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Submissions from 2021
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
Pure Tone Audiometry Evaluation Method Effectiveness in Detecting Hearing Changes Due to Workplace Ototoxicant, Continuous Noise, and Impulse Noise Exposures, Marc Blair, Jeremy M. Slagley, and Nicholas Cody Schaal
A Learning Curve Model Accounting for the Flattening Effect in Production Cycles, Evan R. Boone, John J. Elshaw, Clay M. Koschnick, Jonathan D. Ritschel, and Adedeji B. Badiru
Artificial Debris Collision Risk Following a Catastrophic Spacecraft Mishap in Lunar Orbit, Nathan R. Boone and Robert A. Bettinger
Cislunar Debris Propagation Following a Catastrophic Spacecraft Mishap, Nathan R. Boone and Robert A. Bettinger
Spacecraft survivability in the natural debris environment near the stable Earth-Moon Lagrange points, Nathan R. Boone and Robert A. Bettinger
Survivability Analysis in the Shadow of Apollo: Part I - Cislunar Debris Propagation and Spacecraft Vulnerability, Nathan R. Boone and Robert A. Bettinger
Structural Joints and Repairs: Bearing Fatigue Response in Bolted Hybrid Composite Joints, John S. Brewer, Anthony N. Palazotto, Casey Holycross, and Michael Gran
Performance-Based Building System Manufacturer Selection Decision Framework for Integration into Total Cost of Ownership Evaluations, Sarah L. Brown, Steven J. Schuldt, Michael N. Grussing, Louis B. Bartels, Michael A. Johnson, and Justin D. Delorit
Conjugate Heat Transfer Simulations to Evaluate the Effect of Anisotropic Thermal Conductivity on Overall Cooling Effectiveness, Carol E. Bryant and James L. Rutledge
An Assessment of the Spatial Variation of Isotopic Ratios in a CANDU Reactor for Nuclear Treaty Monitoring, Aaron W. Burkhardt, James E. Bevins, and Stephen H. Baxter
Six Degree-Of-Freedom Terminal Reentry Analysis Using Various Satellite Bus Configurations, Jinhee Byun, Robert A. Bettinger, and Jacob Olsen
Adversarial machine learning and adversarial risk analysis in multi-source command and control, William N. Caballero, Mark A. Friend, and Erik Blasch
Zernike Integrated Partial Phase Error Reduction Algorithm, Stephen C. Cain