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Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons and U. S. Naval Operations
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The joint modular intermodal container, is this the future of naval logistics?
… area that is prime for manpower reduction is naval logistics. JMIC, the Joint Military Intermodal Container is a combined Naval Sea Systems Command/ Office of the Chief of Naval Operations (NAVSEA/OPNAV) program that is designed to change the way the United States Navy conducts logistics. …
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The joint modular intermodal container : is this the future of naval logistics?
… area that is prime for manpower reduction is naval logistics. JMIC, the Joint Military Intermodal Container is a combined Naval Sea Systems Command/ Office of the Chief of Naval Operations (NAVSEA/OPNAV) program that is designed to change the way the United States Navy conducts logistics. …
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Η ΔΟΜΗ ΚΑΙ Η ΛΕΙΤΟΥΡΓΙΑ ΤΟΥ ΝΑΥΤΙΚΟΥ ΚΑΤΑ ΤΗΝ ΚΑΠΟΔΙΣΤΡΙΑΚΗ ΠΕΡΙΟΔΟ: ΤΑ ΧΡΟΝΙΑ ΤΗΣ ΠΡΟΣΑΡΜΟΓΗΣ (1828-1831)
… HIERARCH OATHS, PAYROLL, ETC) AS WELL AS THE NAVAL OPERATIONS AND THE STRUGGLE TO COMBAT PIRACY OF THE NEWLY FORMED NATIONAL FLEET ARE PRESENTED. THE REACTIONS OF THE HELLENIC NAVAL WORLD DUE TO THE POWER-DRAINING AWAY FROM THE TRADITIONAL NAVAL DECISION CENTRES AND THE INABILITY OF THE …
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Asymmetry of will : the effect of religious radicalism on state military doctrine
… on Iran's acceptable casualty rates for its naval operations. A successful ideologically based strategy appears to have three necessary components: terrorism as a tool for pursuing political objectives, religious ideology as a generator of potential violence, and a regime which exercises …
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Automated feature extraction in oceanographic visualization
… control such as planning of maritime and naval operations. Given the vastness of ocean, it is essential for effective ocean prediction to employ adaptive sampling to best utilize the available sensor resources in order to minimize the forecast error. It is important to concentrate …
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Autonomous vehicle systems: implications for maritime operations, warfare capabilities, and Command and Control
Military operations within the last decade have seen enormous growth in the fielding and utilization of unmanned tele-operated vehicles in the air, ground, and maritime domains. With advances in computing and processing technology, these vehicles and systems are becoming increasingly autonomous in …
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Autonomous adaptation and collaboration of unmanned vehicles for tracking submerged contacts
Autonomous operations are vital to future naval operations. Unmanned systems, including autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) and autonomous surface vehicles (ASVs), are anticipated to play a key role for critical tasks such as mine countermeasures (MCM) and anti-submarine warfare (ASW). Addressing …
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ACCELERATED NOISE INTERFEROMETRY-BASED PASSIVE ACOUSTIC CHARACTERIZATION OF THE LITTORAL OCEAN
… the applications of noise interferometry in naval operations.
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Comparison of the Observed Mixe Layer Depth in the Lee of the Hawaiian Island to the Modeled Mixed Layer Depth of the Regional Navy Coastal Ocean Model
… the lee of the Hawaiian Islands is important to naval operations because the area hosts numerous training exercises. Providing an accurate picture of the environment aids naval operators in making important tactical decisions. This study evaluates the ability of the Hawaii Regional Navy Coastal …
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Conduct Unbecoming an Officer and a Gentleman: Honour and Dishonour in the Court Martial Records of the Marines Ashore, 1783-1793
… administrative framework, its presence in key naval operations or by prioritising the nature of its amphibious warfare. Much of the historiography of the Marine Corps has tended to avoid engaging with the analytical frameworks and wider discussions linked to gender, socio-cultural, spatiality, …
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Environmental requirements for optimal naval operational efficiency
… ocean environment modelling as a part of optimal naval operational efficiency, and thus military oceanography, is evaluated. To be able to do this, the principles of knowledge-based warfare and the ability to make rapid environmental assessments, are introduced. These then form part of optimal …
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Disruptive innovation and naval power : strategic and financial implications of unmanned underwater vehicles (UUVs) and long-term underwater power sources
The naval warfare environment is rapidly changing. The U.S. Navy is adapting by continuing its blue-water dominance while simultaneously building brown-water capabilities. Unmanned systems, such as unmanned airborne drones, are proving pivotal in facing new battlefield challenges. Unmanned …
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Path planning methods for Autonomous Underwater Vehicles
From naval operations to ocean science missions, the importance of autonomous vehicles is increasing with the advances in underwater robotics technology. Due to the dynamic and intermittent underwater environment and the physical limitations of autonomous underwater vehicles, feasible and optimal …
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“THE GREAT QUESTION”: SLAVERY, SECTIONALISM, AND THE U.S. NAVAL OFFICER CORPS, 1820-1861
This dissertation analyzes how United States naval officers’ beliefs about race and slavery shaped sectionalism between the North and South in the antebellum era. As agents of the federal government operating far from the capital, naval officers had significant influence on the implementation of …
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Assessing the impact of automated path planning aids in the maritime community
… in high-end civilian vessels. In military naval operations, however, the switch to newer technology for navigation is taking longer, as there is higher risk due to the weapons and sometimes nuclear reactors onboard. There also appears to be a pervasive lack of trust in automation. In order …
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The Relevance of size: A comparison of "small" European navies in the post-Cold War period. 1990-2017
… including two major case studies: The Irish Naval Service and the Maltese Maritime Squadron. The development of these navies is examined in the period by investigating the development of their policy, assets and operational activities. This thesis also includes a number of secondary case …
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Time-Optimal Path Planning in the Portugal-Azores-Madeira Ocean Region
… transportation and distribution of goods, naval operations, search and rescue, marine pollution, ocean cleanup, conservation, and solar-wind-wave energy harvesting, among others. Our computational approach uses our MSEAS time-optimal path planning theory and schemes based on exact …
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Reachability prediction and optimal path planning for autonomous ocean vehicles
… transportation and distribution of goods, naval operations, search and rescue, detecting marine pollution, ocean cleanup, conservation, and solar-windwave energy harvesting. In this thesis, we employ the Massachusetts Institute of Technology – Multidisciplinary Simulation, Estimation, and …
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Time-optimal multi-waypoint mission planning in dynamic flow fields
… can be computed serially in real-time for common naval operations, for additional computational speed, a high-performance computing cluster was used to solve the level set calculations in parallel. This method is first applied to several hypothetical missions. The method and distributed …
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