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Identifying and resolving organizational inefficiencies often requires hiring external consultants. The capabilities of collaborative crowdsourcing, however, provide an opportunity for organizations to leverage their own employees to achieve this task. We propose the development of GECKOS (Generating Employee Crowdsourced Knowledge for Organizational Solutions), a tool that integrates a wide range ...

Organizations face two existential challenges: to anticipate and create surprise. Inefficiency and ineffectiveness are inevitable outcomes of the ensuing struggle. To mitigate these outcomes, organizations increasingly seek external help and guidance. However, the rush for such assistance betrays missed opportunity. Embedded knowledge and self-actualization among members remain largely untapped re ...

As organizations grow in size and complexity, it is only natural that inefficiencies exist. One of the challenges faced by organizations is the information needed to identify, characterize, and resolve these inefficiencies is located in different stovepipes and may be biased based on a variety of factors. Both crowdsourcing and human computation research and design thinking practices have develope ...

One-size-fits-all approaches to physical fitness are characterized by extreme limitations. When not individually-tailored, workouts can be ineffective or worse: so strenuous that they lead to injuries. Advances in wearable sensors allow individuals to capture personalized data related to their own physical fitness (e.g., heart rate, step count). Unfortunately, with such an abundance of physiologic ...

Marine physical fitness is a core element of force readiness: toward an end state of a healthy and fit force able to better answer the call in any clime and place (ALMARS 022/116). Marine physical training programs must be tailored to individuals in order to maximize the physical potential of every Marine. To meet this need, Charles River Analytics proposes to design and demonstrate a prototype sy ...

This effort will leverage commercial wearable sensors to tailor physical fitness training to increase Marines physical fitness and readiness. Marines are not often given a clear set of protocols for exercises, nor given adequate tools to monitor their fitness levels. Part of this work is to align infantry task demands against physiological measures, then identify a set of devices suitable for main ...

To facilitate amphibious assault operations, the Marines need to quickly move amphibious combat vehicles (ACVs) between ships and the shore. However, due to an increased level of sophistication in the anti-ship weapons available to potential adversaries, Navy ships must remain far from shore during assault operations (i.e., many tens of miles). This creates a need for assault vehicles that can ach ...

A craft capable of transporting an ACV from a well deck ship to shore at speeds in excess of 25 knots is being proposed. This craft, referred to as a Sled, is based on the use of inflatable drop stitch panels coupled to a simple aluminum frame. This approach offers the means to collapse the sled in constituent parts that can be stored in a small volume. The propulsion system is also modularized fo ...

The overall objective of the Phase I effort is to design and develop a software-based MFA solution mobile device based on Bitcoin transaction blockchain technology and define a draft set of standards by which MFA solutions will be evaluated and accredited by Navy Approving Official.

The Multifunctional Information Distribution System (MIDS) family of terminals are utilized by the US armed forces and their allies for command, control, communications, computation, and intelligence (C4I) operations. The US Navy is currently transitioning from the MIDS-Low Volume Terminal (LVT) to the MIDS-Joint Tactical Radio System (JTRS). MIDS-JTRS allows for increased capabilities, however, t ...