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AUTOMATION AND ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE FOR NAVAL ISR: U.S. NAVY VS. CHINA’S NAVY
(Monterey, CA; Naval Postgraduate School, 2020-06)
The U.S. Navy faces challenges as it moves toward automating the maritime battlespace and risks falling behind its rising great power competitor, the People’s Liberation Army Navy (PLAN). How are the U.S. Navy and the PLAN ...
A STATISTICAL ANALYSIS AND ASSESSMENT OF THE IMSI-CATCHING THREAT AGAINST MOBILE SECURITY STANDARDS
(Monterey, CA; Naval Postgraduate School, 2020-06)
International mobile subscriber identity (IMSI) catching is a man-in-the-middle attack that utilizes rogue base stations to intercept the IMSIs of mobile users. Attackers can use software-defined radios (SDR) and open ...
ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING OF SILICON CARBIDE (SIC) CERAMIC ROCKET NOZZLES
(Monterey, CA; Naval Postgraduate School, 2020-06)
Rocket motor nozzles are typically made of materials such as graphite and fiber-reinforced phenolics or epoxies with low erosion rates, relatively low manufacturing costs, and/or reduced weight. Additive manufacturing (AM) ...
INFORMATION SHARING WITHIN THE FLTCYBERCOM/C10F ORGANIZATION
(Monterey, CA; Naval Postgraduate School, 2020-06)
Effective information sharing between various commands is essential for an organization to effectively and efficiently meet the mission. The U.S. Fleet Cyber Command/U.S. 10th Fleet (FLTCYBERCOM/C10F) organization, per ...
ANALYSIS OF PRICE AND PROGRAM GROWTH IN OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE, NAVY
(Monterey, CA; Naval Postgraduate School, 2020-06)
For decades, operation and maintenance (O&M) has been growing as a share of the defense budget. To understand the drivers of that growth, we examined OP-32 and OP-32A data, which are the summary of price and program changes ...
CHARACTERIZING INFORMATION LEAKAGE FROM USER DEFINED INPUT EVENTS
(Monterey, CA; Naval Postgraduate School, 2020-06)
Computer operators cannot comprehend the amount of identifying information that a single machine regularly broadcasts over the internet. These seemingly benign bits of information have the ability to create unintended and ...
ROBOTIC NAVIGATION IN GPS-DENIED ENVIRONMENTS USING THE STRAPDOWN NAVIGATION ALGORITHM WITH ZERO-VELOCITY UPDATES
(Monterey, CA; Naval Postgraduate School, 2020-06)
GPS-denied environments, including indoor, urban canyon, and shipboard settings, present difficulties for autonomous robot navigation. One navigation solution in GPS-denied environments is to incorporate inertial sensors; ...
MODELLING THE PERFORMANCE OF AND ANALYZING THERMAL RADIANCE REDUCTION BY A WATER-COOLED THERMOELECTRIC WASTE HEAT HARVESTING SYSTEM AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF AN AIR-COOLED HEAT SINK REPLACEMENT
(Monterey, CA; Naval Postgraduate School, 2020-06)
Propulsion and electrical generator systems that utilize fossil fuels experience losses in efficiencies due to waste heat. While there are a number of ways to recover some of this waste heat, this research focuses on a ...
SUBMARINE MAN-DAY GROWTH AT PEARL HARBOR NAVAL SHIPYARD
(Monterey, CA; Naval Postgraduate School, 2020-06)
The objective for this thesis project is to attempt to identify why 688 class submarine Docking Selected Restricted Availabilities (DSRAs) at Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard (PHNSY) are growing in man-days every year. The ...
ACOUSTIC NOISE INTERFEROMETRY
(Monterey, CA; Naval Postgraduate School, 2020-06)
Acoustic noise interferometry uses long time series recordings of ambient and shipping noise, which are concurrently captured at two locations, to measure the acoustic Green’s function. With this technique, each hydrophone ...
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