| A New Use for the Aerial Reconnaissance Multi-Sensor (ARMS) Aircraft: How to Appropriately Use the Arms Aircraft for Homeland Security without Infringement on the Posse Commitatus Act |
14 Dec 2012 |
67 pages |
| Authors:
Tracy L Kennepp; ARMY COMMAND AND GENERAL STAFF COLL FORT LEAVENWORTH KS
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 | The Army Reserve Aerial Reconnaissance Multi-Sensor (ARMS) Aircraft are no longer required to provide overwatch in Iraq. With budgetary constraints, both the Department of Defense (DoD) and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) must employ fiscal responsibility by sharing assets. The ARMS aircraft can provide DHS similar overwatch capability as in Iraq, limiting the need for other more costly aerial assets and adding capacity. Additional mapping missions would increase operational ... |
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| A Static Binary Instrumentation Threading Model for Fast Memory Trace Collection |
16 Nov 2012 |
7 pages |
| Authors:
Michael A Laurenzano; Joshua Peraza; Laura Carrington; Ananta Tiwari; William Ward; Roy Campbell; CALIFORNIA UNIV BERKELEY DEPT OF COMPUTER SCIENCES
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| As hardware vendors push for higher levels of concurrency in multicore and manycore chips, the HPC software running on that hardware must increasingly utilize sophisticated models of parallelization, including interprocess message passing via MPI or SHMEM, intraprocess data sharing via threading models such as pthreads and OpenMP, and combinations of the two approaches. With this increase it is important for tools supporting HPC research activities to include support for all ... |
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| Balancing Value and Risk in Information Sharing Through Obfuscation |
20 Sep 2012 |
9 pages |
| Authors:
Supriyo Chakraborty; Kasturi R Raghavan; Chatschik Bisdikian; Lance M Kaplan; IBM THOMAS J WATSON RESEARCH CENTER HAWTHORNE NY
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| Fast-paced data-to-decision systems are heavily dependent on the reliable sharing of sensor-derived information. At the same time a diverse collection of sensory information providers would want to exercise control over the information shared based on their perception of the risk of possible misuse due to sharing, and also depending on the consumer's requirements. To attain this utility vs. risk trade-off, information is subjected to varying but deliberate quality modifying transformations ... |
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| VA and DOD Health Care: Department-Level Actions Needed to Assess Collaboration Performance, Address Barriers, and Identify Opportunities |
Sep 2012 |
55 pages |
| Authors:
Debra A Draper; Brenda S Farrell; Lori Atkinson; Marcia A Mann; Robin S Burke; Jill K Center; Suzanne M Perkins; Leigh Ann E Sennette; Lisa A Motley; Michael Willems; GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY OFFICE WASHINGTON DC
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| The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) and the Department of Defense (DoD) operate two of the nation's largest health care systems at estimated annual costs of about $53 billion and $49 billion, respectively, for fiscal year 2013, and have established collaboration sites to deliver care jointly with the aim of improving access, quality, and cost-effectiveness of care. In addition, collaborations could help reduce duplication and overlap between the two health ... |
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| Emergent Social Software Platforms for the Sharing of and Collaboration on Criminal Information and Intelligence |
Sep 2012 |
147 pages |
| Authors:
Richard A Alexander; NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL MONTEREY CA DEPT OF NATIONAL SECURITY AFFAIRS
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| Information sharing and collaboration among federal, state, and local agencies has been repeatedly stressed as a part of the national security strategy. The emphasis has been on interagency communication and has largely left unaddressed the need for internal information system improvements. This thesis will examine how Web 2.0 technology as part of an emergent social software platform (ESSP) can be used to improve intra-agency law enforcement criminal information sharing and ... |
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| Standing on the Shoulders of Giants: Where Do We Go from Here to Bring the Fire Service into the Domestic Intelligence Community? |
Sep 2012 |
73 pages |
| Authors:
Joshua M Dennis; NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL MONTEREY CA DEPT OF NATIONAL SECURITY AFFAIRS
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| The United States Fire Service has not only a role but a need to be included in the domestic intelligence community. With its access to untapped sources of information and intelligence, the fire service can add value to the efforts of the domestic intelligence community and in return provide value added to fire departments' day-to-day operations. Absent is a strong national guidance for fire service intelligence integration; smart practice models ... |
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| An Evaluation Methodology for the Usability and Security of Cloud-based File Sharing Technologies |
Sep 2012 |
111 pages |
| Authors:
Trek C Potter; NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL MONTEREY CA
