| Security Classified and Controlled Information: History, Status, and Emerging Management Issues |
11-Feb-2008 |
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| Authors:
Harold C Relyea; LIBRARY OF CONGRESS WASHINGTON DC CONGRESSIONAL RESEARCH SERVICE
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 | In the current environment, still affected by the long shadow of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, several issues have arisen regarding security classified and controlled information. Volume is a concern: 8 million new classification actions in 2001 jumped to 14 million new actions in 2005, while the quantity of declassified pages dropped from 100 million in 2001 to 29 million in 2005. Expense is vexing: $4.5 billion spent ... |
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| How Do Users Find Things with PubMed? Towards Automatic Utility Evaluation with User Simulations |
01-Feb-2008 |
18 pages |
| Authors:
Jimmy Lin; Mark D Smucker; MARYLAND UNIV COLLEGE PARK HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION LAB
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 | In the context of document retrieval in the biomedical domain, this paper explores the complex relationship between the quality of initial query results and the overall utility of an interactive system. We demonstrate that a content-similarity browsing tool can compensate for poor retrieval results, and that the relationship between retrieval performance and overall utility is non-linear. Arguments are advanced with user simulations, which characterize the relevance of documents that a ... |
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| Commander's Emergency Response Program in Iraq Funds Many Large-Scale Projects |
25-Jan-2008 |
29 pages |
| Authors:
David Warren; Walt R Keays; Michael A Bianco; Ronald J Bonfilio; Frank W Gulla; Barry W Holman; OFFICE OF INSPECTOR GENERAL ARLINGTON VA SPECIAL INSPECTOR GENERAL FOR IRAQ RECONSTRUCTION
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| In May 2003, the Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA) formalized the Commander's Emergency Response Program (CERP) in Iraq, authorizing U.S. field commanders to use available funds to respond to urgent humanitarian, relief, and reconstruction requirements within a commander's area of responsibility by executing programs that immediately assist indigenous populations and achieve focused effects. CERP guidance directs commanders to focus funds on projects that improve water and sanitation, electricity, and civic cleanup ... |
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| Outcome, Cost, and Oversight of Reconstruction of Taji Military Base and Baghdad Recruiting Center |
15 JAN 2008 |
42 pages |
| Authors:
OFFICE OF INSPECTOR GENERAL ARLINGTON VA SPECIAL INSPECTOR GENERAL FOR IRAQ RECONSTRUCTION
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| A December 2006 amendment to the Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction's (SIGIR) enabling legislation requires that, prior to its termination, SIGIR prepare a final forensic audit report on funds made available to the Iraq Relief and Reconstruction Fund. To help meet this requirement, SIGIR is undertaking a series of focused audits examining major Iraq reconstruction contracts. The objective of these audits is to examine contract outcome, cost, and management ... |
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| Security Classified and Controlled Information: History, Status, and Emerging Management Issues |
02 JAN 2008 |
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| Authors:
Harold C. Relyea; LIBRARY OF CONGRESS WASHINGTON DC CONGRESSIONAL RESEARCH SERVICE
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| The security classification regime in use within the federal executive branch traces its origins to armed forces information protection practices of the World War I era. The classification system designating information, according to prescribed criteria and procedures, protected in accordance with one of three levels of sensitivity, based on the amount of harm to the national security that would result from its disclosure attained a presidential character in 1940 when ... |
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| Strategic Fragility: Infrastructure Protection and National Security in the Information Age (Defense Horizons, Number 59, Jan 2008) |
JAN 2008 |
7 pages |
| Authors:
Robert A. Miller; Irving Lachow; NATIONAL DEFENSE UNIV WASHINGTON DC CENTER FOR TECHNOLOGY AND NATIONAL SECURITY POLICY
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| Modern societies have reached unprecedented levels of prosperity, yet they remain vulnerable to a wide range of possible disruptions. One significant reason for this growing vulnerability is the developed world's reliance on an array of interlinked, interdependent critical infrastructures that span nations and even continents. The advent of these infrastructures over the past few decades has resulted in a tradeoff: the United States has gained greater productivity and prosperity at ... |
