Daniel A Gonzales

Network-Centric Operations Case Study: Air-to-Air Combat With and Without Link 16

Link 16 enables network-centric operations (NCO) in ways that voice-only communications cannot. How does this increase in effectiveness translate into success in battle? More than 12,000 sorties were flown in the Joint Tactical Information Distribution System Operations Special Project, where Link 1...

Implications of Aggregated DoD Information Systems for Information Assurance Certification and Accreditation (Rand Corporation Monograph)

The challenge of securing U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) information systems has grown significantly. A new approach to information assurance certification and accreditation (IA C&A) is needed to effectively extend the IA C&A process to aggregations of systems and improve their security. An examin...

Designing Unmanned Systems with Greater Autonomy: Using a Federated, Partially Open Systems Architecture Approach

Current unmanned systems (UxSs) use different communication systems and have limited autonomy, which limit their ability to share information they collect with warfighters and other UxSs operating in the same area. UxSs may also face survivability and mission effectiveness challenges when they opera...

Drink to Your Health

Do you have trouble getting the recommended diet of broccoli, kale and celeriac in daily diet, there is a simple solution. Throw down everything in a blender, add some flavor enhancers - and drinking vegetables.Are the vegetables your eternal conscience? There you are hardly alone. You know they are...

New Realm Vol. 01 No. 03

Fantasy doesn't always mean having a happy ending, and in eFantasyVol 1 Issue 3, the darkness of the genre is explored, and the things that go bump in the night are made frighteningly real. Join six authors and one poet in dark and mystical adventures that maybe shouldn't be read right before bed.In...

A Splash of Aloha

Hawaii's clear blue waters and thriving fish farms produce a bounty of seafood that's as healthful as it is delicious. A Splash of Aloha, a unique guide from the Kapiolani Community College Culinary Arts Department, will help you enjoy fresh Island fish and shellfish for good health and good nutriti...

Life Cycle Cost Assessments for Military Transatmospheric Vehicles (Project Air Force)

The authors find that in the long term, an air-launched military TAV would be more cost effective than a small expendable launch vehicle such as Pegasus.

Using EPIC to Find Conflicts, Inconsistencies, and Gaps in Department of Defense Policies

The authors present a framework and methodology to identify the roles and responsibilities of those implementing Department of Defense policies and also potential conflicts, ambiguities, gaps, inconsistencies, and redundancies in those policies. They introduce a new software tool that automates one ...

A Report on the Army Transformation Wargame 2000

Proceedings of the Rand Project Air Force Workshop on Transatmospheric Vehicles

Life Cycle Cost Assessments for Military Transatmospheric Vehicles

The Changing Role of the U.S. Military in Space

Multifunctional Information Distribution System (MIDS) Program Case Study

Interoperability: A Continuing Challenge in Coalition Air Operations