| Measurer's Handbook: US Army and Marine Corps Anthropometric Surveys, 2010-2011 |
Aug 2011 |
263 pages |
| Authors:
Jennifer Hotzman; Claire C Gordon; Bruce Bradtmiller; Brian D Corner; Michael Mucher; Shirley Kristensen; Steven Paquette; Cynthia L Blackwell; ARMY NATICK SOLDIER RESEARCH DEVELOPMENT AND ENGINEERING CENTER MA
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 | The purpose of this manual is to describe and explain the tools and procedures required for the precise and accurate measurement of U.S. Army and U.S. Marine Corps men and women. The handbook was prepared by Natick Soldier Research, Development and Engineering Center, with funding from both the Army and the Marine Corps. It contains instructions for the measurement of 94 traditional measures of the body, and for obtaining three-dimensional ... |
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| Compendium of Abstracts. Volume 2 |
Aug 2011 |
130 pages |
| Authors:
ARMY RESEARCH LAB ADELPHI MD
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| The ARL Summer Student Research Symposium is an ARL Director s Award Program for all the students participating in various summer scholarship and contract activities across ARL. The goal of the program is to recognize and publicize exceptional achievements made by the students and their mentors in the support of Army science. All college undergraduate and graduate students receiving research appointments and conducting summer studies at ARL are automatically enrolled ... |
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| Military Review. July-August 2011 |
Aug 2011 |
109 pages |
| Authors:
John J Smith; Kevin Cutright; Marlys Cook; ARMY COMBINED ARMS CENTER FORT LEAVENWORTH KS MILITARY REVIEW
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| Coalition Interoperability Measurement Frameworks Literature Survey |
Aug 2011 |
102 pages |
| Authors:
Philip Bury; DEFENCE RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT CANADA OTTAWA (ONTARIO) CENTRE FOR OPERATIONAL RESEARCH AND ANALYSIS
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| This paper is the report of a review of selected works that were referred to in a 2007 survey of methods to measure interoperability between military forces. It forms part of an effort to develop a framework for assessing interoperability in command, control, computers, and communications. The framework is being developed by the Joint Studies Operational Research Team, and is sponsored by Assistant Deputy Minister (Information Management). For the framework, ... |
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| References for Capability Assessment, Acquisition Planning, and Cost Estimation |
Aug 2011 |
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| Authors:
Wade P Hinkle; Milton L Tulkoff; Rachel D Dubin; INSTITUTE FOR DEFENSE ANALYSES ALEXANDRIA VA
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 | This document addresses an Institute for Defense Analyses (IDA) study responding to a Japanese government request for references that would be of assistance to Japan in conducting defense capability assessments, acquisition planning, and cost estimation. Sources reviewed included books, journals, periodicals, articles, documents, and websites. In developing the list of references, IDA's objective was to be highly selective, i.e., to incorporate the most pertinent and useful U.S., and non-U.S. publications ... |
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| A Document Visualization Tool Customized to Explore DRDC Reports (Un outil de visualisation de document concu precisement pour explorer les rapports de RDDC) |
Aug 2011 |
33 pages |
| Authors:
Peter J Kwantes; DEFENCE RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT TORONTO (CANADA)
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| HanDles is a document visualization tool developed for DRDC Toronto as part of ARP 16ah. In this report, a customized version of the program is described. The new version of the HanDles tool was adjusted to process the abstracts from the agency's technical reports dating back to the 1940s. In a series of short examples, the author shows how HanDles could be used as an effective and intuitive means by ... |
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| Examining a Terrorist Network Using Contingency Table Analysis |
Aug 2011 |
16 pages |
| Authors:
Allison Moore; ARMY RESEARCH LAB ABERDEEN PROVING GROUND MD COMPUTATIONAL AND INFORMATION SCIENCES DIRECTORATE
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| The information revolution of the 21st century has changed the nature of war to focus on the area of network-centric warfare. While the number and strength of dark networks continue to increase, the U.S. Department of Defense seeks to identify, predict, and counteract possible terrorist threats. The intelligence community is undertaking the seemingly impossible task of using the information that is currently available through social networks and military reports. This ... |
