| Case Studies Working Group Report Volume 2 |
Mar 2012 |
1027 pages |
| Authors:
Richard Weitz; ARMY WAR COLL STRATEGIC STUDIES INST CARLISLE BARRACKS PA
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 | a nonpartisan, nonprofit, public interest organization working to revitalize the American government by transforming the national security system. Since the current national security system was developed in 1947, the world has changed. PNSR s sole focus is to help government transition its national security system to this new world. We need an institution that looks at opportunities as much as threats, plays to America s strengths, preserves its national values, ... |
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| Smallpox as a Bioweapon: Should We Be Concerned? |
Mar 2012 |
145 pages |
| Authors:
Gail C Musson; NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL MONTEREY CA
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| There is debate in the weapons of mass destruction and bioterrorism literature over whether the threat from smallpox is exaggerated or realistic; however, there has been insufficient evaluation of the factors that indicate whether the threat is valid or overblown. Insufficient weight has been given to whether there are groups or individuals who are capable or have demonstrated the intent to use smallpox as a weapon, which should be key ... |
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| Creation of a Homeland Security Jail Information Model |
Mar 2012 |
97 pages |
| Authors:
Jennifer L Barsh; NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL MONTEREY CA DEPT OF NATIONAL SECURITY AFFAIRS
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| September 11, 2001, is a date that resonates in each American; not only lives but policies and security practices changed that day. The intelligence community expanded its scope to include first responders, private citizens, and private companies. However, the U.S. jail system remains almost entirely overlooked by the homeland security intelligence community. The jail system provides a unique opportunity to gather real-time actionable intelligence without the need for a warrant. ... |
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| What's My Lane? Identifying the State Government Role in Critical Infrastructure Protection |
Mar 2012 |
153 pages |
| Authors:
Timothy S Donnelly; NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL MONTEREY CA DEPT OF NATIONAL SECURITY AFFAIRS
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| What constitutes an effective Critical Infrastructure and Key Resources (CIKR) protection program for Massachusetts? Chapters I and II provide scope and context for the topic by reviewing historical events and government strategies regarding critical infrastructure protection. Chapter III reviews the roles of the Department of Homeland Security and the Department of Defense in infrastructure protection, the two most influential agencies tasked to support the federal infrastructure protection initiative. Chapter IV ... |
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| History as the Architect of the Present: What Made Kashmir the Nucleus of South Asia Terrorism? India-Pakistan Conflict and Its Impact on U.S. Homeland Security |
Mar 2012 |
147 pages |
| Authors:
Sunil Dutta; NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL MONTEREY CA DEPT OF NATIONAL SECURITY AFFAIRS
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| The critical question of why the Pakistani military has been assisting and harboring the Taliban and the terrorists who plot attacks against the U.S. Army in Afghanistan and targets within the United States can be explained by the historical events that resulted in the partitioning of British India and territorial conflicts between India and Pakistan. To make better decisions in Afghanistan, it is imperative to analyze the historical roots of ... |
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| Force Protection for Fire Fighters: Warm Zone Operations at Paramilitary Style Active Shooter Incidents in a Multi-Hazard Environment as a Fire Service Core Competency |
Mar 2012 |
113 pages |
| Authors:
Paul A Atwater; NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL MONTEREY CA DEPT OF NATIONAL SECURITY AFFAIRS
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| Paramilitary-style active shooter attacks in a multi-hazard environment are an emerging threat against the U.S. homeland. Lessons learned from previous paramilitary-style attacks demonstrate the breaking points of the fire service policy of standing by until law enforcement declares that the scene is secure. When followed, the standby policy prevents fire fighters from taking calculated risks to accomplish the fire service mission of saving lives and protecting property. It is likely ... |
