| New Zealand Defense into 2035 -- Future 35 Strategy |
14 Dec 2012 |
100 pages |
| Authors:
Terrence McDonald; ARMY COMMAND AND GENERAL STAFF COLL FORT LEAVENWORTH KS
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 | The New Zealand Defence Force (NZDF) is implementing a strategy to ensure its viability into the future, known as Future 35. The strategy focuses on the two overarching themes of organizational reform and capability renewal. The strategy was developed in a fiscally austere environment in which government seeks to gain efficiency and effectiveness from its government departments, including the defense force. This thesis examines these two key themes to determine ... |
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| Research Study of River Information Services on the US Inland Waterway Network |
Dec 2012 |
25 pages |
| Authors:
Juergen Troegl; VIA DONAU VIENNA (AUSTRIA)
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| At the very beginning of the cooperation development of the US e-Navigation (e-Nav) strategy had been started. The US e-Nav strategy defines the approach to introduce intelligent information services in US coastal and inland waters. It identifies stakeholders, relevant agencies and bodies, related technologies proposed services as well as the implementation strategy. The document clearly identifies RIS as the vehicle for implementing e-Nav on inland waterways. As the US inland ... |
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| Genome, Functional Gene Annotation, and Nuclear Transformation of the Heterokont Oleaginous Alga Nannochloropsis oceanica CCMP1779 |
15 Nov 2012 |
27 pages |
| Authors:
Astrid Vieler; Guangxi Wu; Chia-Hong Tsai; Blair Bullard; Adam J Cornish; Christopher Harvey; Ida-Barbara Reca; Chelsea Thornburg; Rujira Achawanantakun; Christopher J Buehl; MICHIGAN STATE UNIV EAST LANSING DEPT OF BIOCHEMISTRY
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| Unicellular marine algae have promise for providing sustainable and scalable biofuel feedstocks, although no single species has emerged as a preferred organism. Moreover, adequate molecular and genetic resources prerequisite for the rational engineering of marine algal feedstocks are lacking for most candidate species. Heterokonts of the genus Nannochloropsis naturally have high cellular oil content and are already in use for industrial production of high-value lipid products. First success in applying ... |
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| Environmental Assessment (EA): Proposed Truck Offload Station, Hill Air Force Base, Utah |
09 Nov 2012 |
52 pages |
| Authors:
Randal Klein; Sam Johnson; 75 CEV/CEG HILL AFB UT
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| Hill Air Force Base (AFB) proposes to provide a new truck offload station to improve both efficiency and safety of fuel deliveries at the Hill AFB fuel tank farm. The findings of this EA indicate that the proposed action would not have significant adverse effects on the human environment or any of the environmental resources as described in the EA. Therefore, it is concluded that a Finding of No Significant ... |
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| China's Africa Policy in Nigeria: Understanding Its Strategy and Effects |
02 Nov 2012 |
26 pages |
| Authors:
III Lewis George E; NAVAL WAR COLLEGE NEWPORT RI JOINT MILITARY OPERATIONS DEPT
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| Nigeria continues to evolve as one of the most important developing countries in Africa. With the largest population of any African nation, broad market potential and vast natural resources, foreign interests are significant and instrumental in shaping the course of Nigeria's fragile development. China is one of the most involved countries in Nigeria and has been for over sixty years. An assessment of China's economic and political history in Nigeria ... |
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| Integrating Archaeological Modeling in DoD Cultural Resource Compliance |
26 Oct 2012 |
409 pages |
| Authors:
Paul R Green; Jeffrey H Altschul; Michael P Heilen; David W Cushman; Jeffrey A Homburg; Michael K Lerch; William E Hayden; Joshua R Trampier; SRI FOUNDATION RIO RANCHO NM
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| The purpose of Environmental Security Technology Certification Program (ESTCP) project RC-200720 was to (1) demonstrate that predictive models of archaeological site location are sufficiently accurate to serve as the foundation for programmatic approaches to compliance with the National Historic Preservation Act (NHPA) and the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) and (2) develop protocols for validating/refining predictive models and integrating them into the compliance process. The project involved two demonstration sites: ... |
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| Can NATO Meet Defense Challenges in an Era of Austerity? |
Oct 2012 |
6 pages |
| Authors:
RAND NATIONAL DEFENSE RESEARCH INST SANTA MONICA CA
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| The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) has strived since 1949 to safeguard the security and freedom of its member countries. However, in the coming decade, NATO will have to operate in an environment of fiscal austerity and declining defense budgets. The onset of the global economic crisis has forced all major force contributors to NATO to trim their defense budgets. These cuts have been driven almost entirely by the need ... |
