Dissertations / Theses: 'Military Department'

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Corzine, Theresa J. "Employees' Perceived Effectiveness of Outsourcing Department of Defense Functions." ScholarWorks, 2015. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/195.

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The United States Department of Defense spends billions of dollars annually on outsourcing functions to private contracted companies without knowing if their actions are effective. Guided by Feigenbaum, Henig, and Hamnett's theory of privatization and President Eisenhower's warnings of the impending military-industrial complex, the intent of this grounded theory study was to develop relevant theory regarding how the Department of Defense might accomplish missions through outsourcing during current and future fiscal constraints. This study sought to understand the perceived effectiveness of outsourcing Department of Defense functions through the perspectives of 2 employment groups directly affected by such outsourcing: federal employees and privately contracted employees. In this study, 24 federal employees and 20 privately contracted employees completed qualitative surveys about their perceptions of effectiveness in regards to outsourcing Department of Defense functions. Data were inductively analyzed through open, axial, and selective coding via constant comparison. Findings from this study generated a grounded theory, one positing that 2 distinct elements are important in outsourcing during fiscal constraint: well defined legal requirements and private sector technical expertise. Evidence from this study suggests that when these elements are in place, outsourced Department of Defense functions can progress, regardless of fiscal restrictions. The implications for social change include assisting political leaders with better decision making in support of effective national security policies, while providing good stewardship of tax payer funds.

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Herty, Edward A. IV. "The effects of Congressional military service on Department of Defense appropriations." Monterey, California. Naval Postgraduate School, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/10945/9903.

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The purpose of this MBA Project was to determine whether or not a Senator or Representative's previous military service had any influence on how he or she supported defense appropriations. During the course of this project, four shipbuilding programs over the previous twenty years were analyzed: LCS, MCM-1, LPD-17, and DDG-51. This research showed that military experience does have a positive effect of Department of Defense Appropriations at the committee level. Some Senators and Representatives, who lacked military experience, actually appeared to be against military spending. In both cases, though, the effects of military experience were outweighed by a much larger concern. Where a ship was actually built had a much larger effect on how much Congressional support that particular program received. Therefore, from the results of this study, one can extrapolate that where a particular program is built has a significantly greater impact on Congressional support than does prior military experience.

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Jacobsen, Gary L. "A Department Of Defense retirement system for the future." Thesis, Monterey, Calif. : Springfield, Va. : Naval Postgraduate School ; Available from National Technical Information Service, 2002. http://library.nps.navy.mil/uhtbin/hyperion-image/02Jun%5FJacobsen.pdf.

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Backus, James E. Jr. "Instructor Expert Behavior Observations| Department of Defense| Joint Military Intelligence Training Center." Thesis, University of Phoenix, 2019. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=13808081.

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This dissertation informed by qualitative intrinsic case study investigated instructor expert classroom behavior at the Department of Defense Joint Military Intelligence Training Center. Expert classroom behavior has been investigated in K-12 and higher education situations, but never in a Department of Defense adult training and education environment. This study adds to the body of work closing this critical literature gap. Learners in all environments form judgments of educator credibility based on demonstrated expert classroom behavior, which impacts learning. Learners who believe in the credibility of their educator are known to pay increased attention, apply extra effort, and achieve increased levels of learning. This study used a previously developed 75-item classroom expert behavior checklist with participant data analysis revealing three themes; Joint Military Intelligence Training Center instructors exhibit expert classroom behavior, the checklist requires modification for adult training and education environment application, and determined effort is required to ensure instructor awareness of expert behavior and the consequences to themselves, the learning institution, and learners when not demonstrated. It could be argued in no other environment is demonstration of expert classroom behavior more important than at the Joint Military Intelligence Training Center responsible for training Department of Defense Intelligence Analysts who conduct all source analysis and provide information informing national security-level decision-making.

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Garcia, Richard D. Sloan Joshua K. "The framework for an information technology strategic roadmap for the United States Marine Corps how current acquisitions align to the current strategic direction of the Department Of Defense, Department of the Navy, and United States Marine Corps /." Monterey, Calif. : Naval Postgraduate School, 2008. http://handle.dtic.mil/100.2/ADA483763.

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Thesis (M.S. in Information Technology Management)--Naval Postgraduate School, June 2008.
Thesis Advisor(s): Cook, Glen. "June 2008." Description based on title screen as viewed on August 22, 2008. Includes bibliographical references (p. 131-137). Also available in print.

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McGregor, James A. "Analysis of enlisted recruiting patterns within the Department of the Navy." Monterey, Calif. : Springfield, Va. : Naval Postgraduate School ; Available from National Technical Information Service, 1997. http://handle.dtic.mil/100.2/ADA341317.

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Angell, B. Dean. "Transformational Innovation and Transformational Leadership in the U.S. Government Department of Defense Acquisitions Workforce." Thesis, Capella University, 2017. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10605649.

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This dissertation, Transformational Innovation (TI) in the U.S. Department of Defense (U.S. DoD) Acquisitions, is a qualitative case study. The topic is viewed through a social constructivist lens and designed to understand the contemporary real-life experiences of U.S. DoD acquisition professionals in meeting the challenge of the Better Buying Power initiative. This initiative, Better Buying Power, asks U.S. DoD acquisition professionals to create innovative business processes designed to increase the effectiveness and best value of U.S. DoD acquisition activities. The researcher examined observed illustrations of TI and the accompanying instances of transformational or transactional leadership. Transformational leadership (TL) can be characterized by idealized influence/charisma, inspirational motivation, intellectual consideration and stimulation, and individualized consideration. In contrast, transactional leadership is a method whereby goals and tasks are assigned to employees who are motivated by rewards and punishments and must do as the manager says or face the consequences. The data gathered from this research effort are centered on two areas, transformational leadership in the U.S. DoD acquisitions workforce, and transformational innovation within the U.S. DoD acquisitions workforce. Several themes emerged from the study: there were few examples of transformational leadership; there were few examples of transformational innovation; there were many examples of transactional leadership, the U.S. DoD is still primarily transactional; and change in the U.S. DoD is directive. The results of the study add to the literature surrounding TL and TI and offer insight into the effects of transformational leadership on transformational innovation.

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Wentz, James Eugene. "A comparative study of mass media operations during 1986 at the U.K. Ministry of Defence and the U.S. Department of Defense." Thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London), 1988. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.322962.

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Cuccio, Claire Ellen. "The Politics of Social Media in the Department of Defense; How DoD's Status Changed From Friend to Defriend to Friend Again." Diss., Virginia Tech, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/50602.

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The introduction of social media presented a significant challenge to the often secretive culture of the U.S. military. DoD struggled with publishing a social media policy forcing the armed services to develop their own policies, which were all inconsistent. When DoD finally established a social media policy in 2007, certain social media sites were banned from the Services' networks for a variety of reasons -- the one most often quoted was risk. In February 2010, DoD completely reversed its policy and embraced social media. The new policy required the military to allow open access on the networks to social media for all employees, despite much resistance from internal stakeholders. In this dissertation, I research three significant events during the development of the DoD Social Media Policy: (1) the pre-policy environment, including actions to restrict social media on the DoD networks (2) coming to closure on the current policy and how DoD made its decision to open the networks to social media, and (3) the post-closure period and its ongoing and new tensions. This research project is a qualitative study of the evolution of social media (pre- and post a formal policy) within the DoD through the lens of social construction of technology (SCOT) and a discourse analysis of the policy formulation. My findings indicated that references to security and privacy risk, sociotechnological inevitability, responsible online behavior and youth were particularly important to the military discourse on social media. The study concludes the risk is worth to benefit to service members who want to use social media. Service members accept the sociotechnological inevitability of social media and feel they are responsible enough to use it wisely. The issue of youth was found to be not really a concern and leadership emerged as a discourse and is often referenced to solve any issue that may arise from the use of social media within the military environment.
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Malarczyk, Barbara Beth. "Academic achievement and self-concept of military adolescents attending Canadian Department of National Defence Schools." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 1989. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/29366.

