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RESEARCHERS ARE DEVELOPING AND VALIDATING A MEASURE OF TEAM LEADERSHIP ABILITY. OVER THE PAST DECADE, MANY ORGANIZATIONS HAVE IMPLEMENTED INNOVATIVE WORK PRACTICES IN RESPONSE TO GROWING COMPETITION AND OTHER MODERN CHALLENGES IN THE MARKETPLACE. AMONG THESE INNOVATIVE PRACTICES IS THE IMPLEMENTATION OF SELF-DIRECTED WORK TEAMS. TO REAP THE BENEFITS OF THIS PRACTICE, IT IS IMPORTANT THAT ORGANI ...

One of the biggest problems faced by both military and non-military personnel in planning and conducting Operations Other Than War (OOTW) and Law Enforcement (LE) is a lack of cultural awareness. A lack of cultural awareness in OOTW causes misplanning and misinterpretation in the areas of economics, politics, religion, and historical events. The objective of the proposed work is to produce a des ...

THIS PROPOSAL ADDRESSES THE TECHNICAL CHALLENGE TO U.S. INDUSTRY FOR DEVELOPMENT OF CONTROL SYSTEMS THAT ARE ADAPTABLE TO CHANGES IN THE COMPLEX MULTIPLE, CONCURRENT PROCESSES OF A SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING ENVIRONMENT. THE PROPOSED WORK IS EXPLORATORY RESEARCH WHICH WILL RESULT IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF AN ABSTRACT SETTING FOR THE CONTROL SYSTEMS, INVOLVING A THREE TIER HIERARCHICAL APPROACH, WITH ...

This project is dedicated to the development of an adaptive network security management tool that is analogous to implementing and incident/response paring mechanism on top of a universal remote control facility for a variety of network and security tools, network types and operating systems. Our proposed approach to accomplishing this is to integrate and agent architecture with a Case-Based Reas ...

Mountain Wave, Inc. proposes to investigate the development of an automated network security management product that would allow personnel within an Information Technology (IT) organization to combine information from heterogeneous sources into an integrated application that captures business processes and automates tasks to "prevent" potential security violations. This product will: be "extensib ...

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THERE IS CURRENTLY GREAT DEMAND FOR A MATERIAL WITH SUPERIOR MECHANICAL PROPERTIES THAT CAN BE MAINTAINED TO HIGH TEMPERATURES. SILICON NITRIDE HAS BEEN IDENTIFIED AS ONE OF THE MOST PROMISING CERAMICS TO MEET THESE MATERIAL REQUIREMENTS. TO DATE, RESEARCH ON SI3N4 CERAMICS HAS RESULTED IN SUPERIOR ROOM TEMPERATURE PROPERTIES BUT RETENTION OF THESE PROPERTIES TO HIGH TEMPERATURES HAS NOT BEEN AC ...

The firm proposes to develop an advanced software capability for the control and monitoring of turbine engines. This effort is aimed at the near-term deployment of ensuing technologies on a low-cost helicopter engine. The effort will be embedded in the T800 engine commercialization project led by the Allison Engine Company. The reasons for the high cost of engine controls are two fold: first, r ...

Aurora Flight Sciences, with expertise in designing and manufacturing low Reynolds number high-altitude aircraft, proposes to develop new aerodynamics computational tools and flight control solutions to enable the development of 15cm and smaller hovering micro unmanned aerial vehicles (MUAV)s. The objective of this project is to validate the analytical approach, and refine the proposed MUAV desig ...

THE HYDROXYL RADICAL (OH) PLAYS A KEY ROLE IN THE PHOTOCHEMISTRY OF BOTH THE TROPOSPHERE AND THE STRATOSPHERE. IT IS THE PRIMARY OXIDIZING AGENT RESPONSIBLE FOR THE REMOVAL OF MOST TRACE GASES INCLUDING CO AND CH4. SINCE THE OH RADICAL DETERMINES THE LIFETIMES AND, THUS, THE CONCENTRATIONS OF MANY CHEMICAL SPECIES, ACCURATE DETERMINATION OF OH CONCENTRATION IS PIVOTAL IN UNDERSTANDING ATMOSPHERI ...