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| Sanction Effectiveness in Iran: A Network Optimization Approach |
Oct 2012 |
20 pages |
| Authors:
Louis Boguchwal; MILITARY ACADEMY WEST POINT NY NETWORK SCIENCE CENTER (NSC)
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| In this project, we apply network flow algorithms to evaluate the effectiveness of existing or additional sanctions for hindering the progress of Iran s nuclear program. We restrict our attention to sanctions that disrupt flows of pertinent resources to appropriate individuals or organizations. This research uses minimum cut methods to provide the key and minimum number of edges in a resource network to cut, such that the nuclear production process ... |
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| An Evolution in Intelligence Doctrine: The Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance Mission Type Order |
Oct 2012 |
17 pages |
| Authors:
Jaylan M Haley; INFANTRY DIV (MECHANIZED) ( 1ST) FORT RILEY KS
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| Every day, intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) assets complete a variety of missions but not necessarily in an effective way. Over the past several years, the Department of Defense rapidly expanded ISR assets and missions, responding to a directive of 2008 from Secretary of Defense Robert Gates that established the department s ISR Task Force and commissioned it to provide resources needed now on the battlefield as a means of ... |
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| A Bosque Riparian Community Index Model for the Middle Rio Grande, Albuquerque, New Mexico: Model Documentation |
Sep 2012 |
173 pages |
| Authors:
Kelly A Burks-Copes; Antisa C Webb; ENGINEER RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT CENTER VICKSBURG MS ENVIRONMENTAL LAB
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| Over the last century, the Middle Rio Grande was subjected to significant anthropogenic pressures producing a highly degraded ecosystem that today is poised on the brink of collapse. In 2002, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) (Albuquerque District) was authorized to study the river and prepare an Environmental Assessment (EA), as required under the tenets of the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), to evaluate the effects of proposed ecosystem ... |
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| A Persistent Planning Model for Explosive Ordnance Disposal Training and Evaluation Unit Two |
Sep 2012 |
51 pages |
| Authors:
Edward A DeWinter; NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL MONTEREY CA
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| The Explosive Ordnance Disposal Training and Evaluation Unit TWO (EODTEU TWO) trains Explosive Ordnance and Disposal (EOD) and Mobile Diving and Salvage (MDS) companies and platoons prior to worldwide deployments. This thesis describes EODSKED, an optimization model designed to assist EODTEU TWO in scheduling platoons that optimizes the use of limited resources and maximizes training value. EODSKED produces an optimized schedule that respects a large number of manpower and materiel ... |
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| Managing Suspicious Activity Reporting Systems at Small Agency Police Departments |
Sep 2012 |
103 pages |
| Authors:
Bryan A Roberts; NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL MONTEREY CA
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| Law enforcement agencies have managed anonymous tip line programs for decades whereby community members can submit suspected criminal activity to their local law enforcement agency. As a result of the increasing threat of terrorism in the United States, suspicious activity reporting programs (SAR) accompany the traditional anonymous tip line. SARs include the reporting of suspicious behavior related to terrorism, as well as other criminal activity. SAR programs have been adopted ... |
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| Mine Safety Detection System (MSDS) |
Sep 2012 |
89 pages |
| Authors:
B Ballard; T Degnan; M Kipp; J Johnson; D Miller; M Minto; NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL MONTEREY CA
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| The search, detection, identification and assessment components of the U.S. Navy's organic modular in-stride Mine Countermeasure (MCM) Concept of Operations (CONOPS) have been evaluated for their effectiveness as part of a hypothetical exercise in response to the existence of sea mines placed in the sea lanes of the Strait of Hormuz. The current MCM CONOPS has been shown to be capable of supporting the mine search and detection effort component ... |
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| A Methodology to Assess UrbanSim Scenarios |
Sep 2012 |
101 pages |
| Authors:
Brian D Vogt; NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL MONTEREY CA
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| Turn-based strategy games and simulations are vital tools for military education, training, and readiness. In an era of increasingly constrained resources and expanding demand for training solutions, the need for validated, effective solutions will increase. Appropriate performance feedback is an important component of any training solution. Current methods for designing and testing the performance feedback provided in turn-based simulation are limited to well-structured problems and do not adequately address ill-structured ... |