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| Small Business Innovation Research: SBA Should Work with Agencies to Improve the Data Available for Program Evaluation |
Aug 2011 |
45 pages |
| Authors:
Frank Rusco; Cheryl Williams; Antoinette Capaccio; Stephen Carter; Nancy Crothers; Laurie Ellington; Cindy Gilbert; Cynthia Norris; Christine Senteno; Kiki Theodoropoulos; GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY OFFICE WASHINGTON DC
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| Federal agencies with a budget of at least $100 million for research and development (R&D) conducted by others must participate in the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program. SBIR has four purposes: meet federal R&D needs, stimulate technological innovation, increase commercialization (e.g., sales) of innovations based on federal R&D, and encourage participation in innovation by small businesses owned by disadvantaged individuals and women. The Small Business Administration (SBA) oversees the ... |
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| Commander's Emergency Response Program for 2011 Shows Increased Focus on Capacity Development |
29 JUL 2011 |
36 pages |
| Authors:
Glenn D. Furbish; Scott Harmon; Joshua Moses; Tinh Nguyen; Jim Shafer; SPECIAL INSPECTOR GENERAL FOR IRAQ RECONSTRUCTION ARLINGTON VA
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| Since 2004, the Congress has authorized almost $4.0 billion for the Department of Defense's (DoD) Commander's Emergency Response Program (CERP) in Iraq, including $100 million for fiscal year (FY) 2011. The CERP?s purpose is to enable commanders to respond to urgent humanitarian relief and reconstruction requirements within their areas of responsibility by carrying out programs that will immediately assist the Iraqi people. Over the years, commanders have used CERP funds ... |
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| Control Weaknesses Remain in Oversight of Theater-wide Internal Security Services Contracts |
28 JUL 2011 |
40 pages |
| Authors:
Glenn D. Furbish; Arthur Granger; Randy Gentry; Wilson D. Haigler; J. J. Marzullo; Robert L. Pelletier; SPECIAL INSPECTOR GENERAL FOR IRAQ RECONSTRUCTION ARLINGTON VA
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| Private security contractors (PSCs) play an important role in Iraq by protecting U.S. personnel, facilities, and property related to reconstruction efforts. The Department of Defense (DoD) relies on PSCs to provide static, or site, security throughout Iraq by guarding and protecting fixed locations, such as forward operating bases. In September 2007, DoD awarded five Theater-wide Internal Security Services (TWISS) contracts to PSCs for static security at various bases in Iraq. ... |
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| Lessons Learned in Performing Technology Readiness Assessment (TRA) for the Milestone (MS) B Review of an Acquisition Category (ACAT)1D Vehicle Program |
18 JUL 2011 |
7 pages |
| Authors:
Jerome Tzau; Anthony Dolan; Matt Withun; Richard Goetz; Brett Johnson; Johnathon Putrus; ARMY TANK AUTOMOTIVE RESEARCH DEVELOPMENT AND ENGINEERING CENTER WARREN MI
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| One of the biggest challenges in developing TRA is the determination of the critical technology elements (CTEs). This paper outlines a systematic process used to identify all potential technologies developed by the contractors during the Technology Development (TD) Phase and applies criteria for selection of CTEs. To reduce the subjectivity in the assessment, the relevant technical requirements for each CTE that are important to the customers will be established. These ... |
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| Department of the Navy Navy Marine Corps Portal (NMCP) Environment Strategy |
01 JUL 2011 |
12 pages |
| Authors:
DEPARTMENT OF THE NAVY WASHINGTON DC CHIEF INFORMATION OFFICER
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| The mission of the United States naval forces is to enhance security, prevent conflict and prevail in war. To effectively execute this mission, the Department of the Navy (DON) must be able to rapidly deliver secure data and information to its operational forces around the globe. This requires the DON to provide secure, interoperable, and integrated portal capabilities and resources. In an environment of severe budget challenges, the DON must ... |
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| Seamless and Secure Federation Among Highly and Loosely Connected Infospaces (INFOFED) |
JUL 2011 |
73 pages |
| Authors:
Niranjan Suri; Andrzej Uszok; FLORIDA INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN AND MACHINE COGNITION INC PENSACOLA FL
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| This report describes research conducted toward developing a federated approach to interconnecting multiple information spaces to enable data interchange. We propose a set of interfaces to facilitate dynamic, runtime discovery and federation of information spaces. We also report on integrating with the KAoS policy and domain services framework to realize policy-based control over the federation and exchange of information. Our approach allows clients to transparently perform publish, subscribe, and query ... |
