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There are currently 310 documents Airport Improvement Program: Issues for Congress
Robert S. KirkSpecialist in TransportationResources, Science, and Industry Division The Airport Improvement Program (AIP) has been providing federal grants for airport development and planning since the passage of the Airport and Airway Improvement Act of 1982 (P.L. 97-248). AIP funding is usually spent on projects that support aircraft operations such as runways, taxiways, aprons, noise abatement, land purchase, and safety or emergency equipment. The funds obligated for the AIP are drawn from the Airport and Airway Trust Fund (hereafter referred to as the trust fund), which is supported by (more)...
A Look at the Troubled Development of the Airborne Laser
Michael Clark Victoria Samson CDI provides a scientific explanation of how the COIL laser in the ABL should work. They also discuss possible shortcomings with the COIL including the inefficiency of chlorine in producing singlet-delta oxygen and the possibility of the laser optics overheating.
Alternatives for Boost-Phase Missile Defense
Congressional Budget Office CBO's report is a detailed explanation of the requirements for a boost phase interceptor, the various options DoD has examined and finally a comparison of those options.
An Evaluation of the Capabilities and Limitations of Non-Nuclear-Armed Trident Ballistic Missiles for Short-Time Conventional Strikes
Theodore A. PostolProfessor of Science, Technology, and National Security Policy
An Overview of Issues Associated with the Global Strike SystemRecently, the Department of Defense has proposed to the Congress a "Global Strike System" to rapidly deliver non-nuclear munitions against targets of opportunity throughout the world. The characteristics of this proposed system have not been defined in detail. However, Department of Defense officials have stated that one objective of this system is to be able to deliver a conventional munition anywhere in the world within 60 minutes of a launch decision. (more)...
Arms Control and Nonproliferation: A Catalog of Treaties and Agreements
Amy F. Woolf, Steve Bowman, and Sharon SquassoniSpecialists in National DefenseForeign Affairs, Defense, and Trade Division Arms control and nonproliferation efforts are two of the tools that have occasionally been used to implement U.S. national security strategy. Although some believe these tools do little to restrain the behavior of U.S. adversaries, while doing too much to restrain U.S. military forces and operations, many other analysts see them as an effective means to promote transparency, ease military planning, limit forces, and protect against uncertainty and surprise. Arms control and nonproliferation efforts have produced formal treaties and agreements, (more)...
Art or Bioterrorism? Implications of the Steve Kurtz Case for Research Science and for Limiting Terrorist Threats
Margaret E. Kosal One spring morning in 2004, Professor Steven Kurtz of the State University of New York (SUNY), Buffalo campus, woke to the horrid discovery that his wife of twenty years had died overnight from a heart attack. He called 9-1-1 for emergency services. Paramedics arriving at the Kurtz home noticed technical equipment that would normally only be found in a clinical or research laboratory. If the emergency responders had not been suspicious and had not acted on those suspicions, it would (more)...
Assessing Medical Preparedness to Respond to a Terrorist Nuclear Event: Workshop Report
2009 Institute of Medicine (edited by Georges C. Benjamin, Michael McGeary, and Susan R. McCutchen; Committee on Medical Preparedness for a Terrorist Nuclear Event) A nuclear attack on a large U.S. city by terrorists--even with a low-yield improvised nuclear device (IND) of 10 kilotons or less--would cause a large number of deaths and severe injuries. The large number of injured from the detonation and radioactive fallout that would follow would be overwhelming for local emergency response and health care systems to rescue and treat, even assuming that these systems and their personnel were not themselves incapacitated by the event. The United States has been (more)...
Assessments of Selected Weapon Programs
Government Accountability Office
The most recent GAO publication with mention of ABL was optimistic compared to previous reports. GAO calls ABL's jitter compensation technology "nearly mature." GAO is waiting for ABL's first full air kill test in August of 2009 before coming to most of its conclusions.
A Technical Examination of the U.S.-India Nuclear Deal
T.S. Gopi RethinarajNational University of Singapore
Reasons why groups (political, bureaucratic, and technocratic) in India have different takes on India-US deal
Implications of the India-US deal for the growth of civilian nuclear power in India and regional energy security
Implications of the India-US deal for the NPT regime
Atmospheric Reentry of a Hydrazine Tank
Robert L. Kelley, William C. Rochelle,ESCGHouston, TX
The purpose of this white paper is to describe the methods used to predict the survivability of a titanium tank loaded with frozen hydrazine reentering the Earth's atmosphere. The paper begins by describing the details of the problem, followed by the methods used to gather required data for a reentry simulation. This paper also presents results created during the analysis. The focus of the paper is a discussion of the heat transfer methods used; therefore, only a brief discussion regarding (more)...
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