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 purpose of this program was to optimize the synthesis of 1,3,6,8- tetranitrocarbazole (TNC). This material is used in pyrotechnic formulations. The process begins with the addition of carbazole to 90% nitric acid while maintaining the reactor tem ...http://www.ntis.gov/search/product.aspx?ABBR=ADA571492This edition of the Federal Explosive Law and Regulations reflects changes and developments in response to the Safe Explosives Act of 2002. Federal explosive laws have evolved greatly since the enactment of Title XI of the Organized Crime Act of 1970 ...http://www.ntis.gov/search/product.aspx?ABBR=PB2013107916Every day, ATFs Industry Operations Investigators (IOIs) assist FFLs and help them understand and follow the rules for conducting a firearms business. Whether it is with the proper procedures for recordkeeping or the laws for transferring a firearm, ...http://www.ntis.gov/search/product.aspx?ABBR=PB2013107914This booklet will help you understand the firearms trace process. It contains instructions on requesting a trace; understanding trace results; capabilities of comprehensive firearms tracing; and, how to establish a tracing program. ...http://www.ntis.gov/search/product.aspx?ABBR=PB2013107913In February 1978, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) formed the arson and explosives National Response Team (NRT). Federal, state, and local investigators can request the activation of the NRT to investigate significant fir ...http://www.ntis.gov/search/product.aspx?ABBR=PB2013108027The publication is useful in that it explains the required explosives security procedures and provides example of explosives log books and explains how to maintain records. A must download for anyone with an explosives permit. ...http://www.ntis.gov/search/product.aspx?ABBR=PB2013107915The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives Stolen Firearms Program was formally established on September 13, 1994, with the passage of the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994. For more than 20 years before this Act, ATF ...http://www.ntis.gov/search/product.aspx?ABBR=PB2013108029Military structures are susceptible to high velocity impact due to both ballistic and blast loads. During a high velocity impact a shock wave much greater than static collapse resistance propagates through the material. Metallic structures usually un ...http://www.ntis.gov/search/product.aspx?ABBR=ADA571924Manufacturing 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=ADA571803Molecular crystals are commonly used as active pharmaceutical ingredients and high explosive materials. Like simpler crystalline materials, they possess a repeating lattice structure. However, the complexity of the structure-due to having several ent ...http://www.ntis.gov/search/product.aspx?ABBR=ADA571612This is the third year of ATFs Crime Gun Trace Reports. This year, a National Report provides national findings based on 64,637 crime gun traces recovered and submitted in calendar year 1999. These trace requests came from 32 cities with a population ...http://www.ntis.gov/search/product.aspx?ABBR=PB2013107816This is the third year of ATFs Crime Gun Trace Reports. This year, a National Report provides national findings based on 64,637 crime gun traces recovered and submitted in calendar year 1999. These trace requests came from 32 cities with a population ...http://www.ntis.gov/search/product.aspx?ABBR=PB2013107817This is the third year of ATFs Crime Gun Trace Reports. This year, a National Report provides national findings based on 64,637 crime gun traces recovered and submitted in calendar year 1999. These trace requests came from 32 cities with a population ...http://www.ntis.gov/search/product.aspx?ABBR=PB2013107818This is the third year of ATFs Crime Gun Trace Reports. This year, a National Report provides national findings based on 64,637 crime gun traces recovered and submitted in calendar year 1999. These trace requests came from 32 cities with a population ...http://www.ntis.gov/search/product.aspx?ABBR=PB2013107819This is the third year of ATFs Crime Gun Trace Reports. This year, a National Report provides national findings based on 64,637 crime gun traces recovered and submitted in calendar year 1999. These trace requests came from 32 cities with a population ...http://www.ntis.gov/search/product.aspx?ABBR=PB2013107820This is the third year of ATFs Crime Gun Trace Reports. This year, a National Report provides national findings based on 64,637 crime gun traces recovered and submitted in calendar year 1999. These trace requests came from 32 cities with a population ...http://www.ntis.gov/search/product.aspx?ABBR=PB2013107821This is the third year of ATFs Crime Gun Trace Reports. This year, a National Report provides national findings based on 64,637 crime gun traces recovered and submitted in calendar year 1999. These trace requests came from 32 cities with a population ...http://www.ntis.gov/search/product.aspx?ABBR=PB2013107822This is the third year of ATFs Crime Gun Trace Reports. This year, a National Report provides