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| Navy Contracting: Analyzing Critical Success Factors and Perceived Impact on Success within an Organization |
Sep 2012 |
77 pages |
| Authors:
Joshua R Hill; Kevin L McGraw; NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL MONTEREY CA GRADUATE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS AND PUBLIC POLICY
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| Critical Success Factors (CSF) are ingredients within an organization that are essential for the organization to meet critical mission objectives. Identifying these factors can be a vital asset and can assist leadership in achieving successful outcomes in contract management. This report will focus on three major contracting commands within the United States Navy -- Naval Supply Systems Command, Global Logistics Support (NAVSUP-GLS), Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA), and Naval Air ... |
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| Department of Defense's Waiver of Competitive Prototyping Requirement for Enhanced Polar System Program |
23 Aug 2012 |
12 pages |
| Authors:
GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY OFFICE WASHINGTON DC
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| The Weapon Systems Acquisition Reform Act of 2009, as amended (WSARA), requires that the acquisition strategy for each major defense acquisition program provides for competitive prototypes before Milestone B approval which authorizes entry into system development unless the Milestone Decision Authority waives the requirement. Competitive prototyping, which involves commercial, government, or academic sources producing early prototypes of weapon systems or critical subsystems, can help Department of Defense (DOD) programs reduce ... |
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| Defense Logistics: DOD Has Taken Actions to Improve Some Segments of the Materiel Distribution System |
03 Aug 2012 |
28 pages |
| Authors:
Cary B ; Thomas Gosling; Susan Ditto; Jim Melton; Geoffrey Peck; Amie Steele; Michael Willems; Richard Winsor; GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY OFFICE WASHINGTON DC
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| The Department of Defense (DOD) operates a complex, multibillion-dollar distribution system for delivering needed supplies and equipment to U.S. forces across the world. DOD's goal in operating its global distribution system is to deliver the right item to the right place at the right time, and also at the right cost. The materiel distribution system covers multiple legs, from the movement of supplies in the continental United States to tactical ... |
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| Iraq and Afghanistan: State and DOD Should Ensure Interagency Acquisitions Are Effectively Managed and Comply with Fiscal Law |
Aug 2012 |
61 pages |
| Authors:
John P Hutton; Johana R Ayers; Jessica Bull; Carole Coffey; Tara Copp; Thomas Costa; David Hancock; Meg Hardy; Kristine Hassinger; Melissa Hermes; GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY OFFICE WASHINGTON DC
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| Why the GAO Did This Study: State has taken on unprecedented responsibilities in Iraq and Afghanistan. In doing so, it has relied heavily on contractors. For some critical goods and services, such as fuel, security, and basic support like dining and laundry services, State turned to DOD to acquire the goods and services on its behalf through interagency acquisitions. Because of the risks associated with assisted interagency acquisitions, agencies need ... |
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| Assessment of Security Within the Department of Defense - Security Policy |
27 Jul 2012 |
18 pages |
| Authors:
OFFICE OF THE INSPECTOR GENERAL (DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE) ALEXANDRIA VA
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| Security spans the entire Department and is necessary for the Department to protect its resources. Department of Defense security disciplines have as one fundamental purpose the protection of DoD critical assets and must be applied in a fully balanced and coordinated way. Actions taken in one area, for example, physical security, have a direct bearing upon actions taken in other areas such as information security. When security policy functions are ... |
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| The East Mediterranean Basin: A New Energy Corridor? |
17 Jul 2012 |
8 pages |
| Authors:
Denise Natali; NATIONAL DEFENSE UNIV FORT MCNAIR DC INST FOR NATIONAL STRATEGIC STUDIES
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| On June 5, 2012, the INSS Center for Strategic Research conducted a conference on east Mediterranean basin energy discoveries and their influence on regional economies, political relations, and U.S. energy policy. Regional energy experts, U.S. government officials, private sector companies, and academics examined the opportunities and constraints in developing offshore energy sources in the Exclusive Economic Zones (EEZ) of Israel and the Republic of Cyprus (RoC), as well as in ... |
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| Multi-Resource Fair Queueing for Packet Processing |
19 Jun 2012 |
35 pages |
| Authors:
Ali Ghodsi; Vyas Sekar; Matei Zaharia; Ion Stoica; CALIFORNIA UNIV BERKELEY DEPT OF ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING AND COMPUTER SCIENCE