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| DEFENSE ACQUISITIONS: Departmentwide Direction is Needed for Implementation of the Anti-tamper Policy |
JAN 2008 |
26 pages |
| Authors:
GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY OFFICE WASHINGTON DC
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| To protect its critical assets, DOD has established several protection measures for weapon systems. These measures include information assurance to protect information and information systems, software protection to prevent the unauthorized distribution and exploitation of critical software, and anti-tamper techniques to help delay exploitation of technologies through means such as reverse engineering3 when U.S. weapons are exported or lost on the battlefield. Examples of anti-tamper techniques include software encryption, which ... |
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| Measuring the Strategic Value of the Armed Forces Health Longitudinal Technology Application (AHLTA) |
Jan-2008 |
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| Authors:
James H Bigelow; Katherine M Harris; Richard Hillestad; RAND CORP SANTA MONICA CA
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| The Military Health System (MHS) has more than 9 million eligible beneficiaries, including active duty service members and their families, retirees and their families, and Guard and Reserve members serving on active duty and their families. The MHS provides health care through its own facilities and personnel (direct care); it also purchases care from civilian providers (purchased care). In January 2004, the MHS's Clinical Information Technology Program Office (CITPO) began ... |
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| The Royal Army in America During the Revolutionary War: The American Prisoner Records |
Jan-2008 |
140 pages |
| Authors:
Kenneth Baumgardt; ARMY CORPS OF ENGINEERS CHRISTIANA DE
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| The following work is an attempt to collect together a wide variety of records relating to the Royal prisoners during the Amen can War for Independence. A number of books are available which provide the records of the American armies during this period, but little work has been done to collect the records of the opposing Army. The British Army during the Revolutionary War was composed of a number of ... |
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| A Knowledge Management Case Study: The First U.S. Navy Expeditionary Strike Group (ESG-3) to Implement Knowledge Management |
Jan-2008 |
38 pages |
| Authors:
Davis; George D III; MARINE CORPS COMMAND AND STAFF COLL QUANTICO VA
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| Expeditionary Strike group 3 (ESG 3) was the first Expeditionary Strike Group to employ Knowledge Management. This case study describes the procedures executed during the staffs deployment from February 2006 to February 2007 in order to create new knowledge. |
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| An Ocean Observing System for Large-Scale Monitoring and Mapping of Noise Throughout the Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary |
Jan-2008 |
10 pages |
| Authors:
Christopher W Clark; William T Ellison; Leila T Hatch; Richard L Van Merrick; Sofie M Parijs; David N Wiley; CORNELL LAB OF ORNITHOLOGY ITHACA NY BIOACOUSTICS RESEARCH PROGRAM
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| The project goals are to map the low-frequency (1000 Hz) ocean noise budget throughout the Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary (SBNMS) ecosystem, identify and quantify the contributing sources of anthropogenic sounds within that ecosystem, and determine whether or not such noises have the potential to impact endangered marine mammals and fishes that use the Sanctuary. This project represents a high-level, integrative 'bench mark' study aimed at characterizing the marine acoustic ... |
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| Clear, Hold, Build: Modern Political Techniques in COIN |
Jan-2008 |
9 pages |
| Authors:
Colin Ahern; UNIV OF MILITARY INTELLIGENCE FORT HUACHUCA AZ
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| Clear, Hold, Build is the stated policy and doctrine for the U.S. military to succeed in the counterinsurgency fight in Iraq. This paper discusses the leveraging of domestic political campaigning tools as a way to improve the Clear, Hold, Build strategy at the Brigade and Battalion level. The paper highlights the role of the S-2 in leveraging domestic political tools, how these tools might be used, and the importance of ... |
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| Army Communicator. Volume 33, Number 1, Winter 2008 |
Jan-2008 |
49 pages |
| Authors:
ARMY SIGNAL CENTER AND FORT GORDON GA
