| Defense Infrastructure: Guam Needs Timely Information from DOD to Meet Challenges in Planning and Financing Off-Base Projects and Programs to Support a Larger Military Presence |
13-Nov-2009 |
26 pages |
| Authors:
Kate Lenane; John Schaik; Richard Van Powelson; Richard Meeks; Amy Frazier; Josh Margraf; Brian Lepore; Harold Reich; Grace Coleman; Michael Willems; GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY OFFICE WASHINGTON DC
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 | The processes used by the government of Guam to develop the key cost estimates for planned off-base projects and programs varied depending on project or program value, complexity, and size; whether independent consultants provided input; and the extent to which DOD provided data to help set project requirements. As a result, the estimates prepared to date vary in quality, and the overall costs to develop supporting off-base infrastructure are still ... |
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| Critical Infrastructures: Background, Policy, and Implementation |
12-Nov-2009 |
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| Authors:
John D Moteff; LIBRARY OF CONGRESS WASHINGTON DC CONGRESSIONAL RESEARCH SERVICE
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 | The nation's health, wealth, and security rely on the production and distribution of certain goods and services. The array of physical assets, functions, and systems across which these goods and services move are called critical infrastructures (e.g., electricity, the power plants that generate it, and the electric grid upon which it is distributed). The national security community has been concerned for some time about the vulnerability of critical infrastructure to ... |
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| Software Systems Stockroom |
Nov-2009 |
107 pages |
| Authors:
Gabor Karsai; James L Panmicka; Douglas A Stuart; Andrew M Vandivort; Christopher P VanBuskirk; BOEING CO ST LOUIS MO
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| This final report contains a record of activities and a description of project deliverables and results from the Software Systems Stockroom (S3) Phase 1 program, which was executed by Boeing Research & Technology (BR&T) form 05-February-2009 to 02- August-2009. BR&T subcontractors on the effort included Raytheon and Vanderbilt University. The work included development of an open, community-driven, technically focused shared infrastructure that will encourage the capture and reuse of domain ... |
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| Guide to Rebuilding Public Sector Services in Stability Operations: A Role for the Military |
Oct-2009 |
54 pages |
| Authors:
Richard Hill; Derick W Brinkerhoff; Ronald W Johnson; Susan Merrill; RESEARCH TRIANGLE INST INTERNATIONAL RALEIGH NC
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| The Army's stability operations manual, Field Manual (FM) 3-07, identifies five sectors as components of an integrated approach to stability and reconstruction (S&R): security, justice and reconciliation, humanitarian assistance and social well-being, participatory governance, and economic recovery and stabilization. FM 3-07 describes two categories of the range of activities in stability operations for achieving these end state conditions: reconstruction and stabilization. Reconstruction is the process of rebuilding degraded, damaged, or ... |
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| Cyberspace and the 'First Battle' in 21st-century War (Defense Horizons, Number 68, September 2009) |
Sep-2009 |
7 pages |
| Authors:
Robert A Miller; Daniel T Kuehl; NATIONAL DEFENSE UNIV WASHINGTON DC CENTER FOR TECHNOLOGY AND NATIONAL SECURITY POLICY
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| Wars often start well before main forces engage. In the 19th and early 20th centuries, combat often began when light cavalry units crossed the border. For most of the 20th century, the first battle typically involved dawn surprise attacks, usually delivered by air forces. While a few of these attacks were so shattering that they essentially decided the outcome of the struggle or at least dramatically shaped its course -- ... |
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| Tri-Level Optimization of Critical Infrastructure Resilience |
Sep-2009 |
70 pages |
| Authors:
John P Babick; NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL MONTEREY CA DEPT OF OPERATIONS RESEARCH
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| We introduce a new way to perform network analysis on critical infrastructure that is superior to Risk Analysis and Management for Critical Asset Protection (RAMCAP), currently used by the Department of Homeland Security. We introduce the idea of a Design-Attack-Defend (DAD) model that determines the optimal defense plan for a critical infrastructure network within a specified budget constraint. Design-Attack-Defend first determines worst-case attacks and then determines where to defend or ... |