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| To operate effectively and maintain national security, the DoD relies on the ability to ensure authorized access to information, while protecting that information from unauthorized users. Non-malicious insider threats involving information leakage typically receive little attention, though their impact is significant. This thesis focuses on how the act of file sharing contributes to non-malicious insider threats. Current file sharing methods provide neither the usability users require nor the security the ... |
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| Extensions to the iCalendar Data Model: Hierarchical Schedules and Temporally Related Events |
Sep 2012 |
103 pages |
| Authors:
Lesley W Chiu; NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL MONTEREY CA DEPT OF COMPUTER SCIENCE
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| Computer calendaring has matured to the point where people's calendars are easily synchronized across devices, shared among other people and organizations, and used to coordinate and schedule mutually agreeable meeting times. These and other advances have made computer calendaring indispensable in people's personal and professional lives. Despite the recent advances in the scheduling capabilities of computer calendaring software, there are still areas of scheduling that are not so well accomplished ... |
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| Sharing the Wealth: Towards Ocean Sensing Networks |
Aug 2012 |
5 pages |
| Authors:
Rand LeBouvier; Donald Steinbrecher; NAVAL UNDERSEA WARFARE CENTER DIV NEWPORT RI
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| Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs) and associated undersea technologies have demonstrated exceptional current utility and great growth potential for military, governmental and commercial maritime agencies as well as for ocean research institutions. While sustained and aggressive research, development, testing and evaluation is still in order, the technology is available now to benefit potential consumers with the incredible range of data these systems can already provide . Although unmanned systems in other ... |
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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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| The Impact of Water Scarcity on Egyptian National Security and on Regional Security in the Nile River Basin |
08 Jun 2012 |
109 pages |
| Authors:
Mohamed Elshopky; ARMY COMMAND AND GENERAL STAFF COLL FORT LEAVENWORTH KS
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| With a rapidly growing population, increased urbanization, higher standards of living, and an agricultural policy that emphasizes expanded production to feed the growing masses, the Government of Egypt finds itself in a critical situation in which both internal planning and regional and international cooperation are paramount for making optimum use of this incredibly scarce resource. Egypt, and the rest of the Nile Basin countries, have been sharing water under the ... |
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| Exploration of Best-Fit Solution for Harbormaster Security Information Sharing Systems |
Jun 2012 |
105 pages |
| Authors:
James G Ware; NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL MONTEREY CA DEPT OF INFORMATION SCIENCES
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| In the wake of the attack of 9/11, the United States government recognized that the manner in which threats and information were conveyed was extremely inefficient, and in many cases completely nonfunctional due to disparate data failing to become accurately coalesced. This is especially true within the area of intermodal cargo shipping. Our research explores and seeks to inform the development of requirements for an information sharing system amongst harbor ... |
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| Less is More: Pooling and Sharing of European Military Capabilities in the Past and Present |
Jun 2012 |
117 pages |
| Authors:
Thomas Overhage; NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL MONTEREY CA DEPT OF NATIONAL SECURITY AFFAIRS
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| This thesis analyzes the policy implications of the pooling and sharing of forces and weapons as a feasible way to strengthen European military power in an era of scarcity. The thesis argues that pooling and sharing is likely to be successful only if states enhance their emphasis on collective defense by mutual aid and self-help and reduce particularist and parochial interests of local gain. Pooling and sharing could improve European ... |
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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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| Cross-Program Weapons System Software Acquisition Can Save Billions |
17 May 2012 |
11 pages |
| Authors:
Rick Brennan; OPERATIONAL SYSTEMS INC ATLANTA GA
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| Defense Logistics: Improvements Needed to Enhance DOD's Management Approach and Implementation of Item Unique Identification Technology |
May 2012 |
68 pages |
| Authors:
Zina D Merritt; Kimberly Seay; Emily Biskup; Cindy Brown Barnes; Cynthia Grant; Neelaxi Lakhmani; Jason Lee; Alberto Leff; John Martin; Charles Perdue; GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY OFFICE WASHINGTON DC
