| Electronic Health Records. DOD and VA Efforts to Achieve Full Interoperability Are Ongoing; Program Office Management Needs Improvement |
Jul-2009 |
36 pages |
| Authors:
GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY OFFICE WASHINGTON DC
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 | The National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2008 required the Department of Defense (DOD) and the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to accelerate their exchange of health information and to develop systems or capabilities that allow for interoperability (generally, the ability of systems to exchange data) by September 30, 2009. It also required compliance with federal standards and the establishment of a joint interagency program office to function as ... |
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| A Coalition Approach to Higher-Level Fusion |
Jul-2009 |
15 pages |
| Authors:
Michael Hinman; Luc Pigeon; Eloi Bosse; Dale Lambert; Steven Wark; Clinton Blackman; AIR FORCE RESEARCH LAB ROME NY INFORMATION DIRECTORATE
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| This paper outlines a collaborative program of work in higher-level fusion being conducted between Australia, Canada, the United States, and the United Kingdom under the auspices of a TTCP panel on Information fusion. The paper shows how work from the four nations has been integrated through a common scenario, which the panel proposes to subsequently offer as a benchmarking scenario for the higher-level fusion community. |
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| Peacekeeping: A Selected Bibliography |
Jul-2009 |
36 pages |
| Authors:
Jeanette M Moyer; ARMY WAR COLL LIBRARY CARLISLE BARRACKS PA
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| American military, diplomatic, and humanitarian personnel participate in peacekeeping efforts around the world. Now in the fifth revised edition, Peacekeeping: A Selected Bibliography is meant to provide a starting place for research on peacekeeping's expanding role in world affairs. It lists references for readings about peacekeeping in general, highlights special issues and concerns, and addresses past and present operations in the following areas: Africa, Asia and the Pacific, Central and ... |
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| Ranking Activities Based on Their Impact and Threat |
Jul-2009 |
5 pages |
| Authors:
John J Salerno; George P Tadda; AIR FORCE RESEARCH LAB ROME NY
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| Many say we live in the information age, but in reality if you ask any analyst today they would say we live in the data age. The amount of data being presented and displayed to the analyst is overwhelming - to a point that in many cases they are missing the salient of key activities of interest. Analysts are spending the majority of their time filtering through the data rather ... |
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| The Use of a Context-Based Information Retrieval Technique |
Jul-2009 |
58 pages |
| Authors:
Agata McCormac; Kathryn Parsons; Marcus Butavicius; Simon Dennis; Lael Ferguson; DEFENCE SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY ORGANISATION EDINBURGH (AUSTRALIA) COMMAND CONTROL COMMUNICATIONS AND INTELLIGENCE DIV
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| Since users are faced with an ever increasing amount of data, fast and effective retrieval of required information is of vital importance. This aim of this study was to examine whether the results provided by a keyword-based technique would be improved through the use of two Latent Semantic Analysis (LSA) techniques. Participants were required to highlight query terms from within documents; one LSA technique utilized the sentence of the query ... |
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| Virtual Social Networking and Interoperability in the Canadian Forces Netcentric Environment |
Jul 2009 |
49 pages |
| Authors:
Sylvain Pronovost; Gerald Lai; CAE PROFESSIONAL SERVICES OTTAWA (ONTARIO)
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| In joint, coalition, and multi-agency operations, where component members are physically dispersed and culturally and operationally diverse, it is not uncommon to find that members are not familiar with the roles, expertise, and expectations of partnering units or organizations. Developing shared awareness and a high degree of interoperability in this distributed, anonymous environment necessitates appropriate tools to assist teams in collaboration and information sharing, and in localizing resources and expertise. ... |
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| Industry and Public Sector Cooperation for Information Sharing: Ports of the Puget Sound |
Jul 2009 |
