NASA Scientific and Technical Aerospace Reports

provided for consideration in the struggle to win the Hearts and Souls of the greater Muslim population.
DTIC
Heart; Military Operations; Warfare
20040073798 Naval War Coll., Newport, RI
Ulysses Bow or Achilles Heel for the Combatant Commander?
Cox, Sonya; Feb. 9, 2004; 24 pp.; In English; Original contains color illustrations
Report No.(s): AD-A422802; No Copyright; Avail: CASI; A03, Hardcopy
Just as the advent of precision-guided weapons has significantly reduced and limited collateral damage in modern
technological warfare, so the emergence of cyber technology may produce a shift in the very way in which war is conceived
in the twenty-first century, reducing the amount of collateral damage and the number of combatant casualties to the point it
may be possible to subdue the enemy without bloodshed. The first line of attack In warfare has always been the adversary’s
ability to wage war through the destruction of his military and industrial infrastructure. In the rapidly evolving Age of cyber
war, this might be accomplished with a minimum o physical destruction and human casualties. Today’s Combatant
Commanders can and should take advantage of the new capabilities that cyber warfare offers, while maintaining a secure
defensive posture in order to protect them where they are most vulnerable.
DTIC
Information Systems; Ulysses Mission; Warfare
20040074215 NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA, USA
Results of a Telephone Survey of Television Station Managers Concerning the NASA SCI Files(TM) and NASA
CONNECT(TM)
Pinelli, Thomas E.; Perry, Jeannine; May 2004; 47 pp.; In English
Contract(s)/Grant(s): WU 23-090-20-09
Report No.(s): NASA/TM-2004-213029; L-18376; No Copyright; Avail: CASI; A03, Hardcopy
A telephone survey of television station managers concerning 2 instructional television programs, the NASA SCI
Files(TM) and NASA CONNECT(TM), offered by the NASA Langley Center for Distance Learning (CDL) was conducted.
Using a 4-point scale, with 4 being very satisfied, survey participants reported that they were either very satisfied (77.1
percent) or satisfied (19.9 percent) with the overall (educational and technical) quality of the NASA SCI Files(TM). Using a
4-point scale, with 4 being very satisfied, survey participants reported that they were either very satisfied (77.9 percent) or
satisfied (19.1 percent) with the overall (educational and technical) quality of NASA CONNECT(TM) .
Author
Surveys; Evaluation
20040074326 Defence Science and Technology Organisation, Edinburgh, Australia
An Automatic Transcriber of Meetings Utilising Speech Recognition Technology
Graham, Steve; Sladek, Jarrah; March 2004; 59 pp.; In English
Report No.(s): DSTO-CR-0355; DODA-AR-013-054; Copyright; Avail: Other Sources
Conducting meetings is an important part of the Australian Defence Organization (ADO) activities. Meetings span a broad
range of knowledge sharing and collaborative activities; examples are interviews, informal discussions, brain-storming
sessions, video-conferences and presentations. Thus, looking at ways to improve the capture of information from these
meetings is of interest to the ADO. This report presents progress towards the application of speech recognition technology to
automatically produce text transcriptions of collaborative meetings. The report reviews the literature on automatic
transcription systems and describes the progress on the research and development of a concept demonstrator named AuTM
(Automatic Transcriber of Meetings).
Author
Speech Recognition; Utilization; Video Conferencing
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