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FLIGHT DESTINATION PREDICTION BASED ON BAYESIAN UPDATING USING ADS-B DATA
(Monterey, CA; Naval Postgraduate School, 2020-03)
The constant increase in air demand worldwide is expected to lead to a surge in traffic control, which has raised questions about air traffic safety and air traffic control efficiency. The objective of this thesis is to ...
IMPROVING U.S. NAVY SHIPBOARD HABITABILITY: EFFECTS OF LIGHT AND TEMPERATURE IN BERTHING COMPARTMENTS
(Monterey, CA; Naval Postgraduate School, 2020-03)
The safe and effective operation of U.S. Navy ships is dependent on Sailors who must stand an alert and responsive watch. When Sailors become fatigued, mishaps and accidents with grave consequences can occur. Habitability ...
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 ...
AN ADVERSARIAL BANDIT FRAMEWORK FOR PERIMETER PROTECTION
(Monterey, CA; Naval Postgraduate School, 2020-03)
This research develops a principled method to efficiently collect intelligence from strategic targets in the absence of prior information. The resulting algorithms can be employed to geo-locate and characterize targets who ...
ENHANCING LETHALITY THROUGH MARKSMANSHIP TRAINING MODERNIZATION
(Monterey, CA; Naval Postgraduate School, 2020-06)
Every Marine is a rifleman. However, the Marine Corps has failed to leverage technology to improve the art and science of marksmanship training, which has gone unchanged for almost 100 years. Marines score paper targets ...
DESIGN OF EXPERIMENTS FOR AIR LAUNCHED EFFECTS UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES
(Monterey, CA; Naval Postgraduate School, 2020-06)
America needs to rapidly inject advanced technology into its Armed Forces to put pressure on near-peer adversaries in great power competition. In one such effort, the United States Army is working to quickly and efficiently ...
LEVERAGING PREDICTIVE ANALYTICS TO ASSESS 7TH FLEET SUSTAINMENT
(Monterey, CA; Naval Postgraduate School, 2020-06)
Increasing operational availability through logistics readiness is critical to ensure maximum safety and capability of forward deployed ships. The increased operational tempo that forward deployed ships encounter causes ...
IMPACT OF JUNIOR RESERVE OFFICERS' TRAINING CORPS ON THE QUANTITY OF ENLISTMENTS
(Monterey, CA; Naval Postgraduate School, 2020-06)
The Junior Reserve Officers’ Training Corps mission is to improve the citizenship of its students, and it achieves its mission by providing leadership and military skills to our nation’s youth. However, the Army wants to ...
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 ...
MOVING THE CORPS INTO THE INFORMATION AGE: DATA-DRIVEN TRAINING STANDARDS AND ANALYTICS TO SUPPORT EVALUATION
(Monterey, CA; Naval Postgraduate School, 2020-06)
In 2014 the Marine Corps authorized the Ground Combat Element Integrated Task Force experiment. This resulted in the activation of a battalion consisting of eight combat arms Military Occupational Specialties, combat ...
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