Technology & Engineering

As you should know by now, the Engineering Psychology curriculum is unique among academic fields at West Point because of its interdisciplinary and integrated electives. All cadets take the same electives in the same sequence. This design allows maximum...

As iPads and similar touch-screen devices continue to flood the market, engineering programs are seeking to integrate these platforms into student education. With total market penetration of perhaps 125 million iPads sold to date and nearly half a...

The field of control systems has witnessed an explosion in state-space techniques addressing a variety of critical design issues facing control engineers today. Modem computational tools, such as the MATRIX, . Product Family developed by Integrated...

The Naval Research Laboratory is the Department of the Navy's corporate laboratory; it is under the command of the Chief of Naval Research. As the corporate laboratory of the Navy, NRL is the principal in-house component in the Office of Naval Research's...

Previous research has shown that it is possible to use the Internet's Multicast Backbone (MBone) and associated audio/video software for the purpose of Distance Learning. As more education is performed online, the need arises to be able to view the...

This report represents the results of our audit of network and systems security at the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC). Our objective was to determine whether sufficient protections exist to prevent and detect unauthorized access into...

During a large-scale disaster, first responders face a number of different challenges. Their ability to communicate with each another is among the most critical challenges they face. If the disaster has wiped out the infrastructure that enables...

The focus of this book is to identify whether emergency management can be modeled after ant colonies, perfectly emergent organizations, in order to better manage an autonomous response. An ant colony uses a dense and resilient communications system that...

Nuclear powered submarines are most vulnerable to detection and attack while at periscope depth. Submarines also have specific communication and time requirements they have to meet and the primary method of transmitting and receiving data is via...

The purpose of this book was to perform a conceptual study of using Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) in amphibious operations. It focused on the command relations, tasking and critical problems in UAV amphibious operations. This work investigated the...

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) represent a serious threat to forward deployed forces of the United States Army. The defense against such threats is currently provided primarily by the Bradley Stinger Fighting Vehicle (BSFV). The problem addressed is how...

The current Army Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) system has two problems, 1) it does not provide for the direct distribution of live UAV video throughout command posts across their local area networks, and 2) it lacks an automated trainer. To solve the...

Dugout canoes are known worldwide, in any place where there are suitable trees, and bodies of water. The process of making them is not as simple as it seems. Hawaiians, in seeking out a tree to make dugout outrigger canoes, sought out trees that had no...

Gold Placers of the Secesh Basin, Idaho County, Idaho - by Stephen R. Capps - This District is located in the Central Idaho region and covers a larger expansive area. The Gold in the Placers has derived from both Lode Deposits as well as extensive...

What the Future May Hold For Facebook, Google, Amazon, Apple, Microsoft, Twitter and Others Via Disruptive Innovations From Mobile to Search to Ecommerce to BitcoinAlex Hammer is the CEO of Exponentials.Author: Alex HammerPublisher: Createspace...

Estimating cross-brand promotional effects with aggregate data requires knowledge of the joint distribution of each brand's promotions. While such information is available in store-level scanner data, it is not included in more aggregated scanner...

A catastrophic biological incident could threaten the Nation's human, animal, plant, environmental, and economic health, as well as America's national security. Such an event would demand a quick and effective response in order to minimize loss of life...

Information and communication technologies (ICT), like all technologies, are catalysts for political change and potential conflict. The "Internet effect" continues to fuel the explosive growth of ICT, and has enduring implications. It has sparked the...

In an ever-increasing data rich environment, actionable information must be extracted, filtered, and correlated from massive amounts of disparate often free text sources. The usefulness of the retrieved information depends on how we accomplish these...

Adequate user authentication is a persistent problem, particularly with handheld devices such as Personal Digital Assistants (PDAs), which tend to be highly personal and at the fringes of an organization's influence. Yet, these devices are being used...

The ability to identify network users based on their network behavior has both positive and negative implications. If users are tracked on the Internet without their knowledge or permission, this could be interpreted as a serious violation of their...

As technology continues to transform the workplace, demand is growing for the development, purchase, maintenance and use of information and communication technology (ICT)1 that is accessible to and usable by all applicants and employees, including...

In the online marketplace, consumers can transact business without the constraints of time or distance. One can log on to the Internet day or night and purchase almost anything one desires, and advances in mobile technology allow advertisers to reach...

A quantum computer, if built, will be to an ordinary computer as a hydrogen bomb is to gunpowder, at least for some types of computations. Today no quantum computer exists, beyond laboratory prototypes capable of solving only tiny problems, and many...

Emergency situations arise from a wide variety of natural and man-made events ranging from earthquakes and hurricanes to domestic disturbances and terrorist strikes to nuclear power accidents and airplane crashes. Information about these events can be...

The purpose of this book is to research and provide a comprehensive overview of contingency contracting practices within the United States as they apply during major disaster response scenarios. To do this, we analyzed three major disasters that occurred...

The current generation of junior officers have spent the last ten years continuously deployed with tactical units focused on stability operations for both training and execution. This has led to a significant degradation in Major Combat Operations (MCO)...

In 2015, the Federal Aviation Administration will open national airspace to unmanned aircraft systems (UAS). Nonmilitary uses for UAS range from agriculture services to entertainment purposes, and include tasks as mundane as inspecting gutters and as...

An important part of the homeland security enterprise is the ability of public officials and leaders to communicate effectively with the public. When a crisis strikes, the public's ability to understand and act upon messages provided by officials is...

Through a variety of new mobile applications ("apps"), technology is rapidly changing the way consumers shop. Today's mobile apps offer new beneficial services designed to enhance the consumer shopping experience. These apps allow smartphone users to...