47 pages |
| Authors:
Anita Salem; Wendy Walsh; Lyla Englehorn; NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL MONTEREY CA DEPT OF OPERATIONS RESEARCH
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| This report presents the findings of the Maritime Information Sharing Taskforce (MIST) research effort for the Washington State Puget Sound ports. Using a participatory design approach, the researchers partnered with federal and commercial stakeholders to assess the information sharing needs of security personnel in this port region. The research design included an issues workshop, field studies of port personnel, and local networking events. The findings indicate the need for increased ... |
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| Information Warfare: Assuring Digital Intelligence Collection |
Jul 2009 |
49 pages |
| Authors:
William G Perry; JOINT SPECIAL OPERATIONS UNIV HURLBURT FIELD FL
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| The advent of the digital age has made it inevitable that troops in contact will fall upon computers and related equipment valuable for the information they can provide about the enemy. In this paper, Dr. William G. Perry provides some guidelines about processing computer equipment for transfer to information and intelligence professionals who might wring out from digital storage media the critical information needed to penetrate the enemy's decision matrix. ... |
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| Situational Behavior Modeling |
30 Jun 2009 |
96 pages |
| Authors:
Christopher J Matheus; Brian Ulicny; Mieczyslaw M Kokar; Kenneth Baclaawski; Won Ng; Lena Lau; Jerzy Letkowski; Jerzy Weyman; Robert Dionne; Douglas Parent; VISTOLOGY INC FRAMINGHAM MA
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| Behavior modeling for military applications needs to consider systems in which all kind of entities participate - machines, humans, human organizations (like platoons or companies) as well as such complex entities like countries, industries and societies. The variety and the structure of entities participating in behaviors in the military domain require the use of representations and tools appropriate for this kind of complexity. Ontological modeling seems to be the best ... |
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| A Logical Representation of Common Rules for Controlling Access to Classified Information |
19-Jun-2009 |
25 pages |
| Authors:
Frank Pfenning; Deepak Garg; Denis Serenyi; Brian Witten; CARNEGIE-MELLON UNIV PITTSBURGH PA SCHOOL OF COMPUTER SCIENCE
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| Official policies for controlling access to classified information in the U.S. are quite complex and often difficult to enforce. We present an encoding of a common core of these policies in an authorization logic, and describe their rigorous enforcement in PCFS, a file system implemented for such purposes. |
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| Geospatially Enabling Battle Command: the Common Ground JCTD |
10-Jun-2009 |
21 pages |
| Authors:
Steven A Grant; EUROPEAN RESEARCH OFFICE LONDON (UNITED KINGDOM) ARMY ENGINEER RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT CENTER
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| Computer Science Research Funding: How Much Is Too Little? |
Jun-2009 |
23 pages |
| Authors:
Stuart Starr; Elihu Zimet; Anup Ghosh; Clifford Lau; NATIONAL DEFENSE UNIV WASHINGTON DC CENTER FOR TECHNOLOGY AND NATIONAL SECURITY POLICY
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| A study of the historical and planned level of Department of Defense (DoD) funding in computer science (CS) research from the 2001-2011 DoD records has provided a top-level view of the current status of investment in this foundational technology. This study was triggered by university and Congressional concern that DoD has been reducing its investment in CS research. The study focused on two issues. First, has DoD CS funding to ... |
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| Facilitating Decision Making, Re-Use and Collaboration: A Knowledge Management Approach to Acquisition Program Self-Awareness |
Jun-2009 |
105 pages |
| Authors:
John L Robey; Christopher W Odell; NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL MONTEREY CA
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| Decades of reform have been largely ineffective at improving the efficiency of the Department of Defense's (DoD) Acquisition System. Such inefficiency is, in part, due to complex processes and stovepipe activities that result in duplication of effort, lack of re-use, and limited collaboration on related development efforts. This research applies Knowledge Management (KM) concepts and methodologies to the DoD acquisition enterprise to increase Program Self-awareness. This research supports the implementation ... |