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| Fast Multiscale Algorithms for Information Representation and Fusion |
Jul 2011 |
13 pages |
| Authors:
Devasis Bassu; TELCORDIA TECHNOLOGIES INC PISCATAWAY NJ
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| In the fourth quarter of the work effort, we focused on a) fine tuning and bug fixes for the randomized SVD and ANN algorithms, b) initial selection of real-world data sets/problems and applications using the developed algorithms, and c) preliminary design of the Multiscale Singular Value Decomposition (SVD) algorithm. This report presents motivation and a rough design sketch for the new multiscale SVD algorithm along with details on the selected ... |
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| Role of Information Management in Advancing Homeland Security |
Jul 2011 |
13 pages |
| Authors:
David T Culkin; ARMY COMMAND AND GENERAL STAFF COLL FORT LEAVENWORTH KS
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| More than 50,000 malicious codes, including viruses and software, are developed each day to target the United States. Russia, China, and Iran are actively developing capabilities to attack the information infrastructure of this country. At the same time, the Department of Homeland Security and intelligence agencies of the U.S. government do not have a comprehensive plan to address these threats. Decision makers at all levels of government lack timely information ... |
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| Hybrid Scenario Development Methodology and Tool: An Arctic-Oriented Scenario Example |
Jul 2011 |
36 pages |
| Authors:
David Mugridge; Peter Avis; Peter Race; DEFENCE RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT CANADA OTTAWA (ONTARIO) CENTRE FOR OPERATIONAL RESEARCH AND ANALYSIS
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| Scenarios are the foundation of effective planning and training efforts. They serve as a common context for multiple stakeholders in evaluating current capabilities to meet realistic potential future security challenges. This contractor report outlines a new systematic approach to Arctic Defence and Security-related scenario development (i.e. context-setting) for DRDC?s Centre for Operational Research and Analysis (CORA). The prescribed outcome is a methodology that delivers a scenario development tool capable of ... |
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| Monitoring Entities in an Uncertain World: Entity Resolution and Referential Integrity |
Jul 2011 |
9 pages |
| Authors:
Steven N Minton; Sofus A Macskassy; Peter LaMonica; Kane See; Craig A Knoblock; Greg Barish; Matthew Michelson; Raymond Liuzzi; AIR FORCE RESEARCH LAB ROME NY
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| This paper describes a system to help intelligence analysts track and analyze information being published in multiple sources, particularly open sources on the Web. The system integrates technology for Web harvesting, natural language extraction, and network analytics, and allows analysts to view and explore the results via a Web application. One of the difficult problems we address is the entity resolution problem, which occurs when there are multiple, differing ways ... |
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| Hard Sensor Fusion for COIN Inspired Situation Awareness |
Jul 2011 |
7 pages |
| Authors:
Matthew S Baran; Donald J Natale; Richard L Tutwiler; Christopher Griffin; John M Daughtry; Matthew M McQuillan; Jeffrey Rimland; David L Hall; PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIV STATE COLLEGE
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| Counter Insurgency operations require the ability to develop accurate representations of the physical environment and the human landscape in various conditions (e.g., urban and non-urban, day and night, and various weather conditions). We are developing innovative sensor suites and processing techniques suitable for such domains as part of a larger effort to support human-centric hard/soft data fusion. In this paper, we present a sensor suite, an information processing architecture, examples ... |
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| Supervised Learning in CINets |
Jul 2011 |
9 pages |
| Authors:
Paul Bruhn; Jeffrey Weinschenk; PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIV STATE COLLEGE APPLIED RESEARCH LAB
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| Continuous Inference Networks (CINets), a form of multilayer fuzzy value networks allow computation with fuzzy values in concise structures, are capable of universal function approximation, and are readily interpretable through natural language, aiding maintenance modification, collaboration, and knowledge sharing. However CINets have been reliant on Subject Matter Expertise (SME) and manual tuning to realize optimal performance, limiting their applicability. With ONR support[i], ARL has developed a supervised learning process for ... |