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| Army Communicator is an authorized, official quarterly professional bulletin of the U.S. Army Signal Center, Fort Gordon, GA. Topics of articles in this issue include: Electromagnetic Spectrum Operations, Net-Centric Warfare, Spectrum Training, Digital Battlefields, and Operational Warfare. |
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| Improving Non-Lethal Targeting in COIN |
Jan-2008 |
7 pages |
| Authors:
Ian Strebel; UNIV OF MILITARY INTELLIGENCE FORT HUACHUCA AZ
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| The control of information is strategically decisive in counterinsurgency, according to John Nagl in Counterinsurgency Warfare: Theory and Practice. Information is the main weapon that insurgents use to gain the vital support of the populations in which they operate. In many cases information control is nothing more than portraying certain events in a calculated way. It may include spreading propaganda, twisting facts, or blatantly spreading untruths. While this type of ... |
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| Fast Linearized Bregman Iteration for Compressive Sensing and Sparse Denoising |
Jan-2008 |
19 pages |
| Authors:
Wotao Yin; Stanley Osher; Yu Mao; Bin Dong; CALIFORNIA UNIV BERKELEY DEPT OF MATHEMATICS
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| We propose and analyze an extremely fast, efficient and simple method. This method was first described with more details and rigorous theory given. The motivation was compressive sensing, which now has a vast and exciting history, which seems to have started with Candes, Donoho, et.al. Our method introduces an improvement called kicking of the very efficient method and also applies it to the problem of denoising of undersampled signals. The ... |
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| A View of the Combat CAS: Unifying Net-Enabled Teams |
Jan-2008 |
36 pages |
| Authors:
Paul F Hiniker; DEFENSE INFORMATION SYSTEMS AGENCY ARLINGTON VA
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| This paper summarizes the results of a series of controlled Human-In-The-Loop experiments with teams of distributed warfighters engaged in combat scenarios enacted on wargame simulators. When viewed in the light of complexity theories, the significant results demonstrate some important empirical regularities. They show generally that increasing the self-similarity of a CAS (Complex Adaptive System), or warfighting team, composed of agents, or individual warfighters, with respect to their shared decision-making processes ... |
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| Face Verification across Age Progression using Discriminative Methods |
Jan-2008 |
10 pages |
| Authors:
Stefano Soatto; Haibin Ling; Narayanan Ramanathan; David W Jacobs; TEMPLE UNIV PHILADELPHIA PA DEPT OF COMPUTER AND INFORMATION SCIENCES
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| Face verification in the presence of age progression is an important problem that has not been widely addressed. In this paper, we study the problem by designing and evaluating discriminative approaches. These directly tackle verification tasks without explicit age modeling, which is a hard problem by itself. First, we find that the gradient orientation (GO), after discarding magnitude information, provides a simple but effective representation for this problem. This representation ... |
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| Applying Knowledge Management Theory to Army Doctrine Development: Case Study of a Web-Based Community of Practice |
14 DEC 2007 |
103 pages |
| Authors:
Gregory D. Robertson; ARMY COMMAND AND GENERAL STAFF COLL FORT LEAVENWORTH KS
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| This study addresses the question of whether knowledge management is an appropriate strategy for revising the Army doctrine development process in the contemporary operational environment (COE). The author applies knowledge management theory to the proposed web-based Army Field Manual (FM) 7-1, "Battle Focused Training," and then to the Army's overall doctrine development process. The results show that knowledge management provides only a partial solution to the problems of consistency and ... |
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| An Enhanced Collaborative-Software Environment for Information Fusion at the Unit of Action |
07 DEC 2007 |
50 pages |
| Authors:
Daniel Corkill; MASSACHUSETTS UNIV AMHERST DEPT OF COMPUTER SCIENCE
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| This report describes research associated with the development of a highly responsive decision-support technology that can improve the effectiveness of analysts and decision makers - within the Army's Brigade Combat Teams (BCTs). These analysts and decision makers must work with large data volumes- in time-constrained and uncertain operating environments. This joint research and proof-of-concept effort involved the University of Massachusetts Amherst (UMass), BBTech Corporation, and the U.S. Army RDECOM CERDEC ... |