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| Information Capture and Knowledge Exchange: The Gathering, Testing and Assessment of Information and Knowledge Through Exploration and Exploitation |
Jun-2009 |
25 pages |
| Authors:
Simon R Atkinson; Steve Lesher; Dale Shoupe; CAMBRIDGE UNIV (UNITED KINGDOM)
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| This assessment, under the lead of General David Petraeus and Colonel 'H.R.' McMaster, was established in the Fall of 2008; running through to Spring 2009. Its purpose was to provide US/Coalition views on the CENTCOM AOR. As part of this work, Atkinson, Lesher and Shoupe were attached to the C2 & KM Cell where their initial appreciation began with an examination of the principles of Knowledge Management. It was their ... |
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| TIPS - A System for Contextual Prioritization of Tactical Messages |
Jun-2009 |
37 pages |
| Authors:
Robert E Marmelstein; Mary G Devito; Mark H Linderman; Norman Coleman; EAST STROUDSBURG UNIV PA
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| The automatic understanding of military messages has long been a technological goal of Command and Control (C2). Many past approaches utilized Natural Language Processing (NLP) techniques to solve this problem. However, emerging database schemas for coalition C2, such as the Joint Command, Control and Consultation Information Exchange Data Model (JC3IEDM), make other approaches feasible. The richness of the JC3IEDM makes it possible to extract context for Battlespace objects represented in ... |
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| The Ontology of Command and Control (C2) |
Jun-2009 |
40 pages |
| Authors:
Barry Smith; Kristo Miettinen; William Mandrick; STATE UNIV OF NEW YORK AT BUFFALO NATIONAL CENTER FOR ONTOLOGICAL RESEARCH
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| The goal of the Department of Defense Net-Centric Data Strategy is to improve data sharing throughout the DoD. Data sharing is a critical element of interoperability in the emerging system-of-systems. Achieving interoperability requires the elimination of two types of data heterogeneity: differences of syntax and differences of semantics. This paper builds a path toward semantic uniformity through application of a disciplined approach to ontology. An ontology is a consensus framework ... |
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| An Ever-Expanding War: Legal Aspects of Online Strategic Communication |
Jun-2009 |
18 pages |
| Authors:
Daniel Silverberg; Joseph Heimann; ARMY WAR COLL CARLISLE BARRACKS PA
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| Senior US leadership is redefining the war on terrorism as a global counterinsurgency effort, one that requires smart power collaboration by agencies. Although the requirement for interagency cooperation is a near-truism of US national security policy, finding the appropriate role for the Department of Defense (DOD) remains a challenge. This article examines one aspect of activities that potentially overlap with other government departments, DOD's growing involvement in the battle of ... |
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| Political, Military, Economic, Social, Infrastructure, Information (PMESII) Effects Forecasting for Course of Action (COA) Evaluation |
Jun-2009 |
57 pages |
| Authors:
John D Lawrence; Janet L Murdock; SRI INTERNATIONAL MENLO PARK CA
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| Comprehensive effects-based planning requires that diplomatic, information, military, and economic (DIME) options be considered, along with their potential impacts on the political, military, economic, social, infrastructure, and information (PMESII) environment. Given that the cause-effect relationships among these are not well understood, modeling these relationships and using them to forecast plausible outcomes is a challenging technical problem. This effort developed a Probative Rapid Interactive Modeling Environment (PRIME) software tool for effects ... |
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| The Corps of Engineers and Prairie Restoration: Synopsis of the First Corps Prairie Workshop, Follow-up Actions, and Thoughts on the Future of Prairie Restoration and Management on Operational Projects |
Jun-2009 |
52 pages |
| Authors:
Pamela Bailey; Chester O Martin; E P Peloquin; Michael A Watkins; Mandy E Like; ENGINEER RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT CENTER VICKSBURG MS