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| Information Technology Sector Baseline Risk Assessment |
Aug-2009 |
115 pages |
| Authors:
DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY WASHINGTON DC
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| The Information Technology (IT) Sector provides both products and services that support the efficient operation of today's global information-based society. These products and services are integral to the operations and services provided by other critical infrastructure and key resource (CIKR) sectors. Threats to the IT Sector are complex and varied. In addition to the risks presented by natural hazards? such as catastrophic weather or seismic events?the IT Sector also faces ... |
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| Defense Critical Infrastructure: Actions Needed to Improve the Consistency, Reliability, and Usefulness of DOD's Tier 1 Task Critical Asset List |
17-Jul-2009 |
26 pages |
| Authors:
Davi M D'Agostino; GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY OFFICE WASHINGTON DC
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| As discussed with the committees of jurisdiction for this report, we examined (1) the extent to which the combatant commands and military services applied consistent and clear criteria in identifying and prioritizing their submissions of assets to DOD's Tier 1 Task Critical Asset list; (2) the actions ASD(HD&ASA) has taken to promote coordination among the Joint Staff, the combatant commands, and the military services to identify critical assets; and (3) ... |
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| Secure Grid 2009. A DHS-DOE-DOD Joint Exercise, 9 and 10 July 09 |
Jul-2009 |
33 pages |
| Authors:
Scott Pugh; DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY WASHINGTON DC
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| SUMMARIZING ENERGY SECURITY. Fossil Fuels: Oil - Coal - Gas. Nuclear. Renewables: Hydro - Wind - Solar - Geothermal - Ocean Energy - Biomass - Biofuels. |
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| Rising Dragon: Infrastructure Development and Chinese Influence in Vietnam |
Jun-2009 |
89 pages |
| Authors:
Thomas D Moon; NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL MONTEREY CA
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| This thesis will contribute to the on-going debate over whether China's rise as a regional and potential global power will be benign or disruptive for Southeast Asia. The central argument is that China is creating mechanisms that can exert influence on Vietnam by developing infrastructure links and creating regional economic dependencies. These mechanisms are being formed as a consequence of economic development programs associated with bilateral and regional initiatives. These ... |
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| Defense Infrastructure. Planning Challenges Could Increase Risks for DOD in Providing Utility Services When Needed to Support the Military Buildup on Guam |
Jun-2009 |
57 pages |
| Authors:
Brian J Lepore; Mark A Little; Grace A Coleman; Michael W Armes; Raj C Chitikila; Katherine S Lenane; Mahender Dudani; Patrick E Peterson; Mark J Wielgoszynski; GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY OFFICE WASHINGTON DC
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| The Department of Defense (DOD) plans to increase the U.S. military presence on Guam by more than two-and-a-half times the island's current military population of 15,000 by 2020. To keep pace with this growth, DOD has determined that substantial upgrades to the island's existing utilities infrastructure are required for electric power, potable water, wastewater treatment, and solid waste disposal to meet future utility needs. GAO was asked to examine (1) ... |
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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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| Improving and Extending the Mobility En Route System |
Jun-2009 |
50 pages |
| Authors:
Randy S Naylor; AIR FORCE INST OF TECH WRIGHT-PATTERSON AFB OH GRADUATE SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING AND MANAGEMENT
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| This research project evaluates the improvements necessary to maintain and extend the effectiveness of the air mobility en route system. Previous research regarding limitations and requirements for air delivery of personnel and material are examined to establish the functionality of the en route system and methods for evaluating its effectiveness. Two previous projects that attempted to optimize location and infrastructure for the en route systems are compared against the most ... |
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| Terrorism and Security Issues Facing the Water Infrastructure Sector |
26-May-2009 |
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| Authors:
Claudia Copeland; LIBRARY OF CONGRESS WASHINGTON DC CONGRESSIONAL RESEARCH SERVICE
