http://www.ntis.gov/rss/RSSNTISCategoryList.aspxNational Technical Reports Libraryen(c) 2008, National Technical Information Service. All rights reserved.5http://www.ntis.gov/images/logoRSS.jpghttp://www.ntis.govThe high performance computing (HPC) community has shown tremendous interest in exploring cloud computing as it promises high potential. In this paper, we examine the feasibility, performance, and scalability of production quality scientific and engi ...http://www.ntis.gov/search/product.aspx?ABBR=N20130000560The architecture, engineering, and construction industries are pursuing process and technological innovations to save time and money and to enhance the quality of projects through the design, construction, and handover phases. Building Information Mo ...http://www.ntis.gov/search/product.aspx?ABBR=ADA571762No abstract available. ...http://www.ntis.gov/search/product.aspx?ABBR=DE20131062225Manufacturing process models are developed to describe manufacturing and assembly processes for an infantry fighting vehicle drivetrain in support of the first manufacturing challenge of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Adaptive ...http://www.ntis.gov/search/product.aspx?ABBR=ADA571803Construct is an agent-based network-centric simulation. Although frequently lumped together, agent-based simulations vary widely in complexity and computational cost some are extremely inexpensive (e.g., Swarm) and allow hundreds of thousands or even ...http://www.ntis.gov/search/product.aspx?ABBR=ADA572013After 10 years studying the economic and research impacts of the patent system, it was apparent to members of the National Academies Board on Science, Technology, and Economic Policy (STEP) that another intellectual property regime, copyright, exhibi ...http://www.ntis.gov/search/product.aspx?ABBR=PB2013107918The question 'How can the Army better plan and execute effective cyber defense' is too broad. We can craft more effective solutions if we narrow the question. And we can develop approaches that more closely align with traditional military vocabulary ...http://www.ntis.gov/search/product.aspx?ABBR=ADA571985We conducted this review to determine the merits of an allegation that VA was transmitting sensitive data, including Personally Identifiable Information (PII) and internal network routing information, over unencrypted telecommunications carrier netwo ...http://www.ntis.gov/search/product.aspx?ABBR=PB2013107375Mulitsensor data fusion (MSDF) has been researched for decades yet programs relying on it to provide a situational, or threat, assessment continue to be less than successful. In order to alleviate the too-much-information, too- few-analysts issue, a ...http://www.ntis.gov/search/product.aspx?ABBR=ADA572114This study was an open-label, single-group, treatment-development project aimed at developing and testing a method for applying virtual reality exposure therapy (VRET) to active duty service members diagnosed with combat post-traumatic stress disorde ...http://www.ntis.gov/search/product.aspx?ABBR=ADA571733The Army is now a two domain force--LandCyber and warfighters must embrace the contested domain known as cyberspace. Since the Secretary of Defense announced the creation of a cyberspace-focused command in 2009, a high demand has been placed on each ...http://www.ntis.gov/search/product.aspx?ABBR=ADA571984EnviroFish is both a modeling approach and a computer software. As a modeling approach, EnviroFish estimates the value of floodplain habitat suitable for fish reproduction under a given set of hydrologic and hydraulic conditions. As a software, Envir ...http://www.ntis.gov/search/product.aspx?ABBR=ADA571679SharePoint is a Microsoft product for cooperative and collaborative work. It is becoming an increasingly important technology to Defence, and in particular to Joint Project 2030, where it underpins the JCSE System Infrastructure. SharePoint 2010, the ...http://www.ntis.gov/search/product.aspx?ABBR=ADA571537The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) strategic vision includes, as part of its long-term goals, the exploration of deep space and Near Earth Asteroids (NEA). To support these endeavors, funds have been invested in research to deve ...http://www.ntis.gov/search/product.aspx?ABBR=N20130000757Mission: Integrate, Explore, and Develop Robotics, Network and Control Components with a Focus on Customer Driven Requirements to Provide Full System Solutions to the War Fighter. ...http://www.ntis.gov/search/product.aspx?ABBR=ADA571913In this paper we study the performance of the Lustre file system using five scientific and engineering applications representative of NASA workload on large-scale supercomputing systems such as NASA s Pleiades. In order to facilitate the collection o ...http://www.ntis.gov/search/product.aspx?ABBR=N20130001600Thousands of millions of documents are stored and updated daily in the World Wide Web. Most of the information is not efficiently organized to build knowledge from the stored data. Nowadays, search engines are mainly used by users who rely on their s ...http://www.ntis.gov/search/product.aspx?ABBR=N20130001557Notice is hereby given that the U.S. International Trade Commission has determined to modify a final initial determination ('ID') of the presiding administrative law judge ('ALJ') finding a violation of section 337 by respondents in the above-caption ...http://www.ntis.gov/search/product.aspx?ABBR=PB2013106693Commission instituted this investigation on June 17, 2010, based on a complaint filed by HTC Corporation ('HTC') of Taiwan. 75 Fed. Reg. 34,484-85 (June 17, 2010). The complaint alleged violations of the Tariff Act of 1930 (19 U.S.C. SC 1337) in the ...http://www.ntis.gov/search/product.aspx?ABBR=PB2013106694Notice is hereby given that the U.S. International Trade Commission has determined to review-in-part and affirm the final initial determination of the administrative law judge that no violation of section 337 of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended (19 ...http://www.ntis.gov/search/product.aspx?ABBR=PB2013106695Petascale platforms with O(10(sup 5)) and O(10(sup 6)) processing cores are driving advancements in a wide range of scientific disciplines. These large systems create unprecedented application development challenges. Scalable correctness tools are cr ...http://www.ntis.gov/search/product.aspx?ABBR=DE20121030197Despite the wide array of frameworks proposed for the formal specification and analysis of privacy laws, there has been comparatively little work on expressing large fragments of actual privacy laws in these frameworks. We attempt to bridge this gap ...http://www.ntis.gov/search/product.aspx?ABBR=ADA571991MOCFE-Bone is a mini-application that simulates the main procedures in a 3D method of characteristics (MOC) code for numerical solution of the steady state neutron transport equation. 