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Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) - Responsible for the Air Force's science and technology program, including the full spectrum of Air Force basic research, exploratory development, and advanced development. AFRL employs more than 6,300 military and civilian personnel. Its technological breakthroughs can be found in all of today's modern aircraft, spacecraft, and weapon systems, including the F-117 stealth fighter, B-2 bomber, C-17 airlifter, and F-22 fighter. AFRL has contributed to significant advancements in modern communications, electronics, manufacturing, and medical research and products.
Analytic Services Inc. (ANSER) - Studies issues related to the research, development and acquisition of major Air Force weapon systems.
Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) - A not-for-profit center for engineering, research, and development. APL is a division of one of the world's premier research universities, Johns Hopkins, but primarily a defense contractor. It serves as a technical resource for the Department of Defense, NASA, and other government agencies. The U.S. Navy continues to be APL’s primary long-term sponsor. The Laboratory performs work for the Missile Defense Agency, the Department of Homeland Security, intelligence agencies, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), and others.
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Aviation Applied Technology Directorate (AATD) -
Develops, demonstrates, and applies technologies that enhance the capability, affordability, readiness and safety of DoD aviation systems.
Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments (CSBA) - Public policy research institute providing analysis on military strategy and policy, defense budgets and programs, weapon systems and critical technologies, military personnel and readiness, military revolutions and future warfare, transformation of the military, and the defense industry.
Command and Control Research Program (CCRP) - Focuses upon improving the practice of command and control and enhancing DoD's understanding of the national security implications of the Information Age.
Defense Tech Briefs - An official publication of NASA and a powerful tool for engineers, managers, and scientists. The monthly magazine features exclusive reports of innovations developed by NASA and its industry partners/contractors that can be applied to develop new/improved products and solve engineering or manufacturing problems. Authored by the engineers or scientists who did the work, the briefs span a wide array of fields, including electronics, physical sciences, materials, computer software, mechanics, machinery/automation, manufacturing/fabrication, mathematics/information sciences, and life sciences.
DoD Base Structure Report [.pdf] (June 2003) - A summary of the U.S. Department of Defense's real property, installations and environments. Prepared by the Office of the Deputy Under Secretary of Defense.
DoD Research & Development Descriptive Summaries Search (RDDS) - Basic Research, Applied Research, Advanced Technology Development, Demonstration and Validation, Engineering and Manufacturing Development, Management Support, and Operational System Development budgeted activities of the DoD.
Environmental Research Aircraft and Sensor Technology (ERAST) - Developing unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) technology and miniaturization of science instruments and sensors that can be carried by those aircraft. Managed by NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center at Edwards Air Force Base, Calif.
Extremely Low Frequency (ELF) Communications Program - The ELF frequency range is important to the Navy because of its value in providing a way to communicate with submerged submarines. As a result of the high electrical conductivity of sea water, signals are attenuated rapidly as they propagate downward through it. In effect, the sea water "hides" the submarine from detection while simultaneously preventing it from communicating with the outside world through normal radio transmissions.
Facts on International Relations and Security Trends (FIRST) - Databases on country organization memberships, conflicts and peace keeping activities, arms production and trade, military expenditures, weapons of mass destruction, armed forces and conventional weapon holdings, political system and country indicators, and other reference data.
Human Terrain System (HTS) - A United States Army program which embeds anthropologists and other social scientists with combat brigades (currently in Iraq and Afghanistan) to help tacticians in the field understand local cultures using Human Terrain Mapping (HTM).
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Institute for Defense & Government Advancement (IDGA) - Dedicated to the promotion of ideas in public service and defense. Brings together speaker panels comprised of military and government professionals while attracting delegates with decision-making power from military, government and defense industries.
Maxwell Papers (USAF) - The Maxwell Papers, the Air War College's occasional papers series, focus on current and future issues of interest to the Air Force and Department of Defense.
Military Operations on Urban Terrain (MOUT) - MOUT is defined as all military actions that are planned and conducted on a terrain where man-made construction affects the tactical options available to the commander.
Missle Defense Agency (MDA) - MDA's mission is to develop and field an integrated Ballistic Missile Defense System capable of providing a layered defense for the United States and its deployed forces, friends and allies against ballistic missiles of all ranges in all phases of flight.
Naval War College Library - Works in all fields of knowledge are included in the collection, but the principal concentration is a specialized area of interest in the naval profession: naval and military science, history and strategy, management, economics, international relations, international law, oceanography, and contemporary world problems.
Office of Naval Research (ONR) - Coordinates science and technology programs of the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps through universities, government laboratories, and nonprofit and for-profit organizations.
Pentagon Library - Fulfills the research, educational, and archival requirements of Department of Defense personnel serving at the Pentagon and NCR. Located in Washington, D.C.
Post-Conflict Reconstruction (U.S. Army War College Library, Virginia C. Shope) - This bibliography (11/2003) lists citations for books, documents, periodical articles, and Internet sites about post-conflict reconstruction in general, as well as materials describing the aftermath of war in the following countries: Afghanistan, Bosnia, Haiti, Iraq, Kosovo, and Somalia.
Rand Arroyo Center - U.S. Army research and development center for studies and analysis.
Rapid Airborne Mine Clearance System (RAMICS) - Mission is to rapidly neutralize near surface, floating and shallow bottom mines providing safe transit and operating environments for U.S. Naval Forces.
Rebuilding America's Defenses (.pdf) - A report of The Project for the New American Century published in September 2000. Project participants included William Kristol, Robert Kagan, Devon Gaffney Cross, Bruce P. Jackson, John Bolton, Gary Schmidt, Roger Barnett, Thomas Donnelly, Michael Vickers, Paul Wolfowitz and others.
Soldier Systems Center (Natick) - The Army's one-stop soldier-support organization. Natick is responsible for researching, developing, fielding, and managing food, clothing, shelters, airdrop systems, and soldier support items.
U.S. Naval Research Laboratory - Corporate research laboratory for the Navy and Marine Corps. Conducts a broad program of scientific research, technology and advanced development.
U.S. Naval Observatory - Mission is to determine the positions and motions of celestial objects, to provide astronomical data, to measure the Earth's rotation and to maintain the Master Clock for the U.S.
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