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Air Forces AFRL/ML Nanotechnology R&D Efforts to Advance Aerospace Systems for the Next Century This is an article published in the Amptiac Quarterly in 2004 issue (Volume 8, No. 2) and has been prepared by Benjamin D. Craig and Richard A. Lane. The Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) has been involved with numerpus projects in nanotechnology, researching and developing new technologies to advance the military aerospace capabilities. This article contains an overview of their recent nanotechnology research intended to support aerospace applications; it is broken up into sections covering four technology areas including fabrication methods, materials, functional devices, and modeling and simulation. The full text of the article is available as PDF document. Air Force Association The US Air Force Association (AFA) is an independent, nonprofit, civilian education organisation promoting public understanding of aerospace power and the pivotal role it plays in the security of the US. Their web site describes the work of the association and is organised according to three key ideas - educate, advocate and support. The most recent issues of the digital version of Air Force Magazine, the monthly journal of the AFA are available in PDF format. Older issues are indexed back to 1955, with selected articles available in full. A daily report is also available. This focuses on information about the US Air Force, airpower, and national defence. It is produced by the staff of Air Force Magazine and is posted online from Monday to Friday. Air Force Research Laboratory The United States Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) is situated at Wright- Patterson Air Force Base. This website provides information concerning the AFRL headquarters, including details of its reading room, corporate strategy, organisation, symposiums, seminars and conferences. There are also links to the AFRL's various directorates: air vehicles, directed energy, human effectiveness, information, materials & manufacturing, munitions, propulsion, sensors and space vehicles. Air Force Service Procurement. Approaches for Measurement and Management This technical report (MG-299-AF) was published by The RAND Corporation in 2005 and was written by Laura H. Baldwin, John A. Ausink and Nancy Nicosia. To assist the Air Force in the process of changing the way it purchases services, this report reviews related commercial sector practices and suggests metrics to track progress and refine services procurement efforts over time. [Taken from abstract]. This is a PDF file, so Adobe Acrobat software will be required in order to read it. Air Power Development Centre : 2000 Air Power Conference : Air Power and Joint Forces The 2000 Air Power Conference was organised by the Royal Australian Air Force and was held in Canberra over the period 8-9 May 2000. The theme was air power and joint forces and the challenges this brings - command, organisation, cooperation, planning, force balance and threat prosecution. The objective of the conference was to discuss and analyse those kinds of challenges. Topics addressed include globalisation, the evolution of the joint force, air power and asymmetric threats, the military use of space, air exclusion zones, the role of the media, command and leadership, and ethics and the profession of arms. An Assessment of Air Force Data on Contract Expenditures This technical report (MG-274-AF) was published by The RAND Corporation in 2005 and was written by Lloyd Dixon, Chad Shirley, Laura H. Baldwin, John A. Ausink and Nancy F. Campbell. For the past several years, the U.S. Air Force has been using data from the Individual Contracting Action Report form, also known as the DD350, to analyze its goods and services expenditures. For this study, the authors collected data from Air Force contracting officers on a sample of fiscal year 2002 (FY02) DD350 records to assess the adequacy and accuracy of DD350 data for conducting expenditure analyses. The authors then extrapolated their findings from the sample to reflect all Air Force FY02 DD350 contract actions. [Taken from abstract]. This is a PDF file, so Adobe Acrobat software will be required in order to read it. Annual Report to the President and the Congress 1998 Report by the Secretary of State of Defense, W.S. Cohen, on future US defense strategy, readiness, conventional and nuclear forces, information superiority, total force integration, the revolution in military affairs, acquisition reform and defense infrastructure. Annual Reports to the President and Congress Also known as the Annual Defense Report, this is the report by Secretary of Defense which details the Department's capabilities, and present and future US defence strategy. Full text annual reports are available from 1995 to the present year online. There are also details on how to order hard copies of the reports. Armies, Stealth Fighters, and Homeland Defence Written in 2002 by Alan Stephens, this an Australian Air Power Development Centre working paper, number 5. The author believes that modern day defence forces must adapt to the new defence environment created by terrorist attacks such as the 11th September 2001 attacks, arguing that asymmetric aerospace power has been the key to victory in a succession of campaigns, have been quick, decisive, and low casualty. Beyond Close Air Support. Forging a New Air-Ground Partnership This technical report (MG-301-AF) was published by The RAND Corporation in 2005 and was written by Bruce R. Pirnie, Alan Vick, Adam Grissom, Karl P. Mueller and David T. Orletsky. Operations in Afghanistan and Iraq have renewed interest in close air support and the integration of air and ground power. In particular situations, either might predominate, and their relationship is likely to shift over the course of a campaign. This report addresses three questions: (1) How should air attack and ground maneuver be integrated? (2) How should the terminal attack control function be executed? (3) How should ground maneuver/fires and air attack be deconflicted? It recommends that the Army and the Air Force work together to develop new concepts and technologies to improve the partnering of air and ground. It recommends new processes to effectively designate targets and improved control mechanisms to exploit the benefits of the digital battlefield. [Taken from abstract]. This is a PDF file, so Adobe Acrobat software will be required in order to read it. Combat Support Execution Planning and Control : Assessment of Initial Implementations in Air Force Exercises This gives access to a Rand Organization technical report written by Kristin Lynch and William Williams dated 2009. Operations in Serbia in 1999 