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| Identity Verification Systems as a Critical Infrastructure |
Mar 2012 |
87 pages |
| Authors:
Robert D Clarkson; NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL MONTEREY CA DEPT OF NATIONAL SECURITY AFFAIRS
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| Identity management systems are essential to U.S. homeland and economic security. Systemic fragility has been exploited to facilitate terrorist travel and criminal evasion. The widespread dissemination and use of fraudulent identity documents exponentially complicates efforts to target terrorists and other persons who pose a threat to homeland security. Underage drinkers and illegal immigrants are common supporters and users of the fraudulent document industry. No single source can determine the net ... |
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| The Challenge of Small Satellite Systems to the Space Security Environment |
Mar 2012 |
129 pages |
| Authors:
Daniel A Gallton; NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL MONTEREY CA DEPT OF NATIONAL SECURITY AFFAIRS
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| During the last two decades, technological advancements in the size and performance of electronics have fostered the development of increasingly sophisticated and smaller satellites. Small satellites, or smallsats as they are commonly referred to, have recorded data on terrestrial and space environments, served as important test beds and risk reducers for emerging space technologies, and provided important hands-on educational opportunities for industry and academia. The decreased cost and improved performance ... |
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| Japan's Self Defense Forces After the Great East Japan Earthquake: Toward a New Status Quo |
Mar 2012 |
201 pages |
| Authors:
Kyle W Hiscock; NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL MONTEREY CA DEPT OF NATIONAL SECURITY AFFAIRS
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| The Great East Japan Earthquake's unique scope, and the actors involved in the ensuing disaster, has the potential to significantly affect four areas influencing Japan's Self Defense Force's (SDF) trajectory: security interests, economic interests, norms, and actors and institutions. Retrenchment, status quo, and remilitarization are all plausible outcomes for the SDF's trajectory. Understanding what the disaster changed in these four areas is critical to determining the most probable SDF trajectory. ... |
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| Leveraging Army Unique Mission Requirements to Advance the State-of-the-Art in Adhesives Development |
Mar 2012 |
10 pages |
| Authors:
Robert Jensen; Wendy K Chaney; Daniel DeSchepper; David Flanagan; ARMY RESEARCH LAB ABERDEEN PROVING GROUND MD WEAPONS AND MATERIALS RESEARCH DIRECTORATE
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| The selection and substitution of materials is the keystone of successful engineering. Ground vehicle armor represents a complex and broad spectrum of possible designs that are continually evolving to meet the protection needs imposed by everemerging threats. Adhesive selection plays a critical role in lightweight armor design. Hence, it is vital to capture, consolidate, and organize adhesive data in a meaningful way for both engineering design and material advancement. Many ... |
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| The Need for the Next Special Operations Forces' Mobility Aircraft |
Mar 2012 |
37 pages |
| Authors:
Joseph K Michalek; HARVARD UNIV CAMBRIDGE MA
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| The proliferation of threat systems and Anti-Access, Area Denial (A2/AD) strategies make performing special operations forces (SOF) air mobility missions increasingly complicated and limit the capability to defeat air defenses and penetrate into denied airspace. Combined with an aging inventory, ill suited to evading these threats, Air Force Special Operations Command (AFSOC) and the United States Special Operations Command (USSOCOM) must look to technology to defeat the more modern threat ... |
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| Uncertain Political and Security Situation Challenges U.S. Efforts to Implement a Comprehensive Strategy in Yemen |
29 Feb 2012 |
28 pages |
| Authors:
Charles M ; Jason Bair; Judith Williams; Brian Tremblay; Bruce Kutnick; Martin De Alteriis; Debbie Chung; Marie Mak; Mary Moutsos; Pierre Toureille (320859); GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY OFFICE WASHINGTON DC
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| Yemen is an important U.S. partner in the fight against terrorism and violent extremism. According to U.S. officials, al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) which is based in Yemen is one of the top national security threats facing the United States. AQAP has shown the intent and capability to carry out attacks against U.S. targets both in Yemen and in the United States, including the September 2008 bombing of ... |
