and the Impact on Military Forces in Sub-Saharan Africa
Military forces in Sub-Saharan Africa, including peacekeepers, rank among the highest population groups most affected by sexually transmitted infections (STIs), including HIV. These individuals are called upon to protect national security from threats such as terrorism, crime, internal and external conflict; serving at home...- $57.95
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Vendor: John S. Weir
Enhancing the NS-2 Network Simulator for Near Real-Time Control Feedback and Distributed Simulation Breaks
A network simulator coupled with a visualization package enables the human visual system to analyze the results of network modeling as a supplement to analytical data analysis. This research takes the next step in network simulator and visualization suite interaction. A mediator (or run-time...- $17.95
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Aerospace Strategy for the Aerospace Nation
This study analyzes the need for a national aerospace strategy that encompasses the two aspects of aerospace power: the aerospace industry and military aerospace. The author assesses the aerospace industry as to its importance to the United States. The conclusion is that this industry...- $15.95
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Vendor: Gary L. Cornn
An Object-Oriented Repository-Based Software Synthesis System
This research provides a repository on which various Air Force Institute of Technology (AFIT) transformational software synthesis tools can store, share, and manage data using a common repository information model. This information model was created by integrating a variety of separately-developed AFIT software synthesis...- $18.95
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Vendor: Robert T. Fievisohn
Numerical Investigation of Pre-Detonator Geometries for PDE Applications
A parametric study was performed to determine optimal geometries to allow the successful transition of a detonation from a pre-detonator into the thrust tube of a pulse detonation engine. The study was performed using a two-dimensional Euler solver with progress variables to model the...- $15.95
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Geometric Approach to Orbital Formation Mission Design
For distributed remote sensing architectures to be useful for collecting data, it is essential to have a methodology for relating orbital formation parameters to remote sensing requirements. Utilizing the characteristics of formation parameters, an orbital design approach is developed that establishes a satellite formation...- $15.95
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An Analysis of Air Force's Development Programs Assisting Women Bridging to Senior Executive Service Rank
In today's workplace, it is not rare to hear a comment regarding how valuable employees are to an organization. As a matter of fact, a common statement supporting this thought is "employees are our most valuable asset" has been around for a number of...- $13.95
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Post Conflict Operations: A Critical Analysis of US Army Force Structure Requirements
The study concludes that US Army force structure is inconsistent with US strategic policies, is not based upon nor informed by practical lessons of the past, and does not strike a balance among the suite of capabilities necessary to conduct full spectrum operations. Numerous...- $15.95
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Vendor: Ansel L. Hills
Counter Electrical Generation and Distribution: An Assessment for Global Strike in 2035
The Chief of Staff of the Air Force charged the 2012 Air War College Blue Horizon Program to explore the impacts of technological advances on the Air Force's ability to conduct Global Strike in 2035. Given this topic, this paper delves into whether the...- $13.95
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Vendor: P. A. Crosbie
Pay Now or Pay Later: An Analysis of Two Tactical Combat Force Locations
This study examines a portion of the current US Army rear operation doctrine as it applies to the tactical level of war. Specifically, it compares the capability of the dedicated rear area tactical combat force (TCF) with an on-order tactical combat force (TFC) to...- $13.95
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Vendor: Gregory S. Marzolf
Time Critical Targeting: Predictive Versus Reactionary Methods: An Analysis for the Future
Experiences in Operations Desert Storm and Allied Force highlighted a significant weakness in the USAF's ability to engage time-critical targets. The weakness stems from airpower's inability to employ force quickly and kill an emerging target before it disappears back into hiding. USAF's engagement sequence,...- $15.95
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Vendor: David A. Williamson
Strategy and the Use of Airpower on the Eastern Front: Lessons for the Airpower Strategist
The Eastern Front is likely the least appreciated and least understood component of the Second World War. This is especially unfortunate since it contains some of the richest lessons about strategy and the application of airpower while faced with an imminent and existential threat....- $57.95
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Operational Reach: Is Current Army Doctrine Adequate?