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| Data Mining and Homeland Security: An Overview |
05 DEC 2007 |
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| Authors:
Jeffrey W. Seifert; LIBRARY OF CONGRESS WASHINGTON DC CONGRESSIONAL RESEARCH SERVICE
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| Data mining has become one of the key features of many homeland security initiatives. Often used as a means for detecting fraud, assessing risk, and product retailing, data mining involves the use of data analysis tools to discover previously unknown, valid patterns and relationships in large data sets. In the context of homeland security, data mining can be a potential means to identify terrorist activities, such as money transfers and ... |
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| SecureCore Software Architecture: Trusted Path Application (TPA) Requirements |
01 DEC 2007 |
32 pages |
| Authors:
Paul C. Clark; Cynthia E. Irvine; Timothy E. Levin; Thuy D. Nguyen; Timothy M. Vidas; NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL MONTEREY CA CENTER FOR INFORMATION SYSTEMS SECURITY STUDIES AND RESEARCH
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| A mobile computing device has more inherent risk than desktops or most other stationary computing devices. Such mobile devices are typically carried outside of a controlled physical environment, and they must communicate over an insecure medium. The risk is even greater if the data being stored, processed and transmitted by the mobile device is classified. The purpose of the SecureCore research project is to investigate fundamental architectural features required for ... |
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| An Organizational Assessment of the United States Military's Ability to Control the Electromagnetic Spectrum in the 21st Century |
01 DEC 2007 |
143 pages |
| Authors:
Philip F. Acquaro; NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL MONTEREY CA
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| The United States (U.S.) has the best-trained and equipped military in the world; however, these factors do not necessarily equate to success in operations. Information is a vital component of warfare that facilitates success. Electronic warfare (EW) organizations in the U.S. military are tasked to control battlefield information flow throughout the range of military operations. Historically, the U.S. has effectively accomplished this mission; however, recent events reveal symptoms of a ... |
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| Document & Media Exploitation |
01-Dec-2007 |
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| Authors:
Simson L Garfinkel; NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL MONTEREY CA
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| This article introduces electronic document and media exploitation from that academic perspective. It presents a model for performing this kind of exploitation and discusses some of the relevant academic research. Properly done, DOMEX goes far beyond recovering documents from hard drives and storing them in searchable archives. Understanding this engineering problem gives insight that will be useful for designing any system that works with large amounts of unstructured, heterogeneous data. ... |
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| DOD SCHOOLS: Additional Reporting Could Improve Accountability for Academic Achievement of Students with Dyslexia |
DEC 2007 |
32 pages |
| Authors:
Cornelia Ashby; GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY OFFICE WASHINGTON DC
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| DOD provides both online and classroom-based professional development to teachers who work with students who struggle to read, and it used 2004-to-2006 funds designated for professional development on dyslexia to supplement those efforts. Most of this professional development prepares teachers to assess student literacy and provides them with strategies to teach students who have particular difficulties, such as reading comprehension and fluency. The department offers its staff training online through ... |
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| Multimedia Information Extraction |
DEC 2007 |
12 pages |
| Authors:
Emilly Budlong; AIR FORCE RESEARCH LAB ROME NY INFORMATION DIRECTORATE
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| This paper describes the need for information extraction technologies within the military, some of the current technologies available, and the problems associated with them. It also looks at some of the ongoing research projects in areas of multimedia information extraction. Finally, it looks at the StreamSage audio extraction software and the demonstration of this software, explains how to run the software and the demo, and evaluates them. |
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| Survey of Event Processing |
DEC 2007 |
23 pages |
| Authors:
Thomas J. Owens; AIR FORCE RESEARCH LAB ROME NY INFORMATION DIRECTORATE
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| In the past decade, event processing technology has exploded from research at universities to a number of commercial products. In this paper, event processing technology will be reviewed, starting with the motivations behind its development and ending with a look into the future of event processing. A number of important topics closely related to event processing will also be examined, including applications of the technology, various academic and commercial implementations, ... |
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| Fuselet Workflow Inspection and Feedback |
DEC 2007 |
44 pages |
| Authors:
Rose Gamble; Robert Baird; TULSA UNIV OK
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| The main goal of this effort is the introduction of the concept of a reconfigurable workflow of Fuselet processes into the Joint Battlespace Infosphere (JBI). The marriage of information manipulation and Web services has the potential to increase the netcentric capabilities of the JBI by making it easier to gain access to only needed or pre-processed information designated by a Community of Interest (COI). This technology is especially needed to ... |
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| Cyber-Herding and Cyber Activism: Countering Qutbists on the Internet |
DEC 2007 |
73 pages |
| Authors:
David B. Moon; NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL MONTEREY CA
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| The Internet provides Islamic militants ('Qutbists') a golden opportunity to bypass normal media outlets and take their message directly to the people. This allows them to spread their ideas to an ever-growing audience. What should be done about these web sites has been the focus of an ongoing debate. Some advocate shutting down these web sites while others prefer to monitor them for information. Both views have merit, and both ... |
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| Web-Based Naval Fleet Logistics Information System |
DEC 2007 |
95 pages |
| Authors:
Yanfeng Li; NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL MONTEREY CA
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| Shipboard Supply Officers training focuses on maintaining accountability and very little on operational logistics, which is only presented at predeployment briefs that last one or two days. Many Supply Officers suffer information overload during these briefs, thus making the effectiveness of the briefs questionable. On the other hand, there is insufficient information on port services and lessons learned for effective planning. This project proposes the implementation of a Web-Based Logistics ... |
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| Paperless Policy: Digital Filing System Benefits to DoD Contracting Organizations |
DEC 2007 |
127 pages |
| Authors:
Brad J. Sherman; Eric Freeman; NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL MONTEREY CA
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| The year 2000 was the cutoff date for the Department of Defense (DoD) to have paperless processes in place. Since then, advances in computer technology have led to such paperless contracting processes as the DoD-wide Standard Procurement System (SPS), Wide Area Work Flow, and other department-specific major weapon procurement information systems. Although great strides were made by the DoD to implement paperless contracting processes, there still exists substantial room for ... |
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| Locating and Searching Electronic Documents: A User Study of Supply Publications in the United States Marine Corps |
DEC 2007 |
109 pages |
| Authors:
Scott A. Stahl; NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL MONTEREY CA
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| This exploratory study assesses the usability of an online policy document system, specifically with company grade supply officers in the U.S. Marine Corps. Using common work scenarios, users were asked to search for specific policy documents. Their efforts to navigate through the system were recorded and analyzed to better understand areas in the system that posed challenges to supply officers' efforts at policy retrieval and understanding. The primary purpose of ... |
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| A Market Analysis of Publications, Trade Conferences, and Key Events for Fleet Readiness Center Southwest |
DEC 2007 |
127 pages |
| Authors:
Jason Endress; Scott Guptill; Rogelio Valencia; NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL MONTEREY CA
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| The purpose of this MBA Project is to develop a well-defined process to ensure reasonable access to industry publications for Fleet Readiness Center Southwest (FRCSW) through the compilation of a user-friendly database. For each of the targeted publications, the project team determined the individual publication's requirements, content interest(s), and outlined the publication's preferred method for article/press release submission and publication. The project team identified industry trade conferences, events, and other ... |