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| Damage to or destruction of the nation's water supply and water quality infrastructure by terrorist attack or natural disaster could disrupt the delivery of vital human services in this country, threatening public health and the environment, or possibly causing loss of life. Interest in such problems has increased greatly since the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks in the United States. Across the country, water infrastructure systems extend over vast areas, ... |
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| A Social Infrastructure for Hometown Security: Advancing the Homeland Security Paradigm |
May-2009 |
14 pages |
| Authors:
Robert Bach; David J Kaufman; NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL MONTEREY CA CENTER FOR HOMELAND DEFENSE AND SECURITY
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| The nation's homeland security strategy calls on federal, state, and local governments, businesses, communities, and individuals across the country to work together to achieve a shared vision of a secure way of life. Yet for over seven years, through attacks, threats, and disasters, the core ingredient in efforts to achieve that goal remains elusive. The American public has been left out and is largely missing in action. This elusiveness persists ... |
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| Iraq and Afghanistan: Security, Economic, and Governance Challenges to Rebuilding Efforts Should Be Addressed in U.S. Strategies |
25-Mar-2009 |
28 pages |
| Authors:
Carole Coffey; Margaret Best; Kathryn Bernet; Jeffrey Baldwin-Bott; Johana Ayers; Jacquelyn Williams-Bridgers; Burns Chamberlain; Monica Brym; Ann Borseth; Joseph Carney; GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY OFFICE WASHINGTON DC
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| From fiscal year 2001 through July 2008, Congress provided more than $808 billion to the Department of Defense (DoD) for the Global War on Terrorism, including military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan. Moreover, since fiscal year 2003, about $49 billion has been provided to U.S. agencies for reconstruction and stabilization in Iraq and $32 billion for similar efforts in Afghanistan since fiscal year 2002. In February 2009, President Obama announced ... |
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| Iraq: Reconstruction Assistance |
12-Mar-2009 |
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| Authors:
Curt Tarnoff; LIBRARY OF CONGRESS WASHINGTON DC CONGRESSIONAL RESEARCH SERVICE
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| A large-scale assistance program has been undertaken by the United States in Iraq since mid-2003. To date, about $49 billion has been appropriated for Iraq reconstruction. Most recently, in June 2008, Congress approved over $4 billion for Iraq reconstruction in a FY2008/2009 supplemental appropriations bill, H.R. 2642 (P.L. 110-252). The FY2009 regular foreign operations appropriations (P.L. 111-8, Division H, H.R. 1105, signed by the President on March 11, 2009) provides ... |
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| The Engineer Shuffle: An Analysis of the Engineer Role within the SC MAGTF Concept |
20-Feb-2009 |
15 pages |
| Authors:
Tony M Mitchell; MARINE CORPS COMMAND AND STAFF COLL QUANTICO VA
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| How does the future of security cooperation look through the sights of an engineer? The short answer is that this has yet to be determined. As the Marine Corps positions itself to shift its focus away from Operation Iraqi Freedom, Marine Corps leadership is starting to look toward the future. The commandant's Security Cooperation Marine Air-Ground Task Force (SC MAGTF) concept is an impressive attempt to gain ground in Phase ... |
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| Surge of American Forces in Afghanistan |
20-Feb-2009 |
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| Authors:
Peter Leszczynski; MARINE CORPS COMMAND AND STAFF COLL QUANTICO VA
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| The escalation of violence in Afghanistan points heavily to the transition of regional conflict in the Middle East to a new battleground. As the stage for fighting rotates, what was a limited focus on Afghanistan begins to increase, and popular opinion and support are scrutinized. Simultaneously, the media creates a new set of criteria to judge the success or failure of strategic and operational military objectives. As a result, both ... |
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| National Infrastructure Protection Plan: Partnering to Enhance Protection and Resiliency |
Jan-2009 |
189 pages |
| Authors:
DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY WASHINGTON DC
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| Protecting and ensuring the resiliency of the critical infrastructure and key resources (CIKR) of the United States is essential to the Nation's security, public health and safety, economic vitality, and way of life. Attacks on CIKR could significantly disrupt the functioning of government and business alike and produce cascading effects far beyond the targeted sector and physical location of the incident. Direct terrorist attacks and natural, manmade, or technological hazards ... |
