Theses and Dissertations
METAMORPHIC AND POLYMORPHIC TECHNIQUES FOR OBFUSCATION OF K-ARY MALICIOUS CODES
(Monterey, CA; Naval Postgraduate School, 2020-06)
K-ary malicious codes are a form of obfuscated malware in which the malicious code is distributed across K-distinct files; detecting these codes is computationally very difficult. Encryption, metamorphism, and steganography ...
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 ...
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 ...
OVERCOMING IMPLEMENTATION BARRIERS WITHIN THE FIRE SERVICE TO REDUCE FIREFIGHTER CANCER RATES
(Monterey, CA; Naval Postgraduate School, 2020-06)
Occupational cancer has become the leading cause of line-of-duty deaths within the United States fire service. This epidemic claims the lives of hundreds of firefighters each year, even though the fire service has developed ...
HOW HAS THE "AMERICA FIRST" POLICY AFFECTED THE BALANCE OF POWER IN EAST ASIA?
(Monterey, CA; Naval Postgraduate School, 2020-06)
This thesis examines the implications of President Trump's "America First" foreign policy (AFP) on the balance of power as it relates to America's hub-and-spoke alliance system in East Asia. Before the AFP, President Trump ...
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 ...
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 ...
HYDROGEN ENHANCED ATOMIC TRANSPORT: CREATING HARD TITANIUM/TITANIUM HYDRIDE BROWN BODIES AT AMBIENT PRESSURE AND TEMPERATURE GREATER THAN 650 DEGREES CENTIGRADE
(Monterey, CA; Naval Postgraduate School, 2020-06)
This thesis introduces a simple, low-temperature method called Hydrogen Enhanced Atomic Transport (HEAT) for creating metallic bonded brown bodies on the order of 40% bulk density in molds of designed shape from titanium ...
COMPUTATIONAL AERODYNAMIC ANALYSIS OF AIRFOILS FOR ENERGY-PRODUCING SAILING SHIPS
(Monterey, CA; Naval Postgraduate School, 2020-06)
The purpose of this research was to determine an airfoil configuration that produces the maximum amount of thrust on a sailboat that uses a turbine deployed in the water to collect energy. Three airfoil types were analyzed: ...
TECHNIQUES FOR THE DETERMINATION OF PARTICLE GROWTH FACTORS IN REAL TIME
(Monterey, CA; Naval Postgraduate School, 2020-06)
A technique developed by Snider and Petters in 2008 is used to determine hygroscopic growth factors of aerosol particles. Simultaneous measurements from two optical particle-size spectrometers are used, where one measures ...