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| Middleboxes are ubiquitous in today's networks and perform a variety of important functions, including IDS, VPN, firewalling, and WAN optimization. These functions differ vastly in their requirements for hardware resources (e.g., CPU cycles and memory bandwidth). Thus, depending on the functions they go through different flows can consume different amounts of a middlebox's resources. While there is much literature on weighted fair sharing of link bandwidth to isolate flows it ... |
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| ORA User's Guide 2012 |
11 Jun 2012 |
911 pages |
| Authors:
Kathleen M Carley; Juergen Pfeffer; Jeff Reminga; Jon Storrick; Dave Columbus; CARNEGIE-MELLON UNIV PITTSBURGH PA INST OF SOFTWARE RESEARCH INTERNAT
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| ORA is a network analysis tool that detects risks or vulnerabilities of an organization's design structure. The design structure of an organization is the relationship among its personnel, knowledge, resources, and tasks entities. These entities and relationships are represented by the Meta-Matrix. Measures that take as input a Meta-Matrix are used to analyze the structural properties of an organization for potential risk. ORA contains over 100 measures which are categorized ... |
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| Basic Lessons in ORA and AutoMap 2012 |
11 Jun 2012 |
101 pages |
| Authors:
Kathleen M Carley; Dave Columbus; CARNEGIE-MELLON UNIV PITTSBURGH PA INST OF SOFTWARE RESEARCH INTERNAT
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| ORA is a network analysis tool that detects risks or vulnerabilities of an organization's design structure. The design structure of an organization is the relationship among its personnel, knowledge, resources, and tasks entities. These entities and relationships are represented by the Meta-Matrix. Measures that take as input a Meta-Matrix are used to analyze the structural properties of an organization for potential risk. ORA contains over 100 measures which are categorized ... |
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| Resource Provisioning in Large-Scale Self-Organizing Distributed Systems |
Jun 2012 |
228 pages |
| Authors:
Michael B Reynolds; AIR FORCE INST OF TECH WRIGHT-PATTERSON AFB OH SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING AND MANAGEMENT
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| This dissertation researches the mathematical translation of resource provisioning policy into mathematical terms and parameters to solve the on-line service placement problem. A norm called the Provisioning Norm is introduced. Theorems presented in the work show the Provisioning Norm utility function and greedy, random, local search effectively and efficiently solve the on-line problem. Caching of placements is shown to reduce the cost of change but does not improve response time ... |
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| Long-Range Strike: The Bedrock of Deterrence and America's Strategic Advantage |
Jun 2012 |
13 pages |
| Authors:
Wade S Karren; AIR UNIV MAXWELL AFB AL AIR FORCE RESEARCH INST
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| Long-range strike (LRS) and the often-associated phrase strategic attack are perhaps the most discussed but least understood terms in current military use.1 Despite, or perhaps because of, numerous definitions and formulations, we tend to overlook the real value of LRS capabilities in the minor details of numerous acquisition plans and concepts of operations. Many components comprise America s power to influence. Yet its ability to project conventional and nuclear military ... |
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| Natick Soldier Systems Center Science and Technology Board (9th) |
29 May 2012 |
50 pages |
| Authors:
ARMY NATICK SOLDIER CENTER MA
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| NSSC S&T Board, Nutal Value Statement: Demonstrate the powerful benefit to the region of a strong network of DoD, multigovernment, industry, and academic leaders. Cteate lasting opportunities through co-sponsored initiatives with shared goals that reflect commitment to leveraging resources and deep, continuous understanding of member priorities. Focus on developing and sustaining innovative personnel, facilities, and equipment capabilities that support the Warfighter and the regional economy. Success will be recognized/acknowledged when ... |
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| Better Buying Power Initiative for 'Target Affordability and Control Cost Growth' |
16 May 2012 |
29 pages |
| Authors:
Katrina McFarland; DEFENSE ACQUISITION UNIV FT BELVOIR VA
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| Agenda: Background, Overview of target affordability and control grown initiatives, DAU tools and resources and summary. Summary: Affordability must drive our investment decisions. Implementation of Better Buying Power continues, but much remains to be done to institutionalize it at all levels, both internal to acquisition organizations and external to it--the search for acquisition efficiency will never end. We must make win-win business deals to strengthen industry and provide more value ... |
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| Extremist Ideological Influence on Terrorist Decision Frameworks |
11 May 2012 |
102 pages |
| Authors:
Winston R Sieck; Antonio Penta; Paul Smart; David Rababy; Jennifer L Smith; Jessica L Marcon; APPLIED RESEARCH ASSOCIATES INC FAIRBORN OH COGNITIVE SOLUTIONS DIV
