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Submissions from 2022
Earth-Moon Logistical Operations Utilizing Cislunar Periodic Orbits, Adam P. Wilmer and Robert A. Bettinger
Holding the High Ground: Operational Considerations for the Earth-Moon System, Adam P. Wilmer and Robert A. Bettinger
Near-Rectilinear Halo Orbit Surveillance using Cislunar Periodic Orbits, Adam P. Wilmer and Robert A. Bettinger
Cislunar Periodic Orbits for Earth–Moon L1 and L2 Lagrange Point Surveillance, Adam P. Wilmer, Robert A. Bettinger, and Bryan D. Little
Debris Propagation and Spacecraft Survivability Assessment for Catastrophic Mishaps Occurring in Cislunar Periodic Orbits, Adam P. Wilmer, Nathan R. Boone, and Robert A. Bettinger
Evolution of Combined Arms Tactics in Heterogeneous Multi-Agent Teams, Robert J. Wilson, David W. King, and Gilbert L. Peterson
Global GNSS-RO Electron Density in the Lower Ionosphere, Dong L. Wu, Daniel J. Emmons II, and Nimalan Swarnalingam
Injection Studies on a Small-Scale Rotating Detonation Engine, Jonathan J. Wyatt, Nathan J. Snow, Steven T. Fiorino, Fred R. Schauer, Marc D. Polanka, Brian Sell, and Kevin Y. Cho
Qubit propagation through lab simulated atmospheric turbulence, Keith A. Wyman, Milo W. Hyde IV, and Anil K. Patnaik
Effect of Connection State & Transport/Application Protocol on the Machine Learning Outlier Detection of Network Intrusions, George Yuchi, Torrey J. Wagner, Paul Auclair, and Brent T. Langhals
Submissions from 2021
Evaluation of an Air-Stiffened Toroidal Sphere Subjected to Pressure, Ruben Adorno and Anthony N. Palazotto
Patents by Current and Past AFIT Faculty, Air Force Institute of Technology
A Radial Basis Function Finite Difference Scheme for the Benjamin–Ono Equation, Benjamin F. Akers, Tony Liu, and Jonah A. Reeger
Evaluation of Sensor-agnostic All-source Residual Monitoring for Navigation, Andrew Appleget, Robert C. Leishman, and Jonathon S. Gipson
Assessing the Trustworthiness of Saliency Maps for Localizing Abnormalities in Medical Imaging, Nishanth Arun, Nathan B. Gaw, Praveer Singh, Ken Chang, Mehak Aggarwal, Bryan Chen, Katharina Hoebel, Sharut Gupta, Jay Patel, Mishka Gidwani, Julius Adebayo, Matthew D. Li, and Jayashree Kalpathy-Cramer
Predicting Lifecycle Impacts of Climate Change on Air Force Infrastructure, Alexander Baldwin, Scott Weiss, Louis Zib, Justin D. Delorit, and Christopher M. Chini
Sustainability Assessment of Alternative Jet Fuel for the U.S. Department of Defense, Colin M. Beal, Amanda D. Cuellar, and Torrey J. Wagner
Atmospheric reentry hemisphere prediction for prograde orbits using logical disjunction, Robert A. Bettinger
Black Space versus Blue Space: A Proposed Dichotomy of Future Space Operations, Robert A. Bettinger and Carl A. Poole
Tuning Hyperparameters for DNA-based Discrimination of Wireless Devices, Trevor Bihl, Joseph E. Schoenbeck, Aaron Jones, Christopher M. Rondeau, and Yuki Adams
Meta-Heuristic Optimization Methods for Quaternion-Valued Neural Networks, Jeremiah Bill, Lance E. Champagne, Bruce Cox, and Trevor J. Bihl
Robust Multi-body Slewing Trajectories via Unscented Optimal Control, Brian Bishop, Richard G. Cobb, and Constantinos Zagaris
Optimal Trajectory Generation For Multi-Body Flexible Systems with Vibration Compensation via Pseudospectral Methods, Brian W. Bishop, Richard G. Cobb, and Constantinos Zagaris
Robust Method of Determining Microfacet BRDF Parameters in the Presence of Noise via Recursive Optimization, Michael W. Bishop, Samuel D. Butler, and Michael A. Marciniak
Effect of noise and ototoxicants on developing standard threshold shifts at a U.S. Air Force depot level maintenance facility, Marc Blair, Jeremy M. Slagley, and N. Cody Schaal