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Submissions from 2026
Measuring the Effects of Humanitarian Operations on Economic Performance, Matthew Sabol
Public Decision Making in Disaster Relief Operations: The Case of the U.S. Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), Matthew Sabol, Abhay Grover, and Martin Dresner
On the Proper Use of Pressure-Sensitive Paint for the Investigation of Film Cooling Adiabatic Effectiveness in Supersonic Flow, Umberto Sandri, Niccolo Castelli, Alessio Picchi, Bruno Facchini, and Marc D. Polanka
Adiabatic Effectiveness Measurements of Film Cooling in Supersonic Flow, Umberto Sandri, Marc D. Polanka, Alessio Picchi, Antonio Andreini, and Bruno Facchini
Computational Analysis of Salicylic Acid Oxidation: Byproducts and Reaction Pathways, Jaya Das Schober and Willie F. Harper Jr.
Analysis of Starfire Optical Range’s Atmospheric Monitoring Methods Using WaveProp Simulation and Numerical Modeling, Julianna Sommer, Santasri Basu, Jack E. McCrae, and Steven T. Fiorino
Quantification of Heat Loads in Rotating Detonation Combustors for Gas Turbines, Shreyas Ramanagar Sridhara, Umberto Sandri, Pier Carlo Nassini, Antonio Andreini, Marc D. Polanka, and Myles D. Bohon
Integration of Film Cooling in a Micro Rotating Detonation Combustor, Mauro Tagliaferri, Alessio Picchi, Marc D. Polanka, and Antonio Andeini
A Comparative Analysis of Solution Separation-based RAIM and Robust Cost Functions in Factor Graph Optimization for GNSS Positioning, Clark N. Taylor and Jason N. Gross
Effect of explicit residual filtering on the stability of finite difference methods, Scott W. Theuerkauf and Joseph C. Oefelein
Film Cooling Applied to a Rotating Detonation Engine, Alex R. Thordson, Marc D. Polanka, Mauro Tagliaferri, and Matthew Longer
Impact of stochastic travel times on the military port selection problem, William M. Titus, Brian J. Lunday, and Jesse G. Wales
Comparison of Methods for Wavelength Determination from Laser Speckle Patterns, Joseph Tompkins, Aaron J. Bonner, and Stephen C. Cain
Experimental determination of S , D , F , and G energy levels in rubidium, Timothy M. true, Dillon T. Nice, Jordan C. Mindrup, Christopher A. Rice, and Glen P. Perram
Assessment of Visibility from Nano- and Micro- Aerosol Particle Concentration, Halley Turner, Steven T. Fiorino, Kevin Keefer, Kyle Fitch, and Jaclyn Schmidt
Exploring critical supplier selection criteria for performance-based contracting: Insights from the defense industry, Hasan Uvet, John Dickens, Justin D'Agostino, and Sanjaya Mayadunne
Applying sequential bifurcation and feed-forward simulation to reduce the prescriptive response time of a digital twin, Ryan B. Walton, Frank W. Ciarallo, and Lance E. Champagne
Preliminary investigation of 6DOF reentry reachability for a cylindrical reentry vehicle, Emma L. Webb, Robert A. Bettinger, and Kerry D. Hicks
Rapid-Response Reconnaissance Architecture Design for Planetary Defense with Nested Trajectory Optimization, Adam P. Wilmer, Justin A. Atchison, Marcus J. Holzinger, and Robert A. Bettinger
Planetary defense in the 21st century: Revitalizing policy and international collaboration, Adam P. Wilmer, Robert A. Bettinger, and Marcus J. Holzinger
Designing Space-Based Architectures to Discover and Track Hazardous Asteroids Using MO-MCTS, Adam P. Wilmer, Michael J. Klonowski, Marcus J. Holzinger, and Robert A. Bettinger
Temperature Determination and Scene Change Artifact Mitigation When Using Fourier-Transform Spectroscopy on Targets with Time-Varying Temperature, Kode A. Wilson, Michael L. Dexter, Benjamin F. Akers, and Anthony L. Franz
Proposed Methodology for Correcting Fourier-Transform Infrared Spectroscopy Field-of-View Scene-Change Artifacts, Kody A. Wilson, Michael L. Dexter, Benjamin F. Akers, and Anthony L. Franz
Nuclear physics of X-ray bursts, Y. Xu, H. Schatz, R. Lau, Zachary P. Meisel, and P. Mohr
Modeling Individual Self-protective Behavior during Epidemics, Geonsik Yu, Michael J. Garee, Mario Ventresca, and Yuehwern Yih