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| Bosnia: Current Issues and U.S. Policy |
29 Feb 2012 |
18 pages |
| Authors:
Steven Woehrel; LIBRARY OF CONGRESS WASHINGTON DC CONGRESSIONAL RESEARCH SERVICE
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| In recent years, many analysts have expressed concern that the international community's efforts over the past 15 years to stabilize Bosnia are failing. Milorad Dodik, president of the Republika Srpska (RS), one of the two semi-autonomous entities within Bosnia, has obstructed efforts to make Bosnia's central government more effective. He has repeatedly asserted the RS's right to secede from Bosnia, although he has so far refrained from trying to make ... |
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| The Implications of Unstable Yemen on Saudi Arabia |
28 Feb 2012 |
32 pages |
| Authors:
Hassan Abosaq; ARMY WAR COLL STRATEGIC STUDIES INST CARLISLE BARRACKS PA
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| This project will identify the most significant ways in which Saudi Arabia might be influenced by the current instability of Yemen. Factors to be examined include Yemen's potential impact on Saudi Arabian society, economy, and security. The project will include historical background information on Saudi Arabia, Yemen, and the evolving nature of their relationship. Once the most relevant factors for future interaction have been identified, they will be explored thoroughly. ... |
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| Leveraging the Security -- Development Nexus in East Africa |
28 Feb 2012 |
34 pages |
| Authors:
Eric Flowers; ARMY WAR COLL STRATEGIC STUDIES INST CARLISLE BARRACKS PA
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| During the past 15, the concept of a security-development nexus has gained a lot of attention from theorists and practitioners. Despite a plethora of scholarly work on the subject, American foreign aid does not reflect a purposeful intent to ensure that the nexus is maximized to its full potential. Whether it is because those in the field do not accept the nexus' existence or they are unable to consistently define ... |
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| U.S.-Russian Arms Control: A New Paradigm |
24 Feb 2012 |
34 pages |
| Authors:
Andrew M Berrier; ARMY WAR COLL STRATEGIC STUDIES INST CARLISLE BARRACKS PA
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| The United States and Russia concluded the New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (NST) in April 2010. The Obama Administration sees the treaty as a key step in its campaign to reduce the proliferation of nuclear weapons and material worldwide, and the administration clearly wants another arms control agreement with Russia to lend more support to that effort. However, the conclusion of another bilateral agreement could prove problematic. The United States ... |
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| The Bush Doctrine -- Roadmap or Relic? |
08 Feb 2012 |
34 pages |
| Authors:
Jonas C Jones; ARMY WAR COLL CARLISLE BARRACKS PA
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| The United States has lacked a definitive grand strategy since the end of the Cold War. In the wake of 9/11, the Bush Doctrine consisted of four fundamental tenets: do not discriminate between terrorists and nations that support them, engage emerging threats overseas, confront threats before they fully materialize, and advance liberty and hope as alternatives to repression and fear. Current U.S. foreign policy is consumed with crisis management rather ... |
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| Cyber Sentries: Preparing Defenders to Win in a Contested Domain |
07 Feb 2012 |
38 pages |
| Authors:
Jr Reid Desmond A; AIR WAR COLL MAXWELL AFB AL
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| The Defense Department must ensure the long-term utility and security of DOD networks in the face of increasingly sophisticated state and non-state cyber threats. Developing an exceptional cyber workforce through improved training and certification programs would represent a significant step in reaching DOD security goals. This paper examines the current impediments to effective cybersecurity workforce preparation and offers new concepts to create Cyber Sentries through realistic training, network authorities tied ... |
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| NATO's Future and Relevance |
03 Feb 2012 |
34 pages |
| Authors:
Blanche E Ostrosky; ARMY WAR COLL CARLISLE BARRACKS PA CENTER FOR STRATEGIC LEADERSHIP