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| Item Unique Identification Technology (IUID) technology allows DoD to assign a unique number to an item and use that number to manage that item in a variety of logistics processes. In 2003, DoD began implementation of IUID and has estimated that its use could improve the agency's accountability and maintenance of its property and equipment and save it from $3 billion to $5 billion per year. Also, integrating and sharing ... |
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| Business Models for Cost Sharing and Capability Sustainment |
30 Apr 2012 |
33 pages |
| Authors:
Michael Pryce; MANCHESTER UNIV (UNITED KINGDOM)
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| Cost sharing in defense acquisition, with contractors sharing part of the burden of research development, test, and evaluation (RDT&E) costs, has been suggested as a way of reducing the liability of governments to program cost overruns. While capping the costs of RDT&E and production is an excellent objective, incentivizing contractors may benefit from business models that span the entire lifecycle of a program. The potential to share the risk of ... |
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| Zeroing Biometrics: Collecting Biometrics Before the Shooting Starts |
Apr 2012 |
92 pages |
| Authors:
Michael R Green; NATIONAL DEFENSE UNIV NORFOLK VA JOINT ADVANCED WARFIGHTING SCHOOL
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| The great challenge in defeating an insurgency is that the members of an insurgency are often difficult to identify. Biometrics offers a means to remove an insurgent's anonymity and make visible that person's identity to military personnel, the police, border guards, and transportation authorities. An examination of the writings of insurgency theorists and counterinsurgency theorists makes it possible to lay out key principles a system like biometrics must influence to ... |
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| Civilization's Drying Cradle: Water Politics in the Tigris-Euphrates River Basin |
22 Mar 2012 |
52 pages |
| Authors:
Richard L Hansen; ARMY WAR COLL CARLISLE BARRACKS PA
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| The finite water supply of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers is increasingly out of balance with the demands of Turkey, Syria, and Iraq. Turkey's Southeast Anatolia Development Project (GAP), which will eventually include 22 dams and 19 hydroelectric plants in the upper Tigris-Euphrates basin, gives Turkey tremendous ability to control both rivers, and provides significant political and economic influence over Syria and Iraq. The countries have failed to reach a ... |
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| Conflicts of Shared Resources: A Case Study of River Nile |
22 Mar 2012 |
38 pages |
| Authors:
Charles Kang'ethe; ARMY WAR COLL STRATEGIC STUDIES INST CARLISLE BARRACKS PA
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| This paper has attempted to discuss the possible conflicts of shared resources with a case study of the Nile River. Natural resources are a natural heritage within a country that are typically exploited for economic gain. Natural resources that extend or transit beyond international borders require agreements or cooperation between countries on their fair use and management. Such resources are likely to be major source of conflicts if there are ... |
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| Mission Networks: An Evolution in Information Sharing |
20 Mar 2012 |
38 pages |
| Authors:
David R Wills; ARMY WAR COLL CARLISLE BARRACKS PA
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| In support of Afghanistan operations, the U.S. military forces operational network transitioned from the Secret Internet Protocol Router Network (SIPRNET) to the Combined Enterprise Regional Information Exchange System (CENTRIXS)-International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) (CX-I) in 2010. The Department of Defense (DoD) implemented CX-I as the U.S. contribution to the Afghanistan Mission Network (AMN), which constituted an unprecedented evolution of U.S. military forces culture and capability towards mission partner information sharing. ... |
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| Whistleblowing in a Wikileaks World: A Model for Responsible Disclosure in Homeland Security |
Mar 2012 |
145 pages |
| Authors:
Gregory M Bernard; NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL MONTEREY CA DEPT OF NATIONAL SECURITY AFFAIRS
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| Research Question: What policy model and associated technological process could the United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS) implement that will encourage whistleblowers to submit information through authorized channels as opposed to leaking information to unauthorized parties? Whistleblowing serves as a check/balance system to the government bureaucracy, helping to bypass administrative roadblocks and to provide a mechanism through which homeland security can monitor and increase efficiency in its operations. However, ... |
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| The Sovereign Debt Crisis: An Opportunity for NATO Reform? |
24 Feb 2012 |
34 pages |
| Authors:
Charles F Schlegel; ARMY WAR COLL CARLISLE BARRACKS PA
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| While the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) is still the most powerful political and military alliance in the world, recent operations in Afghanistan and Libya have highlighted the chronic underfunding of defense by European nations and its negative long-term implications for the Alliance. Simultaneously, Europe finds itself in no fiscal shape to increase defense spending as it is in the midst of its greatest economic challenge since the founding of ... |