revealed issues with combat support execution planning and control. RAND Project Air Force (PAF) analyzed the then-current operation architecture and developed a future (“TO-BE”) architecture. As part of this continuing effort, PAF and Air Force personnel formed an assessment team to observe two command post exercises, Terminal Fury 2004 and Austere Challenge 2004, that offered an operational environment in which to evaluate Air Force progress in implementing the TO-BE. The exercises highlighted opportunities in three areas — organizational structure, systems and tools, and training and education — in which continuing implementation of the TO BE architecture should improve productivity and enhance decision making. [Taken from abstract]. The full text is available in PDF format so Adobe Acrobat software is required in order to read it. Contrails This is a web page devoted to useful information for Air Force Personnel, produced by the Aerospace Power Journal. It contains detailed information about weather, news (Air Force and military, and United Nations). There are links to sites useful for professional development, papers from the Airpower Research Institute and professional electronic journals. There is information about doctrine and links to doctrine centres and training centres. U.S. government web sites are listed and linked and there are details of forthcoming conferences and symposia. DefenseLINK - Publications This facility provides a list of publications that are popular information resources published by the US Department of Defense (DoD). There are links to the full text versions. The list is divided into the following headings - general interest, (which contains dictionaries, journals and statistics) and forms and reports. This site also offers archived publications, a search engine, an image archive and news articles from the American Forces Press Service and official DoD releases. It is possible to subscribe to receive email notifications from both of these services. Department of Defense Web Site Registration System This site provides links to information sources available from the US Department of Defense offices and agencies. It is the central registration point for official US DoD web sites. It covers the Army, Navy, Marine Corps and Air Force as well as other DoD web sites and information sources. There is also a Freedom Of Information Act (FOIA) electronic reading room which contains links to documents and information on sources for further reading. The listings can be browsed or searched. Fair Opportunity Within Federal Contracting: Delphi Study of Justice This is the full text of a thesis by John Wodochek which was presented to the Air Force Institute of Techn ology (AFIT) in 2004. A Delphi study was conducted to determine whether federal contracting officers have a common definition of fair opportunity. Specifically, federal contracting officers (n=17) from the Air Force Center for Environmental Excellence and the Naval Facilities Engineering Command were surveyed to identify a set of factors that influence task order award decisions against multi-award contracts. Fair opportunity was evaluated using a procedural justice framework, in which contracting officers? application of policies in place were studied. A list of 11 factors detailing selection criteria were established for task order selection, yet only 1 factor (Management plan is an important selection criteria) attained consensus among panel members. Eighteen additional task order placement factors were identified, none of which attained consensus. The results of this study indicate that there is no common definition of fair opportunity within federal task order contracting using multi-award contracts for environmental remediation. [Taken from abstract]. The full text of the thesis is available in PDF format and is provided by the Air University ResearchWeb site. Initial Top-Level Characterisation of the Air Force Sustainment System This working paper (ESD-WP-06) was published by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Engineering Systems Division in 2001 and was written by Kirk Bozdogan and Joseph Sussman in collaboration with Thomas Allen and Wesley Harris. The first part of the paper gives an overview of the proposed conceptual framework for system characterisation. the second part presents an initial top-level characterisation of the system by using this framework, and offers some preliminary suggestions or recommendations. Finally, next steps in the research process are outlined, placing the paper in the large context of the task on system characterisation and transformation. [Taken from abstract]. This is in PDF format so Adobe Acrobat software will be required in order to read it. Measuring Small Business Participation in Air Force Contracting:Impact of Acquisitions Reform This is the full text of a thesis by William C. Pike which was presented to the Air Force Institute of Technology (AFIT) in 2004. Congress has mandated the Air Force to reform and streamline its acquisition procedures while promoting participation by small business contractors. Reports on the federal government as a whole suggest that the acquisition reforms have had a negative effect on small business participation, with a declining number of small businesses receiving contract awards. Contracting with small business should be done for reasons beyond Congressional mandates. Small businesses' innovativeness and entrepreneurialism provide benefits that the Air Force should seek to maximize. A causal regression model is used to determine that the Air Force has actually increased the number of small businesses receiving contract awards over the past thirteen years and has maintained a steady stream of new small businesses into that group. Variables are tested to determine their effect on small business participation. Those tests reveal that number of contract awards and number of government-wide agency contract orders placed are useful for predictive purposes. The research also identifies two performance measurements for the Air Force small business office: total number of small business contractors and total number of new small business contractors. Goals for these metrics and strategies to reach those goals should be developed by the small business program. [Taken from abstract]. The full text of the thesis is available in PDF format and is provided by the Air University ResearchWeb site. National Academies : Air Force Science and Technology Board (AFSTB) The US Air Force Science and Technology Board (AFSTB) of the National Academies serves as a convening authority for the discussion of science and technology issues of importance to the Air Force and oversees independent studies conducted by the National