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| Two cultural studies were conducted to clarify the ideological characteristics that serve as enablers for extreme action. The approach for both studies was to collect and analyze knowledge source materials from the World Wide Web. The World Wide Web is a rich source of cultural information that provides important clues as to the beliefs, attitudes and values of group members. Documents and postings from extremist and moderate sources were collected ... |
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| International Cooperation in Acquisition, Technology and Logistics (IC in AT&L) Handbook |
May 2012 |
310 pages |
| Authors:
OFFICE OF THE UNDER SECRETARY OF DEFENSE (ACQUISITION TECHNOLOGY AND LOGISTICS) WASHINGTON DC
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| International Cooperation in Acquisition, Technology and Logistics (IC in AT&L)1 is a complicated business. Acquisition personnel considering IC in AT&L for their technology projects and acquisition programs must take into account a series of complex national and international interrelationships. While the business is complex, the rewards are great. IC in AT&L has the potential to significantly improve interoperability for coalition warfare, to leverage scarce program resources, and to obtain the ... |
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| Software Strategy for the Defense Enterprise |
May 2012 |
13 pages |
| Authors:
John Robert; Terry Dailey; Doug Schmidt; CARNEGIE-MELLON UNIV PITTSBURGH PA SOFTWARE ENGINEERING INST
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| Software is the primary mechanism for deployment of DoD capability. Software challenges cut across the defense enterprise. An enterprise strategy is needed to align resources to meet growing challenges/threats. |
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| Information as Power: An Anthology of Selected United States Army War College Student Papers. Volume 6 |
May 2012 |
198 pages |
| Authors:
Jeffrey L Groh; Benjamin C Leitzel; Dennis M Murphy; Mark A Van Dyke; ARMY WAR COLL CARLISLE BARRACKS PA CENTER FOR STRATEGIC LEADERSHIP
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| Information as Power is a refereed anthology of United States Army War College (USAWC) student papers related to information as an element of national power. It provides a medium for the articulation of ideas promulgated by independent student research in order to facilitate understanding of the information element of power and to better address related national security issues. The anthology serves as a vehicle for recognizing the analyses of Army ... |
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| Multi-Objective Optimization of System Capability Satisficing in Defense Acquisition |
30 Apr 2012 |
22 pages |
| Authors:
Brian Sauser; Jose E Ramirez-Marquez; STEVENS INST OF TECHNOLOGY HOBOKEN NJ
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| Under support from the Acquisition Research Program and government/industry partnerships, previous research has successfully developed, tested, and implemented a system maturity measure (i.e., a system readiness level [SRL]); supporting optimization models; and an enhanced SRL hierarchy for multi-function, multi-capability (MFMC) systems. The later developments are predicated on what has become the accustomed challenge for managers and engineers to properly assess systems, development and acquisition to ensure the achievement of critical ... |
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| Analysis of Alternatives: Keys to Success |
30 Apr 2012 |
39 pages |
| Authors:
John F Schank; RAND CORP SANTA MONICA CA
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| An analysis of alternatives (AoA) is an important step in the acquisition process. It is one of the first places where the requirements community and the resource community must come together to identify a preferred material solution that can fill a shortfall in desired operational capability. AoAs inform Service, Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD), and congressional decision-makers on the relative cost effectiveness of viable alternatives that meet the ... |
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| Contracting As A Science |
30 Apr 2012 |
38 pages |
| Authors:
David Lamm; NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL MONTEREY CA GRADUATE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS AND PUBLIC POLICY
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| This presentation will convey the results of an effort to examine the feasibility that contracting might be viewed as a science. It will explore the essential characteristics of science and how these might apply to the concept of a contracting science, identify potential schools of contracting thought, identify and discuss the relationship of contracting to several of the established social sciences, identify the principal social science theories applicable to contracting ... |
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| DOD Financial Management: Challenges in Attaining Audit Readiness and Improving Business Processes and Systems |
18 Apr 2012 |
28 pages |
| Authors:
Asif A Khan; Valerie Melvin; Cindy B Barnes; Mark Bird; Kristi Karls; Michael Holland; Chris Yfantis; Maxine Hattery ; GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY OFFICE WASHINGTON DC
