Naval Postgraduate School
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Cost avoidance analysis Safe Schools Environment Program City of Salinas, California
(Monterey, California. Naval Postgraduate School, 2003-12)
There are six support programs provided to the Salinas, California K-12 School System under the Safe Schools/Healthy Students Initiative. The goal of this project is to develop quantitative estimates of the cost and the ...
FORCEnet engagement packs : "operationalizing" FORCEnet to deliver tomorrow's Naval network-centric combat reach capabilities . . . today
(Monterey, California. Naval Postgraduate School, 2003-12)
In response to the CNO's tasking to examine Sea Supremacy within the context of SEA POWER 21, SSG XXII proposed the concept of FORCEnet Engagement Packs (FnEPs). The FnEPs concept represents the operational construct for ...
Implications of Sino-American strategic competition on Southeast Asia's post-Cold War regional order
(Monterey, California. Naval Postgraduate School, 2003-12)
Southeast Asia is a maritime crossroad and an arena of strategic great power interaction. The study of international politics after the Cold War has rediscovered the importance of regional interaction as the framework for ...
Transitioning Advanced Concept Technology Demonstrations to acquisition programs
(Monterey, California. Naval Postgraduate School, 2003-12)
This thesis evaluated the Department of Defense's Advanced Concept Technology Demonstration (ACTD) process and the challenges encountered in transitioning an ACTD to an acquisition program. The methodology included case ...
A cost-benefit analysis of early graduate education programs for U.S. Naval Academy graduates
(Monterey, California. Naval Postgraduate School, 2003-12)
This thesis examined the effects of participation in early graduate education programs on retention among 1988-1996 USNA graduates. The comparison group of nonparticipants consisted of USNA graduates in the top 200 on the ...
An enhanced graphical user interface for analyzing the vulnerability of electrical power systems to terrorist attacks
(Monterey, California. Naval Postgraduate School, 2003-12)
This thesis develops a Graphical User Interface (GUI) to represent electric power grids subject to interdiction (attack) by terrorists. The work enhances the prototypic One-line Diagram (OD) representations of electric ...
Confronting cyberterrorism with cyber deception
(Monterey, California. Naval Postgraduate School, 2003-12)
This thesis concerns the possibility of deceiving cyberterrorists using defensive deception methods. As cyberspace today is a battleground for myriad cyber attacks and intrusions, it may only be a matter of time before ...
Rendering large-scale terrain models and positioning objects in relation to 3D terrain
(Monterey, California. Naval Postgraduate School, 2003-12)
Computer generated 3D graphics have been commonplace in computing since the early 1990's. However, most 3D scenes have focused on relatively small areas such as rooms or buildings. Rendering large scale landscapes based ...
A laser metrology system for precision pointing
(Monterey, California. Naval Postgraduate School, 2003-12)
Precision spacecraft payloads are driving the need for fine pointing control and vibration cancellation. One implementation that provides pointing and disturbance control is the Stewart-Gough platform equipped with active ...
Recursive parameter identification for estimating and displaying maneuvering vessel path
(Monterey, California. Naval Postgraduate School, 2003-12)
Real-time recursive parameter identification is applied to surface vessel modeling for maneuvering path prediction. An end-to end system is developed to simulate vessel motion, identify vessel parameters and estimate future ...
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