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| The Master Clock Building at USNO Infrastructure |
01-Dec-2008 |
13 pages |
| Authors:
Warren F Walls; NAVAL OBSERVATORY WASHINGTON DC TIME SERVICE DIV
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| The U.S. Naval Observatory recently completed a new facility to house its rubidium fountains as well as hydrogen masers, cesium-beam-tube clocks, and future clocks. The design and performance of the building itself is key to providing a good environment to house the clocks. Additionally, the measurement, dissemination, and future capabilities of the infrastructure electronics are critical to achieving mission goals and supporting requirements into the future. This paper reviews some ... |
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| Energy Regulation Effects on Critical Infrastructure Protection |
Dec-2008 |
95 pages |
| Authors:
Matthew E McQuinn; NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL MONTEREY CA
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| U.S. critical infrastructure includes those assets that are vital to maintaining the nation's security, economy, and public health and safety. A reliable supply of electric power provides an essential foundation for the daily operation of all national critical infrastructure as well as most aspects of modern society. A sustained loss of electricity would be significantly detrimental to the economy and the health and security of the nation. Since 1935, the ... |
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| Comparison of NDTI Methodologies to Classify Infrastructure in an Urban Battlespace From Thermal IR Signatures |
Dec-2008 |
9 pages |
| Authors:
Robert Lozar; Michael McInerney; Jonathan Trovillion; ENGINEER RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT CENTER CHAMPAIGN IL CONSTRUCTION ENGINEERING RESEARCH LAB
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| A major challenge of remote infrastructure classification is to distinguish pavements from roofs. We proposed that, due to their differing thermal masses, these elements will heat and cool differently. Therefore, their thermal infrared (IR) signatures will differ throughout a 24-hour cycle. We propose a method to rapidly identify urban infrastructure that will assist the Future Force in dominating the urban battlespace to the same degree that the current force dominates ... |
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| Infrastructure Rationalization in the U.S. Naval Ship Industrial Base |
Nov-2008 |
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| Authors:
Scot A Arnold; Patricia F Bronson; Karen W Tyson; INSTITUTE FOR DEFENSE ANALYSES ALEXANDRIA VA
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| Because of decreased demand for new ship construction the number of U.S. shipyards capable of handling new construction and conversion programs for the U.S. Navy decreased through the 1970s and 1980s. In 1993 the Defense Department established a policy to consolidate and rationalize (reduce infrastructure) within the defense industry in the face of the lower demand experienced following the end of the cold war. IDA looked at infrastructure rationalization in ... |
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| Critical Infrastructures: Background, Policy, and Implementation |
10-Oct-2008 |
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| Authors:
John D Moteff; LIBRARY OF CONGRESS WASHINGTON DC CONGRESSIONAL RESEARCH SERVICE
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| The nation's health, wealth, and security rely on the production and distribution of certain goods and services. The array of physical assets, functions, and systems across which these goods and services move are called critical infrastructures (e.g., electricity, the power plants that generate it, and the electric grid upon which it is distributed). This report discusses in more detail the evolution of a national critical infrastructure policy and the institutional ... |
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| National Positioning, Navigation, and Timing Architecture |
Sep-2008 |
10 pages |
| Authors:
Patrick Huested; Paul D Popejoy; NATIONAL SECURITY SPACE OFFICE (NSSO) WASHINGTON DC
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| An interagency team, sponsored by the Departments of Defense and Transportation and led by the National Security Space Office, has developed a National Positioning, Navigation, and Timing (PNT) Architecture that will substantially affect future government- and commercially-provided PNT products and services. The Architecture envisions sustained U.S. global leadership in PNT through a strategy that makes greater PNT capabilities more generally available. The strategy is supported by vectors, or enterprise architecture ... |