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| Track Purity and Current Assignment Ratio for Target Tracking and Identification Evaluation |
Jul 2011 |
9 pages |
| Authors:
Erik P Blasch; Pierre Valin; DEFENCE RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT CANADA VALCARTIER (QUEBEC)
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| Performance evaluation of simultaneous tracking and identification (STID) systems consists of measures of performance, measures of effectiveness, and measures of force effectiveness. To investigate the capability of STID, we extend track purity to a current assignment ratio. Track purity determines the correctly associated measurements for a given scan where as the Current Assignment Ratio (CAR) determines the correct measurements for a given track. Using the CAR aids sensor management algorithms ... |
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| Contracts Supporting Base Operations in Kuwait Need Stronger Management and Administration |
30 JUN 2011 |
32 pages |
| Authors:
INSPECTOR GENERAL DEPT OF DEFENSE ARLINGTON VA
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| This is the second in a series of audit reports on the contract supporting base operations in Kuwait. Our overall audit objective was to determine whether DoD properly managed and administered the contract supporting base operations in Kuwait in accordance with Federal and DoD policies. Our first report, Report No. D-2010-085, "Kuwait Contractors Working in Sensitive Positions Without Security Clearances or CACs," September 22, 2010, focused on management of the ... |
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| Coordinating Learning Agents for Active Information Collection |
30 Jun 2011 |
54 pages |
| Authors:
Kagan Tumer; OREGON STATE UNIV CORVALLIS
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| The ability to autonomously coordinate a team of agents to actively collect information is critical to a wide array of Air Force missions. With computing power becoming both cheaper and more powerful, there is a trend to push critical decision making capabilities downstream, towards the data collection nodes rather than wait for data to arrive to a massive centralized location before a decision is made. This new computing paradigm relies ... |
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| AutoMap User's Guide 2011 |
13 JUN 2011 |
226 pages |
| Authors:
Kathleen M. Carley; Dave Columbus; Mike Bigrigg; Frank Kunkel; CARNEGIE-MELLON UNIV PITTSBURGH PA INST OF SOFTWARE RESEARCH INTERNAT
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| AutoMap is software for computer-assisted Network Text Analysis (NTA). NTA encodes the links among words in a text and constructs a network of the links words. AutoMap subsumes classical Content Analysis by analyzing the existence, frequencies, and covariance of terms and themes. |
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| Embedded with Facebook: DoD Faces Risks from Social Media |
Jun 2011 |
6 pages |
| Authors:
Kenneth N Phillips; Aaron Pickett; Simson L Garfinkel; MARINE CORPS TACTICAL SYSTEMS SUPPORT ACTIVITY CAMP PENDLETON CA
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| U.S. service members are increasingly jeopardized by information posted on social network websites. While some of the most damaging information comes from spouses and other non-official sources, other information comes from the use of social media by the DoD because non-public, secure channels for questions and feedback do not exist. Other problems arise from the conflict between the DoD's desire to promote its mission by distributing information to a world-wide ... |
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| Plans Toward Automated Chat Summarization |
JUN 2011 |
8 pages |
| Authors:
David C. Uthus; David W. Aha; NAVAL RESEARCH LAB WASHINGTON DC
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| We describe the beginning stages of our work on summarizing chat, which is motivated by our observations concerning the information overload of US Navy watchstanders. We describe the challenges of summarizing chat and focus on two chat-specific types of summarizations we are interested in: thread summaries and temporal summaries. We then discuss our plans for addressing these challenges and evaluation issues. |
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| Patching the Wetware: Addressing the Human Factor in Information Security |
JUN 2011 |
80 pages |
| Authors:
Alexander D. Nelson; AIR FORCE INST OF TECH WRIGHT-PATTERSON AFB OH DEPT OF ELECTRICAL AND COMPUTER ENGINEERING