Academies. In its study oversight role, the AFSTB takes into account public policy, as well as scientific and engineering considerations. The site provides links to full text reports published by the AFSTB since 1990 in both HTML and PDF format. NORAD : North American Aerospace Defence Command Formed in 1958, NORAD is a partnership between Canada and the United States to protect the American and Canadian airspace. The web site contains information on NORAD and a brief history, news articles, fact sheets on NORAD interceptor flares and fighter aircraft. There is also a multimedia section which contains images, sound files and film clips about NORAD missions. Photovault Military Images This site provides a selection of military images relating to vehicles (air force, naval aviation, submarines, aircraft carriers, hovercraft), people (Army, Navy, Marines, Coastguard) and the environment (the results of nuclear explosions and military damage). Review of the Future of the U.S. Aerospace Infrastructure and Aerospace Engineering Disciplines to Meet the Needs of the Air Force and the Department of Defense This book was published in 2001 by the Committee on the Future of the U.S. Aerospace Infrastructure and Aerospace Engineering Disciplines to Meet the Needs of the Air Force and the Department of Defense, Air Force Science and Technology Board, National Research Council. The report presents the results of a study into the prospects of the Air Force maintaining its leadership in the U.S. aerospace industry. It is available in HTML format. Rome Research Site The Rome Research Site is part of the US Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL). It houses the AFRL Information (IF) Directorate and a portion of the AFRL Sensors (SN) Directorate. This page provides a tour of the site, plus details of its history, technical library and shipping office. There is also a link to the Information Institute - a virtual IS research environment. Information can also be reached concerning the AFRL mission, headquarters and directorate. Sharing Success - Owning Failure : Preparing to Command in the Twenty-First Century A discussion about themes central to successful squadron command in the air force. The publication looks at military leadership and command of troops and the challenges they pose. It aims to provide an overview of the requirements of squadron command in the United States Air Force. The Air Force Pilot Shortage : A Crisis for Operational Units? This is the full text of a report (number MR-1204-AF) from the RAND think tank. It is available in PDF format and was published in 2000 and is written by William W. Taylor, S. Craig Moore and C. Robert Roll. The report discusses the shortage of experienced pilots that the US Air Force is facing, concentrating on operational fighter units. It quantifies the problems and examines options that can alleviate them. Towards Managing Uncertainty : Coupling Experimentation with Rapid Prototyping Written by Peter Layton in 2003, this is working paper number 7 from the Australian Air Power Development Centre. The paper proposes a system of aerospace force experimentation tightly coupled with rapid prototyping as a coping strategy to manage uncertainty by developing flexibility as a major attribute. U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) Image Archive Includes images of projects, satellites, and logos and patches of the AFRL. Site links to the AFRL Headquarters and further information about AFRL organisations and technology transfer. U.S. Air Force Sites (AirForceLink) Air Force Sites is part of the Air Force Link site, the official website for the U.S. Air Force. This page provides an alphabetical listing of more than 600 official public Air Force sites. These include; the Headquarters of the United States Air force, Air Combat Command (ACC), Air Education and Training Command (AETC), Air Force bands, Air Force Materiel Command (AFMC), Air Force Reserve Command (AFRC), Air Force Reserve Officer Training Corps (AFROTC), Air Force Space Command (AFSPC), Air Force Special Operations Command (AFSOC), Air Mobility Command (AMC), Air National Guard (ANG), Direct Reporting Units (DRUs), Field Operating Agencies (FOAs), Pacific Air Forces (PACAF), United States Air Forces in Europe (USAFE). U.S. Air Force Air Force Link is the official website of the U.S. Air Force. It provides the latest news, as well as information about careers, a library (of public websites) and an image gallery. It is also possible to reach information about the Department of the Air Force, the Pentagon, the Unified Combatant Commands, the Air Force Reserve and the Air National Guard. There are links to other related sites including the full text of the report Air Force Vision 2020, and the electronic journal Airman Magazine. United States Air Force Academy The United States Air Force Academy (USAFA) develops aerospace officers. This site provides academic information concerning military education, the library, and programmes. Details are also given about the USAFA and its history, news and USAFA organisations. The 10th Air Base Wing is also covered on this site. Other areas include admissions, alumini, cadet life, current events and information resources. United States Air Force Air War College The U.S. Air Force Air War college educates senior air force officers at a strategic level, in the use of aerospace forces, including joint operations, in support of national security. This site provides information about the college's values and strategy, and its resident programme. The college also includes the Center for Strategy and Technology and the United States Air Force Counterproliferation Center. There is information about the Air War College nonresident studies, research sites, USAF issues and health issues. Details are also available concerning the alumini association and spouses of Air War college students. There is a link to a gateway of internet resources. US Air Force Handbook This site provides the full text of current United States Air Force handbook in PDF format. The 153 page document enlarges the organisation's mission and vision statements, air force employee statistics and demographics, readiness, modernisation, and summary details of all in-service aircraft types and key programmes. US Air Force Publishing This site is the official source for US Air Force administative publications and forms. It is necessary to open an account in order to order and view publications. These can be found by using either the Master Catalog or by using a quick search option. Copies of forms are available for downloading, in addition to doctrine documents, mission directives, recurring periodicals, and indexes. |
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