Other technologies & applied sciences books

Stratospheric turbulence (Stratoturb) is a well-known hazard to aircraft in flight. Forecasting mountain waves,...  Read More >>

The United States Air Force (USAF) will face several difficult choices as it procures unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs)...  Read More >>

To increase the performance of the current US satellite launch capability, new rocket designs must be undertaken....  Read More >>

Russia is flooding world markets with military equipment. This flood of equipment is acting like a fuel source for...  Read More >>

Test and evaluation of the United States Air Force's latest aircraft escape system technology requires accurate...  Read More >>

Advective sea fog frequently plagues Kunsan Air Base (AB), Republic of Korea, in the spring and summer seasons....  Read More >>

Most objects tracked in space follow a regular Keplerian orbit; unfortunately, non-Keplerian objects such as maneuvering...  Read More >>

The United States military now has an ever-increasing dependence on its military space-based capabilities. That...  Read More >>

A controller is designed for an aircraft to autonomously fly formation during aerial refueling. Requirements for...  Read More >>

Intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs) have had and continue to have a variety of impacts on the United State...  Read More >>

Recently, the Joint Chiefs of Staff voiced concern that JV 2020 will impact future multi-national operations. Because...  Read More >>

The research presented here is a follow on to previous efforts [Pachter, Barba, 2007] in which a tight control loop...  Read More >>

A design method has been developed by which an airfoil with a substantial amount of natural laminar flow can be...  Read More >>

As the Department of Defense (DoD) moves to a capability based approach for requirements definition and system development,...  Read More >>

On September 11th 2001, Al-Qaeda used the principles of fourth generation warfare (4GW) to achieve strategic effects...  Read More >>

How ideas about aerodynamics first developed and how the science and technology evolved to forge the airplane into...  Read More >>

Airborne Laser testing and evaluation can be aided by developing a spectrally-based infrared camera simulation to...  Read More >>

In order to determine whether Reserve Component (RC) forces are essential to the task of exploiting imagery intelligence...  Read More >>

In July 1994, the Joint Staff Command, Control, Communications, Computers, and Intelligence (C4I) Directorate (J6)...  Read More >>

The United States Air Force fighter training squadrons build weekly schedules using a long and tedious process....  Read More >>

This study defines joint times-sensitive targeting, looks at a few instances of joint sensor fusion and extracts...  Read More >>

Presented in this work are the results of an investigation of alternative means for powering spacecraft and launch...  Read More >>

This research designs an off-line evolutionary system to create multi-UAV behavior capable of searching for and...  Read More >>

In the most recent years, the Command, Control and Communications, Counter Measures, Intelligence, Surveillance...  Read More >>

In support of the Air Force Research Laboratory's (AFRL) vision of the layered sensing operations center, command...  Read More >>