The research revealed that current Army doctrine on operational reach is inadequate. One of the characteristics of sound doctrine found in TRADOC Regulation 25-36 is "Concise doctrine provides a comprehensive body of thought..." However, the analysis of joint doctrine, military theory, and history provides...- $15.95
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Operational Sustainment: Means, Ways, and Ends Governing Joint and Combined Operations
This monograph examines the impact operational sustainment has on mid-high intensity operations in a semi-austere theater of operations. The analysis begins with the theory of sustaining operations at the operational level of war and the principles of current sustainment doctrine. A paradigm is developed...- $15.95
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Vendor: Michael H. Vernon
Organizing Field Artillery for Desert Operations: Tactical Tailoring of Field Artillery Units
This study examines the organization for combat of U.S. Army field artillery units operating in a desert environment and determines the adequacy of current doctrine to insure effective field artillery support to U.S. Army heavy divisions conducting combat operations in the desert. An historical...- $57.95
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Vendor: Mark E. DeYoung
Dynamic Protocol Reverse Engineering: A Grammatical Inference Approach
Round trip engineering of software from source code and reverse engineering of software from binary files have both been extensively studied and the state-of-practice have documented tools and techniques. Forward engineering of protocols has also been extensively studied and there are firmly established techniques...- $57.95
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Vendor: Gilles K. Van Nederveen
Sparks Over Vietnam: The EB-66 and the Early Struggle of Tactical Electronic Warfare
Technology has often been a key component in turning the tide of battle, particularly so in modern air wars. From the Battle of Britain to the Bekaa Valley to the most recent air operations against Iraq and Serbia, an invisible but vital duel was...- $17.95
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Vendor: Joseph E. Buder
Retention of Computer Network System Administrators in the Air Force
The Air Force has been undergoing dramatic changes throughout the decade. Historically, three factors have contributed to this: the geopolitical environment, emerging technological innovations, and new operational concepts. Technology has shaped the strategies and tactics used by the Air Force to meet its operational...- $15.95
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Vendor: Antonios Markopoulos
Analysis and Modeling of Motor Vehicle Crashes Involving Air Force Military Personnel
The primary purpose of this thesis was to improve the data analysis of Motor Vehicle Crashes (MVCs). This thesis employed the Air Force Safety Center (AFSC) data, collected over 20 years, of MVCs in which US Air Force (USAF) military personnel are involved when...- $18.95
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Vendor: Anton W. Cihak
Capturing Non-Linear Battlefield Operations: Conventional Air Forces' Interdependence With Special Operations Forces
As the United States Military transforms from an industrial age organization into an information age institution, doctrine and strategy should be evaluated and adjusted if necessary to match information age resources, capabilities and mindset. This thesis uses historical analysis to answer the question: How...- $15.95
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Price vs. Performance: The Value of Next Generation Fighter Aircraft
The United States Department of Defense (DoD) is currently recapitalizing its aging fighter aircraft inventory with the F-22A and F-35. While the DoD may consider cost and performance issues, it does not use a quantitative model that effectively measures the tradeoffs between the two....- $13.95
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The Quest for Air Dominance: F-22, Cost Versus Capability
Since the incorporation of the airplane into military service, air superiority has been a key ingredient to success on the modern battlefield. Global Engagement: A Vision For the 21st Century Air Force, the USAF's latest vision statement, lists air and space superiority as the...- $13.95
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Vendor: Terry T. Kono
Square Pegs and Round Holes: Air Force Doctrine and the B-2 Bomber
AFM 1-1 and the United States Air Force's new vision paper, Global Engagement: A Vision for the 21st Century Air Force, allow significant flexibility in the employment of Air Force resources. However, as doctrine or the core for doctrinal development, both documents intimate significant...- $57.95
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Operational Maneuver From the Sea and the Vulnerability of Maritime Pre-Positioned Forces
As a force projection power, it is critical for the United States to retain the capability to introduce rapidly, credible and sustainable forces into theaters around the world. Maritime pre-positioned forces (MPF) are a key component supporting that force projection capability. Currently, there is...- $15.95
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Operational Level Logistics: An Examination of U.S. Army Logistical Doctrine for the Operational Level of War
This monograph examines three World War II campaigns. The 1941 German Operation "Barbarossa" (Central Army Group), Soviet Belorussian Campaign of 1944, and Soviet invasion of Manchuria in 1945 are used to illustrate five operational logistics tenets: line of support, staging, altering lines of communication,...- $57.95