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| Over the years, the Department of Defense (DOD) has initiated several efforts intended to improve its financial management operations and ultimately achieve an unqualified (clean) opinion on its financial statements. These efforts have fallen short of sustained improvement in financial management and financial statement auditability. In this statement, GAO provides its assessment of DOD s progress toward: (1) producing an auditable Statement of Budgetary Resources (SBR) by fiscal year 2014 ... |
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| Dynamic Resource Allocation in Disaster Response: Tradeoffs in Wildfire Suppression |
13 Apr 2012 |
10 pages |
| Authors:
Nada Petrovic; David L Alderson; Jean M Carlson; NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL MONTEREY CA DEPT OF OPERATIONS RESEARCH
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| Challenges associated with the allocation of limited resources to mitigate the impact of natural disasters inspire fundamentally new theoretical questions for dynamic decision making in coupled human and natural systems. Wildfires are one of several types of disaster phenomena, including oil spills and disease epidemics, where (1) the disaster evolves on the same timescale as the response effort, and (2) delays in response can lead to increased disaster severity and ... |
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| AFRICOM's Adaptive Logistics Network: Database Feeds |
11 Apr 2012 |
36 pages |
| Authors:
Muriel R Loney; ARMY WAR COLL CARLISLE BARRACKS PA
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| The United States Africa Command (AFRICOM) conducts security cooperation programs that support U.S. national security policy on the continent of Africa. The challenges facing this command are vast, but none are any greater than the logistical challenges that exist for this combatant command. One initiative to aid with these challenges that is underway by the U.S. AFRICOM J4 staff is the Adaptive Logistics Network (ALN). The ALN can bridge the ... |
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| Targeting in an Engineer Brigade |
Apr 2012 |
4 pages |
| Authors:
Gary S Bonham; Jakob C Bruhl; ARMY ENGINEER SCHOOL FORT LEONARD WOOD MO
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| While deployed to Mosul, Iraq, during Operation Iraqi Freedom, the 130th Engineer Brigade struggled to use targeting methodology. To correspond with its major efforts, the brigade had developed four lines of effort (LOEs): Reconstruction. Assured mobility. Iraqi Security Force partnership. General engineering. Then, the brigade attempted to use targeting to Give the commander situational awareness on the progress of LOEs. Obtain the commander s guidance. Revise resource priorities. However, the ... |
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| Building Partner Capacity at Best Value |
22 Mar 2012 |
48 pages |
| Authors:
Sean F Mulcahey; AIR WAR COLL MAXWELL AFB AL
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| The United States has a new defense strategy. The global strategic environment is changing and defense resources are declining. This has caused the U.S. military to increase emphasis on building partner capacity as a way to achieve strategic security objectives with fewer resources and a smaller force. The new strategy demands that the Army seek strategy alternatives that achieve best value for the resources available. The Army must preserve the ... |
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| A Proposed United States Grand Strategy for 2015-2030 |
22 Mar 2012 |
66 pages |
| Authors:
Kevin D Poling; AIR WAR COLL MAXWELL AFB AL
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| How should the United States achieve its national security objectives, given its current and projected economic condition, for the period 2015 to 2030? This paper examines the imbalance of stated United States national security objectives (ends) with the current and projected economic resources (means) to accomplish these objectives. A basic premise of this paper is the following: for the United States to preserve its ability to function as a great ... |
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| Aligning Infrastructure Decisions with Strategic Vision |
22 Mar 2012 |
38 pages |
| Authors:
Christian F Rees; AIR WAR COLL MAXWELL AFB AL
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| Infrastructure, in terms of land and real property, is a large component of the Department of Defense budget. Enormous resources are spent each year to acquire land, build, maintain, renovate and replace infrastructure for this global enterprise. The current DoD real estate portfolio, including land and real property, is approximately $710 billion. The lead time for new infrastructure is five to twenty years, well beyond the event timeline for normal ... |
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| A Hollow Army in the 21st Century: Will History Repeat Itself? |
22 Mar 2012 |
32 pages |
| Authors:
Richard A Rivera; AIR WAR COLL MAXWELL AFB AL
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| With the end of major military operations in Iraq in 2011, and in Afghanistan in 2014, the U.S. Army begins another transformative era. The challenge of maintaining a large standing Army without a comparable large scale mission, in an environment characterized by diminishing resources, compounded by global economic crisis, poses unprecedented challenges to our organization. We must find ways to retain the combat and operational experience of an Army that ... |
