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Submissions from 2026
Powdered Activated Carbon Treatment of PFAS‐Containing Washwater from Aircraft Hangar Pipe Rinsing, Jennifer Hensley, Jaya Das Schober, Matthew Magnuson, and Willie F. Harper Jr.
Special Issue introduction: Advanced Methodologies for Space Operations and Security in the Complex Orbital Environment, Joshuah A. Hess, Constantinos Zagaris, Bryan D. Little, and Robert A. Bettinger
Preliminary 3- and 6-Degree-of-Freedom Investigation of Aerobraking to Support Cislunar Operations, Erica C. Higginbotham, Robert A. Bettinger, and Emma L. Webb
The Influence of In-Hole Roughness on Leading-Edge Overall Effectiveness, Bailey W. Hopkins and James L. Rutledge
Optimal Codes in the Stiefel Manifold, John Jasper, Nathan Mankovich, and Dustin G. Mixon
Does Patient History Influence Capsular Contracture? An Exploratory Analysis with Machine Learning, Thomas M. Johnstone, Daniel Najafali, Jennifer K. Shaw, Justin M. Camacho, Chancellor Johnstone, Rahim S. Nazerali, and Gordon K. Lee
Comparison of Anomaly Detection Methods on Event-Based Vision Sensor Data in a High Noise Environment, Will Johnston, Anthony L. Franz, Shannon R. Young, Rachel Oliver, Zachary Theis, Brian McReynolds, and Michael L. Dexter
Special Section Guest Editorial: Unconventional Imaging, Sensing, and Adaptive Optics, Matthew Kalensky, Santasri Bose-Pillai, Jean Dolne, Casey J. Pellizzari, and Cameron J. Radosevich
Discovery of Dynamical Structures Mapping Chaotic Transport Pathways in the Earth–Moon CR3BP, Tyler J. Kapolka, Christina E. Paljug, Robert A. Bettinger, Rachel Oliver, Bruce A. Cox, and Jeremiah A. Specht
Nowcasting 3D Cloud Fields Using Forward Warping Optical Flow, Matthew P. King, Jason M. Apke, Steven D. Miller, Katherine Haynes, Yoo-Jeong Noh, and John M. Haynes
Laser-driven fusion and accelerator facility to generate kHz-rate mixed radiation, Benjamin M. Knight, Nathaniel Tamminga, Connor M. Gautam, Scott Feister, Kyle D. Frische, Enam A. Chowdury, Michael L. Dexter, and Anil K. Patnaik
The Evolution of Reliability Methods for Nondestructive Evaluation (NDE): From Probability of Detection (POD) Conception to Contemporary Practices, Christine E. Knott, Jennifer Brown, John Aldrin, and Christine M. Schubert Kabban
Uranium Chemical Compound Classification Using Sub-images and Statistical Machine Learning for Nuclear Forensics, Lee C. Lambert, Brett J. Borghetti, and Abigail A. Bickley
Cognitive team models in press Diplomacy, Joshua A. Lapso, Gilbert L. Peterson, and Michael E. Miller
Impacts of storytelling on experiential service assessment, José Larco, Romina Viñas, Kunpeng Li, and Amir Gharehgozli
Spline-Based Factor-Graph Optimization with High-Grade Inertial Sensors, Kyle Leland, Clark N. Taylor, David Woodburn, and Randal Beard
Effects of Niobium on the Mechanical and Oxidation Properties of Additively Manufactured Tungsten, Alexander LeSieur, Cayla Eckley, and Ryan A. Kemnitz
A Comprehensive Analysis of Triply Periodic Minimal Surface Structures Applied to Additively Manufactured Conformal Heat Exchangers for High-Speed Applications, Nathan Lewan, Mitch Wolff, Abdeel J. Roman, Zachary J. Carner, John S. Brewer, and Tanner S. Barber
Optimizing Warranty Policies for Remanufactured Products: When Should They Be Longer, Shorter, or Identical to New Product Warranties?, Kunpeng Li and Jun-Yeon Lee
Remediating and reducing the environmental impact of fire suppression systems contaminated with per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances: Perspectives on current guidelines, Matthew L. Magnuson, Trevor Sleight, and Willie F. Harper Jr.
Revisiting “Environmental Effects”: Directions for Multidisciplinary Investigations of Air Quality and Psychopathology, Erika M. Manczak, Andrew Hoisington, Forrest Lacey, Megan Waxman, Katherine Czech, Summer Millwood, Sydney Yi, Megan Proctor, Rebecca Buchholz, Rajesh Kumar, and Olga Wilhelmi
Development of Robust Ratio Linear Fitting Method of Temperature and Emissivity Separation for High-Temperature Data, Mitchell Manzardo, Michael L. Dexter, Shannon R. Young, John Bowlan, and Anthony L. Franz
Understanding Unity’s ECS Architecture, Brett Martin, Douglas D. Hodson, and Laurence D. Merkle
Solar Storm Effects on Quantum Communication Network Performance, Brett M. Martin, Michael K. Seery, Douglas D. Hodson, Torrey J. Wagner, Michael R. Grimaila, Anne Marie Richards, and Wayne McKenzie
Correlations between Z-Tilt, G-Tilt, and Centroid Motion, Jack E. McCrae, Santasri Bose-Pillai, and Steven T. Fiorino