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| The world's most powerful alliance is constantly demonstrating resilience. The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) will continue to ensure allied partners common defense and security regardless of emerging threats, challenges, and declining resources. The transformation of NATO is not an event -- it is a process that must continue over time. From its creation in 1949 until the end of 1991, the NATO mission was to deter the Soviets and, ... |
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| Confronting the Real Missile Threat: Iran or North Korea |
01 Feb 2012 |
44 pages |
| Authors:
Jonathan M Cohen; ARMY WAR COLL CARLISLE BARRACKS PA
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| Despite the official end of combat operations in Iraq and the approaching end of operations in Afghanistan, U.S. Air Defense Artillery (ADA) units remain deployed throughout countries in the Middle East. These ADA units remain on alert in Qatar, Bahrain, and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) in response to Iran's provocative rhetoric and ballistic missile threats. Similarly, the Democratic Peoples' Republic of Korea (DPRK) also has engaged in provocative rhetoric ... |
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| US Cyber Challenge Research |
Feb 2012 |
115 pages |
| Authors:
Karen Evans; CENTER FOR INTERNET SECURITY INC HERSHEY PA
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| The goal of this research project is to develop, test, analyze and assess cybersecurity tactical and strategic gaming competitions to determine the ability to defend the nation's critical infrastructure; ability to mitigate damage; and success in implementing defensive tactics to prevent future attacks. This project will develop, test, evaluate and assess alternative methods for identifying computer security talent that will be able to identify threats and improve our country s ... |
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| End-to-End Service Oriented Architectures (SOA) Security Project |
Feb 2012 |
50 pages |
| Authors:
Bharat Bhargava; Mehdi Azarmi; Pelin Angin; PURDUE UNIV LAFAYETTE IN
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| Service oriented architectures (SOA) present security challenges not present in the single-hop client-server architectures due to the involvement in multiple parties (transparent to the client) in a service request. Considering the additional security threats on SOAs, the interactions of independent trust domains require the establishment of trust across all involved partners as a prerequisite to ensure secure interactions. This project provides a solution for integration of scalable security solutions into ... |
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| Categorical Confusion? The Strategic Implications of Recognizing Challenges Either as Irregular or Traditional |
Feb 2012 |
75 pages |
| Authors:
Colin S Gray; ARMY WAR COLL STRATEGIC STUDIES INST CARLISLE BARRACKS PA
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| Strategic theory is necessary and should be useful, which is just as well because it is also unavoidable. Practical problem-solving soldiers do theory when they design plans that explain how particular means and ways should achieve the desired and intended results. But, like medicine, theory is not always beneficial. The long familiar division of American security challenges and threats into two categories, irregular or traditional (regular), is seriously misleading empirically. ... |
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| Ten Years Later: Insights on al-Qaeda's Past & Future through Captured Records: A Conference Report |
27 Jan 2012 |
10 pages |
| Authors:
Joseph J Simons; NATIONAL DEFENSE UNIV FORT MCNAIR DC INST FOR NATIONAL STRATEGIC STUDIES
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| On 13-14 September 2011, the Conflict Records Research Center (CRRC) at the Institute for National Strategic Studies, National Defense University, and the Johns Hopkins University Center for Advanced Governmental Studies hosted a conference to commemorate the 10th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks. Entitled Ten Years Later: Insights on al-Qaeda's Past & Future through Captured Records, the conference explored what scholars and policymakers knew about al-Qaeda and Associated Movements (AQAM) before ... |
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| Threats without Threateners? Exploring Intersections of Threats to the Global Commons and National Security |
Jan 2012 |
74 pages |
| Authors:
Gregory F Treverton; Erik Nemeth; Sinduja Srinivasan; RAND CORP ARLINGTON VA NATIONAL SECURITY RESEARCH DIV