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| Smallpox Vaccination. Comparison of Self-Reported and Electronic Vaccine Records in the Millennium Cohort Study |
Dec-2007 |
9 pages |
| Authors:
Besa Smith; Tyler C Smith; Margaret A Ryan; Timothy S Wells; Cynthia A LeardMann; NAVAL HEALTH RESEARCH CENTER SAN DIEGO CA
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| In December 2002, the US Government implemented policy to immunize health workers, first responders and military personnel against smallpox in preparation for a possible bioterrorist attack. Self-reported vaccination data are commonly used in epidemiologic research and may be used to determine vaccination status in a public health emergency. To establish a measure of reliability, the agreement between self?reported smallpox vaccination and electronic vaccination records was examined using data from the ... |
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| U.S. Military Deployment During 2001-2006: Comparison of Subjective and Objective Data Sources in a Large Prospective Health Study |
Dec-2007 |
9 pages |
| Authors:
Besa Smith; Deborah L Wingard; Margaret A Ryan; Donald J Slymen; Caroline A Macera; Thomas L Patterson; NAVAL HEALTH RESEARCH CENTER SAN DIEGO CA
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| Purpose: Studies researching service members' health postdeployment have relied on self-reported deployment history, though validity of these data remains unknown. This study conducted a large, population-based comparison of self-reported and electronic deployment data and explored differences in physical and mental health. Methods: Self-reported deployment data were compared with military electronic records for over 51,000 participants enrolled in the Millennium Cohort Study (2004-2006). Kappa statistics were used to measure agreement. Analysis ... |
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| Data Mining and Information Technology: Its Impact on Intelligence Collection and Privacy Rights |
26 NOV 2007 |
37 pages |
| Authors:
Eric Soderberg; William Glenney; NAVAL WAR COLL NEWPORT RI
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| Modern Information Technology (IT) has radically magnified the capability and power of data mining. At a time when the threat environment has shifted in emphasis to COIN, terrorism, and cyber war, IT-enhanced data mining capabilities could provide some of the critical intelligence demanded by these types of threats. Yet depending on how this new capability is employed and what protections are in place, US citizen's privacy rights could be threatened. ... |
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| Chance Discovery with Data Crystallization: Discovering Unobservable Events |
19 NOV 2007 |
8 pages |
| Authors:
Katsumi Nitta; TOKYO INST OF TECH YOKOHAMA (JAPAN)
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| The method of data crystallizing reveals the hidden structure by inserting dummy items corresponding to unobservable, i.e., hidden events, to the given incomplete and ill-structured data on past events. The existence of those hidden events and their location in the environment were visualized as a result of data crystallization. The method was evaluated by applying to 1) the simulated data using the 9/11 terrorist network and 2) test data provided ... |
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| Text Mining the Biomedical Literature |
05 NOV 2007 |
381 pages |
| Authors:
Ronald N. Kostoff; OFFICE OF NAVAL RESEARCH ARLINGTON VA
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| Text mining of the biomedical literature provides patterns of relationships among concepts, people, and institutions, offering enhanced medical/technical intelligence unobtainable by other means. This report describes myriad text mining capabilities. Section 1 covers biomedical knowledge management, the role of text mining in knowledge management, and describes the cultural changes and global agreements required to allow the full power and capabilities of text mining to be utilized. The next two sections ... |
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| Literature-Related Discovery: A Review |
05 NOV 2007 |
59 pages |
| Authors:
Ronald N. Kostoff; Joel A. Block; Jeffrey L. Solka; Michael B. Briggs; Robert L. Rushenberg; Jesse A. Stump; Dustin Johnson; Terence J. Lyons; Jeffrey R. Wyatt; OFFICE OF NAVAL RESEARCH ARLINGTON VA
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| Discovery in science is the generation of novel, interesting, plausible, and intelligible knowledge about the objects of study. Literature-related discovery (LRD) is the linking of two or more literature concepts that have heretofore not been linked to produce novel interesting, plausible, and intelligible knowledge (i.e., potential discovery). Two major variants of LRD are open discovery systems (ODS), where one starts with a problem and generates a potential solution (or vice ... |