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| In the practice of information security, it is increasingly observed that the weakest link in the security chain is the human operator. A reason often cited for this observation is that the human factor is simpler and cheaper to manipulate than the complex technological protections of digital information systems. Current anecdotes where the human was targeted to undermine military information protection systems include the 2008 breach of USCENTCOM computer systems ... |
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| Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder and the Military: A Selected Bibliography |
JUN 2011 |
28 pages |
| Authors:
Jenny Silkett; ARMY WAR COLL LIBRARY CARLISLE BARRACKS PA
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| Ontologies and Information Systems: A Literature Survey |
JUN 2011 |
101 pages |
| Authors:
Van Nguyen; DEFENCE SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY ORGANISATION EDINBURGH (AUSTRALIA)
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| An ontology captures in a computer-processable language the important concepts in a particular domain and the relationships between these concepts. Ontologies are becoming increasingly pervasive in various fields of computer and information science. They are indispensable components of many complex information systems, especially systems in which communication among heterogeneous components is critical. I use the following definition of ontology, which captures the essence of the most widely adopted definitions in ... |
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| Cornell Workshop Series on Information Management in Service Oriented Applications |
JUN 2011 |
18 pages |
| Authors:
Kenneth Birman; Robert van Renesse; Daniel Freedman; CORNELL UNIV ITHACA NY OFFICE OF SPONSORED PROGRAMS
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| The Cornell University Distributed Systems research group conducted a lecture series at the Air Force Research Laboratory Information Directorate (AFRL/RI) in Rome, NY. A total of eight half-day workshops on technologies for building robust cloud computing solutions were held at Rome Research Site. During these workshops, AF Research Laboratory and Cornell University participants, as well as attending vendors, engaged in a broad range of exchanges that helped prepare all involved ... |
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| Enhancing Collective C2 in the International Environment: Leveraging the Unclassified Information Sharing Enterprise Service |
JUN 2011 |
51 pages |
| Authors:
Jr. Chlebo Paul; Gerard J. Christman; Roy A. Johnson; ASSISTANT SECRETARY OF DEFENSE (NETWORKS AND INFORMATION INTEGRATION) ARLINGTON VA
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| The Indian Ocean Basin Tsunami in December 2004 underscored the requirement for a collaborative environment amongst military and civilian actors from across the international environment. United States Pacific Command (USPACOM) had been hosting the Asia Pacific Area Network (APAN) to support the Multinational Planning Augmentation Team (MPAT). At first it was less a network than a nominal Website and it evolved into a portal where, upon conclusion of Operation Unified ... |
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| Science and Technology Issues Relating to Data Quality in C2 Systems |
JUN 2011 |
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| Authors:
Jonathan Agre; M. S. Vassiliou; Corinne Kramer; INSTITUTE FOR DEFENSE ANALYSES ALEXANDRIA VA
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| A Command and Control (C2) system depends crucially on having high-quality underlying data. There is still no "best" set of data quality dimensions and metrics for C2. We consider various sources of data quality criteria, such as the 16 data quality dimensions identified by the Total Data Quality Management (TDQM) research community, and the dimensions identified by the ISO 8000 and 25012 standards. We map these dimensions against the criteria ... |
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| Semantic Analysis of Military Relevant Texts for Intelligence Purposes |
JUN 2011 |
43 pages |
| Authors:
Sandra Noubours; Matthias Hecking; FRAUNHOFER SOCIETY WACHTBERG (GERMANY) FRAUNHOFER INST FOR COMMUNICATION INFORMATION PROCESSING AND ERGONOMICS
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| The current deployments of the German Federal Armed Forces make it necessary to analyze large quantities of intelligence reports and other documents written in different languages. Natural language processing techniques (NLP) can be applied to efficiently handle these tasks. The ZENON project makes use of an information extraction approach for the (partial) content analysis of English HUMINT reports. It has been extended to do multilingual information extraction (i.e., processing Dari ... |
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| Multilingual Content Extraction Extended with Background Knowledge for Military Intelligence |
JUN 2011 |
45 pages |
| Authors:
Matthias Hecking; Andreas Wotzlaw; Ravi Coote; FRAUNHOFER SOCIETY WACHTBERG (GERMANY) FRAUNHOFER INST FOR COMMUNICATION INFORMATION PROCESSING AND ERGONOMICS
