Naval Postgraduate School
Theses and Dissertations
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Diagnosis and Analysis of Marine Corps Organizational Culture
(2015-03)
This report presents the results of a study into Marine Corps organizational
culture. This report is being submitted to the Naval Postgraduate School’s Senior
Marine in partial fulfillment of the requirements of an ...
Concept of Operations Considerations For Working With Socially Engaged Buddhists in Southeast Asia For United States Navy and Marine Corps Humanitarian Assistance and Disaster Relief Missions
(Monterey, California. Naval Postgraduate School, 2019-04)
My paper concentrated on a global development within Buddhism called Socially Engaged Buddhism (SEB), with a particular emphasis on groups in SE Asia. I have chosen to do this for a couple of reasons. First and foremost, ...
A Comparative Study of Domestic Laws Constraining Private Sector Active Defense Measures in Cyberspace
(Monterey, California. Naval Postgraduate School, 2019-05)
The U.S. private sector is under attack in cyberspace. An increasingly mainstream national security argument calls for amending U.S. law to permit private sector actors, either by themselves or under government supervision, ...
Smart utility systems for rural electric cooperatives
(Monterey, California. Naval Postgraduate School, 2019-04)
Rural communities are facing pressure to increase broadband connectivity for their residents to maintain economic growth, however, due to their low populations, broadband projects are typically not financially feasible ...
Tapping the Breaks on the "Cold Rush": How the U.S. Should Legally Prepare for Climate Changein the Arctic and Why
(Monterey, California. Naval Postgraduate School, 2019-05)
This article discusses the potential legal and environmental problems awaiting the U.S. as an Arctic nation in an era of climate change and proposes some of the simple legal fixes we could implement in the short term. The ...
Use of an Asymmetric Propeller for Unmanned Underwater Vehicles
(Monterey, California. Naval Postgraduate School, 2019-06)
This thesis describes the development and execution of a test program to determine the suitability of an asymmetric propeller for unmanned underwater vehicles (UUV). Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute reevaluated the concept ...
Optical Coordination of Surface and Subsurface Autonomous Vehicles
(2019-05)
This work focused on examining the capabilities that could be achieved by utilizing low-cost cameras as a means for a
subsurface vehicle to track a surface vehicle. Testing was performed to examine tracking algorithm ...
Risk Based Decision Making for the Deferment of U.S. Navy Submarine Maintenance
(Monterey, California. Naval Postgraduate School, 2019-09)
Maintenance of United States Navy submarines is a complex set of operations comprised of scheduling, budgeting, and
executing a continuous stream of work across multiple vessels in the same maintenance facility year after ...
United States interests in the debate on self-determination of Iraqui Kurds
(Monterey, California. Naval Postgraduate School, 2019-04)
This article will briefly examine the legal background of minority and group rights, apply those concepts to the Iraqi Kurds, and establish possible Kurdish claims under international law. Next, it will analyze the political, ...
Collaborative Scheduling Methods: The Most Collaborative and Software to Support
(Monterey, California. Naval Postgraduate School, 2019-05)
The purpose of this paper is to examine CII RT 362's proposed definition of collaborative scheduling, ﾓA comprehensive process that aligns
and engages stakeholders throughout the lifecycle of the project in order to ...