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| A Scientific Understanding of Keystroke Dynamics |
Jan 2012 |
215 pages |
| Authors:
Kevin S Killourhy; CARNEGIE INST OF TECH PITTSBURGH PA DEPT OF COMPUTER SCIENCE
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| Keystroke dynamics technology to distinguish people based on their typing rhythms could revolutionize insider-threat detection. Insiders accessing backdoors, using shared accounts, or masquerading as other users would be exposed by their unique typing rhythms. In the past thirty years, dozens of classifiers have been proposed for distinguishing people using keystroke dynamics many have obtained excellent results in evaluation. However, when evaluations are replicated, the results are often wildly different; one ... |
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| Improving IT Efficiency and Effectiveness in the Department of Defense |
Jan 2012 |
20 pages |
| Authors:
Carl D Porter; DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE WASHINGTON DC CHIEF INFORMATION OFFICER
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| DoD C2 Capability Objectives: Provide the capabilities necessary to effectively support organizing command structures and forces, understand situations, plan and decide upon courses of action, and direct and monitor execution across the range of DoD operations. Enable military forces and mission partners to conduct integrated operations across the range of DoD operations at all echelons of command. Maximize assured sharing of information and services and synchronized implementation of collaborative C2 ... |
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| Research Using In Vivo Simulation of Meta-Organizational Shared Decision Making (SDM). Task 3: Testing the Shared Decision Making Framework in Vivo |
Dec 2011 |
226 pages |
| Authors:
Louise Lemyre; Celine Pinsent; Paul Boutette; Wayne Corneil; Jo Riding; David Riding; Colleen Johnson; Marie-Pierre Lalande-Markon; Stacey Gibson; Cecilia Lemus; DEFENCE RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT CANADA OTTAWA (ONTARIO) CENTRE FOR SECURITY SCIENCE
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| This report documents the completion of Task 3 of the work stream Research Using in VivoSimulation of Meta-Organizational Shared Decision Making (SDM), one component of theTechnology Innovation Fund (TIF) program on Meta-organizational Collaboration that has beendesigned to assist in understanding challenges faced by the Canadian Forces (CF). The objectiveof the stream is to conduct basic research into shared decision making through the analysisofcase studies, exercises and simulations. Task 3 involved ... |
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| Research Using In Vivo Simulation of Meta-Organizational Shared Decision Making (SDM). Task 5: Creation of a User Friendly Knowledge Tool |
Dec 2011 |
69 pages |
| Authors:
L Lemyre; Celine Pinsent; Wayne Corneil; David Riding; Marie-Pierre Lalande-Markon; Cecilia Lemus; Hilary M Kitchener; Paul Boutette; Jo Riding; Colleen Johnson; DEFENCE RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT CANADA OTTAWA (ONTARIO) CENTRE FOR SECURITY SCIENCE
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| This report, along with an accompanying knowledge database tool, represents completion of Task 5 of the work stream Research Using in Vivo Simulation of Meta-Organizational Shared Decision Making (SDM), one component of the Technology Innovation Fund (TIF) program on Meta-organizational Collaboration that has been designed to assist in understanding challenges faced by the Canadian Forces (CF). The objective of the stream is to conduct basic research into shared decision making ... |
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| Communicating Uncertainty Information Across Conceptual Boundaries |
Dec 2011 |
8 pages |
| Authors:
Paul Hyden; Elias Ioup; Stephen Russell; NAVAL RESEARCH LAB WASHINGTON DC
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| Information about data collection and modeling risks are frequently locked with information providers rather than shared with downstream information consumers. Information consumers often ingest products automatically. Without protocols to inject uncertainty, the ensemble modeling products common in the modeling discipline cannot accurately account for the input uncertainty inherent to those products. Future work to establish use cases and incorporate practitioner-driven rules and protocols for transmitting tiered uncertainty information between information ... |
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| Trust, Opinion Diffusion and Radicalization in Social Networks |
Nov 2011 |
6 pages |
| Authors:
Lin Li; Anna Scaglione; Ananthram Swami; Qing Zhao; CALIFORNIA UNIV DAVIS DEPT OF ELECTRICAL AND COMPUTER ENGINEERING
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| Gossiping models have increasingly been applied to study social network phenomena. This paper is specifically concerned with modeling how the opinions of social agents can be radicalized if the agents interact more strongly with neighbors that share their beliefs. In our model, each agent's belief is represented by a vector of probabilities that a given state is true. The agents average their opinions with that of their neighbors over time, ... |
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| Point Process Modeling for Directed Interaction Networks |
Oct 2011 |
40 pages |
| Authors:
Patrick O Perry; Patrick J Wolfe; HARVARD UNIV CAMBRIDGE MA SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING AND APPLIED SCIENCES