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| Could three global issues -- climate change, water scarcity, and pandemics -- be posed as national security challenges with interconnected threats to the global commons? And, if so, could this perspective help trigger new approaches for addressing them? For the United States, impacts on national security are important but mostly indirect, resulting from the ripple effects of direct impacts on other countries and regions, especially poor ones. This paper explores ... |
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| Resource Public Key Infrastructure Extension |
Jan 2012 |
48 pages |
| Authors:
Karen Seo; RAYTHEON BBN TECHNOLOGIES CAMBRIDGE MA
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| The DHS SPRI Program (Secure Protocols for the Routing Infrastructure) is aimed at improving the security of the Internet s routing infrastructure. It currently involves the design and deployment of the Resource Public Key Infrastructure (RPKI) and the development of a security solution for Border Gateway Protocol (BGP). Under this and previous contracts, BBN has been participating in this effort in two areas. First, BBN has been developing production quality ... |
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| Counter-Improvised Explosive Device Strategic Plan, 2012-2016 |
Jan 2012 |
25 pages |
| Authors:
JOINT IMPROVISED EXPLOSIVE DEVICE DEFEAT ORGANIZATION (JIEDDO) WASHINGTON DC
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| Reduce the effectiveness and lethality of IEDs to allow freedom of maneuver for joint forces, federal agencies, and partner nations in current and future operating environments We will use a synchronized and integrated approach to coordinate the Department of Defense s counter-IED efforts and rapidly provide capabilities to counter the IED threat in support of operational commanders. Critical to these efforts are forces trained in the latest C-IED techniques and ... |
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| CTC Sentinel. Volume 5, Issue 1, January 2012 |
Jan 2012 |
29 pages |
| Authors:
MILITARY ACADEMY WEST POINT NY COMBATING TERRORISM CENTER
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| The Combating Terrorism Center is an independent educational and research institution based in the Department of Social Sciences at the United States Military Academy, West Point. The CTC Sentinel harnesses the Center's global network of scholars and practitioners to understand and confront contemporary threats posed by terrorism and other forms of political violence. FEATURE ARTICLE: The U.S.-Pakistan Relationship in the Year Ahead By Ahmed Rashid. Other reports include: Profiles of ... |
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| Counter-Improvised Explosive Device Strategic Plan 2012-2016 |
Jan 2012 |
25 pages |
| Authors:
Michael D Barbero; JOINT IMPROVISED EXPLOSIVE DEVICE DEFEAT ORGANIZATION (JIEDDO) WASHINGTON DC
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| As we continue to address the improvised explosive device threats of today, we must simultaneously prepare for tomorrow's counter-IED and counter-threat network effort by institutionalizing the knowledge, capabilities, and experience we have amassed during the last decade. Building upon hard-earned lessons learned, this Counter-IED Strategic Plan extends the focus beyond current operations and establishes an azimuth for the development of future and enduring counter-IED capabilities. The mission to disrupt the ... |
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| Hull, Mechanical, & Electrical (HM&E) Roadmap: Revolutionizing Naval Warfare And Achieving Energy Security |
Jan 2012 |
19 pages |
| Authors:
Thomas W Martin; Jeffrey M Voth; Weston L Gray; NAVAL SEA SYSTEMS COMMAND WASHINGTON DC
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| The objective of the hull, mechanical and electrical roadmap is to develop a technology plan that is responsive to future threats & weapons capabilities, shipbuilding plans & schedules, current fleet opportunities, and budgetary realities. |
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| Lightening Body Armor: Arroyo Support to the Army Response to Section 125 of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2011 |
Jan 2012 |
67 pages |
| Authors:
Kenneth Horn; Kimberlie Biever; Kenneth Burkman; Paul DeLuca; Lewis Jamison; Michael Kolb; Aatif Sheikh; RAND ARROYO CENTER SANTA MONICA CA
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| The body armor that U.S. forces wear in Afghanistan is effective against ballistic threats: There have not been any known penetrations of the body armor or fatalities when the currently issued body armor was struck by projectiles it was designed to stop. However, the combat loads that dismounted soldiers and marines carry on patrol are very heavy, and a large portion of this load is due to body armor. Congress ... |
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| Laser Weapon System (LAWS) Adjunct to the Close-In Weapon System (CIWS) |
