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Showing 1 to 20 of 36 for “"U.S. Air Force"”.
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Essential leadership competencies for U.S. Air Force wing chaplains
… essential leadership competencies for U.S. Air Force wing chaplains serving at the intersection of ministry and military leadership. The research problem is framed as a leadership development issue, recognizing the need for a leadership competency model on which to base wing chaplain …
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A comparative study and analysis of U.S. Air Force and aircraft manufacturers public relations practices
Thesis (M.S.)--Boston University
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Design & implementation of the pilot physician program for the U.S. Air Force - Air National Guard
… a pilot-physician program for the entire USAF Air National Guard – thus tapping an available, but unutilized resource. Specific aims of this program will be 1) to create a dual-designation AFSC (or to apply the existing active duty AFSC [48VX] to the ANG program) that will allow …
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Exploring the Lived Experiences of Junior U.S. Air Force Military Members: A Phenomenological Journey of Morale
… data from junior members of the United States Air Force (USAF) employed between 2- to 7-years using a semi-structured open-ended question protocol. Study participants were asked how they experienced morale, and the perceived effects on their work satisfaction, work effectiveness, and …
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The U.S. Air Force Transformed Approach to Military Family Housing: An Organizational Routine Case Study in Change and Learning
… theories, this study of the Department of the Air Force (AF) reveals how the AF used $617 million of federal funds and $8.3 billion of matching private investment to significantly upgrade or construct and manage 53,323 AF family housing units. Using an outcome-oriented process tracing …
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Senior Leadership Commitment to Continuous Process Improvement for a Culture Change: A Case Study of a U.S. Air Force Organization
The United States Air Force has been attempting to create a culture of process improvement since 1987. Several studies have claimed that a culture change cannot occur without senior leadership commitment. This research study takes an Air Force organization whose senior leaders are committed to …
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A study of the effects of acquisition policy on the climate for technological innovation in the procurement of U.S. Air Force weapon systems
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management, 1988.
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Applications of the Technology Acceptance Model to Integration of the Automatic Ground Collision Avoidance System in Fighter Aircraft Operations
<p>The leading cause of F-16 fighter aircraft and fighter pilot losses is ground collisions. In an effort to curb this hazard, an automatic ground collision avoidance system (AGCAS) was formally fielded for use in routine U.S. Air Force active-duty F-16 operations in 2014. AGCAS uses a high-level …
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Development of a Pavement Evaluation Method for Low-Volume Airfield Pavements
The U.S. Air Force has a need to predict the number of aircraft operations to failure on marginal flexible pavements. Alternate Launch and Recovery Surfaces (ALRS) are being constructed for use only when the mission-essential runways are destroyed during an attack. Since ALRS pavements will only be …
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Development of Mechanistic Flexible Pavement Design Concepts for the Heavyweight F-15 Aircraft (Airfield, Computer Design, Cbr, Algorithms)
A new configuration of the F-15 aircraft has been developed and is in use by the U.S. Air Force. This heavyweight F-15 has a 30-kip/355-psi wheel loading. A heavier-weight F-15 with 36-kip/395-psi wheel loading has been proposed for use. The F-15 will become the controlling aircraft for design of …
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Air force crew allocation and scheduling problem
This thesis addresses an airline crew allocation and scheduling problem faced by certain divisions of the United States Air Force. Three variants of the problem under consideration were posed by the Brooks U.S. Air Force Base. This thesis reports on experience with two heuristic methods developed, …
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A Decision Support Model for Large Systems Using Quality Function Deployment and Goal Programming: A Capital Budgeting Problem
… planning for the modernization of U.S. Air Force fighter aircraft requires a perception of the future tasks these aircraft will be called upon to perform, and the improvements and modifications that will be required to successfully accomplish those tasks. A great deal of research has …
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Lean transformation and relocation of jet engine assembly operations
… Risk Management (ORM) process from the U.S. Air Force together with a phased implementation approach.
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Adaptive thermal modeling architecture for small satellite applications
The United States Air Force and commercial aerospace industry recognize the importance of moving towards smaller, better, and cheaper spacecraft to support the nation's increasing dependence on space-based technologies. Whether large or small, all spacecraft will require the same basic bus systems …
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Coherent approximation of distributed expert assessments
… of events. This work was sponsored by the U.S. Air Force under Air Force Contract FA8721- 05-C-0002. Opinions, interpretations, conclusions, and recommendations are those of the authors and are not necessarily endorsed by the United States Government.
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The politics of innovative military doctrine : the U.S. Navy and fleet ballistic missiles
… were concerned about the vulnerability of U.S. Air Force land based nuclear forces to Soviet attack. Both Navy systems provided a superior alternative to bomber and ICBM weapon systems of the time, but only Polaris provoked innovative changes in U.S. nuclear doctrine. These cases of innovative …
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Development of Web-Based Educational Modules for Developing VHDL Models of Digital Systems
… effectively to reduce overall development costs. Air Force acquisition specialist for such agencies as the U.S. Air Force must be able to manage the development of VHDL models to ensure that the models delivered meet both their immediate and their future needs. In this research study, effort has …
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Tailorability-focused recommendations for United States Air Force software acquisition policy
… new guidance from the Department and the U.S. Air Force (USAF) regarding software acquisition reforms are detailed first. The existing policy is examined to identify gaps regarding tailoring development processes to different software systems. After providing context on how software is …
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Effect of false alarm rate on pilot use and trust of automation under conditions of simulated high risk
… in a high fidelity F- 16 simulator with U.S. Air Force F-16 pilots as test subjects. Three sensor false alarm rates were tested. The results showed that the level of missile warning sensor automation preferred by the pilots was strongly dependent on the false alarm rate of the automation. The …
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