national findings based on 64,637 crime gun traces recovered and submitted in calendar year 1999. These trace requests came from 32 cities with a population ...http://www.ntis.gov/search/product.aspx?ABBR=PB2013107823This is the third year of ATFs Crime Gun Trace Reports. This year, a National Report provides national findings based on 64,637 crime gun traces recovered and submitted in calendar year 1999. These trace requests came from 32 cities with a population ...http://www.ntis.gov/search/product.aspx?ABBR=PB2013107824This is the third year of ATFs Crime Gun Trace Reports. This year, a National Report provides national findings based on 64,637 crime gun traces recovered and submitted in calendar year 1999. These trace requests came from 32 cities with a population ...http://www.ntis.gov/search/product.aspx?ABBR=PB2013107825This is the third year of ATFs Crime Gun Trace Reports. This year, a National Report provides national findings based on 64,637 crime gun traces recovered and submitted in calendar year 1999. These trace requests came from 32 cities with a population ...http://www.ntis.gov/search/product.aspx?ABBR=PB2013107826This is the third year of ATFs Crime Gun Trace Reports. This year, a National Report provides national findings based on 64,637 crime gun traces recovered and submitted in calendar year 1999. These trace requests came from 32 cities with a population ...http://www.ntis.gov/search/product.aspx?ABBR=PB2013107850This is the third year of ATFs Crime Gun Trace Reports. This year, a National Report provides national findings based on 64,637 crime gun traces recovered and submitted in calendar year 1999. These trace requests came from 32 cities with a population ...http://www.ntis.gov/search/product.aspx?ABBR=PB2013107827This is the third year of ATFs Crime Gun Trace Reports. This year, a National Report provides national findings based on 64,637 crime gun traces recovered and submitted in calendar year 1999. These trace requests came from 32 cities with a population ...http://www.ntis.gov/search/product.aspx?ABBR=PB2013107828This is the third year of ATFs Crime Gun Trace Reports. This year, a National Report provides national findings based on 64,637 crime gun traces recovered and submitted in calendar year 1999. These trace requests came from 32 cities with a population ...http://www.ntis.gov/search/product.aspx?ABBR=PB2013107829This is the third year of ATFs Crime Gun Trace Reports. This year, a National Report provides national findings based on 64,637 crime gun traces recovered and submitted in calendar year 1999. These trace requests came from 32 cities with a population ...http://www.ntis.gov/search/product.aspx?ABBR=PB2013107830This is the third year of ATFs Crime Gun Trace Reports. This year, a National Report provides national findings based on 64,637 crime gun traces recovered and submitted in calendar year 1999. These trace requests came from 32 cities with a population ...http://www.ntis.gov/search/product.aspx?ABBR=PB2013107831This is the third year of ATFs Crime Gun Trace Reports. This year, a National Report provides national findings based on 64,637 crime gun traces recovered and submitted in calendar year 1999. These trace requests came from 32 cities with a population ...http://www.ntis.gov/search/product.aspx?ABBR=PB2013107832This is the third year of ATFs Crime Gun Trace Reports. This year, a National Report provides national findings based on 64,637 crime gun traces recovered and submitted in calendar year 1999. These trace requests came from 32 cities with a population ...http://www.ntis.gov/search/product.aspx?ABBR=PB2013107833This is the third year of ATFs Crime Gun Trace Reports. This year, a National Report provides national findings based on 64,637 crime gun traces recovered and submitted in calendar year 1999. These trace requests came from 32 cities with a population ...http://www.ntis.gov/search/product.aspx?ABBR=PB2013107834This is the third year of ATFs Crime Gun Trace Reports. This year, a National Report provides national findings based on 64,637 crime gun traces recovered and submitted in calendar year 1999. These trace requests came from 32 cities with a population ...http://www.ntis.gov/search/product.aspx?ABBR=PB2013107835This is the third year of ATFs Crime Gun Trace Reports. This year, a National Report provides national findings based on 64,637 crime gun traces recovered and submitted in calendar year 1999. These trace requests came from 32 cities with a population ...http://www.ntis.gov/search/product.aspx?ABBR=PB2013107851This is the third year of ATFs Crime Gun Trace Reports. This year, a National Report provides national findings based on 64,637 crime gun traces recovered and submitted in calendar year 1999. These trace requests came from 32 cities with a population ...http://www.ntis.gov/search/product.aspx?ABBR=PB2013107836This is the third year of ATFs Crime Gun Trace Reports. This year, a National Report provides national findings based on 64,637 crime gun traces recovered and submitted in calendar year 1999. These trace requests came from 32 cities with a population ...http://www.ntis.gov/search/product.aspx?ABBR=PB2013107837This is the third year of ATFs Crime Gun Trace Reports. This year, a National Report provides national findings based on 64,637 crime gun traces recovered and submitted in calendar year 1999. These trace requests came from 32 cities with a population ...http://www.ntis.gov/search/product.aspx?ABBR=PB2013107838This is the third year of ATFs Crime Gun Trace Reports. This year, a National Report provides national findings based on 64,637 crime gun traces recovered and submitted in calendar year 1999. These trace requests came from 32 cities with a population ...http://www.ntis.gov/search/product.aspx?ABBR=PB2013107839This is the third year of ATFs Crime Gun Trace Reports. This year, a National Report provides national findings based on 64,637 crime gun traces recovered and submitted in calendar year 1999. These trace requests came from 32 cities with a population ...http://www.ntis.gov/search/product.aspx?ABBR=PB2013107840This is the third year of ATFs Crime Gun Trace Reports. This year, a National Report provides national findings based on 64,637 crime gun traces recovered and submitted in calendar year 1999. These trace requests came from 32 cities with a population ...http://www.ntis.gov/search/product.aspx?ABBR=PB2013107841This is the third year of ATFs Crime Gun Trace Reports. This year, a National Report provides national findings based on 64,637 crime gun traces recovered and submitted in calendar year 1999. These trace requests came from 32 cities with a population ...http://www.ntis.gov/search/product.aspx?ABBR=PB2013107842This is the third year of ATFs Crime Gun Trace Reports. This year, a National Report provides national findings based on 64,637 crime gun traces recovered and submitted in calendar year 1999. These trace requests came from 32 cities with a population ...http://www.ntis.gov/search/product.aspx?ABBR=PB2013107843This is the third year of ATFs Crime Gun Trace Reports. This year, a National Report provides national findings based on 64,637 crime gun traces recovered and submitted in calendar year 1999. These trace requests came from 32 cities with a population ...http://www.ntis.gov/search/product.aspx?ABBR=PB2013107844This is the third year of ATFs Crime Gun Trace Reports. This year, a National Report provides national findings based on 64,637 crime gun traces recovered and submitted in calendar year 1999. These trace requests came from 32 cities with a population ...http://www.ntis.gov/search/product.aspx?ABBR=PB2013107845This is the third year of ATFs Crime Gun Trace Reports. This year, a National Report provides national findings based on 64,637 crime gun traces recovered and submitted in calendar year 1999. These trace requests came from 32 cities with a population ...http://www.ntis.gov/search/product.aspx?ABBR=PB2013107846This is the third year of ATFs Crime Gun Trace Reports. This year, a National Report provides national findings based on 64,637 crime gun traces recovered and submitted in calendar year 1999. These trace requests came from 32 cities with a population ...http://www.ntis.gov/search/product.aspx?ABBR=PB2013107847This is the third year of ATFs Crime Gun Trace Reports. This year, a National Report provides national findings based on 64,637 crime gun traces recovered and submitted in calendar year 1999. These trace requests came from 32 cities with a population ...http://www.ntis.gov/search/product.aspx?ABBR=PB2013107848This is the third year of ATFs Crime Gun Trace Reports. This year, a National Report provides national findings based on 64,637 crime gun traces recovered and submitted in calendar year 1999. These trace requests came from 32 cities with a population ...http://www.ntis.gov/search/product.aspx?ABBR=PB2013107849This demonstration report describes the data collection, processing and analysis of cued-interrogation data collected with Sky Research's SKY3D vehicular platform at the Pole Mountain Target and Maneuver Area (PMTMA), near Laramie, WY. SKY3D integrat ...http://www.ntis.gov/search/product.aspx?ABBR=ADA571809A systematic approach was undertaken to enhance spike resistance of flexible body armor. A traditional STF composite is consisted of fumed silica particles (about 7 nm in diameter but highly agglomerated due to van der Waals forces), PEG, and Kevlar. ...http://www.ntis.gov/search/product.aspx?ABBR=ADA571815We have performed fundamental experimental and theoretical studies of insensitive energetic materials (FOX 7, HMX, RDX, TATB and PETN) with the aim of better-ascertaining their behavior under extreme conditions as well as seeking to understand more a ...http://www.ntis.gov/search/product.aspx?ABBR=ADA571893As part of the ESTCP UXO Classification Study, Nova Research, Incorporated and SAIC conducted a cued discrimination survey within the 11.8 acre demonstration site at the Former Camp San Luis Obispo (Camp SLO), CA, in 2008-2009. The data collection re ...http://www.ntis.gov/search/product.aspx?ABBR=ADA571500Overall, the detonation of munitions represents an environmentally clean reaction. Six kilotons of energetic materials were