Theses and Dissertations
Analysis of resupply options for an armor battalion
(Monterey, California. Naval Postgraduate School, 1989-03)
Since World War II, the United States Army has been fielding combat vehicles with greater mobility, firepower, and survivability. The tactics and doctrine of the Army have become more offensively oriented to improve the ...
Comparison of Janus and field test aircraft detection ranges for the line-of-sight forward heavy system
(Monterey, California. Naval Postgraduate School, 1991-09)
The purpose of this thesis is to analyze the feasibility of accrediting the Janus combat simulation for use with an Army concept called Model-Test-Model. Aircraft detection ranges from an operational field test are compared ...
A numerical evaluation of the Liouville-Green approximation of variable-coefficient Lanchester-type equations of modern warfare
(1976-03)
This thesis evaluates the so-called Liouville-Green
approximation to the solution of variable-coefficient
Lanchester-type equations for combat between two homogeneous
forces. When compared to the form of the exact ...
Analysis of Navy aircraft engine and engine component warranties
(Monterey, California. Naval Postgraduate School, 1993-12)
Since the enactment of Title 10, Section 2403 of the United States Code in 1985, written warranty clauses have been mandated for the procurement of all major weapon systems. This thesis discusses the aircraft engine warranty ...
Identification of causes and analysis of techniques for reducing delinquent deliveries in Department of Defense production contracts
(Monterey, California. Naval Postgraduate School, 1980-12)
Approximately one in four Department of Defense production contracts are being carried in a delinquent status. These late deliveries have a value of several billion dollars, and eighty percent of the delinquent contracts ...
Moving platform simulator III: an enhanced high-performance real-time graphics simulator with multiple resolution display and lighting
(Monterey, California. Naval Postgraduate School, 1990-06)
This Thesis is a continuation of previous work conducted in the development of low cost real-time Moving Platform Simulators using three-dimensional digital terrain elevation data and a high-performance Silicon Graphics, ...
Flowfield measurements in the wake of a missile at high angle of attack
(Monterey, California. Naval Postgraduate School, 1989-09)
The flowfield about a vertically-launched surface-to-air missile model at an angle of attack of 50 degrees and a Reynolds number of 1.1x10(5) was investigated in a low-speed wind tunnel at the Naval Postgraduate School. ...
A dictionary of acquisition and contracting terms II.
(Monterey, California. Naval Postgraduate School, 1989-12)
This thesis is a continuation of research initiated by LCDR Daniel Ryan, SC, USN to establish a basis for defining words and terms used in the field of contracting. As in LCDR Ryan's thesis, this work used the methodology ...
Purpose-driven communities in multiplex networks: thresholding user-engaged layer aggregation
(Monterey, California: Naval Postgraduate School, 2016-06)
Discovering true and meaningful communities in dark networks is a non-trivial yet useful task. Because terrorists work hard to hide their relationships/network, analysts have an incomplete picture of their strategy; even ...
An introduction to human factors and combat models
(Monterey, California. Naval Postgraduate School, 1989-03)
This thesis discusses the incorporation of human factors into combat models. First, an historical perspective to determine the significant human factors reveals that human factors fall into two categories based upon when ...
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