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Submissions from 2024
The Impact of Cathode Geometry on Electron Hot Spot Formation and Ion Beam Properties in Pinched-Beam Diodes, Anneka K. Tichhy, Jesse C. Foster, S. B. Swanekamp, and P. F. Ottinger
Temporal Metadata Analysis: A Learning Classifier System Approach, Michael C. Todd and Gilbert L. Peterson
An Integrated Space Test Lexicon: A Taxonomy for the Integrated Test and Evaluation of Space Systems, Stephen K. Tullino, Andrew S. Keys, Robert A. Bettinger, Amy M. Cox, and David R. Jacques
Cyber Game-Based Learning for DoD CEs, Jillian Valente and Mark G. Reith
Predictability Limit of the 2021 Pacific Northwest Heatwave From Deep‐Learning Sensitivity Analysis, P. Trent Vonich and Gregory J. Hakim
Statistical reliability estimation of space launch vehicles: 2000–2022, Brooke N. Wagenblast and Robert A. Bettinger
Analysis of Receiver Position and Velocity Uncertainty on Passive RF Cislunar SSA Architectures, Kullen Waggoner and David H. Curtis
The Impact of Data Preparation and Model Complexity on the Natural Language Classification of Chinese News Headlines, Torrey J. Wagner, Dennis Guhl, and Brent T. Langhals
Decomposing a Renewable Energy Design and Dispatch Model, Jesse Wales, Alexander Zolan, Tülay Flamand, and Alexandra Newman
Trapped Ion Quantum Computing: A Framework for Addressing Security Vulnerabilities, Karli E. Wallace, Leleia A. Hsia, and Mark G. Reith
Physically Unclonable Characteristics for Trapped Ion Quantum Processors, Karli E. Wallace, Michael K. Roberts, Leleia A. Hsia, and Laurence D. Merkle
A Unified Digital Twin Approach Incorporating Virtual, Physical, and Prescriptive Analytical Components to Support Adaptive Real-Time Decision-Making, Ryan B. Walton, Frank W. Ciarallo, and Lance E. Champagne
Responsible Machine Learning for United States Air Force Pilot Candidate Selection, Devin Wasilefsky, William N. Caballero, Chancellor Johnstone, Nathan B. Gaw, and Phillip R. Jenkins
Max Range Reentry Optimization in Pseudo 5DOF for Lifting Bodies with Heating and Survivability Constraints, Emma L. Webb and Robert A. Bettinger
Minimum Time Escape from a Circular Region of a Dubins Car, Isaac E. Weintraub, Alexander von Moll, and Meir Pachter
Harnessing the Fourth Dimension Through Nonlinear Damping in Optical Fiber Flow Sensing, Jeremiah C. Williams and Hengky Chandrahalim
Nonlinear damping as the fourth dimension in optical fiber anemometry, Jeremiah C. Williams and Hengky Chandrahalim
Sun–Venus CR3BP, Part 1: Periodic Orbit Generation, Stability, and Mission Investigation, Adam P. Wilmer, Robert A. Bettinger, Marcus J. Holzinger, and Jacob A. Dahlke
Improvements to the Stacked Beacon TARDIS Analysis, Benjamin Wilson, Santasri Bose-Pillai, Jack McCrae, Steven Zuraski, and Steven T. Fiorino
Investigating Turbulence Distribution in the Lower Atmosphere using Time-lapse Imagery from a Camera Bank, Benjamin C. Wilson, Santasri R. Bose-Pillai, Jack E. McCrae, Steven T. Fiorino, Robert P. Freeman, and Laura R. Slabaugh
The Location of Cationic Substitutions in Carbonated Biomimetic Apatites Significantly Affects Crystal Nanomechanics, Stephanie Wong, Abigail Eaton, Christina Krywka, Arun Nair, and Alix Deymier
Improving 2–5 Qubit Quantum Phase Estimation Circuits Using Machine Learning, Charles Woodrum, Torrey J. Wagner, and David E. Weeks
Relative Vectoring using Dual Object Detection for Autonomous Aerial Refueling, Derek B. Worth, Jeffrey L. Choate, James Lynch, Scott L. Nykl, and Clark N. Taylor
Machine Visual Perception from Sim-to-real Transfer Learning for Autonomous Docking Maneuvers, Derek Worth, Jeffrey Choate, Ryan M. Raettig, Scott L. Nykl, and Clark N. Taylor
Interference of photons and polarization-based quantum state tomography through emulated atmospheric turbulence, Keith A. Wyman, Noah Everett, and Anil K. Patnaik