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...ission planning, and limited decentralization, with mission-type orders and commander’s intent transmitted to lower echelons. Solutions for improving assessment include delegating target assessment functions to the wings, focusing theater-level intelligence personnel on mission assessment, using statistical and effects-based evaluation techniques, using Air Force Special O...

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...aft in ways that truly enhance force application and mobility operations without unduly undermining one in favor of the other? The answer, because of technology enhancements and budget constraints, is definitely yes. The second question targets technology, specifically, by asking whether engineers could place some elements of both missions on a single aircraft? Again, the ...

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...1 INTRODUCTION . . . . . .1 Notes . . . . . . . . . .3 2 OPERATIONAL UTILITY . . . .5 Notes . . . . . . 17 3 TECHNOLOGICAL ASSESSMENT . . . . 19 Notes . . . . .28 4 BUDGETARY AND OPERATIONAL CONSIDERATIONS . . . .31 Notes . . . .41 5 CONCLUSIONS . . . .43 Notes . . . . .45...

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...ing needs better design or new recommendation on how do the process areas are selected and used.There is a growing need for Engagement level Maturity assessment from users. In High Maturity Organizations we typically see a number of Process Performance Baselines, Process Performance Models, Causal analysis Reports, Innovation Boards and capable Process to deliver Results....

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...and scientific information for improving the quality of cattle hides through tracing back to the origins of problems in the transaction chain, visual assessment of hide defects as well as identification of their primary causes was carried out on both green hides and wet-blue leathers. The defects most readily seen on green hides were knife defects from manual flaying, bran...

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...ty 141 Hide Moisture Content 143 Moisture after Tanks and Drum Salting 147 Estimating Hide Moisture 148 Recap 152 Chapter 6 – Hide Damage by Visual Assessment 156 Identification and Recording of Hide Damage 157 Learning from Others 158 Useable Hide Area 159 Visual Assessment of Damage in Green Hides 160 Visual Assessment of Damage on Wet-blue Leather 164 Scoring System ...

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... Notes . . . . . . 25 4 THE JTCB’S FUTURE EFFECTIVENESS . . . . . . 27 Assumptions . . . . . . 28 Methodology . . . . . . 29 Analysis . . . . 30 Assessment . . . 44 Notes . . . . . . 46 5 RECOMMENDATIONS . . . . . 51 Recommendation Number One . . . . 51 Recommendation Number Two . . . . 53 Recommendation Number Three . . . 53 Notes . . . . . . 54...

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...This study analyzes how real-time battle damage assessment (BDA) might contribute to airpower strategy and execution. It provides a historical review of BDA during World War II, Vietnam, and the Persian Gulf War and examines the current BDA doctrine, capabilities, and proc...

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...1 INTRODUCTION . . . . 1 2 HISTORY OF BOMB DAMAGE ASSESSMENT . . . . 3 3 BATTLE DAMAGE ASSESSMENT TODAY . . . . . 15 4 POTENTIAL SOLUTIONS . . . . . . . . 27 5 IMPLICATIONS FOR AIRPOWER . . . . . . 47 GLOSSARY . . . . 55...

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...87 Col Christopher M. Campbell 5 Executing Deliberate Force, 30 August–14 September 1995 . . . . . . . . . 131 Lt Col Mark J. Conversino 6 Combat Assessment: A Commander’s Responsibility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177 Maj Mark C. McLaughlin 7 Assessing the Effectiveness of Deliberate Force: Harnessing the Political-Military Connection . . . . . . . . . . . . ...

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...There is a story that still needs to be told about the Air Force contribution to—and shaping by—arms control. The ability to make these assessments did not blossom overnight. This book captures the story of a young Air Force’s initial (and limited) impact on arms-control negotiations and outcomes. It goes on to document a growing awareness by the service that...

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...s (RPV) for strategic offensive airpower. The author first outlines the historical base of the larger category of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV). The assessment of this background is that limited UAV development is primarily due to circumstantial historical events, including lack of user support, as opposed to techno-logical restraints. Second, the author addresses strateg...

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...This study asks how effectively has the USAF incorporated the concept of effects-based operations into its procedures for targeting and combat assessment. To answer this question, the study defines effects-based targeting, asserting that commanders should direct airpower against targets in ways that produce specific, predetermined, military, and political effects. T...

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...’ Tale: An Allegory, 83 6 I Got a Mashup, 122 7 The Enclosure of Science and Technology: T wo Case Studies, 160 8 A Creative Commons, 179 9 An Eviden... ...ty and the public domain is important in every area of culture, science, and technology. As a result, it ranges widely in subject matter. Yet readers ... ...t and the decoding of the human genome? We could turn to the cutting edge of technology or to economics or information theory. But none of those would... ...nfor- mation superhighway” that it was presumed would replace the “immature” technology of the Net. The government was wrong about that, and about a l... ... suggested that while any potential loss to rights holders caused by the new technology needed to be countered with new rights and new protections, an... ...t once courts and legislatures accepted that software is copyrightable, that assessment changed. The levers and cogs of the machines of the modern eco... ...limit is better? Once one asks that question, the Gowers Review’s eco- nomic assessment is overwhelming, as the Select Committee itself recognized. In... ...s an empirical question, even if we turned to data rather than faith for our assessments, reasonable people would disagree about much. Some of the mos... ... an intense concern about state monopolies. One can still disagree with this assessment, of course; one can interpret Madison’s words this way or that...

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.... . . . . .38 What's the Difference? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .43 3 ANALYSIS AND ASSESSMENT . . . . . . . . . . .45 Monetary Costs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46 Acquisition Costs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48 Basic Skill Level Training Costs . . . . . . . . . 48 Total Acquisiti...

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...controversial topic, such as the Stanford Achievement Test (vol. 5, spring), the viewpoints of a wide range of people—legislators, parents, students, assessment experts, the state superintendent of education, the chair of the board of education, and so forth—were included. The Journal was readable and interesting to a wide audience because of its use of plain language, i...

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...ho loved and cared for him through what felt like irrelevant school experiences, to his education aboard the Hokulea. In “A Hitchhiker's Guide to Technology,” Ian Jamieson shows us how to make a subject—as abstract and difficult as physics—applicable and meaningful. A physicist at Punahou School, Ian teaches in unexpected ways and with unusual tools. Sierra Knight...

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...Introduction. 3 -- The Ocean Is My Classroom-Gisela E. Speidel & Kristina Inn Fall 1994. 7 -- A Hitchhiker's Guide To Technology-Ian Jamieson Summer 1995. 19 -- Home Schooling: A Way Of Life L.-Sierra Knight Fall 1994. 31 -- Learning And Teaching The Hula-Mele Ah Ho Fall 1994. 41 -- Information Literacy: A Challenge For Critical Thinking-Ela...