3D-MOC was chosen as a specific methodology of interest in exascal ...http://www.ntis.gov/search/product.aspx?ABBR=DE20131063095In September 2008, the U.S. Office of Management and Budget (OMB), in conjunction with the General Services Administration (GSA) and the Federal Chief Information Officers Council (CIOC), contracted with the National Academy of Public Administration ...http://www.ntis.gov/search/product.aspx?ABBR=PB2013106712Nonparametric Bayesian methods are considered for recovery of imagery based upon compressive incomplete and/or noisy measurements. A truncated beta-Bernoulli process is employed to infer an appropriate dictionary for the data under test, and also for ...http://www.ntis.gov/search/product.aspx?ABBR=ADA571911The purpose of this document is to introduce a set of python scripts that automate the process of downloading and mosaicking daily Daymet data for the entire conterminous United States (CONUS). The scripts can be used for any number of Daymet tiles. ...http://www.ntis.gov/search/product.aspx?ABBR=PB2013106706Organizations such as hospitals and banks that collect and use personal information are required to comply with privacy regulations like the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) and the Gramm-Leach- Bliley Act (GLBA). With the ...http://www.ntis.gov/search/product.aspx?ABBR=ADA571959We examine the concept of security as a dimension of Quality of Service in distributed systems. We provide a discussion and examples of user-specified security variables and show how the range of service levels associated with these variables can sup ...http://www.ntis.gov/search/product.aspx?ABBR=ADA572032The goal of this study is to establish statistically significant classifications of blood spatter patterns resulting from the interactions between a weapon, suspect and victim. Specifically, a medium velocity spatter pattern is usually attributed to ...http://www.ntis.gov/search/product.aspx?ABBR=PB2013107612Military occupational specialty 255S, cybersecurity technician, is arguably the most challenging cyber professional military education and MOS qualification at the U.S. Army Signal Center of Excellence, if not across the Army and Department of Defens ...http://www.ntis.gov/search/product.aspx?ABBR=ADA571974Military operations define a broad realm of actions from conducting acts of war to providing humanitarian assistance, supporting civil authorities, and ensuring the legitimacy of operations to the public. It is imperative that the military has the be ...http://www.ntis.gov/search/product.aspx?ABBR=ADA571496To build a global 'Social Radar,' an integrated set of capabilities supporting strategic and operational level situation awareness, alerts, and option awareness, there is a need for an overarching enterprise approach. Social Radar's objective is to d ...http://www.ntis.gov/search/product.aspx?ABBR=ADA571799Events like the so-called 'Arab Spring' underline the need for the United States and its allies to reliably monitor the global information environment, so that they can build sociocultural understanding, anticipate change before it happens, and plan ...http://www.ntis.gov/search/product.aspx?ABBR=ADA571801This project makes the benefits of an integrated, multi-sensor geophysical approach to characterizing archaeological sites accessible to those who provide cultural resource management support to DoD installations. The project has (1) created ArchaeoF ...http://www.ntis.gov/search/product.aspx?ABBR=ADA571820As we Army communicators charge forward into this challenging domain of warfare, we must ask relevant questions. One of the hard questions to be asked and answered is 'Do our Signaleers have an adequate basic understanding of the elementary tactics, ...http://www.ntis.gov/search/product.aspx?ABBR=ADA571982This paper describes the design and initial positive evaluation of a prototype adaptive automation system to create an enhanced command and control (C2) infrastructure for more effective operation of unmanned vehicles. Our main project objective is t ...http://www.ntis.gov/search/product.aspx?ABBR=ADA571805This report describes the study of a through-the-wall radar system for three-dimensional (3-D) building imaging, based on computer simulations. Two possible configurations are considered, corresponding to an airborne spotlight and a ground-based stri ...http://www.ntis.gov/search/product.aspx?ABBR=ADA571740Designing a spacecraft, or any other complex engineering system, requires extensive simulation and analysis work. Oftentimes, the large amounts of simulation data generated are very difficult and time consuming to analyze, with the added risk of over ...http://www.ntis.gov/search/product.aspx?ABBR=N20130001901Within DHS, TSA and USCG manage the TWIC program, which requires maritime workers to complete background checks and obtain biometric identification cards to gain unescorted access to secure areas of Maritime Transportation Security Act (MTSA)-regulat ...http://www.ntis.gov/search/product.aspx?ABBR=PB2013107684Software certification is a promising approach to producing programs which are virtually free of bugs. It requires the construction of a formal proof which establishes that the code in question will behave according to its specification - a higher-le ...http://www.ntis.gov/search/product.aspx?ABBR=ADA572019Reef platform micro-bathymetry was constructed from spatial Fourier transforms of LIDAR data from the reef platform at PMRF, Kauai as a geomorphic proxy of other island reef systems. A discrete arrangement of these awa control cells allowed numerical ...http://www.ntis.gov/search/product.aspx?ABBR=ADA571882