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This study investigated the relationship between scholastic performance and self-concept of grade ten military dependants, and three selected variables in the military environment. The sample consisted of 119 tenth-grade students from seven Canadian military bases: six in Canada and one Defence base in Germany. Criterion variables were reading comprehension mathematics achievement, written expression and self-concept. Predictor variables were geographic mobility, father absence due to assignment, and military status. The sample was stratified by gender for data analysis. The performance of the research sample on the criterion variables was compared with the published norms through construction of confidence intervals. Relationships between criterion and predictor variables were examined through partial correlations after controlling for the influence of cognitive ability. Multiple regression analyses were used to examine the relationship between the predictor variables and each criterion variable for each gender group. Bonferroni adjustment was used to guard against experiment-wise error. The research sample was found to be similar to the norming samples of instruments used for data collection, except for mathematics and cognitive ability. There was no support for significant relationships between the environmental variables and the criterion variables. None of the bivariate correlations between the environmental and the criterion variables was statistically significant after Bonferroni adjustment for the control of Type 1 error. As well, none of the multiple regression analyses was statistically significant at the .0125 alpha level. However, the military environmental factors investigated in this study did not appear to be detrimental to the adolescents' school achievement and self-concept. It is speculated that cognitive ability may be a mediating variable in the relationship of military environmental variables and performance in school subjects.
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Educational and Counselling Psychology, and Special Education (ECPS), Department of
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Fokkens, Andries Marius. "Idealised redesign : the South African Military Academy by the year 2030." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/85386.

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Thesis (MPhil)--Stellenbosch University, 2011.
The changing external environment of the security sector and higher education influences the South African Military Academy (SAMA) as an institution within the broader Department of Defence, which is also associated with Stellenbosch University (SU) through the SAMA’s Faculty of Military Science (FMS). Graduates of the SAMA operate mostly within this changing security environment where their abilities and competencies are required. The research problem investigates the triggers that will initiate change and the drivers that will bring about paradigm shifts on the SAMA as an institution that delivers graduates for a changing security environment. The research question is to forecast an ideal SAMA in the year 2030. This ideal comes forth from critical analyses of current literature and qualitative data collected from experts through the Delphi technique. Sub-questions of the research question includes the programme content of the academic and military training programmes, the profile of the academic and administrative personnel, the student profile upon entering and exiting the SAMA, the organisational structure required, the infrastructure and finally the financial model. Furthermore, triggers and drivers identify actions to bring about change and critical success factors determine the requirements to achieve an ideal SAMA in 2030. The SAMA is a unique military unit that houses the only Faculty of Military Science in Southern Africa. The research report will empower decision-makers in the DOD and SU, including the unit members of the SAMA, to identify the triggers that will precipitate a coming change and properly manage the drivers pressuring change from the perspective of functionality, politics and society.

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Walker, Roger Craig. "Department of Defense military allowances entitlement : a critical review of the determination processes for housing allowances /." Thesis, Monterey, Calif. : Springfield, Va. : Naval Postgraduate School ; Available from National Technical Information Service, 1995. http://handle.dtic.mil/100.2/ADA305535.

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Wild, Thomas H. "Vertical integration and the military - a strategic approach to outsourcing decisions of the Department of Defense." Monterey, California. Naval Postgraduate School, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10945/10146.

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It is a common belief that government organizations are generally less effective and efficient than commercial entities. Among the prominent problems that need to be addressed in this context is the process leading to a decision regarding how to source activities. Consequently, current publications and laws require government activities to compete with commercial contractors. Also, a preference for outsourcing military activities is often expressed. This MBA project investigates how applicable economic principles that govern the sourcing decision in the commercial world are to the military. It further reviews the laws that regulate the decision making process for the military. The project then evaluates how these different factors should impact the process and whether recent outsourcing decisions, especially for Operation Iraqi Freedom, reflect valid economic criteria. The MBA project determines that valid economic principles are applicable to the military, but they are not always used correctly or to the advantage of the government. Additional socio-economic and military factors also have a significant influence and need to be weighed against the economic principles, stressing distinctions between the military and a commercial company. Those differences and their potential effects are not adequately addressed in the publications regulating the decision making process.

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Christensen, R. Bryan. "Paying for language skills| The Department of Defense Foreign Language Incentive Program." Thesis, University of Colorado at Colorado Springs, 2013. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3563610.

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Many organizations have a great need for people conversant in foreign languages and cultures. The U.S. Department of Defense operates globally and is always in need of people who can communicate across cultural and linguistic divides, and the gap between what is needed and the personnel who can meet those needs is often considerable. To address this deficit the DOD implemented an incentive pay in the mid 1980s to reward those servicemembers who could prove proficiency in a foreign language. The Foreign Language Proficiency Bonus (FLPB) has gone through numerous changes over the years and this study sought to answer the basic questions, what has been the effect and is it working? How much of an effect does the bonus have on members' actual behavior regarding FL acquisition? This mixed-methods approach analyzed the evolution of policy, conducted a statistical analysis of member testing data, and conducted interviews with 22 current and former recipients of FLPB to see what impact FLPB has had or could have in meeting the DOD goal of increasing FL proficiency within the force. This study focused on the Air Force implementation of the FLPB program, though findings are likely applicable across the military services. Key findings include the rapidly changing nature of FLPB policy, which has caused frustration for many AF members. Further, with numerous stakeholders involved, some points of policy and programs could potentially be working at cross-purposes with overall goals. Statistical analysis found several significant trends; however, many findings do not support FLPB as an effective program in its current form. Many AF members indicated a high desire to use their language skills but are frustrated at the infrequent ability to do so in any official capacity. Several suggestions are offered for how the AF could modify existing policy to achieve its goals for FL proficiency, as well as to maximize scarce financial resources to maximum effect.

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Butler, Glenn J. "Exploring Leader Development Experiences to Inform Department of Defense Leader Development Policy." ScholarWorks, 2019. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/6535.

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Although there are several robust leader development programs in the U.S. Army, no standardized access to leader development is provided to all service members at the start of their career. Forty-four percent of the Department of Defense (DoD) active duty personnel are 25 years of age or less. Despite this known experience gap, there is a shortfall in policy that ensures standardized access to leader development during this foundational period. The purpose of this phenomenological study was to explore the experiences of service members who participated in the United States Army Pacific's Regional Leader Development Program-Pacific (RLDP-P) to inform DoD policy on leader development. The RLDP-P and its unique participant composition provided the conceptual framework and transformational leadership provided the theoretical framework for this study. Semistructured interviews of 16 RLDP-P participants were used to identify scalable and feasible elements of the program that positively impacted the service members' professional goals. Data were analyzed using inductive coding to identify the study's major themes. This study's central research question addressed the RLDP-P's impact on the participants' professional goals. The findings revealed the program inspired participants to create or refine their professional goals, increased their desire for self-development, and motivated them to develop others. Policy recommendations to the DoD for future leader development programs include diversity of mentor engagements in a small group environment and exposure to professional broadening opportunities. These findings will inform future DoD policy on standardized access to leader development from the start of service members' careers.

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Acosta, Gerard M. "A Review of the Department of the Army's Decentralized Cost Benefit Analysis Process." ScholarWorks, 2011. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/1020.

