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Designing an Adaptive System
Traditionally, engineering education books describe and reinforce unchanging principles that are basic to the field. However, the dramatic changes in ...
The International Space Station (ISS) is truly an international undertaking. The project is being led by the United States, with the participation of ...
Prepared at the request of NASA, Aeronautical Technologies for the Twenty-First Century presents steps to help prevent the erosion of U.S. dominance i...
Achieving the Vision, Phase 1
Advances in the capabilities of technologies applicable to distributed networking, telecommunications, multi-user computer applications, and interacti...
Advanced Engineering Environments: Phase 2
America is changing. Many of the most noticeable changes in day-to-day life are associated with the advancing capabilities of computer systems, the gr...
Technical and Institutional Options for the Future
The construction of nuclear power plants in the United States is stopping, as regulators, reactor manufacturers, and operators sort out a host of tech...
A Shared National Asset
The Global Positioning System (GPS) is a satellite-based navigation system that was originally designed for the U.S. military. However, the number of ...
Advances in materials science and engineering have paved the way for the development of new and more capable sensors. Drawing upon case studies from m...
The U.S. shipbuilding industry now confronts grave challenges in providing essential support of national objectives. With recent emphasis on renewal o...
Forging Stronger Links to Users
Materials are the foundation and fabric of manufactured products. In fact, many leading commercial products and military systems could not exist witho...
While major oil spills are rare, oil slicks can have disastrous environmental and economic consequences. This book summarizes research on the use of c...
This book reviews the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration's (NASA) small spacecraft technology development. Included are assessments of...
Understanding and Preventing Unfavorable Pilot-Vehicle Interactions
Adverse aircraft-pilot coupling (APC) events include a broad set of undesirable and sometimes hazardous phenomena that originate in anomalous interact...
Extending the life of an airframe has proven challenging and costly. Extending the life of an avionics system, however, is one of the most critical an...
Technology Development and Test Program
The key to opening the use of space to private enterprise and to broader public uses lies in reducing the cost of the transportation to space. More ro...
The selection of the proper materials for a structural component is a critical activity that is governed by many, often conflicting factors. Incorpora...
The Live Fire Test Law mandates realistic survivability and lethality testing of covered systems or programs. A provision of the law permits the Secre...
Transfer of Blast-Effects Mitigation Technologies from Military to Civilian Applications
This book provides a brief overview of worldwide terrorist activity and reviews technologies and methods for designing blast resistant buildings. Thes...
Safety and Reliability Issues
The nuclear industry and the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (USNRC) have been working for several years on the development of an adequate process ...
Wind-driven power systems represent a renewable energy technology. Arrays of interconnected wind turbines can convert power carried by the wind into e...
Advanced Materials and Fabrication Methods
Microelectromenchanical systems (MEMS) is a revolutionary field that adapts for new uses a technology already optimized to accomplish a specific set o...
Report of a Workshop
In the next several decades, a significant percentage of the country's transportation, communications, environmental, and power system infrastructures...
Doing More with Less
This study assesses the potential of new technology to reduce logistics support requirements for future Army combat systems. It describes and recommen...
The major objective of this book was to identify issues related to the introduction of new materials and the effects that advanced materials will have...
Many coastal communities have built structures at their beaches and added quantities of sand in contoured designs to combat erosion. Are such beach no...
An Evaluation of the Research Program of the Office of Industrial Technologies
In 1993, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Industrial Technology (OIT) established a group of seven industries designated as Industries of...
Strategies for Avoiding Obsolescence
Public facilities are valuable assets that can provide decades of high quality of service if they are effectively utilized. Despite effective planning...
Enabling Science for Military Systems
U.S. Air Force (USAF) planners have envisioned that uninhabited air vehicles (UAVs), working in concert with inhabited vehicles, will become an integr...
As national priorities have been focused both on reducing fuel consumption and improving air quality, attention has increased on reducing emissions fr...
The nation's physical infrastructure facilitates movement of people and goods; provides safe water; provides energy when and where needed; removes was...
Much of the U.S. coastline is rapidly changingรขโฌ"mostly eroding. That fact places increasing pressure on the planners and managers responsible for ...
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The Idaho National Engineering and Environmental Laboratory (INEEL), through the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), has proposed that a large-scale wind...
The cornerstone of chemical and biological defense strategy is protection (i.e., insulating personnel from chemical and biological agents using indivi...
This book reports on the costs, effectiveness, and risks associated with agency and private sector inspection practices. It provides advice to senior ...
A Technical Assessment
Since the beginning of space flight, the collision hazard in Earth orbit has increased as the number of artificial objects orbiting the Earth has grow...
Strategies for Small Manufacturers
The managed flow of goods and information from raw material to final sale also known as a "supply chain" affects everything--from the U.S. gross domes...
Controlling Garbage and Plastic Wastes at Sea
Marine debris is a serious environmental problem. To do its part, the United States has agreed to abide by the international treaty for garbage contro...
Implementing the Federal Acquisition Streamlining Act