Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) is reported to be caused by traumatic events that are outside the range of usual human experience including (but not limited to) military combat, violent personal assault, being kidnapped or taken hostage and terrorist attacks. Initial data suggests that at least 1 out of 5 Iraq War veterans are exhibiting symptoms of depression, anxiety and PTSD. Virtual R...

Recent attempts to resuscitate well-worn conspiracy theories concerning the Pearl Harbor attack are based on selective reading of documentary evidence and ignore conclusive, recently declassified materials which show that JN-25 and other Japanese naval codes were not being read by U. S. Navy codebreakers prior to the Japanese attack.

The Office of Naval Research (ONR) and the National Science Foundation (NSF) have embarked on a collaborative initiative to achieve Electric Power Network Efficiency and Security (EPNES) [1-3]. This paper presents the U. S. Navy research objectives in terms of an ONR control challenge problem. From a shipboard operational perspective the challenge can be stated as: Provide continuous mobility, ...

Current practice in maritime planning operations is the separation in space and time domain. An adaptive and near real time sensor allocation mechanism would mean a significant step forward towards implementing NEC, and would make better use of the distributed sensor resources. To realize a NEC systems concept, the coordination between naval units has to increase. The combat management system h...

BACKGROUND Fresh whole blood (FrWB) is routinely used in the resuscitation of combat casualties in Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation Enduring Freedom. However, studies have shown high rates (20%-40%) of transfusion-associated microchimerism (TA-MC) in civilian trauma patients receiving allogenic red blood cell (RBC) transfusions. We explored the incidence of TA-MC in combat casualties recei...

The Archimedes Combat Modeling Platform is a simulator system based on ideas developed from research into the behavior of complex systems. The goals of Archimedes, and more broadly of its sponsor, The United States Marine Corps Combat Development Commands’ Project Albert, is that it be able to represent the intangibles of combat and that it capture the nonlinearity intrinsic to battlefield situ...