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From 1996 to 2006, the number of Department of Defense (DoD) contract transactions increased, leading to over expenditures and the need for agencies to determine benefit estimation to improve risk management of a project. The purpose of this qualitative case study was to apply a total quality management theory to explore if a standardized versus decentralized benefits framework within the cost benefit analysis process could improve the Department of the Army acquisition selection process. The two central research questions addressed (a) the differences between successful and failed acquisition systems cost benefit analysis, and (b) whether a standardized or decentralized cost benefits framework would best serve contract selection process. Data were collected via interviews with 20 DoD acquisition specialists and analysis of cost benefit analysis cases; NVIVO software was used to examine word frequency and comparative phrases. The data analysis resulted in themes that encompassed how standardization improves product quality, enhances innovation, and accelerates the acquisition procurement process. Other themes included the need to build metrics into the cost benefit assessment to measure risk management controls and cost-reduction initiatives. The DoD might benefit from the results of this study by reviewing and instituting a standardized benefit assessment within its cost benefit analysis framework to protect business stakeholders' from fraud, waste, or abuse. The implications of this doctoral study will promote social change in the form of government spending fiscal stewardship and could serve as a benchmark to improve the budget formulation and management of the American taxpayer's investment in national security.

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Harris, Robert Lee. "Evaluating the Military Police Corps' Active Shooter Preparedness Plan." ScholarWorks, 2019. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/7388.

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The Military Police Corps' active shooter preparedness plan is inadequate because several updated tactics, techniques, and procedures that have been developed over the past 20 years and implemented by civilian law enforcement agencies have not been incorporated, leaving the Corps less prepared during active shooter events. The purpose of this phenomenological study was to examine how Military Police Corps leaders trained their law enforcement and support personnel to respond to an active shooter event. The institutional analysis and development framework was used to analyze the day-to-day operational decisions within the Military Police Corps. Data for the qualitative case study were collected through semi structured interviews with 15 Military Police Corps leaders and soldiers across 5 military police battalions in the United States and Europe and military police training records. These data were subjected to axial and open coding, followed by a thematic analysis procedure. Participants perceived that the Corps' active shooter preparedness training hours and methodology are insufficient to maintain proficiency in active shooter preparedness, that dispatchers are not properly trained on receiving active shooter calls, and that live exercise training for first responders is inadequate. Recommendations for Military Police Corps leadership include updating the training methodology for first responders and dispatchers, providing better tactical equipment for first responders, and revising policies in order to improve the Military Police Corps' active shooter preparedness program. Implementation of these recommendations may promote public safety.

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Colvin, Janet D. (Janet Delores). "The Effectiveness of Institutionalization of a Curricular Change in Department of Defense Dependents' Schools." Thesis, University of North Texas, 1995. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc278839/.

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In this study factors which affect the degree of implementation of a curricular change were examined to determine how well a specific curricular change was implemented in relation to the original intent. The change, Developmentally Appropriate Practice, was implemented in Department of Defense Dependents Schools, Germany Region, beginning in school year 1991-1992 in grades kindergarten through two. During school year 1993-1994, grade three began the transition to Developmentally Appropriate Practice. Several factors which influence teacher behavior during the implementation process were investigated to determine if there is a correlation between those factors and degree of implementation, the dependent variable. The independent variables in this study were school culture; administrators' leadership effectiveness; teacher concerns about the implementation; and teacher characteristics including age, years teaching experience, years experience in Department of Defense Dependents' Schools, and training. The degree of implementation, the dependent variable, was defined in terms of the extent to which teachers had changed their behavior to become congruent with behavior required by the change. Teachers were identified as high, moderate, or low implementers, based on classroom observations. One purpose of the study was to increase understanding of implementation by analyzing the factors which affect the behavior of teachers in the change process. A second purpose of the study was to add to the body of research that explains why so many educational changes fail to become established practice. To establish interobserver reliability, two observers rated teachers using the same protocol. The interobserver reliability coefficient found was reported at .9820. The participants in the study completed the Stages of Concern Questionnaire, the Administrative Effectiveness Survey, the School Culture Survey, and a demographic survey. The results were correlated with the Early Childhood Classroom Observation form. Amount of training was found to have a statistically significant positive relationship with degree of implementation (p=.006). Statistically significant positive relationships were not found between the other independent variables and degree of implementation.

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Meletiadis, Ananias. "The deterrence effect of the implementation of the Department of Defense's drug prevention policy among military personnel." Thesis, Monterey, Calif. : Springfield, Va. : Naval Postgraduate School ; Available from National Technical Information Service, 2004. http://library.nps.navy.mil/uhtbin/hyperion/04Mar%5FMeletiadis.pdf.

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Davison, Camon. "West Point of the West: A History of the Department of Military Science at Utah State University." DigitalCommons@USU, 2016. https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/etd/5032.

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The Department of the Military Science at Utah State University was created in 1898 and is the oldest department at USU. Until the mid-1950s it was mandatory that all male students be enrolled in Military training at the school and, if they so decided, would finish up the last two years of military training to become officers in the United States Military. This program is known as ROTC. Fully implemented at USU in 1916 the ROTC program continued to grow and would help fund the growth of campus during the 1920’s and 30’s. Following World War II the program became the largest ROTC unit in the nation and was nicknamed “West Point of the West”. The school produced more officers than any other college besides the Military Academy at West Point. The documentary film that I made follows the history of Utah State University from its founding in 1888 to the modern day research University of today. Using interviews of past and current ROTC cadets as well as the experts on the history of USU and ROTC, the film weaves the history of the expansion of the USU campus and the role that the Army ROTC unit had in the school’s development. Much of my research was done in special collections at the USU library where many of the photos for the film were found. Some of my research took me to the National Archives and the Library of Congress which proved to be invaluable when finding early military photos and documents. A total budget cost of USD$10,000 was spent on camera gear, travel expenses, drone footage, and digital storage solutions. The film was fully funded, written, shot, edited, and finished by myself and took 1 ½ years to make from start to finish. The end result is a 53-minute documentary delivered on a Blu Ray disk, the film is also accessible to the public via online streaming.

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Rabung, Emily A. "U.S. Military Land Management and Endangered Species Conservation." The Ohio State University, 2020. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1595240047775966.

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Thompson, Michael A. "Department of Defense involvement in homeland security the militarization of the southwestern border in the U.S. /." Quantico, VA : Marine Corps Command and Staff College, 2008. http://handle.dtic.mil/100.2/ADA490850.

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Byers, Daniel Thomas. "Mobilizing Canada : the National Resources Mobilization Act, the Department of National Defence, and compulsory military service in Canada." Thesis, McGill University, 2000. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=36881.

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Compulsory military service took on the most organized, long-term form it has ever had in Canada during the Second World War. But few historians have looked beyond the politics of conscription to study the creation, administration, or impact of a system that affected more than 150,000 men. This thesis examines the Army's role in creating and administering the compulsory military training system, and particularly the influence of Major-General H. D. G. Crerar and other senior officers. Faced with the federal government's policy of conscripting manpower only for home defence in 1940, and influenced by their own personal and professional desires to create a large, powerful Army that could take a leading role in the fighting overseas, Army leaders used conscripts raised under the National Resources Mobilization Act to meet both purposes. In this development can be found the origins of the "big army" of five divisions that fought for Canada overseas. Ultimately, thanks to the burden created by the "big army," and the entry of Japan into the war in late 1941, the NRMA failed to meet the huge demands imposed on the nation's manpower resources. The result was the political crisis that almost brought down the federal government in October and November 1944.
This thesis also explores the origins and background of the conscripts themselves, and the impact of the NRMA on their lives. As the NRMA became more and more central to the Army's plans after 1941, conscripts were exposed to a number of pressures designed to convince them to volunteer for overseas service. By late 1944, the only ones who remained were those who had most strongly resisted these efforts, a fact that the country's generals understood better than its politicians. The events of late 1944 brought the Cabinet to an awareness of the situation, but only at the cost of the prestige and influence that the Army had built up over the earlier years of the war. Thus, the way that the Army managed the NRMA came very much to shape the political debates that took place, and the place of the Army in Canada after the war.