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| Summary of Project Assessments through April 2008 |
24-Jul-2008 |
49 pages |
| Authors:
James Smith; William Whitehead; OFFICE OF INSPECTOR GENERAL ARLINGTON VA SPECIAL INSPECTOR GENERAL FOR IRAQ RECONSTRUCTION
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| This report is a compilation of all assessments completed by the SIGIR Inspections Directorate during the period July 2005 through April 2008. It was made in accordance with the Quality Standards for Inspections issued by the President's Council on Integrity and Efficiency. The overall objective of this report is to provide an objective summary by sector of all assessments published through April 2008. The introduction will provide overall results of ... |
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| The Critical Infrastructure Portfolio Selection Model |
13 JUN 2008 |
184 pages |
| Authors:
Travis J. Lindberg; ARMY COMMAND AND GENERAL STAFF COLL FORT LEAVENWORTH KS
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| This thesis proposes and demonstrates a methodology that enables the user to generate optimal portfolios of projects, based largely on the data envelopment analysis (DEA) approach developed by Israeli professors and industrial engineers, Harel Eilat, Boaz Golany, and Avraham Shtub. The purpose of this methodology, known as the Critical Infrastructure Portfolio Selection Model, is to help policy makers prioritize the allocation of resources while working towards the achievement of short ... |
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| Translating the Science of Alertness and Performance from Laboratory to Field: Using State-of-the-Art Monitoring Imaging and Performance Enhancement Technologies to Improve the Alertness and Safety of the Military and Civilian Workforce |
Jun-2008 |
5 pages |
| Authors:
Charles A Czeisler; Christopher P Landrigan; HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL BOSTON MA
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| The funds of this DURIP grant were used to acquire state-of-the-art equipment and technologies that will promote DOD-related research in the Division of Sleep Medicine of the Harvard Medical School. This site is part of an AFOSR-funded PRET Center that studies human alertness and performance and develops countermeasures to prevent attentional failures due to sleep deprivation and circadian misalignment (e.g., jet lag). The DURIP equipment requested would substantially enhance the ... |
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| Iraq: Reconstruction Assistance |
22 MAY 2008 |
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| Authors:
Curt Tarnoff; LIBRARY OF CONGRESS WASHINGTON DC CONGRESSIONAL RESEARCH SERVICE
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| A large-scale assistance program has been undertaken by the United States in Iraq since mid-2003. To date, nearly $45 billion has been appropriated for Iraq reconstruction. On December 26, 2007, H.R. 2764, the FY2008 Consolidated Appropriations Act, was signed into law (P.L. 110-161). Although it specifically rejects most regular or supplemental economic assistance to Iraq under the State/Foreign Operations appropriations, it provides about $2.1 billion in reconstruction assistance, mostly for ... |
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| Defense Infrastructure: Planning Efforts for the Proposed Military Buildup on Guam Are in Their Initial Stages, with Many Challenges Yet to Be Addressed |
01 MAY 2008 |
30 pages |
| Authors:
Brian J. Lepore; GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY OFFICE WASHINGTON DC
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| To reduce the burden of the U.S. military presence on Japanese communities while maintaining a continuing presence of U.S. forces in the region, in 2005 and 2006 the U.S.-Japan Defense Policy Review Initiative outlined the effort to relocate American military units in Japan to other areas, including Guam. The Department of Defense (DOD) plans to move 8,000 Marines and an estimated 9,000 dependents from Okinawa, Japan, to Guam by the ... |
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| The Installation Funding Dilemma |
04-Apr-2008 |
42 pages |
| Authors:
Joseph P Moore; ARMY WAR COLL CARLISLE BARRACKS PA
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| Five years after the U.S. Army created the Installation Management Agency in 2003 inadequate funding continues to constrain improvement in Army infrastructure and installation services. Unfortunately, the resulting pressures imposed on the Army's operations and maintenance and military construction (MILCON) accounts have inflicted a detrimental effect upon installation support. However, this is not only a recent phenomenon nor is it likely to change soon. The recurrent necessity to finance competing ... |
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| Critical Infrastructures: Background, Policy, and Implementation |
02-Apr-2008 |
