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Critical Design Parameters for Pylon-Aided Gaseous Fuel Injection Upstream of a Flameholding Cavity
The Air Force Institute of Technology and the AFRL are investigating means to increase the efficien
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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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Forecasting Readines
According to many experts, the readiness of America's armed forces has deteriorated throughout the
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An Investigation Into Robust Wind Correction Algorithms for Off-the-Shelf Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Autopilots
This research effort focuses on developing methods to design efficient wind correction algorithms t
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Using Lasers in Space
Orbital debris in tow-Earth orbit ranging in size from 1 to 10 centimeters (cm) in diameter, poses
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Implementation and Optimization of the Advanced Encryption Standard Algorithm on an 8-Bit Field Programmable Gate Array Hardware Platform
The contribution of this research is three-fold. The first is a method of converting the area occup
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Atmospheric Turbulence Simulation Using Liquid Crystal Spatial Light Modulators
Laser systems are finding a home in many military applications - such as Space Situational Awarenes
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USAF Aircraft Mishap Safety Investigation Boards
The United States Air Force (USAF) has a formal process for conducting investigations of its aircra
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Environmental Education Activity Kit
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) was introduced on December 2, 1970 by President Rich
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Fingerprint Analysis of Contaminant Data
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) was introduced on December 2, 1970 by President Rich
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Quality Assurance Representative's Guide
The United States Army Corps of Engineers (USACE, also sometimes shortened to CoE) is a U.S. federa
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Geosynthetic Design Guidance for Hazardous Waste Landfill Cells and Surface Impoundments
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) was introduced on December 2, 1970 by President Rich
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Limitations in Time Resolved Photoluminescence of Gallium Nitride Using a Streak Camera
Semiconductor performance is often characterized in terms of the rate at which its carrier recombin
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Daytime Detection of Space Objects
Space Situational Awareness (SSA) requires repeated object updates for orbit accuracy. Detection of
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A Nonlinear Pre-Filter to Prevent Departure And/or Pilot-Induced Oscillations Due to Actuator Rate Limiting
Closed loop instability caused by excess phase lag induced by actuator rate limiting has been suspe
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Improved Feature Extraction, Feature Selection, and Identification Techniques That Create a Fast Unsupervised Hyperspectral Target Detection Algorithm
This research extends the emerging field of hyperspectral image (HSI) target detectors that assume
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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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High Altitude Airship Station-Keeping Analysis
Lighter-than-air vehicles were once widely utilized by most major militaries. The airship's extende
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The Future of Space Exploration and Security Capabilities
This paper applies scenario-based thinking as described in Peter Schwartz's The Art of the Long Vie
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The Need for Speed
Transformation to the next level of technology is a pressing issue for the Air Force's strategic pl
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Tactical Command and Control in the Combined Arms Battalion Task Force
This monograph examines the components and relationships in the tactical command and control system
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Satellite-Based Fusion of Image/Inertial Sensors for Precise Geolocation
The ability to produce high-resolution images of the Earth's surface from space has flourished in r
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A Laboratory Course in Experimental Physics
"A Laboratory Course in Experimental Physics" offers a detailed guide to conducting physics experim
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Thermal Characterization of a Hall Effect Thruster
The thermal characteristics of a Hall thruster directly influence thruster and spacecraft design. H
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A Survey of Satellite Communications System Vulnerabilities
The U.S. military's increasing reliance on commercial and military communications satellites to ena
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Autonomy, Unmanned Ground Vehicles, and the U.S. Army
As a result of technological maturation, Congressional mandate, and battlefield use, the U.S. Army
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Optimal Coverage of Theater Targets With Small Satellite Constellations
The daylight passes of a low-Earth orbit satellite over a targeted latitude and longitude are optim
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Non Co-Operative Detection of LPI/LPD Signals via Cyclic Spectral Analysis
This research proposes and evaluates a novel technique for detecting LPI/LPD communication signals
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Operationally Responsive Space
The Department of Defense's Operationally Responsive Space (ORS) initiative is intended to develop
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The Elimination of Corrosion
United States Air Force aircraft currently average 30 years old. As this aircraft fleet continues t
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Critical Infrastructure Rebuild Prioritization Using Simulation Optimization
This thesis examines the importance of a critical infrastructure rebuild strategy following a terro
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Assessing the US's Current Ability to Understand and Test EMP Effects on Systems
During the Cold War, the United States as a nation, and its military in particular, were very focus
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Modeling Groundwater Flow and Contaminant Transport in Fractured Aquifers
The hybrid discrete fracture network/equivalent porous medium (DFN/EPM) model was selected for anal
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Common Aero Vehicle Autonomous Reentry Trajectory Optimization Satisfying Waypoint and No-Fly Zone Constraints
To support the Global Strike mission, an autonomous trajectory optimization technique is presented
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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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Atlas of the Tracks of 620 Typhoons, 1893-1918
"Atlas of the Tracks of 620 Typhoons, 1893-1918" offers a detailed historical record of typhoons in
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Scientific Research and Methodology
CRC Press 出版This textbook is designed for teaching quantitative research in the scientific, health and engineer
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Going Deep
Finding deeply buried facilities stands out as one of the toughest technical challenges in the Air
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Stochastic Estimation and Control of Queues Within a Computer Network
An extended Kalman filter is used to estimate size and packet arrival rate of network queues. These
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Customization of Discriminant Function Analysis for Prediction of Solar Flares
This research is an extension to the research conducted by K. Leka and G. Barnes of the Colorado Re
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Mission Assurance
Military organizations have embedded information technology (IT) into mission processes to increase
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Nuclear Forensics
Over the past decade, law enforcement, governmental and public agencies have been stymied by the th
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Biologically Active Substances Usable in Food, Pharmaceutical and Agrobiological Fields
CRC Press 出版This concise text on biologically active substances of the food, pharmaceutical and agricultural in
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BASINS Technical Note 6 Estimating Hydrology and Hydraulic Parameters for HSPF
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) was introduced on December 2, 1970 by President Rich
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Evaluation of a Method for Kinematic GPS Carrier-Phase Ambiguity Resolution Using a Network of Reference Receivers
New applications for GPS have driven a demand for increased positioning accuracy. The emerging GPS
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Theoretical Model Analysis of Absorption of a Three Level Diode Pumped Alkali Laser
This paper models the absorption phenomena of light in a three level diode pumped alkali laser syst
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A Line-of-Sight Sensor Network for Wide Area Video Surveillance
Substantial performance improvement of a wide area video surveillance network can be obtained with
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Computational Modeling of a Time-independent, Heterogeneous Reactor Core Using Simplified Discrete Ordinates Neutron Transport Techniques
A three-dimensional neutron transport based, heterogeneous reactor code (3D-TRAN) was developed to