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| The restoration of native prairie ecosystems has emerged as an important natural resources land management issue on many Corps of Engineers operational projects. A Corps-wide data call in 2004-2005 re- vealed that at least 21 Districts and 172 projects were involved to some extent in prairie/grassland restoration and management efforts. A need was recognized for greater attention to managing grassland ecosystems on Corp projects, and the first Corps of Engineers ... |
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| MDA DS COI Spiral 3 - NOA, SILO and ABAC |
Jun-2009 |
82 pages |
| Authors:
Jay Spalding; Jim Harmon; Alistair Nicol; Mark MacKinnon; COAST GUARD RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT CENTER GROTON CT
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| The purpose of this report is to document United States Coast Guard (USCG) Research and Development (R&D) efforts in support of the Maritime Domain Awareness Data Sharing Community of Interest (MDA DS COI) Spiral 3 Project. The project focuses on sharing the sensitive data associated with Notice of Arrival (NOA) messages and the Single Integrated LookOut (SILO) list in a net-centric Web-services environment. It documents the background of the efforts ... |
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| Research Operations for Advanced Warfighter Interface Technologies |
Jun-2009 |
117 pages |
| Authors:
Timothy P Ryan; GENERAL DYNAMICS ADVANCED INFORMATION SYSTEMS DAYTON OH
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| Execution of the Research Operations for Advance Warfighter Interface Technologies (ROADWIT) contract required a broad range of technical expertise supporting the mission of the Human Effectiveness Directorate (711 HPW/RHC). The mission of 711 HPW/RHC is to develop science and technology that improves the effectiveness of human-human and human-machine interaction within the Air Force. General Dynamics' mission, in support of 711 HPW/RHC research, is to ensure that the human operator is ... |
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| DTIC: Your Key to DoD Scientific & Technical Information |
Jun-2009 |
53 pages |
| Authors:
R P Ryan; DEFENSE TECHNICAL INFORMATION CENTER FORT BELVOIR VA
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| Partial contents: Why Contact DTIC for Your DoD Scientific & Technical Information?, Who is eligible to register for DTIC services?. |
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| Meeting the New Challenges of International Interoperability |
Jun-2009 |
17 pages |
| Authors:
Steve Ewell; UNITED STATES EUROPEAN COMMAND APO NEW YORK 09128
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| Briefing on the importance of interoperability and information exchange during Coalition Operations. |
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| Operational Testers Use Net-Centric Tools to Test Net-Centric Systems |
Jun 2009 |
5 pages |
| Authors:
Dewain C Smith; Garth Winterle; DEFENSE INFORMATION SYSTEMS AGENCY FORT HUACHUCA AZ JOINT INTEROPERABILITY TEST COMMAND
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| The U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) is attempting to field warfighter capabilities faster, within a tighter budget, and with less impact on the operational users. Concurrently, the DoD is also moving to a net-centric environment enabling information and service collaboration across the global information grid, requiring new and innovative ways to conduct operational tests (OT). Joint Interoperability Test Command (JITC) testers are utilizing some of these new collaboration capabilities provided ... |
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| A Preliminary Study of Barriers to Engagement in CyberCIEGE |
24 May 2009 |
22 pages |
| Authors:
Janne Hagen; Cynthia E Irvine; Michael F Thompson; NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL MONTEREY CA CENTER FOR INFORMATION SYSTEMS SECURITY STUDIES AND RESEARCH
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| CyberCIEGE is a resource-management simulation in which the player assumes the role of a decision maker for an IT-dependent organization. Through the use of scenarios, it is intended to support education, training and awareness in cyber security. Naval Postgraduate School (NPS) plans to use the game to help to teach Identity Management concepts. To help prepare for that, we conducted a study of barriers to engagement in CyberCIEGE by observing ... |
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| Typewriter Leadership in a Facebook World |
21-May-2009 |
58 pages |
| Authors:
Drew R Meyerowich; ARMY COMMAND AND GENERAL STAFF COLL FORT LEAVENWORTH KS SCHOOL OF ADVANCED MILITARY STUDIES
