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CLASSIFYING ADS-B TRAJECTORY SHAPES USING A DENSE FEED-FORWARD NEURAL NETWORK
(Monterey, CA; Naval Postgraduate School, 2020-06)
There is a recent abundance of flight trajectory data due to Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast (ADS-B) becoming a prevalent and required aviation traffic control system. Motivated by incidents like the September ...
LEVEL LOADING SURFACE SHIP MAINTENANCE AVAILABILITIES
(Monterey, CA; Naval Postgraduate School, 2020-06)
Navy surface ships need to undergo regular maintenance pier side to meet fleet operational requirements. These maintenance jobs—commonly known as maintenance availabilities—are often contracted out to private shipyards in ...
A NEW SIMULATION-OPTIMIZATION MODEL FOR WILDLAND FIRE RESOURCE PRE-POSITIONING
(Monterey, CA; Naval Postgraduate School, 2020-12)
Every day, using detailed weather forecasts, paired with reports on the moisture content of soil and vegetation, the Los Angeles County Fire Department (LACoFD) must decide where to pre-position firefighting equipment and ...
PERFORMANCE OF RANDOM SURVIVAL FORESTS WITH TIME-VARYING COVARIATES IN PREDICTION OF U.S. ARMY ENLISTED ATTRITION COMPARED TO TRADITIONAL MANPOWER ANALYSIS METHODS
(Monterey, CA; Naval Postgraduate School, 2022-12)
The importance of identifying qualified candidates and properly forecasting future manpower strength will always be critical to military recruiting and organization. The ability to assess the cross-section of covariates ...
ROBUSTIFYING SIGNAL SUBSPACE METHODS WITH GROUP SLOPE
(Monterey, CA; Naval Postgraduate School, 2022-12)
Isolating and identifying specific acoustic signals in an underwater acoustic environment is challenging due to the presence of noise and potentially interfering signals. We construct an optimization problem that includes ...
USING SUPERVISED MACHINE LEARNING METHODS TO IDENTIFY FACTORS THAT INFLUENCE THE PROBABILITY OF FUTURE TERRORIST ACTIVITIES
(Monterey, CA; Naval Postgraduate School, 2022-12)
The Defense Counter Terrorism Center (DCTC) at the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) focuses on classifying and predicting terrorist activities at a global scale. To accomplish this, DCTC analysts collect, process, and ...
ANALYSIS OF TRAINING PROGRESSION IMPACTS IN NAVAL AVIATION AT THE UNIT LEVEL
(Monterey, CA; Naval Postgraduate School, 2022-12)
In an increasingly budget-constrained environment, Naval Aviation faces the daunting challenge of both meeting vital operational requirements and maintaining a high standard of readiness while concurrently determining ...
OPTIMIZING VLS FIRING POLICY: AN ENUMERATION OF HETEROGENEOUS SEQUENCES TO INFORM EXPENDITURE
(Monterey, CA; Naval Postgraduate School, 2021-12)
The U.S. Navy (USN) utilizes the Vertical Launch System (VLS) to store and launch both their offensive and defensive missiles. Since the number of VLS silos on a given ship is fixed, to maximize offensive capability the ...
MEASURING AND MODELING POTABLE WATER DEMAND IN THE UNITED STATES VIRGIN ISLANDS
(Monterey, CA; Naval Postgraduate School, 2020-06)
This thesis uses a data-driven and model-based approach to measure and estimate potable water flows in the United States Virgin Islands (USVI). The USVI potable water system is considerably more complicated than typical ...
IMPROVING AUTOMATED SCHEDULES FOR NAVAL AIR STATION KINGSVILLE
(Monterey, CA; Naval Postgraduate School, 2021-03)
Currently, many squadrons in the Naval Aviation community handwrite their daily flight schedules, which is typically an all-day effort. This thesis creates an optimization model to build schedules computationally instead ...
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