Jan 2012 |
9 pages |
| Authors:
Robin Staton; Robert Pawlak; NAVAL SURFACE WARFARE CENTER DAHLGREN DIV VA
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| The Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA) established the Navy Directed Energy Weapons Program Office in January 2002 and subsequently chartered the Directed Energy and Electric Weapon Systems Program Office (PMS 405) in July 2004. Its mission is to change the way the Navy fights in the 21st century by transitioning directed energy and electric weapon technology, providing the warfighter with additional tools to fight today's and tomorrow's wars. In support ... |
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| The Basics of Electric Weapons and Pulsed-Power Technologies |
Jan 2012 |
9 pages |
| Authors:
Stuart Moran; NAVAL SURFACE WARFARE CENTER DAHLGREN DIV VA
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| Most conventional weapons rely on chemical energy (explosives) as their destruction mechanism, either to explode on target, like bombs, or to create kinetic energy, like a bullet. Electric weapons are different. Electric weapons use stored electrical energy, rather than explosives, to attack or destroy the target. Electric weapons generally fall into two categories: directed-energy weapons (DEWs) and electromagnetic (EM) launchers. DEWs send energy, instead of matter, toward a target, and ... |
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| Laser Counter Rocket, Artillery, and Mortar (C-RAM) Efforts |
Jan 2012 |
5 pages |
| Authors:
Michael Libeau; NAVAL SURFACE WARFARE CENTER DAHLGREN DIV VA
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| Mortars and rockets are common weapons confronting U.S. troops abroad. Insurgents fire the inexpensive projectiles into populated areas, intending to kill or injure service members and to inflict physical damage. While kinetic solutions like guns and missile interceptors are used to counter rockets and mortars, laser counter rocket, artillery, and mortar (C-RAM) systems present a promising solution to counter these challenging threats in the near future. Scientists and engineers at ... |
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| Nonlethal Small-Vessel Stopping with High-Power Microwave Technology |
Jan 2012 |
5 pages |
| Authors:
Jacob Walker; NAVAL SURFACE WARFARE CENTER DAHLGREN DIV VA
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| The employment of small vessels to attack merchant ships and other seafaring units has emerged as a significant threat to international navigation and safe operations on the high seas. Along with swarm tactics, small vessels have been known to carry improvised explosive devices, help smuggle terrorists and weapons, and serve as attack platforms on the water for larger weapons. While kinetic solutions serve as the decisive option, alternative solutions that ... |
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| Maritime Threat Detection Using Probabilistic Graphical Models |
Jan 2012 |
7 pages |
| Authors:
Bryan Auslander; Kalyan M Gupta; David W Aha; NAVAL RESEARCH LAB WASHINGTON DC
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| Maritime threat detection is a challenging problem because maritime environments can involve a complex combination of concurrent vessel activities, and only a small fraction of these may be irregular, suspicious, or threatening. Previous work on this task has been limited to analyses of single vessels using simple rule-based models that alert watchstanders when a proximity threshold is breached. We claim that Probabilistic Graphical Models (PGMs) can be used to more ... |
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| Nonparametric Bayesian Context Learning for Buried Threat Detection |
Jan 2012 |
333 pages |
| Authors:
Christopher R Ratto; DUKE UNIV DURHAM NC DEPT OF ELECTRICAL AND COMPUTER ENGINEERING
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| This dissertation addresses the problem of detecting buried explosive threats (i.e. landmines and improvised explosive devices) with ground-penetrating radar (GPR) and hyperspectral imaging (HSI) across widely-varying environmental conditions. Automated detection of buried objects with GPR and HSI is particularly difficult due to the sensitivity of sensor phenomenology to variations in local environmental conditions. Past approaches have attempted to mitigate the effects of ambient factors by designing statistical detection and classification ... |
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| Forum on Microbial Threats |
Jan 2012 |
8 pages |
| Authors:
Eileen Choffness; NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES WASHINGTON DC