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Adams, Barry D. "Integrating the Department of Defense military services' technology development programs to improve time, cost, and technical quality parameters." Thesis, Monterey, Calif. : Naval Postgraduate School, 2007. http://bosun.nps.edu/uhtbin/hyperion.exe/07Mar%5FAdams.pdf.

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Thesis (M.S. in Systems Engineering)--Naval Postgraduate School, March 2007.
Thesis Advisor(s): Thomas D. Fiorino, Tom Huynh. "March 2007." Includes bibliographical references (p. 87-90). Also available in print.

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Brickell, Matt. "The Utilization of Evidence-Based Treatments in Trauma Treatment of Active Military Personnel and Their Families." Antioch University / OhioLINK, 2015. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=antioch1408996991.

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Nudd, Lorraine E. "An analysis of the financial incentives provided by a capitation-based resource allocation system within the Military Medical Department." Thesis, Monterey, Calif. : Springfield, Va. : Naval Postgraduate School ; Available from National Technical Information Service, 1993. http://handle.dtic.mil/100.2/ADA276427.

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Scialdo, Antonia. "Predictors of student success in the Army Medical Department (AMEDD) Licensed Practical Nurse training program (91WM6) as identified by expert nurse educators, instructors, and administrators at Fort Sam Houston Post, San Antonio, Texas." Texas A&M University, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/3056.

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The U.S. Army Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN) dates back to the fall of 1947 and evolved from severe professional nursing shortages of World War II. Today, as in the past, to sustain U.S. Army readiness the highly medically trained combat soldier must possess skills and competency of an LPN, which is a result of successful completion of a 52-week 91WM6 training program. The purpose of this two-part descriptive study includes evaluation of quantitative and qualitative data. The Delphi technique and a retrospective student record review were utilized to gather data. Dependent variables included student demographics such as age, rank, gender, years of military experience, marital status, prior education and medical related experience, Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery (ASVAB) scores, specifically Skilled Technical (ST) and General Technical (GT), studentsÂ interpretation of stressors of military life, occupational goals, number of college units attained, number of examinations failed and physical fitness tests failed, Article 15Âs administered, and counseling. The independent variable was successful completion of the National Council Licensure Examination for Practical Nursing (NCLEX) examination on the first attempt. Major research findings of this study included: 1. The research revealed higher pass rates for a private first class and specialist, as compared to lower pass rates of corporals and sergeants. Additionally, soldier students in the study who had completed at least one college unit (had attended college), had a 92% pass rate as compared to those who had not completed any additional education or college after high school (75.0%). It is suggested that prior experience may improve entry cognitive skills that enhance academic performance along with the studentÂs achievement. 2. The research revealed that those soldier students who tended to have higher GT and ST scores failed program tests significantly fewer times. 3. Based on the results of the expert opinions of the panelists (Delphi) who participated in the study, the highest-rated predictors in completing the course were positive study habits, demonstrating diligence, and motivation. For predictors related to passing the NCLEX-PN, the highest rate was the ability to think critically and specifically preparing for the NCLEX examination.

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Snook, Joseph S. "An analysis of the Planning, Programming and Budgeting System (PPBS) processes of the military services within the Department of Defense." Thesis, Monterey, Calif. : Springfield, Va. : Naval Postgraduate School ; Available from National Technical Information Service, 1999. http://handle.dtic.mil/100.2/ADA374399.

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Thesis (M.S. in Management) Naval Postgraduate School, December 1999.
"December 1999". Thesis advisor(s): Ted Hleba, James Fremgen. Includes bibliographical references (p. 81-82). Also available online.

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Odom, Richard Hoyt Jr. "A Multi-scale Analysis of the Potential Impacts of Rapid Climate Change on Forest Lands Managed by the Department of Defense in the US." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/98839.

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Based on current projections from global climate models (GCM's), regional climates in the coterminous U.S. are expected to become warmer and either wetter or drier over the next century depending on the GCM used to make projections. Forest communities and the species that comprise them are likely to respond to a changing climate in a number of different ways based on environmental tolerances that have evolved over the past several thousand years. If, as many scientists believe, global warming is occurring at a rate that is unique in the recent history of the Earth, many species and plant communities are likely to be stressed by temperature and moisture conditions unlike those in which they have evolved. Concurrently, some species and communities in boreal and cold temperate biomes may benefit from warmer temperatures and greater CO2 availability resulting in more successful reproduction, higher growth rates and increased competitiveness. Plant species and communities are likely to respond differently to climate change on different landscapes and at different scales, and therefore a multi-scale, ecoregional approach will be required to understand potential impacts of climate change on species, communities and entire ecosystems. This study is part of a broader effort by the U.S. Department of Defense to assess the vulnerability of military lands to rapid climate change and develop mitigation strategies to cope with projected impacts to natural systems, resource management activities and military missions. The Holdridge Life Zone system was used to model the geographic extent of present and future climatic envelopes that influence the distribution of forest biomes and tree species in the coterminous U.S. The Holdridge system integrates mean annual temperature, mean annual precipitation and mean annual potential evapotranspiration to define bioclimatic life zones that are strongly correlated with the spatial distribution of major forest cover types and tree species distributions. Climate projections were based on an ensemble of 16 GCM's and three future greenhouse gas emissions scenarios (low-B1, moderate-A1B and high-A2). Changes in the extent and location of Holdridge life zones over approximately 80 years were analyzed and results interpreted in terms of potential impacts to forest tree species and major forest cover types. The magnitude of change from historic conditions also was evaluated for 663 U.S. military installations to aid in the development of vulnerability metrics for Department of Defense facilities and to better understand potential climate trajectories for different regions of the country. Cluster analysis was used to group installations on a regional basis and regional variation in projected climate conditions and assessed relative to important resource management issues at representative installations. Forest cover was modeled at Ft. Drum, New York to illustrate potential changes in species composition and cover type distribution at a landscape scale under future climate change scenarios. Stand ages were estimated using data on site index trees available in the Forest Inventory and Analysis (FIA) database for New York. Ecological types were developed from large scale soil survey data (Natural Resource Conservation Service, Soil Survey Geographic Database, SSURGO) and stand-level forest inventory data available from the natural resources program at Ft. Drum. Stand age, ecological type, species life histories and soil properties were used to parameterize a stochastic forest landscape simulation model using the LANDIS-II application and project changes over 80 years under three future CO2 emissions scenarios. Results showed that there is potential for significant changes in the distribution of some tree species and forest cover types at Ft. Drum under the warmer climate conditions projected for the northeastern U.S. Cover types characterized by species at the northern end of their ranges (e.g., species associated with oak (Quercus rubra, Q. alba)-hickory (Carya cordiformis) forest) increased in abundance, especially on more xeric sites such as sand plains and convex landforms covered in coarse-textured glacial till. However, boreal and cool temperate species, such as sugar maple (Acer saccharum), yellow birch (Betula alleghaniensis), aspens (Populus tremuloides, P. grandidentata) and eastern hemlock (Tsuga canadensis) that are major current components of the northern hardwood-hemlock cover type therein, were projected to remain significant components of the Ft. Drum landscape late into the century on all but the most xeric sites. Overall, changes in species composition were less dramatic than expected at a landscape scale and highly sensitive to establishment probabilities related to specific site characteristics (e.g., soil texture and drainage). The lack of a strong climate response at Ft. Drum may be due to the presence of a number of widely distributed tree species with presumed large climatic tolerances and the relatively homogeneous biophysical conditions that exist within this landscape.
Doctor of Philosophy
The Holdridge Life Zone system was used to model the geographic extent of present and future climates that influence the distribution of forest biomes and tree species in the coterminous U.S. The Holdridge system integrates mean annual temperature, mean annual precipitation and mean annual potential evapotranspiration to define bioclimatic life zones that are strongly correlated with the spatial distribution of major forest cover types and tree species distributions. Climate projections were based on an ensemble of 16 GCM’s and three future greenhouse gas emissions scenarios (low-B1, moderate-A1B and high-A2). Changes in the extent and location of Holdridge life zones over approximately 80 years were analyzed and results interpreted in terms of potential impacts to forest tree species and major forest cover types. The magnitude of change from historic conditions also was evaluated for 663 U.S. military installations to aid in the development of vulnerability metrics for Department of Defense facilities and to better understand potential climate trajectories for different regions of the country. Forest cover was modeled at Ft. Drum, New York to illustrate potential changes in species composition and cover type distribution at a landscape scale under future climate change scenarios. Results suggest that there is potential for significant changes in the distribution of some tree species and forest cover types at Ft. Drum over the next 50 to 100 years under warmer climate conditions projected for the northeastern U.S. Warm temperate tree species at the northern end of their ranges (e.g., oaks, hickories) increased in abundance, especially on more xeric sites such as sand plains and convex landforms covered in coarse-textured glacial till. However, boreal and cool temperate species, such as sugar maple, yellow birch, aspens and eastern hemlock were projected to remain significant components of the Ft. Drum landscape late into the century on all but the most xeric sites. Overall, changes in species composition were less dramatic than expected at a landscape scale and highly sensitive to establishment probabilities related to specific site characteristics (e.g., soil texture and drainage).

