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Graphitized Carbon Foam With Phase Change Material
The transient heating and cooling responses of graphitized carbon foam infiltrated with phase chang
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Flashlight
Concurrent Java programs are difficult to understand and implement correctly. This difficultly lead
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Multilingual Phoneme Models for Rapid Speech Processing System Development
Current speech recognition systems tend to be developed only for commercially viable languages. The
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Shack-Hartmann and Interferometric Hybrid Wavefront Sensor
This document reports results of wave-optics simulations used to test the performance of a hybrid w
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A Practical Primer on Geostatistics
THE CHALLENGE Most geological phenomena are extraordinarily complex in their interrelationships and
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Chesapeake Bay Introduction to an Ecosystem
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) was introduced on December 2, 1970 by President Rich
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Computational Fluid Dynamics Investigation of Vortex Breakdown for a Delta Wing at High Angle of Attack
Using the commercially available FLUENT 3-D flow field solver, this research effort investigated vo
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Design Manual
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) was introduced on December 2, 1970 by President Rich
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Cooperative Unmanned Aerial Surveillance Control System Architecture
Intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) is a high-demand Department of Defense mission
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Determining Logistics Ground Support Manpower Requirements for a Reusable Military Launch Vehicle
Successful space-based technologies like satellite imagery and GPS have increased military demand f
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Traveling Salesman Problem for Surveillance Mission Using Particle Swarm Optimization
The surveillance mission requires aircraft to fly from a starting point through defended terrain to
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Characterization of the Target-Mount Interaction in Radar Cross Section Measurement Calibrations
Radar Cross Section (RCS) measurements are quintessential in understanding target scattering phenom
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Accelerating The Kill Chain Via Future Unmanned Aircraft
The United States Air Force's Center for Strategy and Technology was established atthe Air War Coll
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Fuel Composition Analysis of Endothermically Heated JP-8 Fuel for use in a Pulse Detonation Engine
Waste heat from a pulse detonation engine (PDE) was extracted via zeolite catalyst coated concentri
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Skylab 1 Mission Commentary
Several series from the NASA Headquarters Historical Reference Collection have been digitizedand ma
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Aircrew Performance Cutting-Edge Tech
Introduction to human performance -- Fatigue operations -- Vision enhancement/refractive eye surger
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USAF Aircraft Maintenance Management
Aircraft maintenance performance has steadily declined since the Objective Wing organizational stru
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Intelligence Surveillance and Reconnaissance Asset Assignment for Optimal Mission Effectiveness
This research develops mathematical programming techniques to solve an intelligence, surveillance,
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Higher Eyes in the Sky
During the past few years, United States Air Force (USAF) leaders have begun to emphasize space ope
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What USAF Aircraft Should be the Wild Weasel of the 1990s? An Assessment of the F-4G, the F-15WW, and the F-16-WW
The USAF Wild Weasel mission was born in 1965 during the Vietnam conflict. The purpose of the missi
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Detonation Branching in a PDE With Liquid Hydrocarbon Fuel
Pulse detonation engines (PDE) capitalize on the large mass flux and pressure rise a detonation has
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Using Sequence Analysis to Perform Application-Based Anomaly Detection Within an Artificial Immune System Framework
The Air Force and other Department of Defense (DoD) computer systems typically rely on traditional
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An Analysis of Nonlinear Elastic Deformations for a Homogeneous Beam at Varying Tip Loads and Pitch Angles
The Princeton beam experiments of 1975 were performed in hopes of producing viable data for beam no
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Space Operations
America's capability to operate in space is increasing with every passing day. Space operations are
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An Efficient and Effective Implementation of the Trust System for Power Grid Compartmentalization
The goal of this research is to show in a simulated environment that security of the network can be
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Construction Control for Earth and Rock-Fill Dams
This manual provides guidance and assistance to design engineers in the development of different ty
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Osier Culture
"Osier Culture, Volume no.19" by John M. Simpson delves into the cultivation of osier willows, a cr
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Analysis of the Risks and Benefits of Seven Chemicals Used for Subterranean Termite Control
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) was introduced on December 2, 1970 by President Rich
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United States Air Force Precision Engagement Against Mobile Targets
Major Kosan discusses the deficiency in the US Air Force's ability to precisely attack mobile targe
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Modification of Position and Attitude Determination of a Test Article Through Photogrammetry to Account for Structural Deformation
The Arnold Engineering Development Center (AEDC) at Arnold AFB, TN currently has a computer program
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Singlet Delta Oxygen
A new spectroscopic technique applicable to the detection of ultra-weak and for- bidden molecular t
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Modern Airships
Modern airships by design are capable of short-take off and landings (STOL), and vertical take-off
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Intermediate Aircraft Maintenance
Most combat aircraft systems today utilize three levels of repair capability; organizational, inter
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The Aerodynamic Performance of the Houck Configuration Flow Guides
In an effort to explore efficient wing designs for UAV's, the Air Force is investigating the patent
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Chemistry in the Service of Man
"Chemistry in the Service of Man" explores the crucial role of chemistry in various aspects of huma
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Concepts of Operations for a Reusable Launch Space Vehicle
The US military must be prepared to take advantage of reusable launch vehicles should the NASA-led
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Metamorphic Program Fragmentation as a Software Protection
Unauthorized reverse-engineering of programs and algorithms is a major problem for the software ind
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Detection, Control, and Correction of Hydrogen Sulfide Corrosion in Existing Wastewater Systems
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) was introduced on December 2, 1970 by President Rich
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Cyber Capabilities for Global Strike in 2035
This paper examines global strike, a core Air Force capacity to quickly and precisely attack any ta
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Detecting Near-Earth Objects Using Cross-Correlation With a Point Spread Function
This thesis describes a process to help discover Near-Earth Objects (NEOs) of larger than 140 meter
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After the KC-135, What Next? Exploring the Future Capabilities and Acquisition of our Next Generation Tanker
This research paper covers several aspects of the current and future tanker acquisition. Not only d
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Image Dependent Relative Formation Navigation for Autonomous Aerial Refueling
This research tests the feasibility, accuracy, and reliability of a predictive rendering and holist
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Least-Squares, Continuous Sensitivity Analysis for Nonlinear Fluid-Structure Interaction
A least-squares, continuous sensitivity analysis method is developed for transient aeroelastic gust
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Comparison of Variance-to-Mean Ratio Methods for Reparables Inventory Management
In an effort to improve aircraft availability, this research compared the efficiency of ten methods
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Validation and Assessment of DMSP Electron Temperatures in the Topside Ionosphere
Geomagnetic disturbances in the near earth space environment can adversely affect numerous military
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Environmental Impacts of Airport Operations, Maintenance, and Expansion
Funding authorization for Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) programs set forth in the Vision 10
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Ufc 3-220-05
Unified Facilities Criteria (UFC) documents provide planning, design, construction, sustainment, re
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Laser-Plasma Interactions Relevant to Inertial Confinement Fusion
The Office of Scientific & Technical Information (OSTI), is a part of the U.S. Department of Energy