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| Literature-Related Discovery (LRD) |
01 NOV 2007 |
884 pages |
| Authors:
Ronald N. Kostoff; Joel A. Block; Jeffrey L. Solka; Michael B. Briggs; Robert L. Rushenberg; Jesse A. Stump; Dustin Johnson; Terence J. Lyons; Jeffrey R. Wyatt; OFFICE OF NAVAL RESEARCH ARLINGTON VA
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| Discovery in science is the generation of novel, interesting, plausible, and intelligible knowledge about the objects of study. Literature-related discovery (LRD) is the linking of two or more literature concepts that have heretofore not been linked (i.e., disjoint), in order to produce novel interesting, plausible, and intelligible knowledge (i.e., potential discovery). |
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| Mapping Experiment Results to Operational Capabilities |
01 NOV 2007 |
50 pages |
| Authors:
Gordon Schacher; NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL MONTEREY CA (MEYER) INST OF SYSTEMS ENGINEERING
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| This work addresses the reporting of results from military operational experiments. These experiments are designed to examine a defined set of specific objectives, goals, and metrics, and results are developed for those objectives and goals. The results often apply to a fairly broad range of interests in addition to the experiment and its direct objectives. The authors refer to these as "Areas of Interest" (AoI). The purpose of the work ... |
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| Wisdom for Building the Project Manager/Project Sponsor Relationship: Partnership for Project Success |
01-Nov-2007 |
7 pages |
| Authors:
Nanette Patton; Allan Shechet; OFFICE OF THE SURGEON GENERAL (ARMY) FALLS CHURCH VA
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| The project sponsor can promote information technology (IT) project success in several ways, yet many projects either have no formally designated project sponsor or the project sponsor is confused about his/her role. The project sponsor's role traditionally includes project approval, funding, and staffing, but can include much more. The project sponsor is sometimes called the champion of the project or the key stakeholder of the project. Because the role of ... |
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| The ComplexityHub Web Site: Needs, Requirements, and Development |
NOV 2007 |
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| Authors:
M. Couture; M. DuCharme; DEFENCE RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT CANADA VALCARTIER (QUEBEC)
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| This document presents a high-level description of the ComplexityHub web site. It lists the main needs, requirements and layouts for most web pages of the site. This text originates from conception and development works that was initiated by DRDC Valcartier during summer 2007. The goal was to build a national and international collaboration tool that is dedicated to studies on complexity. |
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| Fusion of Imperfect Information in the Unified Framework of Random Sets Theory: Application to Target Identification |
NOV 2007 |
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| Authors:
Mihai C. Florea; Anne-Laure Jousselme; Eloi Bosse; DEFENCE RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT CANADA VALCARTIER (QUEBEC)
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| This is a study of the applicability of random sets theory to target identification problems as a technique for fusion of imperfect information. For target identification, several sources of information (radar, ESM - Electronic Support Measures, SAR - Synthetic Aperture Radar, IR images) are available. Since the information provided is always imperfect and several kinds of imperfection may be encountered (imprecision, uncertainty, incompleteness, vagueness, etc.), several theories were developed to ... |
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| Unit Information Management Practices at the Joint Readiness Training Center |
NOV 2007 |
30 pages |
| Authors:
Kenneth L. Evans; Richard P. Reese; Louis Weldon; ARMY RESEARCH INST FOR THE BEHAVIORAL AND SOCIAL SCIENCES FORT BENNING GA
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| The present investigation sought to quantify unit information management (IM) practices at the Joint Readiness Training Center (JRTC) and to determine the extent to which a job performance aid, the IM Guide, might improve unit IM performance. IM practices were measured by observer/controllers using the IM Checklist, a tool developed especially for the investigation. Over the course of seven unit rotations at JRTC, 758 checklists were collected and analyzed. The ... |