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| Historically, information was a form of power closely guarded, secured, and provided only when there was a need to know. Modern communication equipment and the internet make global news available to anyone who wants it, or wants to provide it. Senior military leaders grew up in the Military during a period when this technology was not a reality. In a very short period of time, typewritten forms were replaced by ... |
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| How Terrorist Groups Survive: A Dynamic Network Analysis Approach to the Resilience of Terrorist Organizations |
21-May-2009 |
64 pages |
| Authors:
Glenn A Henke; ARMY COMMAND AND GENERAL STAFF COLL FORT LEAVENWORTH KS SCHOOL OF ADVANCED MILITARY STUDIES
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| The purpose of this paper is to explore the question of how modern terrorist groups manage to survive in the face of aggressive counterterrorist operations by security forces. Al Qa'ida survives to this day, despite the destruction of their Afghanistan sanctuary, the loss of countless key personnel, and continuous pressure by the United States and their allies. Why has al Qa'ida survived? Since much of the literature on terrorism focuses ... |
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| Speed Versus Accuracy: A Zero Sum Game |
11-May-2009 |
29 pages |
| Authors:
Jeffrey L Scott; ARMY WAR COLL CARLISLE BARRACKS PA
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| Accuracy maintains the required credibility for an effective information strategy. Speed provides current, relevant information to inform and influence key populations. The requirement and role of speed and accuracy create a zero sum game in information strategy. With the importance of information in today's irregular warfare environment, an effective information strategy is based on decentralization. Operations planned and conducted and the daily interactions of the units and Soldiers on the ... |
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| Military and the Media - What's Next After Embedding? |
08-May-2009 |
36 pages |
| Authors:
Thomas C Jr; Beane; ARMY WAR COLL CARLISLE BARRACKS PA
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| The Department of Defense made a breakthrough in the military-media battlefield relationship during Operation Iraqi Freedom through the use of embedded media. The Embedded Media Program allowed journalists to be on the front lines with the different services prior to, during and after military combat operations. Both the military and media's initial feedback deemed the program a success and believe all future military operations will use embedded media. This paper ... |
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| SeaPort Enhanced Program |
06-May-2009 |
61 pages |
| Authors:
OFFICE OF THE DEPUTY INSPECTOR GENERAL FOR AUDITING OF THE DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE ARLINGTON VA
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| Our overall audit objective was to review the award and administration of the SeaPort Enhanced (SeaPort-e) program. Specifically, we determined whether SeaPort-e contracts and task orders were consistent with Federal and DoD acquisition and contracting policies. Refer to Appendix A for a discussion of scope and methodology and prior coverage. |
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| Knowledge Management: An Effort to Keep Pace with Information |
04-May-2009 |
31 pages |
| Authors:
Darryl B Martin; NAVAL WAR COLL NEWPORT RI JOINT MILITARY OPERATIONS DEPT
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| In a network centric environment, a multitude of platforms and communication systems will be linked to provide all levels of command with near real-time data to feed their decision-making cycles. The ability to cope with this abundance of information will depend on the organization's ability to adapt and learn faster than the enemy. To aid this accelerated learning process, knowledge management (KM) allows for the capture and exchange of experiences ... |
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| Assessment Tools for Basic Army Noncommissioned Officer Training |
May-2009 |
104 pages |
| Authors:
Gary Riccio; Frederick Diedrich; Jason Sidman; Robert Semmens; Alexandra Geyer; Courtney Dean; APTIMA INC WOBURN MA
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| The Army Research Institute Ft. Benning Research Unit and the Henry Caro Noncommissioned Officer Academy at Ft. Benning identified the need to create an objective assessment scheme for the Infantry Basic Noncommissioned Officer Course (BNCOC). The intent was to produce an assessment instrument that could be used for formative and summative assessment both of different versions of BNCOC and also of different research interventions into BNCOC. Assessment instruments were developed ... |