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| Authors:
John D Moteff; LIBRARY OF CONGRESS WASHINGTON DC CONGRESSIONAL RESEARCH SERVICE
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| The nation's health, wealth, and security rely on the production and distribution of certain goods and services. The array of physical assets, functions, and systems across which these goods and services move are called critical infrastructures (e.g., electricity, the power plants that generate it, and the electric grid upon which it is distributed). The national security community has been concerned for sometime about the vulnerability of critical infrastructure to both ... |
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| Dependable Emergency-Response Networking Based on Retaskable Network Infrastructures |
APR 2008 |
88 pages |
| Authors:
Michael D. Lemay; ILLINOIS UNIV AT URBANA DEPT OF COMPUTER SCIENCE
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| Data networking can aid disaster recovery efforts by allowing victims to contact rescuers, rescuers to communicate among themselves, and concerned friends and relatives to contact victims. Unfortunately, conventional data networks themselves are often destroyed by disasters, currently rendering these services unavailable. My thesis is that heterogeneous robust subnetworks that manage to survive a disaster can be enhanced and dynamically retasked to form an Emergency-Response Network (ERN) using techniques from mobile ... |
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| National Infrastructure Advisory Council: Chemical, Biological, and Radiological Events and the Critical Infrastructure Workforce. Final Report and Recommendations |
08-Jan-2008 |
89 pages |
| Authors:
Rebecca F Denlinger; Martha H Marsh; Bruce A Rhode; Gilbert G Gallegos; James B Nicholson; Erle A Nye; John W Thompson; NATIONAL INFRASTRUCTURE ADVISORY COUNCIL WASHINGTON DC
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| The National Infrastructure Advisory Council (NIAC) convened a Working Group to study the impact of chemical, biological, and radiological (CBR) events on the critical infrastructure worker, and to make recommendations. NIAC designed this report to identify attributes of different chemical, biological, or radiological event scenarios, identify key elements necessary to sustain critical infrastructure operations, and to make recommendations that will improve our ability to contain the impact, recover from its ... |
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| Air Force Civil Engineer, Volume 16, Number 3, 2008 |
Jan-2008 |
45 pages |
| Authors:
AIR FORCE CIVIL ENGINEER SUPPORT AGENCY TYNDALL AFB FL
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| Special Section: Infrastructure Energy: The Air Force is planning ahead to ensure that installations have the energy they will need. The Journey of a Thousand Miles Begins with One Step - The Village of Hope (Karayat Al-Aman) Program: Education is a powerful weapon against terrorism. Promoting Stability in Iraq: PRDCs help create both economic and political stability. Setting Up Housekeeping in Transylvania: Not all deployments are hot & dry. Improving ... |
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| ERDC MSRC (Major Shared Resource Center) Resource. High Performance Computing for the Warfighter. Fall 2008 |
Jan-2008 |
45 pages |
| Authors:
ENGINEER RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT CENTER VICKSBURG MS MAJOR SHARED RESOURCE CENTER
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| CONTENTS: Computational and Experimental Studies of Cratering on Earthen Dams By Byron J. Armstrong, Dr. Stephen A. Akers, Dr. Gordon W. McMahon, and Denis D. Rickman; Using HPC to Accelerate the Insertion of New Materials into DoD Systems By Dr. Charles Cornwell; Wave Information Studies (WIS) Pacific Region Hindcast By Barbara Tracy and Deanna Spindler; Higher Order Frequency and Time-Domain Seismic/Acoustic Modeling for UGS Applications By Saikat Dey, Charbel Farhat, ... |
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| Method or Madness: Federal Oversight Structures for Critical Infrastructure Protection |
DEC 2007 |
75 pages |
| Authors:
Charles P. Young; NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL MONTEREY CA
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| Telecommunications is one of our most critical national infrastructures, enabling many other infrastructure sectors to function. The federal oversight for this sector, put in place by the Department of Homeland Security, relies heavily on voluntary cooperation between the public and private sectors. Given that no large-scale disruption of the nationwide telecommunications backbone has occurred, there is no empirical evidence showing the effectiveness of the structure DHS has put in place. ... |
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| A Toolkit for Building Hybrid, Multi-Resolution PMESII Models |
NOV 2007 |
66 pages |
| Authors:
John A. Bachman; Karen A. Harper; CHARLES RIVER ANALYTICS INC CAMBRIDGE MA