expended in this case study during training in 1996. These included nitrocellulose (55 percent), trinitrotoluene (TNT) (30 per ...http://www.ntis.gov/search/product.aspx?ABBR=ADA572006This project addresses the need for signal processing procedures as outlined in the Statement of Needs MM SEED-08-01, and seeks to develop a new technology for enhancing magnetic data by increasing data resolution and by estimating data noise for use ...http://www.ntis.gov/search/product.aspx?ABBR=ADA571506This is the final report for the SERDP project MM-1640; it covers the research results accomplished since the inception of the project in 2007. The basic premise of this project is the theoretical understanding and algorithm development of principal ...http://www.ntis.gov/search/product.aspx?ABBR=ADA571505The Military Munitions Response Program (MMRP) is charged with characterizing and remediating munitions-contaminated sites. Current technology does not provide a physics-based, quantitative, validated means to discriminate between hazardous munitions ...http://www.ntis.gov/search/product.aspx?ABBR=ADA571502The 2005 edition of the Federal Firearms Regulations Reference Guide provides information designed to help you comply with all of the laws and regulations governing the manufacture, importation, and distribution of firearms and ammunition. Accordingl ...http://www.ntis.gov/search/product.aspx?ABBR=PB2013107917This report describes the accomplishments for the MURI grant 'General, Unified, Multiscale Modeling to Predict the Sensitivity of Energetic Materials' (Grant No. 48101-EG-MUR). This was a comprehensive theoretical/computational research program to de ...http://www.ntis.gov/search/product.aspx?ABBR=ADA571894This research program has been focused on advanced technologies for detection and discrimination of military munitions. The underlying premise of the program has been that there is an inherent limitation in the information content associated with mag ...http://www.ntis.gov/search/product.aspx?ABBR=ADA571858Improvement in the detection and discrimination of UXO using the EMI regime has been consistent during the last two decades, in both instrument hardware and detection software. There is nonetheless still a disparity between the often idealized enviro ...http://www.ntis.gov/search/product.aspx?ABBR=ADA571866This paper reviews and summarizes prior work related to low frequency (< 100 Hz) EMP (ElectroMagnetic Pulse) observed from explosions. It focuses on how EMP signals might, or might not, be useful in monitoring underground nuclear tests, based on the ...http://www.ntis.gov/search/product.aspx?ABBR=DE20121030215The basic objective of this research project was to develop an improved understanding of the fundamental physics underlying classification and discrimination of unexploded ordnance (UXO) and clutter items using electromagnetic induction (EMI) data. T ...http://www.ntis.gov/search/product.aspx?ABBR=ADA571874A series of mine-blast loading experiments were conducted where the soil moisture content, plate standoff distance, and plate shape (flat and V- shaped) were varied. Three experiments were conducted for each test configuration to quantify repeatabili ...http://www.ntis.gov/search/product.aspx?ABBR=ADA571638In 2003, the Defense Science Board observed: The problem is that instruments that can detect the buried UXOs also detect numerous scrap metal objects and other artifacts, which leads to an enormous amount of expensive digging.' Significant progress h ...http://www.ntis.gov/search/product.aspx?ABBR=ADA571918Many active and former military installations have ranges and training areas that include adjacent water environments such as ponds, lakes, rivers, estuaries, and coastal ocean areas. Munitions were fired or disposed of using various methods at numer ...http://www.ntis.gov/search/product.aspx?ABBR=ADA571686A sub-model is developed to account for the drag and heat transfer enhancement resulting from deflagration-to-detonation (DDT) inducing obstacles commonly used in pulse detonation engines (PDE). The sub-model is incorporated as a source term in a tim ...http://www.ntis.gov/search/product.aspx?ABBR=N20120012911This report describes in detail the procedures, methods, and resources used to complete the demonstration project at the former Pole Mountain Target and Maneuver Area. The objective of U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) participation was to learn t ...http://www.ntis.gov/search/product.aspx?ABBR=ADA571810This report details the application of the SIG statistical learning approach to UXO discrimination at Pole Mountain Target and Maneuver Area, Wyoming. This technology has been developed and validated under previous SERDP/ESTCP efforts by SIG and Duke ...http://www.ntis.gov/search/product.aspx?ABBR=ADA571969This report documents a preliminary experimental, analytical, and modeling effort for validating a numerical approach using constitutive material strength response with an appropriate yield surface model. The research is sub- divided into three areas ...http://www.ntis.gov/search/product.aspx?ABBR=ADA571613