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Alakpa, George Edafese U. "Perceptions of military personnel| Analysis of the Department of Defense?s counter bioterrorism measures at the tactical level for the enhacement of civil security, leadership, management, and policy." Thesis, New Jersey City University, 2015. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3730740.

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The Department of Defense, at the time of this study, had over 38 combat Forward Operating Bases (FOB) with both U.S. military and non-military personnel residing and engaged in the mission. Also in these FOBs, are local nationals of the countries, who are employed to perform certain duties in these FOBs after having had certain security and medical background checks. However, while on military mission in Afghanistan and other Middle Eastern countries between 2009 and 2011, this researcher, observed and detected more than once, local nationals (LNs), Afghans, with certain infectious skin conditions working in the DIFACs (dining facilities) at major FOBs, serving food to soldiers inside the base. These LNs reside outside the FOB facility and gain entrance into the FOB daily, passing through already set security parameters put in place by the Department of Defense (DoD). There are Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures (TTP) to prevent or mitigate Person-borne Improvised Explosive Device (PBIED), Vehicle-borne Improvised Explosive Device (VBIED), and to also respond to, or recover from, Chemical, Biological, Radioactive, and Nuclear (CBRN) attacks on FOBs. Researcher is unaware of any TTP specific for HB-BA terrorist, capable of detecting, deterring or destroying a terrorist with bioagents breaching a combat post ECP; nor the training of soldiers of how to conduct a search on a bio-agent (BA) – or even what a bio-agent would look like if they found one. The purpose of this research was to determine whether there are current military counter bioterrorism measures in place to combat a human-borne with a bioagent (HB-BA) terrorist attempting to breach a combat FOB at the ECP, and how effective they are.

To accomplish this, a survey tool had to be developed and employed to determine the perceptions about the effectiveness of current ECP TTPs in detecting, deterring preventing, and mitigating a HBBA terrorist at the ECP, from military personnel. A survey tool (questionnaire) was developed, validated, and subjected to a reliability testing using Cronbach’s Alpha on a mix-method cross sectional survey, a pretest. Results showed a Cronbach’s Alpha of 0.82 and 0.89 for the survey’s two constructs. Also, 92.3% of respondents had recently been in combat deployment. All of them claimed that bioterrorism is very possible, but 61.5% believe it is either very possible or possible for a terrorist with a bioagent (BA) to successfully breach a FOB ECP. Only 3.8% felt that it would be impossible to breach the FOB ECP with a bioagent. Similarly, only 28% of respondents surveyed believe that current ECP TTPs are effective against a BA, 48% believe that current CBRN TTPs are either not effective, or somewhat effective, against BA at the ECP. In conclusion, the preliminary study, indicated that combat FOBs are vulnerable to breach by human-borne with BA terrorist at the ECP, as there exists no currently effective ECP TTP that could detect, deter or destroy a terrorist with a biological agent at a combat FOB ECP.

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Medeiros, John Stephen. "The U.S. Air Force Transformed Approach to Military Family Housing: An Organizational Routine Case Study in Change and Learning." Diss., Virginia Tech, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/64790.

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In 1996, the U.S. Congress initiated a change to the Department of Defense (DOD) military family housing program. Applying organizational learning and change theories, this study of the Department of the Air Force (AF) reveals how the AF used $617 million of federal funds and $8.3 billion of matching private investment to significantly upgrade or construct and manage 53,323 AF family housing units. Using an outcome-oriented process tracing methodology, I examine the process changes, organizational structure modifications, and strategy adjustments the AF instituted to implement this latest attempt at providing military family housing. To understand how those adjustments occurred, this research uses organizational routine theory to help explain how organizations generate change by performing their day-to-day activities. This single-case historical study of AF family housing privatization, used process tracing to identify five primary organizational routines that determine know when there is a minimally sufficient explanation of how the AF learned and changed while privatizing the existing military family housing stock. These organizational routines help to clarify the organizational strategy, implementation process, and structure changes that emerged during privatization to address the quality, quantity, affordability, and timeliness of AF military family housing. The AF approach to transforming military family housing might be applicable to other publicly funded housing programs.
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Malaza, Vusi David. "Multi-detector registration system for the study of multi-body decay of heavy body nuclei." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/71924.

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Thesis (MMil)--Stellenbosch University, 2012.
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Nuclear ssion is commonly known as a process where a heavy nucleus such as Uranium or Thorium decays into two fragments of roughly equal mass. On occasion however, instead of decay into two parts a process known as binary ssion, the nucleus can decay into three fragments. In this decay channel known as ternary ssion, the nucleus splits into three fragments with the third particle being too light compared to the main ssion fragments. There are also instances where heavy nuclei split into three fragments of comparable masses, the so called \true ternary ssion" as was predicted by the theoretical calculations of Strutinsky [Str63]. While theoretical predictions hold promises for this decay mode, experimental attempts had little success in proving the existence of true ternary ssion in low energy ssion. The challenges and di culties faced by experimentalist in con rming the existence of true ternary ssion also proved that this ssion mode is a very rare phenomenon. This thesis is devoted to the investigation of ternary ssion know as collinear cluster tripartition (CCT) in spontaneous ssion of 252Cf, and the design and development of two time-of- ight spectrometers aimed at identifying all collinear multi-body decay partners directly. Prior to this study the only technique that was used at identifying decay partners in CCT was the \missing mass" approach. In this approach only two partners are identi ed directly with the third partner being identi ed by subtracting the two observed partners from the initial mass of the nucleus. The experimental results from the two spectrometer setups showed that it was possible to identify all three partners of the CCT channel. The results also con rmed the existence of the so called \Sn lost" CCT mode which was already observed in earlier experiments.
National Research Foundation (NRF)
Joint Institute of Nuclear Science (JINR)
Financial support from Dr D V Kamanim
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Frausto, Victor A. "An analysis of the U.S. Navy's military housing privatization initiative and the application of transaction cost economics as a component of the decision framework for the establishment of future partnerships between the Department of Defense and private sector industry." Monterey, Calif. : Naval Postgraduate School, 2004. http://handle.dtic.mil/100.2/ADA429312.

