Other technologies & applied sciences books

This report develops and tests a precision navigation algorithm fusing optical and inertial measurements.This algorithm...  Read More >>

The general Mission Route Planning (MRP) Problem is the process of selecting an aircraft flight path in order to...  Read More >>

This thesis presents the results of a handling qualities evaluation of a supersonic tailless air vehicle. The 2006...  Read More >>

This work investigates another way of contributing to the radar minimization solution for air vehicles in a threat...  Read More >>

The daylight passes of a low-Earth orbit satellite over a targeted latitude and longitude are optimized by varying...  Read More >>

Pulse detonation engines (PDE) capitalize on the large mass flux and pressure rise a detonation has compared to...  Read More >>

This research examined the possibility of using a non-mechanical beam steering device to steer the beam of a coherent...  Read More >>

Microbial contamination in aviation fuel arises due to the impracticality of keeping fuel tanks sterile and the...  Read More >>

The space elevator is a concept where a tether is used to lift cargo and personnel into space. This tether reaches...  Read More >>

Military operations since Desert Storm have taken an almost ultramodern style of warfare a step away from the notion...  Read More >>

The era of US global hegemony is drawing to a close. Within the next quarter century, revolutionary technological...  Read More >>

Introduction to human performance -- Fatigue operations -- Vision enhancement/refractive eye surgery -- Nuclear...  Read More >>

The Army network in Europe or 7th Army LandWarNet (7th Army LWN) is the nexus where an industrial age military command...  Read More >>

For more than 50 years the United States has explored the possibility of space borne nuclear fission reactors. The...  Read More >>

This research analyzes the use of modern Real Time Locating Systems (RTLS), such as the Global Positioning System...  Read More >>

Phase conjugation properties of stimulated Brillouin scattering (SBS) in a short multimode fiber have been investigated...  Read More >>

In an information-age military, the proper organizational orientation may no longer be one of command and control,...  Read More >>

The use of system data to make predictions about the future system state, commonly known as prognostics, is a rapidly...  Read More >>

The Defense Department has long hoped that its needs for space products and services could be supplied by an industrial...  Read More >>

A mathematical model is developed to track the amount of power delivered in a wireless laser power beaming system....  Read More >>

The author shows how, even in a future where biological weapons are proliferated to terrorists through globalization...  Read More >>

Historically, the United States Air Force (USAF) concentrates on advanced or future weaponry when it develops advanced/next...  Read More >>

Air superiority has been a near given for the US in every conflict since the Korean War. We are, however, at the...  Read More >>

The continuing rise of Chinese political and military power has made Americans suspicious of China's intentions...  Read More >>

Lessons from Operations ENDURING FREEDOM (OEF) and IRAQI FREEDOM (OIF) highlight serious shortfalls in the US airborne...  Read More >>