Title of Document: DOES PROCESS MATTER IN MILITARY SENTENCING? A STUDY OF THE TRIAL PENALTY IN AIR FORCE COURTS-MARTIAL Patricia D. Breen, Master of Arts, 2008 Directed by: Assistant Professor Brian D. Johnson Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice Prior sentencing research has largely ignored the military justice system even though over two million people are subject to its jurisdictio...

The changes in the political climate in recent years have significantly changed the way in which military sonar systems are designed and procured. Prior to 1990, military requirements were a major technology pull for technology developments, with large military research budgets funding semiconductor, system and software research. However, the end of the cold war brought major changes in the per...

Network-centric military operations are redefining information overload as military commanders and staffs are inundated with vast amounts of information. Recent research has developed a fuzzy-based system to assign a Value of Information (VoI) determination for individual pieces of information. This paper presents an investigation on the effect of using triangular and trapezoidal fuzzy membersh...