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"Submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Business Administration from the Naval Postgraduate School, December 2004."
"MBA professional report"--Cover. Includes bibliographical references (p. 87-89). Also issued in paper format.

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Menking, Christopher Neal. "Catalyst for Change in the Borderlands: U.S. Army Logistics during the U.S.-Mexican War and the Postwar Period, 1846-1860." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2019. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1609058/.

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This dissertation seeks to answer two primary questions stemming from the war between the United States and Mexico: 1) What methods did the United States Army Quartermaster Department employ during the war to achieve their goals of supporting armies in the field? 2) In executing these methods, what lasting impact did the presence of the Quartermaster Department leave on the Lower Río Grande borderland, specifically South Texas during the interwar period from 1848-1860? In order to obtain a complete understanding of what the Department did during the war, a discussion of the creation, evolution, and methodology of the Quartermaster Department lays the foundation for effective analysis of the department's wartime methods and post-war influence. It is equally essential to understand the history of South Texas prior to the Mexican War under the successive control of Spain, Mexico and the United States and how that shaped the wartime situation. The wartime discussion of Department operations is divided into three chapters, reflecting each of the main theaters and illustrating the respective methods and influence within each area. The final two chapters address the impact of the war on South Texas and how the presence of the Quartermaster Department on the Río Grande served as a catalyst for economic, social, and political changes in this borderland region. Combining primary source analysis of wartime logistics with a synthesis of divergent military and social histories of the Lower Río Grande borderland demonstrates the influence of the Department on South Texas during the mid-nineteenth century. The presence of the Quartermaster Department created an economic environment that favored Anglo-American entrepreneurs, allowing them to grow in wealth and begin to supplant the traditional Tejano/Mexican-American power structure in South Texas. Despite remaining an ethnic minority, Anglos used this situational advantage to dominate the region politically. This outcome shaped South Texas for decades to follow.

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Van, Dyk Johannes Jacobus. "An evaluation of the South African Department of Defence's policy on Defence Industrial Participation (DIP) as a defence industrial development mechanism." Thesis, Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10948/1067.

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This dissertation focuses on the local defence-related industry as a beneficiary under the Department of Defence’s defence industrial participation (DIP) programme, managed by Armscor. Attention is given to the main construct of the development theory and how the DIP process in South Africa compares with the international reciprocal trade phenomena commonly referred to as ‘countertrade’. The author does an in-depth analysis of the Government’s policy regarding the defence-related industry (DRI) that forms part of the local defence industrial base (DIB), as well as the DIP policy, procedures and practices and their subsequent bearing on the local defence industry. The study is further substantiated with a comprehensive review of the consequences and outcomes resulting from the largest defence package deal (SDP), signed in December 1999, between the Department of Defence and several major foreign original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) and subsequently benchmarked against academic discourse on the subjects of international countertrade and development theories.

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Fischer, James C. "Not fallen, but flooded: the war department supply bureaus in 1917." The Ohio State University, 2003. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1061376865.

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De, Coning Gerhard Lourens. "An integrated service excellence model for strategic military test and evaluation facilities : the case of the South African National Department of Defence / Gerhard L. de Coning." Thesis, North-West University, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10394/4138.

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Capital-intensive military test and evaluation facilities that are governed within the public entity domain need to deliver effective and efficient services in meeting or exceeding the Department of Defence's requirements and in retaining strategic defence capabilities and technologies. Various business and operational processes currently exist in these facilities, without any common quality assurance, control and performance management systems. The primary objective of this study was to develop an integrated service excellence model in order to obtain and continuously improve service excellence in the services provided by these strategic military test and evaluation facilities, ensuring that all activities necessary to design, develop and implement a test and evaluation service are effective and efficient. In order to develop an integrated service excellence model, various management tools and approaches to improve quality in the search for service excellence were identified and described. Total Quality Management (TQM), Business Process Re-engineering (BPR), the South African Excellence Model (SAEM) and the Balanced Scorecard (BSC), amongst other productivity and quality models, were researched and evaluated and tested through an empirical study conducted at the various test and evaluation facilities. Financial, human resources and environmental challenges facing the facilities in obtaining service excellence within the boundaries of public governance were explored in order to build the solutions to these challenges into the integrated service excellence model. Effective and efficient deployment of the facilities' resources, as well as the development and incorporation of safety, health and environmental policies and management standards were discussed and measured against national legislation. Applicable military, industrial and commercial quality standards and specifications, such as the International Organisation for Standardisation (ISO) quality management standards and the Republic of South Africa (RSA) military standards, were explored as the burden is on the facilities not only to obtain official accreditation to render specific test and evaluation services, but also to maintain accreditation and to execute the services against these standards. As corporate governance is a multi-faceted subject impacting on economic efficiency and shareholder's welfare, much emphasis was placed on governance principles through the identification of a framework and governance objectives in which the test and evaluation facilities operate. Good governance characteristics, such as discipline, transparency, independence, accountability, responsibility, fairness and social responsibility, were identified through the King 2 Report. This study was conducted amongst senior and top management of the test and evaluation facilities and amongst members of the Department of Defence through an interviewer-administered questionnaire comparing information and data on theory on service excellence, quality management, performance management, governance principles with the interviewer-questionnaire responses to performance indicators at these facilities. Management perceptions and management recommendations contributed to the development of the integrated service excellence model as well as to the future implementation of the model. It was evident through the study that no such integrated model exists to address the test and evaluation needs of the Department of Defence.
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Soherwordi, Syed Hussain Shaheed. "Pakistan foreign policy formulation, 1947-65 : an analysis of institutional interaction between American policy making bodies and the Pakistan Army." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/4280.

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This thesis examines through the use of archives and oral evidence the role of the Pakistan Army in the context of Pakistan’s domestic politics and foreign policy. Its main purpose is to explore the autonomy of the Pakistan Army in shaping national and foreign policy between the years 1947-1965. Focusing on its independent relationship with three instruments of policy-making in the United States – the Department of State, the White House and the Pentagon – the thesis argues that the relationship between the Army and these policy-making bodies arose from a synergistic commonality of interests. The Americans needed a country on the periphery of the Soviet Union to contain Communism while the Pakistan Army needed US military support to check Indian regional military hegemonism in South Asia. This alliance was secured to the disadvantage of democratic political institutions of Pakistan. The Army, which became stronger as a result of US military and economic support, came progressively to dominate domestic politics. This led not only to weakened civilian governments in the period I am examining, but in 1958 to the military seizure of political control of the country itself. The infringement of the Army into civilian spheres of government further caused a deterioration in relations between East and West Pakistan. The increasing clout of a US-backed Army whose elite officers had a bias against the eastern wing of the country, the thesis argues, thus indirectly resulted in the dismemberment of Pakistan itself. To explain the Army’s ascendancy its transformation from British colonial army into a national political actor, is documented. The thesis explores the influence of the martial-race theory and of Punjabisation in the Army as it developed in the colonial era. Secondly, it reconstructs how provincial politics weakened the Federal Government and allowed the Army to usurp political power to a disproportionate degree. Thirdly, the thesis considers the extent to which the US-Army relationship influenced and even took precedence over decision-making within the government itself. It details the military pacts made between the two countries to contain the USSR in this period. Finally, it explores where and how the interests of the US and Pakistan Army diverged, in particular concerning their respective relations with India. The complications arising in Indo-Pakistan relations in consequence of an abrupt tilt of the US towards India after the Sino-Indian war in 1962 are also examined. In reaction to this new Indo-US nexus, it is argued the Pakistani military junta leaned towards China and in 1965 endeavoured to make use of it advanced, US-supplied weaponry before – as they saw it – the strategic balance was to be irrecoverably lost in favour of India. In conclusion, the thesis argues that the period under consideration saw a complete failure of the US policy of containing communism whilst at the same time avoiding war between its allies in the region, and that this had tragic consequences for the future of democracy in Pakistan.

