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This is a NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL MONTEREY CA report procured by the Pentagon and made available for public release It has been reproduced in the best form available to the Pentagon. It is not spiral-bound, but rather assembled with Velobinding in a soft, white linen cover. The Storming Media report number is A983473. The abstract provided by the Pentagon follows: This thesis analyzes the innovation of the Department of Defense (DoD) standard acquisition process with intelligent agent (IA) technologies. Information technology (IT) developments are enabling DoD to seek high levels of improvement in key processes, such as acquisition, because of constrained resources, high costs and long cycle times. One such process, DoD's paperless contracting initiative, is developed to increase efficiency through automation and standardization, using the Standard Procurement System (SPS). However, benefits to date from implementing SPS have been marginal, because it has been accomplished without first redesigning the existing inefficient process. This research builds upon prior work with procurement, process innovation and intelligent software agents. Following Davenport's Process-innovation methodology, the Federal Acquisition Process (FAP) is compared with SPS functions to identify functions for possible IT innovation with IA. A four-step scheme for evaluating agent potential is developed and employed to assess the SPS-supported FAP, resulting in the identification of fine process steps offering high potential for IA automation. Two redesign prototypes are developed to incorporate these IA candidates. This work leads to a number of conclusions, recommendations and an agenda for further research that should be an interest to the acquisition manager as well as the information system designer..
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This is a NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL MONTEREY CA report procured by the Pentagon and made available for public release It has been reproduced in the best form available to the Pentagon. It is not spiral-bound, but rather assembled with Velobinding in a soft, white linen cover. The Storming Media report number is A415263. The abstract provided by the Pentagon follows: This thesis sought to identify those personal characteristics (competencies), which are most critical for Army Program Managers (PMs) to be successful in today's DoD acquisition environment. Follow-on research to DSMC and NPS PM job competency studies was conducted. A similar research methodology was used to analyze the same 27 competencies. A Revised PM Competency Model was developed from the survey data obtained from 39 "outstanding" Army PMs. The model contains 16 competencies, including nine identified as "most important" for PMs to possess. The three most important competencies were "Long Term Perspective," "Innovativeness," and "Political Awareness." "Professional Expertise," "Strategic Influence," and "Innovativeness" have all become significantly more important over the last decade. "Political Awareness" and "Strategic Influence" were identified as areas needing additional development. Finally, the PMs ability to manage their "external environment" effectively continues to be vital to their success..
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This is a NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL MONTEREY CA report procured by the Pentagon and made available for public release It has been reproduced in the best form available to the Pentagon. It is not spiral-bound, but rather assembled with Velobinding in a soft, white linen cover. The Storming Media report number is A257623. The abstract provided by the Pentagon follows: In 1994, DoD implemented managed care and a capitation-based resource allocation model within the Military Health Services System (MHSS). This study examines the evolution of DoD's model and its impact on resource managers. Personal and telephonic interviews were conducted with key individuals from the Office of the Secretary of Defense for Health Affairs (OASD(HA)), Bureau of Medicine and Surgery (BUMED), and at the Military Treatment Facility (MTF) level. A review of literature, including books, white papers, monographs, and journal articles were undertaken. The thesis concludes that the capitation methodology that OASD(HA) and the Services follow is a population-based model. BUMED allocates Defense Health Program (DHP) fluids on the basis of capitation categories down to the activity level. However, the MTF resource manager apportions DHP fluids to the departments based on historical and workload considerations. Due to a lack of a patient cost accounting module in the present accounting system, actual execution against a capitated resource allocation is not possible. Because of other limitations in the present structure, MTFs under BUMED still use traditional incremental budgeting in allocating fluids to their various departments. Thus, the adoption and implementation of a capitated-based financing system had limited impact on resource management at the activity level..
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This is a NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL MONTEREY CA report procured by the Pentagon and made available for public release It has been reproduced in the best form available to the Pentagon. It is not spiral-bound, but rather assembled with Velobinding in a soft, white linen cover. The Storming Media report number is A203083. The abstract provided by the Pentagon follows: Electro-optic techniques for analog-to-digital conversion (ADC) are being developed for wideband signal collection and analysis. They have the capability of being used for direct signal reception and ADC at an antenna. A fundamental requirement for these designs is a high-frequency optical pulse train with uniform amplitude and pulse spacing. A mode-locked fiber laser can provide pulse rates and pulse widths suitable for these high bandwidth applications. In this thesis an accurate method for calculating and characterizing with the amplitude and timing jitters of the NPS active mode- locked sigma laser was designed and demonstrated. The method utilizes a wide bandwidth photodetector and a microwave spectrum analyzer to obtain data for analysis. Labview 4.0 software was used to extract and store the data displayed on the spectrum analyzer. Matlab 5.1 software was then used to analyze the Labview data and to perform calculations for the amplitude and temporal jitter. Measurements were made for a microwave sweep oscillator and a cw generator, then again with the fiber laser operating with each signal source. Final measurements were taken with variable laser diode pump powers by varying the controller currents. Results show that the calculation of the laser jitter is not dependent on the upper limit of the noise power integral calculation above 10 kHz; however, the jitter is highly dependent on the value of the lower frequency limit and decreases dramatically as the lower limit is increased. Laser amplitude jitter was found to decrease by 30% and timing jitter by 0..
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This is a NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL MONTEREY CA DEPT OF SYSTEMS MANAGEMENT report procured by the Pentagon and made available for public release. It has been reproduced in the best form available to the Pentagon. It is not spiral-bound, but rather assembled with Velobinding in a soft, white linen cover. The Storming Media report number is A405133. The abstract provided by the Pentagon follows: The General Accounting Office (GAO) has stated that the Department of Defense (DoD) believes it is better to overbuy inventory items than to manage with just the right amount of stock. This thesis asserts that Navy inventory managers do not have a general tendency to overbuy items, but rather make rational purchasing decisions influenced and motivated by the environment of rewards and penalties in which they work. It is also asserted that Navy inventory managers are risk adverse due to the nature of their environment. Personal stockout costs are examined as one of the key factors influencing decision-making and risk adverse behavior. This thesis introduces a conceptual model that describes the Navy inventory management decision-making environment. This model shows the relationship between personal stockout costs, required service levels, cost considerations, and planning horizons across the different decision-making levels in the Navy. This study concludes that readiness-based performance measures must be changed to incorporate a cost focus, and that the risk facing inventory managers due to personal stockout costs needs to be reduced to change their behavior of lower inventory levels are desired..
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This is a NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL MONTEREY CA report procured by the Pentagon and made available for public release. It has been reproduced in the best form available to the Pentagon. It is not spiral-bound, but rather assembled with Velobinding in a soft, white linen cover. The Storming Media report number is A630704. The abstract provided by the Pentagon follows: This thesis presents an analysis, design and implementation of the Naval Postgraduate School's Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility (SCIF) consolidated Access database and website. The database was designed using a Microsoft Access 2000 relational database. This new database consolidates two previously separate personnel and classified inventories databases. The SCIF website was created utilizing Macromedia's Dreamweaver MX. Active Server Pages are used to provide connectivity between the website and database. The website accessible via any standard browser will provide the capability for designated users to manipulate data in the database. Protection of sensitive data is implemented utilizing Macromedia's embedded user authentication features..
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