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NATO Federated Coalition Cloud with Kubernetes: A National Prototype Perspective
(2021-10)
In NATO, the IST-168 research task group (RTG)
“Adaptive Information Processing and Distribution To Support
Command and Control” aims to investigate cloud computing at
the tactical edge from a coalition force perspective. ...
High Unemployment and the Armed Forces: The Costs and Benefits of Recruiting Military Personnel in Norway
(2021-12-07)
The SARS-CoV-2 pandemic, the subsequent non-pharmaceutical interventions by governments to reduce the transmission of the coronavirus, and adjusted consumer behaviors have resulted in high unemployment rates worldwide. In ...
Urban Terrorism in the Arab World: Introducing a Dataset of Jihadist Attack Plots in Jordan
(2021-09-21)
Few regions have been more plagued by terrorism than the Arab world. However, knowledge of the phenomenon’s nature is limited by a lack of attack plot data for most Arab countries. This article contributes to addressing ...
Probabilistic estimation of merchant ship source levels in an uncertain shallow-water environment
(2021-11-13)
The estimation of ship source levels (SSLs) in shallow-water environments can be complicated by sound interaction with the seabed. Uncertainty in seabed properties influences SSL estimates, and it is of interest to mitigate ...
Fusing of a continuous output PDR algorithm with an ultrasonic positioning system
(2021-12-09)
The availability of inertial navigation sensors in smartphones has facilitated the development of pedestrian dead reckoning (PDR) models on a large scale. These models often consist of a step detection algorithm combined ...
Holmium-doped fiber amplifier for pumping a ZnGeP2optical parametric oscillator
(2021-03-03)
We present a holmium-doped all-fiber master oscillator power amplifier (MOPA) system operating at 2108 nm targeting optical frequency conversion applications. The MOPA delivers pulses of 0.52 mJ energy at 10 kHz repetition ...
Augmenting Radar Doppler Resolution with Neural Networks
(2021-12-08)
In order to generate high-resolution Doppler profiles a radar needs to emit a large number of pulses within a coherent processing interval (CPI). For a radar operating in demanding scenarios it can be difficult to sustain ...
Models for predicting impact sensitivity of energetic materials based on the trigger linkage hypothesis and Arrhenius kinetics
(2020)
In order to predict the impact sensitivity of high explosives, we designed and evaluated several models based on the trigger linkage hypothesis and the Arrhenius equation. To this effect, we calculated the heat of detonation, ...
Destined for deadlock? Russia, Ukraine, and the unfulfilled Minsk agreements
(2020-01-27)
Bringing peace, security, and stability to the war-torn region of Donbas has proven to be a challenging — some would say near-impossible — task. The "Minsk II" agreement, signed in February 2015, was supposed to put an end ...
A Bayesian Network Approach to Evaluating the Effectiveness of Modern Mine Hunting
(2021-10-29)
This paper describes a novel technique for estimating how many mines remain after a
full or partial underwater mine hunting operation. The technique applies Bayesian fusion of all
evidence from the heterogeneous sensor ...