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Submissions from 2020
Superconducting Phase Transition in Inhomogeneous Chains of Superconducting Islands, Eduard Ilin, Irina Burkova, Xiangyu Song, Michael V. Pak, Dmitri S. Golubev, and Alexey Bezryadin
Comparing Greedy Constructive Heuristic Subtour Elimination Methods for the Traveling Salesman Problem, Petar Jackovich, Bruce A. Cox, and Raymond R. Hill
The Viability and Simplicity of 3D-Printed Construction: A Military Case Study, Jeneé A. Jagoda, Brandy Diggs-McGee, Megan Kreiger, and Steven J. Schuldt
Aerial MEDEVAC Operations: Decision Making Under Uncertainty to Save Lives, Phillip R. Jenkins, Brian J. Lunday, and Matthew J. Robbins
Applying Control Abstraction to the Design of Human–Agent Teams, Clifford D. Johnson, Michael E. Miller, Christina F. Rusnock, and David R. Jacques
Residual-Based Multi-Filter Methodology for All-source Fault Detection, Exclusion, and Performance Monitoring, Juan Jurado, John Raquet, Christine M. Schubert Kabban Air Force Institute of Technology, and Jonathon S. Gipson
A Sequential Partial Information Bomber‐defender Shooting Problem, Krishna Kalyanam, David W. Casbeer, and Meir Pachter
Meeting Report of the Third Annual Tri-Service Microbiome Consortium Symposium, J Philip Karl, Robyn A. Barbato, Laurel A. Doherty, Aarti Gautam, Sarah M. Glaven, Robert J. Kokoska, Dagmar Leary, Rebecca Mickol, Matthew A. Perisin, Andrew J. Hoisington, Edward J. Van Opstal, Vanessa Varaljay, Nancy Kelley-Loughnane, Camilla A. Mauzy, Michael S. Goodson, and Jason W. Soares
Scorpion: A Modular Sensor Fusion Approach for Complementary Navigation Sensors, Kyle J. Kauffman, Daniel A . Marietta, John F. Raquet, Aaron J. Canciani, Robert C. Leishman, Adam Schofield, and Michael Caporellie
Balancing Project Management, Risk, and Educational Opportunities on the Grissom CubeSat Project [Poster], Andrew S. Keys, Robert A. Bettinger, Chris Sheffield, Sean Miller, and Christopher P. Lomanno
Single-pulse, Kerr-effect Mueller Matrix LiDAR Polarimeter, Keyser, Christian K.; Richard K. Martin; Helena Lopez-Aviles; Khanh Nguyen; Arielle M. Adams; and Demetrios Christodoulides
Virtual Testbed for Monocular Visual Navigation of Small Unmanned Aircraft Systems, Kyung Kim, Robert C. Leishman, and Scott L. Nykl
Infrared-active Phonon Modes in Single-crystal Thorium Dioxide and Uranium Dioxide, Sean Knight, Rafał Korlacki, Christina L. Dugan, James C. Petrosky, Alyssa Mock, Peter A. Dowben, J. Matthew Mann, Martin M. Kimani, and Mathias Schubert
Wideband SATCOM Model: Evaluation of Numerical Accuracy and Efficiency, Andrew J. Knisely and Andrew Terzuoli
Wideband SATCOM Model: Evaluation of Numerical Accuracy and Efficiency, Andrew J. Knisely and Andrew J. Terzuoli Jr.
First Principle Computational EMI Model of V and W Wideband Signal Temporal Delay Induced By A HANE in the Ionosphere, Andrew J. Knisley and Andrew J. Terzuoli Jr.
First Principle Scintillation Characterization of Natural and Artificial Disturbances on V/W Band Signals in the Ionosphere Using the Multiple Phase Screen Technique, Andrew J. Knisley and Andrew J. Terzuoli Jr.
Strategic Decision Facilitation: Supporting Critical Assumptions of the Human in Empirical Modeling of Pairwise Value Comparisons, Joseph P. Kristbaum and Frank W. Ciarallo
Predicting Contact-without-connection Defects on Printed Circuit Boards Employing Ball Grid Array Package Types: A Data Analytics Case Study in the Smart Manufacturing Environment, Phillip M. LaCasse, Wilkistar Otieno, and Francisco P. Maturana
Securing Photovoltaic (PV) System Deployments with Data Diodes, Robert D. Larkin, Torrey J. Wagner, and Barry E. Mullins
Comparison of Visual Simultaneous Localization and Mapping Methods for Fixed-Wing Aircraft Using SLAMBench2, Patrick Latcham and Clark N. Taylor
Propagation of High Energy Lasers through Clouds: Modeling and Simulation, Andrew Lawrence and Benjamin F. Akers
Long-Range Pose Estimation for Aerial Refueling Approaches Using Deep Neural Networks, Andrew Lee, William Dallmann, Scott L. Nykl, Clark N. Taylor, and Brett J. Borghetti
Sparse Representation of Targets with Mixed Scattering Primitives, John Lee, Peter J. Collins, and Julie Ann Jackson
MagSLAM: Aerial Simultaneous Localization and Mapping using Earth's Magnetic Anomaly Field, Taylor N. Lee and Aaron J. Canciani