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| An Analysis of the U.S. Pilot Population From 1983-2005: Evaluating the Effects of Regulatory Change |
May-2009 |
25 pages |
| Authors:
Paul B Rogers; Stephen J Veronneau; Connie L Peterman; James E Whinnery; Estrella M Forster; FEDERAL AVIATION ADMINISTRATION OKLAHOMA CITY OK CIVIL AEROMEDICAL INST
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| The size of the U.S. civil aviator community has been of interest to researchers, policy makers, and special interest groups. A strict definition for membership in the U.S. pilot population was used that was based on Scientific Information System principles. This approach provides methods for scientists to describe, quantify, and predict changes in this population over the 23-year study period. The Bioinformatics Research Team at the Civil Aerospace Medical Institute ... |
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| Augmented Cognition Transition |
May-2009 |
58 pages |
| Authors:
Michael C Dorneich; Stephen D Whitlow; Santosh Mathan; Patricia M Ververs; James B Sampson; HONEYWELL INC GOLDEN VALLEY MN TECHNOLOGY STRATEGY CENTER
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| This report details the work done by Honeywell Aerospace Advanced Technology to address two key challenges in the transition of Augmented Cognition (AugCog) technology to the Army's Future Force: 1) integration of the Honeywell AugCog system into the Future Force Warrior (FFW) Soldier system and 2) deployment and evaluation of the dry electrodes for the collection of electroencephalogram (EEG) data under the helmet in an operational environment. Separate evaluations were ... |
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| Design Issues of a Mind Snaps Implementation |
May-2009 |
16 pages |
| Authors:
Hua Li; Rafael Alonso; SET CORP ARLINGTON VA
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| The intelligence analysis process consists of a complex, iterative, highly-branched sequence of information gathering and processing steps. Throughout the process, the analyst needs to refer to the hypotheses and information he or she was manipulating at previous points in the process. A key enabler for the analytic process would be to provide analysts with semantic bookmarks, i.e., a mechanism that would allow them to return to a particular point in ... |
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| Air Force Flight Test Center Engineering Logistics Plan Preparation Guide. Technical Information Handbook |
May-2009 |
97 pages |
| Authors:
Mark T Packer; TEST WING ( 412TH) EDWARDS AFB CA
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| The Air Force Flight Test Center Engineering Logistics Plan Preparation Guide provides established guidelines to assist authors in preparing technically accurate and clearly written transition and turnover documents for acquisition projects. The guide format allows the plan author the flexibility to tailor the engineering logistics plan for various reasons, such as project size and type of system under development. The goal is to turn over a fully functional and documented ... |
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| Database Creation for Information Processing Methods, Metrics, and Models (DCIPM3) |
May-2009 |
22 pages |
| Authors:
Sean Murray; Frank Small; Michelle C McVey; Kevin King; Christine Slocum; Will Tanenbaum; ARMY RESEARCH LAB ABERDEEN PROVING GROUND MD COMPUTATIONAL AND INFORMATION SCIENCES DIR
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| One challenge of tactical information processing within the demanding net-centric environment is the fusion of data extracted from various free-form message databases. The development of high-level data fusion products addresses this challenge; however, development relies heavily on the availability of large, accurate data sets. This report documents the Database Creation for Information Processing Methods, Metrics, and Models (DCIPM3) project that creates, from a U.S. Army Research Laboratory (ARL)-designated context, a ... |
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| Dynamically Generated Nodes and Links for a Dynamic Network Structure Using X3D |
May-2009 |
62 pages |
| Authors:
Andrew M Neiderer; ARMY RESEARCH LAB ABERDEEN PROVING GROUND MD COMPUTATIONAL AND INFORMATION SCIENCES DIR
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| This report presents an Extensible 3D (X3D) scene graph description of dynamically generated nodes and links that define a dynamic network structure. The directed acyclic graph (DAG) of X3D objects, which includes an internal ECMAScript CDATA text block in the root Script node, is discussed. The scene access interface is for the Vivaty Player and uses the Browser createX3DFromString() function to generate X3D objects. Network nodes can be interactively manipulated, ... |