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| The Future of NATO |
15 Mar 2012 |
30 pages |
| Authors:
Kim Schmidt; ARMY WAR COLL CARLISLE BARRACKS PA
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| For more than 60 years, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) has united the West, kept Europe secure and seen the end of the cold war due to the collapse of the Soviet Union and the dissolution of the Warsaw Pact. At the strategic level, the greatest evolution in NATO since the end of the Cold War is the transition of NATO from a static defense force to an expeditionary ... |
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| The 12th Annual International Meeting on Simulation Healthcare (IMSH) 2012 |
Mar 2012 |
271 pages |
| Authors:
Michael Seropian; Kathryn B Aberle; SOCIETY FOR SIMULATION IN HEALTHCARE HASTINGS MN
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| 3112 individuals attended the 2012 International Meeting on Simulation in Healthcare and had access to Preconference courses, Expert panels, keynote Plenary Sessions, roundtables, immersive, and workshop sessions to further their knowledge of use of simulation in healthcare to improve patient safety and manage resources. 73 workshops provided both hands-on and interactive learning in the areas of conducting research, outcomes based assessment, case development, disaster training, needs assessment and competency based ... |
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| Bandwidth Management in Resource Constrained Networks |
Mar 2012 |
143 pages |
| Authors:
Christopher T Schrock; NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL MONTEREY CA
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| Hastily Formed Networks (HFNs) are typically deployed in resource constrained environments. Clients operating within HFNs have inadvertently utilized excessive bandwidth without user interaction. Our research focuses on managing bandwidth usage in resource constrained networks through the use of DNS Tampering, a method of content filtering. We evaluate two operating systems, Windows XP and Windows 7, and analyze how it may be possible to limit operating system updates utilizing DNS Tampering. ... |
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| A Framework to Support S&T Planning for Royal Australian Navy Capability Acquisition |
Mar 2012 |
60 pages |
| Authors:
Anthony Woolley; John Wharington; DEFENSE SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY ORGANIZATION VICTORIA (AUSTRALIA) MARITIME PLATFORMS DIV
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| When the Australian Defence Force (ADF) identifies a capability gap an acquisition process commences, supported by science and technology (S&T) guidance. Though the S&T support requirements are governed by the needs of the acquisition project, the S&T planning process would benefit from the introduction of a framework to improve the robustness and transparency of decision making with regards to the allocation of S&T resources. This report presents an overview of ... |
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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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| Building toward the Future |
Feb 2012 |
5 pages |
| Authors:
Jr Rice Edward A; AIR UNIV MAXWELL AFB AL AIR FORCE RESEARCH INST
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| Common wisdom asserts the existence of an ancient Chinese curse that translates, May you live in interesting times. In keeping with the Chinese theme of wisdom that we all know, it is often said that the Chinese characters for crisis and opportunity are identical. The well-informed readers of Air and Space Power Journal (ASPJ) know that both of these memes have long histories but no basis in truth. However, that ... |
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| A Multi-Scale Structural Health Monitoring Approach for Damage Detection, Diagnosis and Prognosis in Aerospace Structures |
20 Jan 2012 |
30 pages |
| Authors:
Jennifer E Michaels; Laurence J Jacobs; Massimo Ruzzene; GEORGIA TECH RESEARCH INST ATLANTA
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| This project has developed multi-scale methods for structural health monitoring to better understand, analyze and quantify the progression of damage at multiple length scales. Benchmark experiments were performed to relate nonlinearity measured with ultrasonic Lamb waves to plastic strain and fatigue life. Theory was developed and validated to predict second harmonic generation for specific mode/frequency pairs. A suite of advanced imaging methods was developed and demonstrated for detecting, locating and ... |
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| Children of Military Service Members Resource Guide |
Jan 2012 |
54 pages |
| Authors:
DEFENSE CENTERS OF EXCELLENCE FOR PSYCHOLOGICAL HEALTH AND TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY ARLINGTON VA
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| The Defense Centers of Excellence for Psychological Health and Traumatic Brain Injury (DCoE) is committed to building resilience, maximizing recovery and promoting reintegration for our nation s warriors and their families in all areas related to psychological health and traumatic brain injury. As part of that vision, DCoE recognizes that children of military service members may demonstrate mental and emotional health needs associated with their parents deployment, rehabilitation or reintegration. ... |
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