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| The Forum was established to provide a structured opportunity for stakeholder discussion and scrutiny of critical and possibly contentious scientific and policy issues of shared concern related to research on and the prevention, detection, and management of infectious diseases and dangerous pathogens. Because of the unofficial nature of its deliberations coupled with the neutrality of the Institute of Medicine, the Forum remains uniquely positioned to stimulate original thinking about new ... |
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| Guidelines to Design Adaptive Command and Control Structures for Cyberspace Operations |
Jan 2012 |
9 pages |
| Authors:
Jeffrey B Hukill; AIR UNIV MAXWELL AFB AL AIR FORCE RESEARCH INST
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| The effective command and control (C2) of cyberspace operations, as with other forms of military operations, are essential to success in the expected dynamic operating environment of the future.1 Despite the impossibility of foolproof forecasting, there is a general consensus among studies regarding the nature of the future military operating environment. The thought is that the next 25 years will challenge military forces with threats and opportunities across the range ... |
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| Efficient Aviation Security: Strengthening the Analytic Foundation for Making Air Transportation Security Decisions |
Jan 2012 |
184 pages |
| Authors:
Brian A Jackson; Tom Latourrette; Edward W Chan; Russell Lundberg; Andrew R Morral; David R Frelinger; RAND CORP ARLINGTON VA HOMELAND SECURITY AND DEFENSE CENTER
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| In the decade since the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, aviation security has remained a policy area at the forefront of the national policy agenda. Al-Qa ida has maintained its focus on the U.S. aviation system, and a number of attempted attacks on aircraft have been thwarted in the succeeding years. Internationally, there have been successful attacks on aircraft and airports, and continued adaptation and innovation by terrorist groups has ... |
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| Army Guide to Deployment Health: Health Threat Information and Countermeasures |
Jan 2012 |
17 pages |
| Authors:
ARMY PUBLIC HEALTH COMMAND ABERDEEN PROVING GROUND MD
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| Phamplet discusses prepartions for deployment, operational safety, diseases and preventive measures. |
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| Aviation Security: After Four Decades, It's Time for a Fundamental Review |
Jan 2012 |
13 pages |
| Authors:
Brian M Jenkins; RAND CORP ARLINGTON VA HOMELAND SECURITY AND DEFENSE CENTER
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| The recovery earlier this year of a new, improved bomb designed to avoid detection by airport security underscores terrorists continuing determination to bring down commercial airliners. Like the bomb carried by Umar Abdulmutallab in his unsuccessful attempt to sabotage an airliner in 2009, the new device designed by al Qaeda s bomb-maker was intended to be concealed in the saboteur s underwear. The device was obtained by an intelligence operative ... |
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| U.S. Overseas Military Presence: What Are the Strategic Choices? |
Jan 2012 |
71 pages |
| Authors:
Lynn E Davis; Stacie L Pettyjohn; Melanie W Sisson; Stephen M Worman; Michael J McNerney; RAND PROJECT AIR FORCE SANTA MONICA CA
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| The current U.S. overseas military is largely the outcome of responses to threats as they emerged historically and over time, in Western Europe and in East Asia to the Soviet Union; in the Middle East to the ambitions, nuclear and otherwise, of Iraq and Iran; and around the world to the hostile activities of al-Qaeda and other terrorist organizations. 1 Today, however, the Soviet Union has transitioned from a peer ... |
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| Vector Surveillance to Determine Species Composition and Occurrence of Trypanosoma cruzi Infection at Three Military Installations in San Antonio, Texas |
Jan 2012 |
11 pages |
| Authors:
Lee McPhatter; Walter Roachell; Farida Mahmood; Lauren Hoffman; Neal Lockwood; Angel Osuna; Jorge Lopez; Mustapha Debboun; ARMY MEDICAL DEPT CENTER AND SCHOOL FORT SAM HOUSTON TX
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| Chagas disease, also known as American trypanosomiasis, is caused by the hemoflagellate protozoan Trypanosoma cruzi which is transmitted by blood-sucking triatomine bugs (Hemiptera: Reduviidae; Triatominae). The disease is endemic to south Texas, but exists almost exclusively as a zoonosis. Chagas disease has proven to be a serious public health threat to military working dogs. In 2007, seroprevalence of Chagas disease in military working dogs in San Antonio, Texas, reached 8%. ... |