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| Storing and Predicting Dynamic Attributes in a World Model Knowledge Store |
May-2009 |
191 pages |
| Authors:
Daniel A Kent; FLORIDA UNIV GAINESVILLE MECHANICAL AND AEROSPACE ENGINEERING
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| The world is an ever-changing, dynamic environment. If robots and other intelligent systems are to find ways to cope with and reason about the world adequately, they must be capable of understanding these dynamic features. This dissertation examines the need for a centralized knowledge store capable of storing information that is both spatial and temporal in nature. The interface of a new and unique architecture to handle the exchange of ... |
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| Integration of Lethal and Nonlethal Fires: The Future of the Joint Fires Cell |
May-2009 |
48 pages |
| Authors:
Dewey A Granger; ARMY COMMAND AND GENERAL STAFF COLL FORT LEAVENWORTH KS SCHOOL OF ADVANCED MILITARY STUDIES
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| Leaders must seek to employ elements of fires, lethal and nonlethal, proportional to mission and informed through the variables contained within the operating environment. FM 3-0 went even further by tasking the Fires Cell with integrating and synchronizing the effects of lethal and nonlethal fires with the effects of other warfighting functions. This monograph extrapolates a definition of nonlethal fires and uses the essentials from FM 3-0, integration and synchronization ... |
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| The Library of the Future |
May-2009 |
17 pages |
| Authors:
Aaron Byerley; AIR FORCE ACADEMY COLORADO SPRINGS CO INST FOR INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY APPLICATIONS
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| The US Air Force Academy library was occupied in 1958. Subsequently, additions to the collections now occupy space that was designed for another purpose and thereby have reduced the open and study areas. In order to maintain access to the materials, innovative solutions will be required. Digitizing materials, using compact shelving, and possible underground storage of lesser used, but important volumes, may be considered. The library study was undertaken to ... |
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| Talking the Talk: Why Warfighters Don't Understand Information Operations(Center for Strategic Leadership Issue Paper, Volume 4-09, May 2009) |
May-2009 |
5 pages |
| Authors:
Dennis M Murray; ARMY WAR COLL CARLISLE BARRACKS PA CENTER FOR STRATEGIC LEADERSHIP
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| Back in 2006 Army Colonel Rob Baker published an article in Military Review entitled The Decisive Weapon: A Brigade Combat Team Commander's Perspective on Information Operations. Any information practitioner who reads this excellent piece will immediately latch on to the fact that Baker's brigade was not really conducting information operations (IO), but in fact was using strategic communication as its primary enabler. But wait...can you conduct strategic communication at the ... |
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| Nomenclature and the National Wetland Plant List |
May-2009 |
14 pages |
| Authors:
Robert Lichvar; John Kartesz; ENGINEER RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT CENTER HANOVER NH COLD REGIONS RESEARCH AND ENGINEERING LAB
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| The National Wetland Plant List (NWPL) is being revised by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, and the Natural Resources Conservation Service. This Technical Note describes how changes in botanical nomenclature are being handled in the 2009 revision of the NWPL. The current list used for delineation purposes is the 1988 list (referred to here as the 88 list) ... |
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| Contingency Contracting. DOD, State, and USAID Are Taking Actions to Track Contracts and Contractor Personnel in Iraq and Afghanistan |
01-Apr-2009 |
16 pages |
| Authors:
John P Hutton; GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY OFFICE WASHINGTON DC
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| The Departments of Defense (DOD) and State (State) and the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) have relied extensively on contractors to support troops and civilian personnel and carry out reconstruction efforts in Iraq and Afghanistan. While recognizing the benefits of using contractors, GAO and others have noted the risks and challenges associated with relying on contractors. To help increase contractor oversight, the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year ... |
