Other technologies & applied sciences books

Lightning has an impact on Air Force operations in the air and on the ground. Delays to flight or maintenance activities...  Read More >>

Recent progress in the generation and sustainment of gas discharges at atmospheric pressure has energized research...  Read More >>

The static aeroelastic behavior of the Nighthawk mini unmanned aerial vehicle is examined using acombined experimental...  Read More >>

To support the Global Strike mission, an autonomous trajectory optimization technique is presented to minimize the...  Read More >>

The Tomahawk cruise missile, the conventional Air Launched Cruise missile, and the SCUD surface-to-surface missile...  Read More >>

The 1985 National Defense Authorization Act required the U.S. Government to maintain the public capability to sustain...  Read More >>

The Wired Garrison Communications-Electronics Design Concept incorporates technological advances to best serve Army...  Read More >>

The Air Force Institute of Technology's (AFIT) Advanced Navigation Technology (ANT) Center has recently delved into...  Read More >>

The military depends on the Global Positioning System (GPS) for a wide array of advanced weaponry guidance and precision...  Read More >>

The October 1993 Department of Defense Report on the Bottom-Up Review called for a greater reliance on commercial...  Read More >>

Development of a continuously operating pulsed detonation engine (PDE) without a high energy ignition system or...  Read More >>

The United States Army Publishing Directorate is the Army's leader in publishing and delivering informational products...  Read More >>

Beam combination was demonstrated by splitting the beam from a diode pumped Q-switched Nd: YAG laser and pumping...  Read More >>

Beginning as early as World War I, the US military has tried to apply unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) technology to...  Read More >>

It has been proposed that the implementation of a pulsed detonation combustor in a high-bypass turbofan engine would...  Read More >>

America's capability to operate in space is increasing with every passing day. Space operations are already recognized...  Read More >>

The US should fully fund the Navy CTM program over consideration of the Air Force CSM program. The Navy CTM program...  Read More >>

The Air Force and other Department of Defense (DoD) computer systems typically rely on traditional signature-based...  Read More >>

For as long as man has walked the planet, the search for greater precision has guided the development of military...  Read More >>

For a compressor disk, effective vibration suppression requires...  Read More >>

The purpose of this paper is to examine how unmanned Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance capabilities...  Read More >>

An initial design of a split flow liquid hydrogen turbopump for the Dual Expander Aerospike Nozzle (DEAN) upper...  Read More >>

This report provides a functional analysis of the Air Force evaluation system with recommendations on ways to improve...  Read More >>

Inertial navigation systems and GPS systems have revolutionized the world of navigation. Inertial systems are incapable...  Read More >>

Total Asset Visibility (JTAV) is a developing capability that will be the catalyst for major changes in logistics...  Read More >>