The paper describes the procedures for planning the Soviet defense industry in the interwar period and analyses its limitations. Three features differentiated the planning of the defense industry from that of the civilian economy. First, the supply of national defense in the broadest sense had high priority and received the close attention of the country’s top leadership. Second, the process of...

This paper presents how the Virtual Reality (VR) technology and Computer Graphics (CG) is used nowadays by industry to reduce productions costs, minimize learning curve and eliminates hazard situations. Few examples of procedural training and VR simulators are being presented, as well as the usage of CG for military training and troops support.

This article gives a glimpse of the early development of automatic control in Sweden covering the period up to the mid 1960s. Much of the early developments took place in industry and the defense establishments. Process control, particularly in the pulp and paper industry, power systems, and military projects were strong drivers for the technology. The article ends with the emergence of control...

In the past decade, the wireless industry has undergone a metamorphosis. This industry has turned from a predominantly military driven market to a cost conscious, consumer driven commercial market. At the same time, the wireless applications are moving up in the frequency spectrum. A typical example would be the PCS system. The PCS systems are currently designed for 1.9 GHz spectrum, but the ne...

Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) consist in spatially distributed set of autonomous sensors along an area to be monitored. Such WSNs can be used both in military and civilian industry. Whereas in the military field, WSNs are used to monitor areas, that otherwise could not be possible to monitor, in civilian industry their usage covers various fields, such as health, farming, and environmental mon...

Using a large national household survey, this analysis provides evidence on the differences in financial decision-making and outcomes between military veterans and nonveterans, as well as between different types of military veterans. I find that veterans have slightly better overall financial standing, more problems with spending, and slightly better savings outcomes relative to comparable non-...

Using survey data from large national samples of military and civilian households, this analysis provides evidence on the differences in financial decision-making and outcomes between comparable civilian and military members, between members of the military Services (Army, Navy, Air Force and Marines) and between members of the Service components (Active Duty, Reserves and National Guard). I fi...

INTRODUCTION The purpose of this research is to describe the leading circumstances of military vehicle crashes to guide prioritization and implementation of crash avoidance and/or warning technologies. METHODS A descriptive study using narrative text analysis on 3,944 military vehicle crash narratives. Crash data on drivers, from 2001 to 2006, were assembled from the U.S. Army Combat Readines...