NASA Scientific and Technical Aerospace Reports

20040111462 Industrial Coll. of the Armed Forces, Washington, DC
Strategic Supply
Abraham, Rebecca; Akin, Mark; Burbach, Jeffrey; Carter, Theresa; Christopherson, Ruth; Jan. 2003; 25 pp.; In English;
Original contains color illustrations
Report No.(s): AD-A425365; No Copyright; Avail: CASI; A03, Hardcopy
Despite turbulent world and economic conditions, some companies continue to thrive in the global marketplace while
others struggle to avoid or emerge from bankruptcy. We believe their secret to success is the successful application and
integration of Supply Chain Management (SCM) principles throughout the entire enterprise. Industry leaders effortlessly
balanced the iron triangle of SCM the people, processes, and technology that are key to fueling a high velocity supply chain.
The Department of Defense (DoD) lags behind industry in application of SCM principles. We recommend the DoD redefine
its SCM enterprise at the DoD level and provide recommendations to guide the department as it transitions from a state of
awareness about SCM to building an adaptive supply network in the future.
DTIC
Adaptation; Communication Networks; Strategic Materials
20040111467 Kentucky Univ., Lexington, KY
ACTIVECAST
Calvert, Kenneth L.; Griffioen, James N.; Zegura, Ellen W.; Jun. 2004; 47 pp.; In English; Original contains color illustrations
Contract(s)/Grant(s): F30602-99-1-0514; DARPA ORDER-H498; Proj-H498
Report No.(s): AD-A425391; AFRL-IF-RS-TR-2004-183; No Copyright; Avail: CASI; A03, Hardcopy
The Activecast project, with the support of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and the Air Force
Research Laboratory, Air Force Material Command, US Air Force, under agreement number F30602-99-1-0514, has
developed programmable network services to improve the scalability and usability of networks in general. Technologies
produced by the project are designed to incorporate programmability in a form that could be deployed in the present Internet
including: Programmable Any-Multica (PAMcast); Concast and Secure Concast; Ephemeral State Processing and Lightweight
Processing Modules (ESP/LWP) ; and Speccast. In addition, auxiliary technologies have been developed either in support of,
or based on these services. In this report we described each service/technology along with its intended use, and the results of
any experimental evaluations of the service. Other outputs produced by the project are listed at the end of the report.
DTIC
Computer Programming; Data Transmission
20040111479 University of Southern California, Marina del Rey, CA
Multi-Targeted Program Generators
Balzer, Robert; Jul. 2004; 41 pp.; In English; Original contains color illustrations
Contract(s)/Grant(s): F30602-96-2-0192; DARPA ORDER-D890; Proj-D890
Report No.(s): AD-A425426; AFRL-IF-RS-TR-2004-205; No Copyright; Avail: CASI; A03, Hardcopy
Although, the benefits of ‘domain specific’ languages and development environments are widely recognized, constructing
a design environment for a new domain remains a costly activity, requiring expertise in several areas of software development
and the targeted domain. Elevating system development from the module to the architecture level requires a corresponding
elevation in tools for instrumenting, monitoring, and debugging systems. While there is a long history and mature technology
for the former, we have just begun to recreate these capabilities at the software architecture level. This report describes two
architecture level tools that utilize architecture level instrumentation to monitor software architectures through animation and
to create automated drivers for debugging or exercising subsets of those architectures. The latter has been used to give
‘demonstrations’ of distributed systems in which only the user interface is run live by driving that user interface from
previously recorded system executions.
DTIC
Computer Programming; Software Engineering
20040111487 Mitre Corp., Quantico, VA
An Enemy within the System: Illustrative Examinations of C2 Questions using Distillations
Horne, Gary E.; Friman, Henrik; Dec. 2003; 30 pp.; In English; Original contains color illustrations
Report No.(s): AD-A425449; No Copyright; Avail: CASI; A03, Hardcopy
No abstract available
Command and Control; Computerized Simulation; Damage; Detection; Target Acquisition
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