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| A software toolkit for constructing, integrating, debugging, validating and verifying, and maintaining heterogeneous Political, Military, Economic, Social Information, and Infrastructure (PMESII) models in support of a Commander's Predictive Environment (CPE) was developed. This development environment is based upon Charles River Analytic's Graphical Agent Development Environment (GRADE), and provides intuitive graphical tools supporting the development of new models and adaptation of existing PMESII models. The component-based software architecture enables the injection ... |
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| Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction. Quarterly Report to the United States Congress |
30 OCT 2007 |
244 pages |
| Authors:
Jr Bowen Stuart W.; OFFICE OF INSPECTOR GENERAL ARLINGTON VA SPECIAL INSPECTOR GENERAL FOR IRAQ RECONSTRUCTION
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| I am pleased to submit to the Congress, Secretary Rice, Secretary Gates, and the American people the 15th Quarterly Report from the Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction (SIGIR). During this quarter, I visited Iraq for the 17th time since 2004 to continue SIGIR's robust and rigorous oversight of the U.S. relief and reconstruction program in Iraq. Two notable developments frame this Report. First, total relief and reconstruction investment for ... |
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| Defense Infrastructure: Overseas Master Plans Are Improving, But DOD Needs to Provide Congress Additional Information about the Military Buildup on Guam |
SEP 2007 |
52 pages |
| Authors:
Brian J. Lepore; Mark Little; Nelsie Alcoser; Kate Lenane; Erika Prochaska; Roger Tomlinson; Cheryl Weissman; GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY OFFICE WASHINGTON DC
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| Over the next several years, implementation of the Department of Defense's (DoD) Integrated Global Presence and Basing Strategy will result in the realignment of U.S. forces and the construction of new facilities costing billions of dollars at installations overseas. The Senate and House reports accompanying the fiscal year 2004 military construction appropriation bill directed GAO to monitor DoD's overseas master plans and to provide congressional defense committees with assessments each ... |
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| Defense Infrastructure: Challenges Increase Risks for Providing Timely Infrastructure Support for Army Installations Expecting Substantial Personnel Growth |
SEP 2007 |
48 pages |
| Authors:
Brian J. Lepore; Barry W. Holman; James R. Reifsnyder; Nelsie S. Alcocer; Grace A. Coleman; Nancy T. Lively; Richard W. Meeks; David F. Nielson; Roger L. Tomlinson; GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY OFFICE WASHINGTON DC
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| The Army expects significant personnel growth, more than 50 percent in some cases, at 18 domestic bases through 2011 because of the effect of implementing base realignment and closure (BRAC), overseas force rebasing, and force modularity actions. This growth creates the need for additional support infrastructure at these bases and in nearby communities. Military construction costs of over $17 billion are expected for new personnel, and communities will incur infrastructure ... |
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| Tri-Level Optimization Models to Defend Critical Infrastructure |
SEP 2007 |
103 pages |
| Authors:
Pablo A. San Martin; NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL MONTEREY CA
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| This thesis develops and solves a tri-level optimization model to plan the optimal defense of an infrastructure from intelligent attack. We assume that a defender will first use limited defensive resources to protect system s components; then, an intelligent adversary ( attacker ) will use limited offensive resources to attack unprotected components in order to inflict maximum damage to the system. The defender guides system operation with an optimization model, ... |
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| Defense Infrastructure: Management Actions Needed to Ensure Effectiveness of DOD's Risk Management Approach for the Defense Industrial Base |
AUG 2007 |
43 pages |
| Authors:
Davi M. D'Agostino; GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY OFFICE WASHINGTON DC
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| The U.S. military relies on the defense industrial base (DIB) to meet requirements to fulfill the National Military Strategy. The potential destruction, incapacitation, or exploitation of critical DIB assets by attack, crime, technological failure, natural disaster, or man-made catastrophe could jeopardize the success of U.S. military operations. GAO was asked to review the Department of Defense's (DOD) Defense Critical Infrastructure Program and has already reported that DOD has not developed ... |