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| Virtual Environments Overview |
Apr-2009 |
49 pages |
| Authors:
Susan U Stucky; Ben Shaw; Wendy Ark; IBM ALMADEN RESEARCH CENTER SAN JOSE CA
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| This report provides a research-based schema called A Framework for Designing with Virtual World Technologies. It is shown how, by using this framework, virtual world technologies can be used to radically transform how intelligence analysts encounter data, frame their stories, and review their analyses with both their customers and other analysts. The report explores what analysts can accomplish by doing some of their work in environments that can be created ... |
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| Dynamic Gaming Platform (DGP) |
Apr-2009 |
24 pages |
| Authors:
Sergey Malinchik; Janet E Wedgewood; LOCKHEED MARTIN ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY LABS CHERRY HILL NJ
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| The objective of the ProActive INTellience (PAINT) team's efforts was to construct two models of an example target system, consisting of leaders who controlled pathways that required resources and time to execute. Lockheed Martin designed strategies that represented probes that were ultimately implemented as changes to the model inputs. The degree to which the outputs of the two models differs is considered the diagnosticity of the probe(s). A Strategy Engine ... |
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| Social Software and National Security: An Initial Net Assessment |
Apr-2009 |
43 pages |
| Authors:
Wells; Linton II; Mark Drapeau; NATIONAL DEFENSE UNIV WASHINGTON DC CENTER FOR TECHNOLOGY AND NATIONAL SECURITY POLICY
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| Social software connects people and information via online, informal Internet networks. It is appearing in increasingly diverse forms as part of a broad movement commonly called Web 2.0. Resulting social connections are typically serendipitous and can bring unexpected benefits. New social software technologies offer organizations increased agility, adaptiveness, interoperability, efficiency and effectiveness. Social software can be used by governments for content creation, external collaboration, community building, and other applications. The ... |
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| Portable Language-Independent Adaptive Translation from OCR. Phase 1 |
Apr-2009 |
26 pages |
| Authors:
Prem Natarajan; BBN TECHNOLOGIES CAMBRIDGE MA
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| The objective of MADCAT is to produce a robust, highly accurate transcription engine that ingests documents of multiple types and produces English transcriptions of their content. For addressing the technical challenges implicit in that goal, the BBN-led team proposed a system that embodies integration of five major operations: (1) pre-processing and image enhancement, (2) page segmentation, (3) text recognition, and (4) metadata extraction. In Phase 1 of the MADCAT effort, ... |
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| High Performance Computing Innovation Service Portal Study (HPC-ISP) |
Apr-2009 |
27 pages |
| Authors:
Suzy Tichenor; Brian Schott; Robert Graybill; UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA MARINA DEL REY INFORMATION SCIENCES INST
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| This project was a study by the Information Sciences Institute (ISI), the Council on Competitiveness (Council), Pratt & Whitney (P&W), Ohio Supercomputer Center (OSC), and Georgetown University (GU) intended to: 1) identify why companies that do not currently employ HPC for advanced modeling and analysis have failed to adopt this technology when the benefits have been showcased so compellingly, and 2) develop technical and business concepts that could help enable ... |
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| Synergist: Collaborative Analyst Assistant |
Apr-2009 |
56 pages |
| Authors:
Munirathnam Srikanth; Marta Tatu; Adriana Badulescu; Guillaume Bailey; Marian Olteanu; Christine Clark; LYMBA CORP RICHARDSON TX
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| Intelligence Analysts work with a significant amount of information expressed in natural language. The textual information that Analysts work with or generate provide important clues on what is known to them, what are their immediate and long term needs, and what aspects are typically explored or missed in the context of a particular topic. For CASE, Lymba developed Synergist: Collaborative Analyst Assistant, an automated system that understands unstructured content, extracts ... |
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Information Science