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| Network data often take the form of repeated interactions between senders and receivers tabulated over time. A primary question to ask of such data is which traits and behaviors are predictive of interaction. To answer this question, a model is introduced for treating directed interactions as a multivariate point process: a Cox multiplicative intensity model using covariates that depend on the history of the process. Consistency and asymptotic normality are ... |
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| International Programs Contribute to Affordability |
Oct 2011 |
6 pages |
| Authors:
Craig J Mallory; DEFENSE ACQUISITION UNIV FT BELVOIR VA
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| The United States has long benefited both economically and operationally from international acquisition programs. As the Department faces an increasingly challenging economic outlook, it is time to view these activities through a new lens. Whether initiating a new program or managing an ongoing acquisition effort, there are opportunities to enhance program affordability through international cooperation and/or sales. If program managers embrace international programs and plan for them, rather than avoiding ... |
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| Army Field-Oriented S&T Experimentation Venues: A Comparative Analysis |
Sep 2011 |
119 pages |
| Authors:
Henry J Girolamo; ARMY NATICK SOLDIER RESEARCH DEVELOPMENT AND ENGINEERING CENTER MA
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| This report describes a survey that provided detailed information on experimental venues and sites that support US Army science and technology (S&T). In February 2010, the Office of the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Research and Technology (Army) (DAS(R&T)) directed the Natick Soldier Research Development and Engineering Center (NSRDEC) to conduct the survey to inform the S&T community of possible experimentation venues, capabilities, costs, and restrictions to help the S&T community ... |
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| Joint Space Operations Center (JSpOC) Mission System (JMS) |
Sep 2011 |
9 pages |
| Authors:
Michael Morton; Timothy Roberts; AIR FORCE SPACE COMMAND PETERSON AFB CO
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| US space capabilities benefit the economy, national security, international relationships, scientific discovery, and our quality of life. Realizing these space responsibilities is challenging not only because the space domain is increasingly congested, contested, and competitive but is further complicated by the legacy space situational awareness (SSA) systems approaching end of life and inability to provide the breadth of SSA and command and control (C2) of space forces in this challenging ... |
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| Pashtun Social Structure: Cultural Perceptions and Segmentary Lineage Organization |
03 Aug 2011 |
25 pages |
| Authors:
Joseph A Tainter; Donald G MacGregor; MACGREGOR BATES INC COTTAGE GROVE OR
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| The Pashtun are an ethnic group that straddles the Afghanistan-Pakistan border, and are the largest group in Afghanistan. Pashtun social structure is what anthropologists term a segmentary lineage system. In such a system, there is a hierarchy of social groupings starting at the local level, then proceeding upward through various levels to an entire ethnic group. These relationships are based on kinship and shared culture. Segmentary lineage organization presents outsiders ... |
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| Asymmetric Cooperative Communications Based Spectrum Leasing via Auctions in Cognitive Radio Networks |
Aug 2011 |
10 pages |
| Authors:
Sudharman K Jayaweera; Mario Bkassiny; Keith A Avery; NEW MEXICO UNIV ALBUQUERQUE DEPT OF ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING AND COMPUTER SCIENCE
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| Dynamic spectrum leasing (DSL) was proposed recently as a new paradigm for dynamic spectrum sharing (DSS) in cognitive radio networks (CRN's). In this paper, we propose a new way to encourage primary users to lease their spectrum: The secondary users (SU's) place bids indicating how much power they are willing to spend for relaying the primary signals to their destinations. In this formulation, the primary users achieve power savings due ... |
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| Eight Battle-Tested Survival Tactics for the New, Entry-Level DoD Program Manager |
Aug 2011 |
6 pages |
| Authors:
Brian E Schultz; DEFENSE ACQUISITION UNIV ABERDEEN PROVING GROUND MD
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| Helping our new and junior program managers (PMs) learn their profession is not an easy task. One tool that helped this author was the advice and stories from senior PM mentors. Their insights assisted me in the current day-to-day challenges and also helped me realize that a PM career can be a very rewarding and fulfilling endeavor. Although the following is a hypothetical mentoring session for a new PM, it ... |
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| Interagency Collaboration: Implications of a Common Alignment of World Regions among Select Federal Agencies |
11 JUL 2011 |
41 pages |
| Authors:
John H. Pendleton; Jacquelyn L. Williams; Marie Mak; Tetsuo Miyabara; Joseph Capuano; Susan Ditto; Nicole Harms; Farahnaaz Khako; Kevin O'Neill; Michael Silver; Matthew Spiers; Amie Steele; GENERAL ACCOUNTING OFFICE WASHINGTON DC ACCOUNTING AND FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT DIV