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| Critical Infrastructure: The National Asset Database |
16 JUL 2007 |
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| Authors:
John Moteff; LIBRARY OF CONGRESS WASHINGTON DC CONGRESSIONAL RESEARCH SERVICE
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| The Office of Infrastructure Protection (OIP) in the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has been developing and maintaining a National Asset Database. The Database contains information on over 77,000 individual assets, ranging from dams, hazardous materials sites, and nuclear power plants to local festivals, petting zoos, and sporting good stores. The presence of a large number of entries of the latter type (i.e. assets generally perceived as having more local ... |
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| Providing the Tools for Information Sharing: Net-Centric Enterprise Services |
01-Jul-2007 |
3 pages |
| Authors:
Ann H Kim; Carol Macha; ASSISTANT SECRETARY OF DEFENSE (NETWORKS AND INFORMATION INTEGRATION) ARLINGTON VA
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| The Department of Defense (DoD) is establishing a net-centric environment that increasingly leverages shared services and Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) that, among other things, is supported by the required use of a common and shared infrastructure. A common infrastructure enables force capabilities to be readily networked in support of joint warfighting and operations. The Net-Centric Enterprise Services (NCES) program is a transformational program that delivers a set of shared services as ... |
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| Defense Contract Management: DOD's Lack of Adherence to Key Contracting Principles on Iraq Oil Contract Put Government Interests at Risk |
JUL 2007 |
42 pages |
| Authors:
John P. Hutton; Marie Ahearn; Penny B. Augustine; Greg Campbell; Jr. James Arthur; Eric Lesonsky; Stephen Lord; Anne McDonough-Hughes; Janet McKelvey; Kenneth Patton; GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY OFFICE WASHINGTON DC
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| The Department of Defense's (DoD) U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (Corps) awarded the $2.5 billion Restore Iraqi Oil (RIO I) contract to Kellogg Brown & Root in March 2003 in an effort to reestablish Iraq's oil infrastructure. The contract was also used to ensure adequate fuel supplies inside Iraq. RIO I was a cost-plus-award-fee type contract that provided for payment of the contractor's costs, a fixed fee determined at inception ... |
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| The Use of Land Power to Counter the Iranian Nuclear Proliferation Challenge |
15 JUN 2007 |
121 pages |
| Authors:
Bruce W. Terry; ARMY COMMAND AND GENERAL STAFF COLL FORT LEAVENWORTH KS
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| Since the 9/11 attacks the United States has declared a policy to stop emerging threats before they become dangerous. President Bush has declared that Iran will not be allowed to develop nuclear weapons, and to prevent Iran from doing so, a number of strategies have been suggested. These strategies include making a diplomatic "Grand Bargain," building a system of containment and deterrence, and using military power to destroy Iran's nuclear ... |
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| Concept of Operations for the Next Generation Air Transportation System, Version 2.0 |
13-Jun-2007 |
220 pages |
| Authors:
JOINT PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT OFFICE WASHINGTON DC
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| The Joint Planning and Development Office (JPDO) is developing a Concept of Operations (ConOps) for the Next Generation Air Transportation System (NextGen). The final version of the ConOps will provide an overall, integrated view of NextGen operations in the 2025 timeframe, including key transformations from today's operations. The development of the ConOps is an iterative and evolutionary process that will encompass the input and feedback of the aviation community. This ... |
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| Multistage Security Mechanism For Hybrid, Large-Scale Wireless Sensor Networks |
JUN 2007 |
80 pages |
| Authors:
Grigorios Katsis; NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL MONTEREY CA
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| A wide area network consisting of ballistic missile defense satellites and terrestrial nodes can be viewed as a hybrid, large-scale mobile wireless sensor network. Building on research in the areas of the wireless sensor networks (WSN) and the mobile ad hoc networks (MANET), this thesis proposes an efficient multistage security mechanism for node and data authentication and data confidentiality. Node authentication is provided by digital signatures and the public key ... |
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