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| Written information for military purposes is available in abundance. Documents are written in many languages. The question is how we can automate the content extraction of these documents. One possible approach is based on shallow parsing (information extraction) with application specific combination of analysis results. One example of this, the ZENON research system, does a partial content analysis of some English, Dari, and Tajik texts. Another principal approach for content ... |
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| C2 Agility: Evaluating a New Brigade Standard Operating Procedure for Information Management and Coordination |
JUN 2011 |
42 pages |
| Authors:
Peter Thunholm; David Tan; Per Wikberg; Frederick Tey; Ulf Gullberg; Sven-Ake Larsson; Lee T. Hua; Ong C. Siong; Martin Bergstrand; George Thomas; SWEDISH NATIONAL DEFENCE COLLEGE STOCKHOLM (SWEDEN) DEPT OF WAR STUDIES
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| This study experiments with two command and control (C2) concepts for Edge Force operations called Non-Hierarchical Information Management (NHIM) and Non-Hierarchical Coordination (NHC). The concepts were translated into a Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) for a Brigade C2 structure. The purpose of NHIM is to share the information necessary to enable horizontal coordination among units of equal standing within the same C2 structure. The purpose of NHC is to speed up ... |
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| On Optimizing Command and Control Structures |
JUN 2011 |
26 pages |
| Authors:
David Scheidt; Kevin Schultz; JOHNS HOPKINS UNIV LAUREL MD APPLIED PHYSICS LAB
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| This paper uses information theory to investigate the utility of alternative Command and Control (C2) structures and strategies. Specifically, the authors use the information theoretic metrics of "complexity," "entropic drag," and "evolutionary entropy." Complexity measures the amount of information required to fully express a situation. Entropic drag measures the rate at which situational information becomes obsolete. These metrics are used to characterize situations managed by C2 systems. The performance of ... |
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| Understanding the Potential of Virtual Environments for Improving C2 Performance |
JUN 2011 |
36 pages |
| Authors:
Ken Hudson; Mark E. Nissen; NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL MONTEREY CA
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| Effective Command and Control (C2) is enabled by information technology, but the potential of C2 through virtual environments offers opportunities for radical increases in awareness and performance. To realize such radical increases, we are engaged in a campaign of experimentation to assess C2 in virtual environments through the ELICIT (Experimental Laboratory for Investigating Collaboration, Information-sharing, and Trust) multiplayer online counterterrorism intelligence game. Currently ELICIT has only a primitive textual interface. ... |
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| Information Design for Synchronization and Co-ordination of Modern, Complex, Multi-National Operations |
JUN 2011 |
57 pages |
| Authors:
Geoff Markham; QINETIQ LTD WORCESTERSHIRE (UNITED KINGDOM)
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| Information is generally understood as 'data plus context'. Alternative explanations for 'context' include meaning (via language), conditions and attributes (meta-data), cognitive states, and representations of situation and purpose. Organizations conducting modern, complex, multi-national operations, with both military and non-military involvement, need to manage contexts in ways which are efficient, supportive of federation, and agile. This paper builds on earlier ideas, notably those of Fitchett, McConnell and Sowray (at 11th ICCRTS) ... |
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| Towards Ontology Matching Suitable for Information Integration in Time-Critical Situations |
JUN 2011 |
35 pages |
| Authors:
Bjorn J. Hansen; NORWEGIAN DEFENCE RESEARCH ESTABLISHMENT KJELLER
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| Information handling is important when conducting operations according to NATO Network Enabled Capability. Ontologies - explicit formal models - are being put forward as a promising component in solving challenges in this area. The predominant approach utilising ontologies is to base solutions on several medium sized or small ontologies. However, when solving information handling challenges utilising several ontologies, there will be a need to link them - to perform ontology ... |
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| All-source Information Management and Integration for Improved Collective Intelligence Production |
JUN 2011 |
31 pages |
| Authors:
Anne-Claire Boury-Brisset; Anissa Frini; Rejean Lebrun; DEFENCE RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT CANADA VALCARTIER (QUEBEC)
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| Intelligence analysts face an ever increasing amount of heterogeneous information from various ISR sources, including data from sensors as well as human and open sources provided in disparate multimedia formats and distributed across different systems. Further research is required for enhanced management and integration of all-source intelligence information, and collective production of intelligence products. To this end, a novel approach for global ISR information management and integration is needed. In ... |
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| Exploring Effects of C2 Warfare on C2 Ability in a Simulated Environment |
JUN 2011 |
32 pages |
| Authors:
Magdalena Granasen; Patrik Lif; Per-Anders Oskarsson; Peter Klum; Lars Tyden; Niklas Hallberg; SWEDISH DEFENCE RESEARCH AGENCY LINKOEPING
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| Information Operations (InfoOps) can be used by or affect all kinds of actors in a multinational, civil-military operation. To explore issues related to command and control (C2) and information operations, a simulation environment was developed in which a series of experiments was performed. The simulator is called the Command and Control Warfare Demonstrator (C2WD). In the C2WD, C2 warfare in terms of electronic warfare (EW) and computer network operations (CNO) ... |
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| Applicability of Visual Analytics to Defence and Security Operations |
JUN 2011 |
51 pages |
| Authors:
Valerie Lavigne; Denis Gouin; DEFENCE RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT CANADA VALCARTIER (QUEBEC)
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| In the context of modern defence and security operations, analysts are faced with a continuously growing set of information of different nature which causes significant information overload problems and prevent developing good situation awareness. Fortunately, Visual Analytics (VA) has emerged as an efficient way of handling and making sense of massive data sets by exploiting interactive visualization technologies and human cognitive abilities. Defence R&D Canada has conducted a review of ... |
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| A Smarter Common Operational Picture: The Application of Abstraction Hierarchies to Naval Command and Control |
JUN 2011 |
44 pages |
| Authors:
Henryk F. Arciszewski; T. E. de Greef; NETHERLANDS ORGANISATION FOR APPLIED RESEARCH TNO THE HAGUE
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| The last decade shows significant steps in connecting military command and control systems from different defense forces optimizing joint and combined operations. However, a Common Operational Picture (COP) that provides all actors with sufficient, accurate, and timely information is still an elusive target. Additional and more abstract information is required to comprehend the situation better, including a representation of the friendly, neutral and hostile courses of action and the roles ... |
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| Integration of Communication and Social Network Modeling Platforms using ELICIT and the Wireless Emulation Laboratory |
JUN 2011 |
43 pages |
| Authors:
Kevin Chan; Ryan Pressley; Brian Rivera; Mary Ruddy; ARMY RESEARCH LAB ADELPHI MD
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| Creating models and experiment platforms that study the relationships and interactions between composite networks will enable the design of tactical networks to maximize mission performance of an organization. Tactical environments can be conceptualized by complex networks, a composition of communication, social/cognitive, and information networks. We describe an approach to integrate ELICIT (Experimental Laboratory for Investigating Collaboration, Information-sharing and Trust) with an existing wireless emulation test bed, the Wireless Emulation Laboratory ... |
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| Evolution of Relational Contracting in Construction: Project Delivery Methods Beyond Partnering |
JUN 2011 |
37 pages |
| Authors:
Travis R. Johnson; William E. Sitzabee; Peter P. Feng; AIR FORCE INST OF TECH WRIGHT-PATTERSON AFB OH
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| Improving formal and informal relationships between parties is a major aspiration of every construction project. The United States Army Corps of Engineers led the way in developing relational contracting methods in the 1980s with the introduction of partnering. While partnering remains the Corps' standard, relational contracting continues to evolve. Advanced relational methods were pioneered in the 1990s and 2000s in countries such as the United Kingdom and Australia, quickly becoming ... |
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| An Ontology for Hypothesis Management in the Maritime Domain |