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Operational Durability: The Marines and Operational Maneuver From the Sea
Current and proposed U.S. Marine Corps doctrine proclaims the many virtues of the Marines as an "expeditionary force in readiness." As America's "911 force" the Marine Corps is tasked to be the military force "most ready when the nation is least ready." A Ground...- $15.95
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Vendor: Jason E. Tisdel
Small Sample Confidence Intervals in Log Space Back-Transformed From Normal Space
The logarithmic transformation is commonly applied to a lognormal data set to improve symmetry, homoscedasticity, and linearity. Simple to implement and easy to understand, the logarithm function transforms the original data to closely resemble a normal distribution. Analysis in the normal space provides point...- $15.95
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Vendor: Joseph M. Colacicco
Analysis of Army Transformation and the Effects on Customer Ordering Behavior
The United States Army began a major force transformation in 2003, which required a significant shift in logistics support constructs. This thesis provides an in-process review of the effects of the current transformation efforts on supply effectiveness and attempts to determine factors that influence...- $13.95
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Vendor: Steve L. Renner
Analyzing Horizontal Distances Between WSR-88D Thunderstorm Centroids and Cloud-to-Ground Lightning Strikes
On April 29, 1996, lightning struck the airfield at Hurlburt Field, FL, killing one Airman and injuring ten others. This cloud-to-ground lightning strike hit eight minutes after a lightning advisory was canceled. At the time of the strike, thunderstorms were observed 7 to 10...- $17.95
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Minimizing Secular J2 Perturbation Effects on Satellite Formations
The purpose of this thesis is to examine the secular effects of the J2 oblateness perturbation on close proximity satellites. The main objective is to analyze the deputy's position and velocity with respect to the chief and adjust the initial conditions of the deputy...- $15.95
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Application of Decision Analysis to Evaluate Alternative Research and Development Investments
This thesis is an application of decision analysis techniques to the problem of evaluating competing research and development investments and selecting the best portfolio from among the alternatives. In contrast to the current ad hoc approach, decision analysis provides an explicit and easily explained...- $17.95
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Vendor: Christopher M. Olsen
Simulation Study of Evacuation Control Center Operations Analysis
A Noncombatant Evacuation Operation (NEO) is the primary method employed by the US State Department of safely evacuating American Citizens and designated host country nationals from life threatening situations in foreign countries. Planning for these operations is difficult due to its dynamic nature and...- $15.95
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Vendor: Sarah E. Shelton
Selecting Optimal Control Portfolios to Improve Army Aviation Safety
The Army is concerned with maintaining safe operations in light of increasing operational demands. The Army Safety Center s goal, as approved by the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisitions and Technology, is to reduce accident severity by 50% in the next decade. The...- $17.95
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Designing an Algorithm to Predict the Intensity of the Severe Weather Season
Examination of atmospheric and oceanic circulations may explain interannual climate variability in the Northern Hemisphere on a seasonal scale. It is crucial to develop more accurate seasonal climate forecasts using both global circulation and sea surface temperature (SST) indices to aid in long-range weather...- $15.95
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Shaping the Air Force Operational Environment in Cyberspace
The AF has dedicated considerable resources trying to manage and secure information and information systems in cyberspace. Air Force personnel have tried to create a number of secure and unsecure operational environments in the cyberspace domain, all based on the technology developed in the...- $13.95
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Vendor: John T. Rauch
Assessing Airpower's Effects: Capabilities and Limitations of Real-Time Battle Damage Assessment
This study analyzes how real-time Battle Damage Assessment (BDA) might contribute to airpower strategy and execution. It begins with a historical review of BDA during World War II, Vietnam, and the Persian Gulf War. Next, it examines the current BDA doctrine, capabilities, and procedures...- $57.95
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Wielding the Sword While Forging the Shield: Nuclear, Biological, Chemical and Missile Counterforce Operations
This paper argues that an immediate conceptual focus on and resource commitment to nuclear, biological, and chemical weapons and theater missile (NBC/M) counterforce is essential to preserving the ability of the U.S. to project military power and successfully prosecute operations in the near- to...- $57.95
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Can the U.S. Air Force Weaponize Space?
