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CIVIL–MILITARY COOPERATION IN HUMANITARIAN RESPONSE: AN INTERNATIONAL PRACTICES APPROACH
(Monterey, CA; Naval Postgraduate School, 2020-06)
The purpose of this research is to understand how humanitarians and militaries cooperate during humanitarian civil–military coordination in humanitarian response after the Cold War. The research evaluated the international ...
A MOVING TARGET DEFENSE SCHEME WITH OVERHEAD OPTIMIZATION USING PARTIALLY OBSERVABLE MARKOV DECISION PROCESSES WITH ABSORBING STATES
(Monterey, CA; Naval Postgraduate School, 2020-09)
Moving target defense (MTD) is a promising strategy for gaining advantage over cyber attackers, but these dynamic reconfigurations can impose significant overhead. We propose implementing MTD within an optimization framework ...
GETTING TO WAR: AMERICAN SECURITY POLICY IN THE PERSIAN GULF, 1969-1991
(Monterey, CA; Naval Postgraduate School, 2020-06)
This study examines the evolution of American security policy in the Persian Gulf from 1969 to the Gulf War of 1991. Its research question is: why, and with what consequences, did American security policy evolve from an ...
RESILIENCE ASSESSMENT OF ISLANDED RENEWABLE ENERGY MICROGRIDS
(Monterey, CA; Naval Postgraduate School, 2020-12)
The military’s installations on remote islands have the highest power costs and demand resilient and reliable power for mission assurance. These installations have no electrical connection to an external utility provider ...
SPECTRAL GRAPH-BASED CYBER DETECTION AND CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM WITH PHANTOM COMPONENTS
(Monterey, CA; Naval Postgraduate School, 2020-12)
With cyber attacks on the rise, cyber defenders require new, innovative solutions to provide network protection. We propose a spectral graph-based cyber detection and classification (SGCDC) system using phantom components, ...
Military Innovation in the Third Age of U.S. Unmanned Aviation, 1991–2015
(Monterey, California. Naval Postgraduate School, 2020-06)
Military innovation studies have largely relied on monocausal accounts—rationalism, institutionalism,
or culture—to explain technologically innovative and adaptive outcomes in defense organizations. None of
these ...
USEFUL MEASURES OF COMPLEXITY: A MODEL OF ASSESSING DEGREE OF COMPLEXITY IN ENGINEERED SYSTEMS AND ENGINEERING PROJECTS
(Monterey, CA; Naval Postgraduate School, 2021-12)
Many modern systems are very complex, a reality which can affect their safety and reliability of operations. Systems engineers need new ways to measure problem complexity. This research lays the groundwork for measuring ...
IDENTIFICATION OF BEHAVIOR PATTERNS IN SYSTEMS-OF-SYSTEMS ARCHITECTURES
(Monterey, CA; Naval Postgraduate School, 2020-03)
This dissertation presents a methodology to derive inherent behavior patterns in system-of-systems architectures. When considering the possibility of not only the intended behaviors of a system but also the alternative, ...
DYNAMICS, STABILITY, AND MAINTENANCE MECHANISMS OF SUPER LONG-LIVED OCEAN VORTICES
(Monterey, CA; Naval Postgraduate School, 2022-12)
Ocean variability in the form of coherent mesoscale eddies is still poorly understood despite more than a century of persistent interest and undeniable geophysical significance. These eddies propagate for thousands of miles ...
APPLICATIONS OF GRAPH THEORY FOR REUSE OF MODEL BASED SYSTEMS ENGINEERING DESIGN DATA
(Monterey, CA; Naval Postgraduate School, 2022-12)
This dissertation contributes to systems engineering (SE) by introducing and demonstrating a novel graph-based design repository (GBDR) tool. GBDR enables engineers to leverage system design information from a heterogenous ...
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