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| Enhancing Security by Promoting Responsible Behavior in Space |
Jan 2012 |
10 pages |
| Authors:
Gregory L Schulte; Audrey M Schaffer; OFFICE OF THE UNDER SECRETARY OF DEFENSE (POLICY) WASHINGTON DC
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| The growing use of space presents shared challenges for current, emerging, and future space-faring nations. As stated in the 2010 U.S. National Space Policy, All nations have the right to use and explore space, but with this right also comes responsibility. The policy further calls on all nations to work together to adopt approaches for responsible activity in space to preserve this right for the benefit of future generations. Establishing ... |
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| Highly Reactive, Real-Time Planner for Aggressive 3D Aircraft Maneuvers to Avoid Unguided Threats |
Jan 2012 |
12 pages |
| Authors:
Richard Stottler; Cory Barton; David Breeden; STOTTLER HENKE ASSOCIATES INC SAN MATEO CA
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| This paper presents a technique, Probabilistic Road Map (PRM) planning and its application to aircraft for rapidly generating routes using aggressive maneuvers to avoid incoming munitions, terrain, and other aircraft while trying to maintain other mission objectives. The technique was applied to a high fidelity simulation and shown to always generate correct routes within its 0.1 seconds deadline. Results are presented for several scenarios, some of which are quite complex. ... |
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| A Qualitative Security Analysis of a New Class of 3-D Integrated Crypto Co-processors |
Jan 2012 |
13 pages |
| Authors:
Jonathan Valamehr; Ted Huffmire; Cynthia Irvine; Ryan Kastner; Cetin K Koc; Timothy Levin; Timothy Sherwood; NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL MONTEREY CA
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| 3-D integration presents many new opportunities for architects and embedded systems designers. However 3-D integration has not yet been explored by the cryptographic hardware community. Traditionally, crypto coprocessors have been implemented as a separate die or by utilizing one or more cores in a chip multiprocessor. These methods have their drawbacks and limitations in terms of tamper-resistance, side-channel immunity and performance. In this work we propose a new class of ... |
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| Redefining Information Assurance Compliance |
Jan 2012 |
4 pages |
| Authors:
Christopher Quick; ARMY SIGNAL CENTER OF EXCELLENCE FORT GORDON GA
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| Cyberspace has and will continue changing the way we all conduct our Profession of Arms. This applies to everyone--the Infantryman, the Signaler, the intelligence analyst and the commander in the field. Global connectivity and the speed at which information is transmitted around the earth have fundamentally altered our world, and we cannot go back to how things were. Technology continues evolving to meet today s threats while simultaneously building toward ... |
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| African Peace and Security Architecture: A Strategic Analysis |
16 Dec 2011 |
103 pages |
| Authors:
Luis C Falcao Escorrega; ARMY COMMAND AND GENERAL STAFF COLL FORT LEAVENWORTH KS
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| In recent years, global players such as the United States, the European Union (EU), and the People's Republic of China (PRC) have noted Africa's growing strategic importance to their respective interests. Among those interests are Africa's natural resources, particularly crude oil, agricultural raw materials, and mineral resources. These global players also have growing concerns over peace and security threats in Africa, including conflicts, terrorism, cross-border crimes, cyber threats, and piracy. ... |
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| Human Security in the Asia-Pacific: In Australia's National Interests? |
16 Dec 2011 |
100 pages |
| Authors:
Matthew J Patching; ARMY COMMAND AND GENERAL STAFF COLL FORT LEAVENWORTH KS
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| Threats to security within the Asia-Pacific region continue to evolve. Traditional and nontraditional threats to state sovereignty and individuals exist across the region. The dominant type of security policy within the Asia-Pacific region remains state-centric. This policy approach could generate instability by undervaluing the importance of individual security. The United Nations (UN) advocates human security as a means of providing freedom from want and freedom from fear for individuals. However, ... |
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