The Air Force recently said one of its core competencies is Air and Space Superiority--control over what moves through air and space. Given the inclusion of space in this core competency, can the Air Force realistically achieve a level of Space Superiority via weaponization...- $13.95
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Vendor: Julian C. Cheater
Accelerating the Kill Chain via Future Unmanned Aircraft
Unmanned aircraft (UA) have evolved from simple reconnaissance assets into capable and persistent strike platforms in a short period of time. Looking ahead to the year 2025, what technologies will help the US military reduce the time it takes to find, track, and neutralize...- $15.95
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How Did the Evolution of Communications Affect Command and Control of Airpower: 1900-1945?
Communications became an airpower combat multiplier through the evolution of communications equipment, procedures, and understanding. Once commanders understood the importance of reliable, flexible, and survivable communications systems they demanded more. Much of the improvements are attributed to the industrial base, extraordinary efforts, initiative, determination...- $13.95
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Modeling and Analysis of Resolve and Morale for the Long War
In The Art of War, Sun Tzu begins by stating: "War is a matter of vital importance to the State; the province of life or death; the road to survival or ruin. It is mandatory that it be thoroughly studied." Sun Tzu follow's this...- $22.95
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Flight Formation Development for Assault Support Aircraft V-22 And C-130
The research project is focused on formation development for the assualt support community (C-130, V-22). The project will first research and establish the capabilities and limitations associated with optimizing the human eye for formation flight use, i.e., formation positioning and air threat detection. The...- $15.95
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Long-Range Strike: Concepts and Doctrinal Implications of Future Airpower Capabilities
This study analyzes long-range strike, current conceptual ideas for platforms, and how it should relate to future doctrine. Although speculative by nature, the conclusions are there is a valid need for long-range strike to defeat anti-access threats in the future against medium to high...- $15.95
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An Analysis of the Balance of Management, Technical and Leadership Progression Through the Three USAF Officer Tiers
The purpose of this research was to identify the balance of management, technical and leadership responsibilities learned at each of the three USAF officer tiers. Specifically, this thesis sought to answer research questions addressing the essential learning elements for developing leadership, technical and management...- $57.95
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Vendor: Cole C. Doupe
Finite Element Model Optimization of the FalconSAT-5 Structural Engineering Model
Space launch vehicles produce tremendously harsh environments for their payloads. One of the worst contributors to this harsh environment is vibration. Launch vehicle contractors require accurate dynamic models in order to perform coupled loads analyses with each payload to mitigate risks. Accurate predictions of...- $17.95
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Algebra of Tankers
The Air Force's aerial refueling tanker aircraft provide essential support for deployment and employment of combat and combat support aircraft, by extending their endurance and enhancing fighting efficiency. As the lead command for air refuelers, Air Mobility Command (AMC) must frequently examine the capability...- $18.95
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Comparative Functional Analysis of Air Force and Commercially Available Transportation Information Management Systems
The Air Force currently relies on two transportation information management systems for managing cargo and passenger movements throughout the Defense Transportation System. The two systems are Global Air Transportation Execution System (GATES) and Cargo Movement Operations System (CMOS). Although GATES and CMOS have evolved...- $18.95
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