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| To carry out complex national security initiatives--such as combating illicit financing of terrorist activities, undertaking development projects in conflict zones, and countering piracy off the Horn of Africa--U.S. government agencies must coordinate with a large number of organizations in their planning efforts. Our prior work on the federal government's national security initiatives has determined that U.S. agencies face a number of challenges to effectively collaborating with one another, potentially resulting ... |
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| Command and Control Concepts and Solutions for Major Events Safety and Security: Lessons Learned from the Canadian Experience with Vancouver 2010 and G8/G20 Events |
JUN 2011 |
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| Authors:
Adel Guitouni; Donna Wood; DEFENCE RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT CANADA VALCARTIER (QUEBEC)
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 | Planning and execution of major events safety and security operations is a very complex. Major events are often led, planned and executed jointly by many government departments and agencies in collaboration with several other actors of the civil society. Command and Control (C2) of major events can be viewed as systemic execution of collective collection, collation and analysis of information, planning, decision-making, coordination, execution and sustainment of operations and activities ... |
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| Information Fusion for Collaborating Commanders at Different Levels |
JUN 2011 |
22 pages |
| Authors:
Martin Holmberg; Pontus Svenson; SWEDISH NATIONAL DEFENCE COLL STOCKHOLM (SWEDEN)
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| This is a position paper discussing the authors' views on the role of automated information fusion in the interaction between different command levels. The purpose of the paper is to initiate a discussion on the relationship between automated fusion and the flexibility in a mission. The sharing of data/information/knowledge between commanders at different levels is a difficult task in many respects. We focus on the role of automated information fusion ... |
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| Information Sharing Between Platforms in DRDC's Networked Underwater Warfare Demonstration Trial |
JUN 2011 |
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| Authors:
Marcel Lefrancois; DEFENCE RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT ATLANTIC DARTMOUTH (CANADA)
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| The final demonstration trial of Defence R&D Canada's (DRDC) Networked Underwater Warfare (NUW) Technology Demonstration Project (TDP) brought together 4 vessels and a reach-back centre to develop, maintain and share a single operating picture while performing anti-submarine warfare. Sensor information was shared by operators across platforms using network tools and chat applications in web pages and applications embedded within a DRDC developed Network Enabled Combat System (NECS). In all, 22 ... |
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| Towards Building Trusted Multinational Civil-Military Relationships Using Social Networks |
JUN 2011 |
35 pages |
| Authors:
Bruce Forrester; DEFENCE RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT CANADA VALCARTIER (QUEBEC)
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| Trust in relationships is essential for deep sharing of information/intelligence and meaningful collaboration. Building the required level of trust is often a lengthy face-to-face process. Lack of trust seriously hampers effectiveness in situations such as emergency response to international crisis or the coming together of a coalition. Specifically, it leads to redundant analysis and information overload. Trust-based networks are a very promising avenue. Trust can be mapped to the digital ... |
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| Establishing a Lessons Learned Program |
Jun 2011 |
97 pages |
| Authors:
CENTER FOR ARMY LESSONS LEARNED FT LEAVENWORTH KS
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| This handbook provides leaders and members of an organization with a how-to guide for establishing a lessons learned (LL) capability. It promises to detail what the LL process is and how to apply all the available tools to establish your own LL program. Different organizations in the LL community vary terms that are not necessarily consistent. This handbook attempts to simplify and explain these terms to satisfy the development of ... |
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| Who, When, Where: Obfuscation Preferences in Location-Sharing Applications |
Jun 2011 |
13 pages |
| Authors:
Jayant Venkatanathan; Jialiu Lin; Michael Benisch; Denzil Ferreria; Evangelos Karapanos; Vassilis Kostakos; Norman Sadeh; Eran Toch; CARNEGIE-MELLON UNIV PITTSBURGH PA INST OF SOFTWARE RESEARCH INTERNAT
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| This paper presents a study of obfuscation practices in location-sharing systems. The study shows that users have relatively complex preferences that depend on the recipient of the location the time of the request and location. The preferences also require multiple levels of obfuscation (ranging from disclosing no location information to disclosing the exact location) to accurately capture. For example, we find that users tend to reveal finer-grained locations to recipients ... |