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| Journalists' Privilege: Overview of the Law and Legislation in the 109th and 110th Congresses |
18 OCT 2007 |
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| Authors:
Henry Cohen; Kathleen A. Ruane; LIBRARY OF CONGRESS WASHINGTON DC CONGRESSIONAL RESEARCH SERVICE
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| In Branzburg v. Hayes, 408 U.S. 665, 679-680 (1972), the Supreme Court wrote journalists claim that to gather news it is often necessary to agree either not to identify the source of information published or to publish only part of the facts revealed, or both; that if the reporter is nevertheless forced to reveal these confidences to a grand jury the source so identified and other confidential sources of other ... |
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| A Fundamental Classification of Atomization Processes |
12-Oct-2007 |
48 pages |
| Authors:
Malissa D Lightfoot; AIR FORCE RESEARCH LAB EDWARDS AFB CA PROPULSION DIRECTORATE
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| A device-independent framework to classify and describe atomization is developed. This framework divides atomizers into various classes based on the geometry of the liquid prior to breakup. These classes are general enough to encompass the vast majority of existent atomizers while still describing important aspects of the atomization physics. Across these classes a limited number of atomization regimes exist which are grouped based on the magnitude and rate of the ... |
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| Development of a Deployment Injury Surveillance System Using Medical Air Evacuation Data |
05 OCT 2007 |
46 pages |
| Authors:
K. G. Hauret; N. Clemmons; B. H. Jones; J. Hadley; ARMY CENTER FOR HEALTH PROMOTION AND PREVENTIVE MEDICINE ABERDEEN PROVING GROUND MD
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| In May 2005, the U.S. Army Center for Health Promotion and Preventive Medicine was tasked by the Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Army for Environment, Safety and Occupational Health to develop an injury surveillance system for deployed Army Soldiers. A primary objective was to develop a system capable of identifying types and potentially preventable causes of injuries requiring medical air evacuation. The primary data source for air evacuated injured Soldiers ... |
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| In Situ California Bearing Ration Database |
OCT 2007 |
97 pages |
| Authors:
Peter M. Seman; Sally A. Shoop; ENGINEERING RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT CENTER HANOVER NH COLD REGIONS RESEARCH AND ENGINEERING LAB
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| A global database of in situ soil test measurements and associated attributes was compiled for use in developing California bearing ratio (CBR) prediction models. From a variety of potential data sources, a collection of U.S. Army and Air Force airfield pavement research and evaluation reports was selected for inclusion. The schema includes data fields for common geotechnical parameters related to airfield pavement strength and geomorphological features associated with soil formation. ... |
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| Packet-Based Control Algorithms for Cooperative Surveillance and Reconnaissance |
OCT 2007 |
11 pages |
| Authors:
Richard M. Murray; CALIFORNIA INST OF TECH PASADENA CONTROL AND DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS
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| This project focused on developing algorithms for multi-vehicle, cooperative surveillance and reconnaissance that operate in a modern net-centric environment. These algorithms take into account the packet-based nature of modern networks by coding information in a manner that makes the performance of the system robust to packet loss, variable latency, and repeated transmissions. Results include analysis and design of estimation and control algorithms in the presence of packet loss and across ... |
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| National Strategy for Information Sharing: Successes and Challenges in Improving Terrorism-Related Information Sharing |
OCT 2007 |
48 pages |
| Authors:
EXECUTIVE OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT WASHINGTON DC
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| Our success in preventing future terrorist attacks depends upon our ability to gather, analyze, and share information and intelligence regarding those who want to attack us, the tactics that they use, and the targets that they intend to attack. Improving information sharing in the post-September 11 world requires an environment that supports the sharing of information across all levels of government, disciplines, and security domains. While this Strategy describes the ... |
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Information Science