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Cannon, Stephen L. "An analysis of the Military Family Housing Construction Contractor supplier base at MCB Camp Pendleton and a report on how an understanding of these trends may improve the Acquisition Strategy for the Department of Defense." Thesis, Monterey, Calif. : Springfield, Va. : Naval Postgraduate School ; Available from National Technical Information Service, 2001. http://handle.dtic.mil/100.2/ADA401244.

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Thesis (M.S. in Contract Management) Naval Postgraduate School, December 2001.
Thesis Advisor(s): Franck, Raymond E. "December 2001." Includes bibliographical references (p. 93-97). Also available in print.

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Opria, George R. Maraska Donald G. "An analysis of the use of the Social Security Number as Veteran Identification as it relates to identity theft a cost benefit analysis of transitioning the Department of Defense and Veterans Administration to a Military Identification Number /." Monterey, Calif. : Naval Postgraduate School, 2007. http://bosun.nps.edu/uhtbin/hyperion.exe/07Mar%5FOpria.pdf.

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Thesis (M.S. in Management)--Naval Postgraduate School, March 2007.
Thesis Advisor(s): William D. Hatch, William Gates. "March 2007." Includes bibliographical references (p. 73-76). Also available in print.

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Maraska, Donald G. "An analysis of the use of the Social Security Number as Veteran Identification as it relates to identity theft : a cost benefit analysis of transitioning the Department of Defense and Veterans Administration to a Military Identification Number." Thesis, Monterey, California. Naval Postgraduate School, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10945/3633.

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Identity theft has become one of the fastest growing crimes in America and stems from the widespread and growing reliance of organizations across the nation to use Social Security Numbers (SSN) as a primary personal identifier. Originally intended for the very limited purpose of tracking social security benefits, the value of the SSN as a unique identifier was quickly recognized, and its use rapidly grew. This â functionality creepâ has led to the SSN becoming an almost de facto national ID number. Employers, universities, credit agencies and financial institutions began using the SSN as a unique personal identifier. The military started to use the SSN as a personal identifier in 1969 in place of the Military Serial Number. Today, the SSN is used pervasively throughout the military, from personnel rosters to medical records, from administrative records to operational orders. This thesis analyzes the elimination of the SSN as the primary personal identifier within the Department of Defense and the Veteransâ Administration, replacing it with a Military Identification Number (MIN). The elimination of the SSN at all but one critical location (pay related matters at the Defense Finance and Accounting System), would render all lost or stolen data useless to an identity thief. A Cost/Benefit Analysis of the transition from SSN to MIN using six methods of analysis
payback period method, discounted payback period, benefit cost ratio, net present value, internal rate of return, and a probabilistic NPV were examined. Each methodâ s benefits and drawbacks are discussed and the findings are summarized. The CBA shows that the transition to a MIN is a cost effective solution with a Net Present Value that falls between $701 million and $554 million over a 10 year period.

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Pham, Tuan-Anh T., Victor Frausto, Trihnh H. Hoang, and Richard Obregon. "An analysis of the U.S. Navy's military housing privatization initiative and the application of transaction cost economics as a component of the decision framework for the establishment of future partnerships between the Department of Defense and private sector industry." Monterey, California. Naval Postgraduate School, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/10945/9897.

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MBA Professional Report
The Department of Defense (DoD) has struggled with the issue of inadequate military family housing for decades. Furthermore, Congress has made numerous attempts to resolve this problem culminating in the passage of the 1996 National Defense Authorization Act. This Act allowed DoD to implement as many as twelve different authorities to meet this housing challenge, including the ability to form joint ventures with private corporations. The Navy's innovative use of the joint venture authority has facilitated the renovation and creation of military family housing at an unprecedented scale and pace. This study provides an overview of the Navy's use of the joint venture authority. Additionally, the concept of Transaction Cost Economics is explained and applied to the Navy's contracting template for analysis. The research concludes that the twelve authorities, especially joint ventures, have provided effective means to resolve DoD's military housing dilemma. Additionally, the application of Transaction Cost Economics has proven beneficial to minimizing opportunistic behavior on the part of private partners and/or subcontracted entities.

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Beard, Kirby D. "The military housing privatization initiative and the Defense Department's Military Family Housing Revitalization Plan." Thesis, Monterey, Calif. : Springfield, Va. : Naval Postgraduate School ; Available from National Technical Information Service, 2003. http://library.nps.navy.mil/uhtbin/hyperion-image/03Mar%5FBeard.pdf.

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Thesis (M.S. in Management)--Naval Postgraduate School, March 2003.
Thesis advisor(s): Ron B. Tudor, Rodney E. Tudor. Includes bibliographical references (p. 121-123, 125-126). Also available online.

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Eldridge-Nelson, Allison. "Veil of Protection: Operation Paperclip and the Contrasting Fates of Wernher von Braun and Arthur Rudolph." Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1510914308951993.

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Barry, John C., and Paul L. Gillikin. "Comparative analysis of Navy and Marine Corps planning, programming, budgeting and execution systems from a manpower perspective." Thesis, Monterey, California; Naval Postgraduate School, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/10945/2322.

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"S. Dooley: Tertiary Reader"
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This study provides analysis, conclusions and recommendations to assist the Deputy Commandant (DC), Manpower and Reserve Affairs Department (M&RA) and DC, Programs and Resources Department (P&R) in structure and process decisions concerning Marine Corps Manpower budget execution. DC, M&RA is the owner of the Marine Human Resource Development Process (HRDP) and the Military Personnel Marine Corps (MPMC) appropriation sponsor, while the DC, P&R has budgetary (1517) authority for MPMC budget execution. In contrast, the Navy has both sponsorship and 1517 authority within one cell at N1. By comparing these two services' organizational factors and Planning, Programming, Budgeting, and Execution Systems (PPBES), relevant differences surface, conclusions are drawn, and recommendations offered for improvements. Recommendations include realignment of 1517 authority within MPMC execution, and the melding of the Programs and Budget Branch of Manpower Plans Division, M&RA with the Military Personnel Branch, Fiscal Division, P&R (RFM). This new office will be responsible for all facets of MPMC programming, budgeting, and execution.
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Chen, Chang-I., and 張怡珍. "A Study on Customer Satisfaction of ROC Military Comptroller Department." Thesis, 2008. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/39342619054105476182.

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Currently, the main subject matter of military Controller Departments’ task is not only to assist the implementation agencies to achieve their goals, but also to enhance the interaction and synchronization between Controller Departments and implementation agencies. In addition, the objectives are expected to include improving the stereotype image, inventing the irreplaceability, promoting the importance of Controller Departments, as well as enhancing the job efficiency and service quality. More importantly, the Controller Departments should aim to facilitate the execution of various kinds of military training and exercises, so as to improve the competitiveness of Controller Departments during the military reengineering process. This research mainly incorporates literature survey related to service quality and degree of satisfaction from which research variables are developed. Further, the research proceeds with the questionnaire investigation and statistical analysis, thereby the conclusion and suggestions are derived. The results can be served as the referential direction of improving service quality of Controller Departments, in order to improve competitiveness.