JUN 2011 |
47 pages |
| Authors:
Richard Haberlin; Paulo C. da Costa; KATHRYN B. LASKEY; GEORGE MASON UNIV FAIRFAX VA DEPT OF SYSTEMS ENGINEERING AND OPERATIONS RESEARCH
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| In the operational environment, situational awareness (SA) supports tactical decision making through fusion of information about intelligence, geography, environment, and the geopolitical situation. Advanced decision support systems will provide the decision maker with a number of hypotheses from which the evolving situation may be inferred, limited only by the computational capacity of available computer hardware. Hypothesis Management is needed to control of exponential growth in fusion hypotheses created from incoming ... |
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| Representing COA with Probabilistic Ontologies |
JUN 2011 |
48 pages |
| Authors:
Henrique C. Marques; Jose M. de Oliveira; Paulo C. da Costa; AERONAUTICAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY SAO JOSE DOS CAMPOS (BRAZIL)
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| In modern day operations, planning has been an increasingly complex activity. This is especially true in civil-military scenarios, usually involving numerous and diverse actors as well as intertwining requirements that limit the solution space in nontrivial ways. Under these circumstances, decision support systems are an essential tool that can also become a liability if not properly devised or employed, and one of the critical parts of the planning process is ... |
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| Privacy Preserving Service Discovery for Interoperability in Power to the Edge Approach |
JUN 2011 |
29 pages |
| Authors:
Hiroshi Yamaguchi; Masahito Gotaishi; Shigeo Tsujii; Norihisa Doi; CHUO UNIV TOKYO (JAPAN)
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| As the networks become large-scale, they include various confidential data which need strict access control. Then we face the problem of satisfying the conflicting requirements of confidentiality and utilization. Access should be allowed when the information is necessary in performing the duty, although, in some cases, full access is not necessary when the data is used to compute statistics. Such unnecessary disclosure is required under existing access-control system. A typical ... |
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| Shared Awareness in Times of Crisis: A Framework for Collaboration |
JUN 2011 |
27 pages |
| Authors:
Elizabeth A. Gomez; Paul Ray; NEW JERSEY INST OF TECH NEWARK
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| Shared awareness improves collaboration between actors in crises and can assist in overcoming issues related to motives, privacy and security. Strict adherence to the policies and procedures of parent organizations or teams during crises is often restrictive to effective collaboration and may be improved through shared awareness. For example, the Department of Defense (DoD) developed an information sharing strategy which aims to "provide a common vision to synchronize initiatives to ... |
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| Towards a C2 Poly-Visualization Tool: Leveraging the Power of Social-Network Analysis and GIS |
JUN 2011 |
34 pages |
| Authors:
Alexander Wassell; Marion Ceruti; Niina Haas; Kevin Adams; Sandi Lehan; Der S. Yang; SPACE AND NAVAL WARFARE SYSTEMS CENTER PACIFIC SAN DIEGO CA
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| Civil authorities and emergency managers need to collect, manage, analyze and display network and geographic information to understand better the connectivity of critical sectors of the community and their spatial relationships to physical attributes of geography and terrain, the built environment, critical infrastructures and key resources, and the proximity of segments of the population/ neighborhoods to local hazards and threats to security. A promising method for the analysis of social ... |
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| Coexistence or Operational Necessity: The Role of Formally Structured Organisation and Informal Networks during Deployments |
JUN 2011 |
51 pages |
| Authors:
Irena Ali; DEFENCE SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY ORGANISATION (AUSTRALIA) JOINT OPERATIONS DIVISION
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| The military faces an increasingly turbulent environment requiring flexibility and agility of organisational processes and structures. This is particularly prevalent for military forces interfacing with civilian organisations. Furthermore, the current military paradigm of network centric operations (NCO) is reliant on timely information flows, flexible command structures and adaptability to achieve mission outcomes. This paper reports on the findings and implications for organisational architectures and command and control of a study ... |
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Information Science