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| Domestic Remotely Piloted Aircraft Use by Federal, State, and Local Governments |
19 MAY 2011 |
54 pages |
| Authors:
Jack F. Harman; ARMY COMMAND AND GENERAL STAFF COLL FORT LEAVENWORTH KS SCHOOL OF ADVANCED MILITARY STUDIES
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| The United States military enjoys the continued growth of Remotely Piloted Aircraft assets and personnel. By 2015, Creech Air Force Base will employ almost one in every five active duty Air Force pilots. Remotely Piloted Aircraft are in such demand in Iraq and Afghanistan that they occupy over forty 24-hour continuous missions, planned to expand to over sixty within the next two years. However, with the drawdown in troops in ... |
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| Information Technology: Department of Veterans Affairs Faces Ongoing Management Challenges |
11 MAY 2011 |
27 pages |
| Authors:
Joel C. Willemssen; Valerie C. Melvin; Mark Bird; Mike Alexander; Nancy Glover; Paul Middleton; Glenn Spiegel; GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY OFFICE WASHINGTON DC
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| VA's mission is to promote the health, welfare, and dignity of all veterans in recognition of their service to the nation by ensuring that they receive medical care, benefits, social support, and lasting memorials. According to information from the department, its employees maintain the largest integrated health care system in the nation for more than 5 million patients at more than 1,500 sites of care, provide compensation and pension benefits ... |
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| Atoms for Peace Initiative for the 21st Century |
01 May 2011 |
36 pages |
| Authors:
Donald J Gillich; ARMY WAR COLL CARLISLE BARRACKS PA
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| Eisenhower's Atoms for Peace speech to the United Nations in 1953 outlined U.S. policy to share peaceful uses of nuclear power with the rest of the world and provided the theoretical foundation for the nuclear technology control regime that has governed for over 50 years. With an impending energy crisis due to increased demand for fossil fuels, the United States must consider alternative energy sources that are environmentally friendly. Increased ... |
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| US Army Europe: Sharing the ITAM Tenets with Multinational Partners in Africa |
May 2011 |
22 pages |
| Authors:
Jeff Andrews; ARMY (7TH) JOINT MULTINATIONAL TRAINING COMMAND CAMP NORMANDY (GERMANY)
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| ITAM Tenets: Information Excellence Ensures the U.S. Army is using the best available information and science to support its ranges and land assets. Integrated Management Ensures that the major management functions directly affecting ranges and land assets are integrated to support the training mission. Outreach Provides an outlet to explain to the public why training activities are essential and improves understanding of Public perception of, and Concerns about, training and ... |
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| The Nature of War Theory |
10 Mar 2011 |
34 pages |
| Authors:
Paul B Olsen; ARMY WAR COLL CARLISLE BARRACKS PA
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| Today s advances in evolutionary biology are unifying competing theories of natural selection and serve as a timely call for a similar unification of competing theories of war. This paper explores the relationship between war and natural selection by first examining war s biological origins, and then placing them within a multidisciplinary framework called the Nature of War Theory. This theory, as its name implies, reconciles natural selection and war ... |
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| New Media Analysis: The Effects of Peer Influence and Personality Characteristics Through the Stages of Trial, Adoption, and Continued Use of Video Sharing Websites |
MAR 2011 |
103 pages |
| Authors:
Joseph L. Hicks; AIR FORCE INST OF TECH WRIGHT-PATTERSON AFB OH SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING AND MANAGEMENT
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| New Media technologies have evolved at a rapid pace and have changed the way people communicate in the digital world. These changes are apparent in practically every type of application, including business, leisure, and the way people socially interact. The primary goal of this research was to contribute to the current breadth of knowledge and understanding regarding how, why, and under what conditions people interact with New Media technologies. In ... |
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| Determining the Value of Future Information |
MAR 2011 |
126 pages |
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James J. Springston; AIR FORCE INST OF TECH WRIGHT-PATTERSON AFB OH SCHOOL OF SYSTEMS AND LOGISTICS
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| Companies continuously struggle to quantify the value of their information in an attempt to gain a better understanding of the return on investment of their information technology (IT) architecture. One approach companies have taken to place a numeric value on information is to treat it as a traditional economic asset (e.g. equipment, buildings, and vehicles) that is governed by its own unique set of laws. Once an enterprise understands the ... |
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