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Chang-Chia-Chine and 張嘉健. "A Study on Customer Satisfaction of ROC Military Comptroller Department." Thesis, 2005. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/97890773754780087075.

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國際企業管理學系碩士在職專班
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Seeing from the view of customer satisfaction, whether customers are satisfied with the service quality closely depends on the level of service quality. The excellent service quality can improve the customer satisfaction and create the admirable evaluation. Thus, focal point of military accounting audit department lies in helping the business segments reach the administrative goals. Also, the interaction between military accounting audit department and business departments will be closely associated with the unit harmony and smooth task completeness. Thus, the military accounting audit department shall gradually improve the service quality so as to reach the customer satisfaction and promote the task efficiency and affair performance of accounting audit. The purpose for this research is mainly aimed to investigate the variables for military members’ personnel affairs if it exists in any variance for the service satisfaction provided by the military accounting audit department so that we can propose with the suggestion to improve the service quality available for further improvement made by the military accounting audit department with efforts to promote customer satisfaction and performance of accounting audit affairs. The conclusion for this research is described as below: 1. The customer satisfaction provided by military accounting audit department is classified as central units (including subordinate units), logistic commander department, military police, air force, navy and the union logistic units ranked as the last place. It indicates the central units (including subordinate units) are mostly composed of members exalted from various basic ranks of units with much more operational experience. These members will put higher attention to the satisfaction for service quality than any other members. The customer satisfaction of military accounting audit department is divided by various dimensions in order of “real time service”, “the professional capability of service givers”, “the correct service contents”, and “service attitude”. Among them, the “concern of service givers” is the most unsatisfied dimension. Thus, the “concern of service givers” is exactly the one most required for review and improvement. 3.Within the overall satisfaction evaluation, it exists in lower satisfaction levels in “the additional effort made by staffs from accounting audit department to assist the departmental task completeness”, “available to reach the relevant information required by the accounting audit department through network”, “clear and simple audit procedures”, “the one-time solutions for all made by staffs from accounting audit department”, “the relevant information automatically provided by staffs from the accounting audit departments”. Based on aforesaid results, we can propose the concrete suggestions to improve the service quality and reach the customer satisfaction and performance of accounting audit department. 4.We analyze the respondents classified by military types, ranks, positions, sexes, seniority, and service locations, totally 7 basic personnel variables and check whether the variables will affect the satisfaction levels of service. The experimental results show that except the sexes and service locations of no remarkable influence on customer satisfaction, other items will positively affect the customer satisfaction. Thus, after the military promoted the “elite and reality personnel reform” from July of 1997, currently, the military personnel organizations has dramatically alternated. It is basically required for the military accounting audit department to continue the reform all the time. The staffs from the accounting audit department shall pay the highest attention to the importance of “service quality” so that they just can correct the flaws of service quality to satisfy the customer demands with the best service. Thus, it is just available for the accounting audit department to breakthrough the current situations and create the new atmosphere.

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Huang, Li-Wei, and 黃立偉. "A Study on Customer Satisfaction of ROC Military Comptroller Department-take one of Military units for example." Thesis, 2007. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/21236967769603797177.

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輔仁大學
應用統計學研究所
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Primary duties of comptrolling (accounting) departments in the military comprise administering budgets and accounts of interrelated business departments, and assisting to accomplishing the objectives of their tasks as well. Interactions between the comptrolling and business departments rely on positive service qualities to achieve harmonious, smooth, and effective duty executions. Without providing them with excellent professional skills or service qualities, the business departments will be flawed in their performances. Especially in this modern era when customer-oriented concepts are greatly valued, the essence of ameliorating service qualities of the comptrollers (accountants) is conspicuous, and requires outstanding endeavors. Therefore, in order to improve the effectiveness of the duties, the military comptrolling departments ought to keep on the service quality improvements till mutual satisfactions. This research started with reviewing literature on topics of service quality and satisfactory level. The associated theories were further probed and analyzed. Through conducting surveys on interviewees’ satisfaction levels, various variables were organized and analyzed with statistical methods. The research concluded with several suggestions which are expected to lead the comptrolling departments through processes and continuous efforts to figure out significant goals for service quality improvements. Therefore, the comptrolling departments can enhance their image integrity, and furthermore elevate their competencies. The research gathered data from members of an anonymous department in the military. By investigating the collected information on their impression of the internal comptrolling department, the research also performed studies on what customers (members of interrelated business departments) anticipate the comptrolling departments to improve their service quality. During this period of time when the military is implementing a work-force reduction policy, it is apparently more critical for the supervisors, various departments, and peers to approve the functionality of the comptrolling departments and the need of their existence. All of these require finest efforts from all colleague comptrollers in the future.

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YEY, TING-CHUN, and 葉庭均. "The Task and Role of Crisis Management of the Military Department." Thesis, 2011. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/00086293795089478736.

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銘傳大學
公共事務學系碩士在職專班
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This paper looks into the task and role of crisis management of the military department. Research methods include literature study and interview in depth. It will first discuss related theories of disaster rescue, literatures and Differences between developed countries such as America as well as Japan and our country on their preparedness and rescue works against disasters. By having an in-depth study and review of 921 earthquake and 88 flood from aspects of legal systems, policies and enforcement, this paper will analyze and conclude the mission and role of the national armed forces on disaster prevention and response among all levels of government institutes. It will also bring up some references and suggestions to the national armed forces about its operation system of disaster prevention and response in the future. By releasing this paper, the author hopes that the national armed forces can uplift its function on disaster prevention and pesponse and bring its strength into full play, so that the security of the nation can be ensured as well as people’s life and property.

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Kang-Wei, Wang, and 汪綱維. "A Study on Job Satisfaction of ROC Primary Military Comptroller Department." Thesis, 2008. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/38574199287669076016.

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輔仁大學
應用統計學研究所
96
Budget Financial Sergeant (BFS) is the primary point to deal with financial management of the basic level in the national armed forces. BFSs stick to the notion, “utilizing public funds on the basis of law” and “administering according to law.” Besides, BFSs also abide by every level of directors’ guidance and complete relative financial duty in accordance with the budget law, the accounting law, the final report law and so on. According to the trend of the policy of the national defense, the government will convert this military policy “equal enforcement at present of conscription and voluntarism” into complete voluntarism, which has a direct impact on the “selection, training, employment “system nowadays of the basic BFSs of national armed forces. Statistically, there are approximately 1000 BFSs in whole armed forces at present, who are mostly compulsory servicemen. Because the service duration is shortened and the quantity of education training is not sufficient, it would cause the problem which armed services have to face: how to conduct and operate the “selection, training, employment “system on BFSs. The research is discussed more in consideration of the BFSs’ feeling on the job of comptroller and financier. This research explores latent factors by means of searching and integrating the relative literatures of service quality and the degree of satisfaction, collecting research variables, adopting a questionnaires survey and performing statistical analysis. The conclusion from this research serves as promoting job performance of the basic financial management. This study determines that the military organization structure will face dramatic changes due to the coming downsize of the number of soldiers and units. In the future, the working environment for the primary military workers will become more difficult. The department of budget, accounting and statistics should take into account the characteristics of all units, the primary units' operational needs. By doing so, the military can adapt itself to the future environment and take good care of the primary financial workers in order to create a better future.

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